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| Li Fanwen

| Tangutologist

| 2009-04-05

| Did you know that Li Fanwen got the opportunity to complete the first draft of his dictionary of the extinct Tangut language when Premier Zhou Enlai was told that only a few old scholars were able to read the complex Tangut script?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/200904/Li_Fanwen 700 views]

| Paul Thompson (1931–2007)

| Sinologist

| 2009-04-15

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| Choijinzhab (1931–2022)

| Mongolist

| 2010-04-29

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| Junast (1934–2010)

| 'Phags-pa expert

| 2010-04-30

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| Stephen Wootton Bushell (1844–1908)

| Orientalist
Numismatist
Tangutologist

| 2010-05-01

| Did you know that in 1896, Stephen Wootton Bushell became the first person to decipher some of the characters of the extinct Tangut script?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201005/Stephen_Wooten_Bushell 1,300 views]

| Marc Hideo Miyake

| linguist
Tangutologist

| 2010-05-08

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| Guillaume Jacques

| linguist
Tangutologist

| 2010-05-09

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| Eric Grinstead (1921–2008)

| Tangutologist

| 2010-06-10

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| Peter Hayes Sawyer (1928–2018)

| medievalist

| 2010-08-19

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| Daniel Henry Haigh (1819–1879)

| Runologist

| 2010-08-20

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| Raymond Ian Page (1924–2012)

| Runologist

| 2010-08-20

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| Ralph Warren Victor Elliott (1921–2012)

| Runologist

| 2010-08-23

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| Susan Whitfield

| Sinologist

| 2011-01-18

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| Sam van Schaik

| Tibetologist

| 2011-03-06

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| Katherine Forsyth

| Oghamologist

| 2011-07-04

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| Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun

| Jurchenologist
Khitanologist
Manchurologist

| 2011-09-09

| rowspan="3" | Did you know that Jin Guangping, Jin Qizong and Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, three generations of the same family who all studied the extinct Jurchen language and script, are direct descendants of the Qianlong Emperor?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Aisin-Gioro_Ulhicun 647 views]

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| Jin Qizong (1918–2004)

| Jurchenologist
Manchurologist
Mongolist

| 2011-09-09

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Jin_Qizong 371 views]

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| Jin Guangping (1899–1966)

| Jurchenologist
Khitanologist
Manchurologist

| 2011-09-10

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Jin_Guangping 585 views]

| Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov (1878–1937)

| Tangutologist

| 2011-11-06

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| Ksenia Kepping (1937–2002)

| Tangutologist

| 2011-12-05

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| Hugh McBirney Stimson (1931–2011)

| Sinologist

| 2012-06-27

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| Philip de Jersey

| Numismatist
Archaeologist

| 2012-06-30

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| Jerry Norman (1936–2012)

| Sinologist
Manchurologist

| 2012-07-15

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| Stuart R. Schram (1924–2012)

| Sinologist

| 2012-07-28

| Did you know that Stuart R. Schram, biographer of Chairman Mao, started his career as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201208/Stuart_R._Schram 969 views]

| Shi Jinbo

| Tangutologist

| 2012-09-04

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| Luc Kwanten (1944–2021)

| Sinologist
Tangutologist

| 2012-10-10

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| Arakawa Shintarō

| Tangutologist

| 2012-10-23

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| Imre Galambos

| Sinologist
Tangutologist

| 2012-11-14

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| Mary C. Wright (1917–1970)

| Historian

| 2013-01-09

| Did you know that in 1964 historian Mary C. Wright became the first woman to be named as a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201301/Mary_C._Wright 879 views]

| Andrew Fleming West (1853–1943)

| Classicist

| 2015-01-19

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| Charles Otto Blagden (1864–1949)

| Linguist and Orientalist

| 2015-07-06

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| Wu Gan, known as the "Super Vulgar Butcher"

| human rights activist

| 2017-12-26

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| Wushour Silamu

| Computer scientist

| 2018-10-01

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| Evangeline Edwards (1888–1957)

| Sinologist

| 2018-11-15

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| Wang Quanzhang

| Chinese human rights lawyer

| 2018-12-26

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| Gabriel Devéria (1844–1899)

| Tangutologist

| 2019-04-01

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| Adrian Bradshaw

| Photographer

| 2019-08-09

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| Cyril Birch (1925–2023)

| Sinologist

| 2023-06-19

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| Wansong Xingxiu (1166–1246)

| Buddhist monk

| 2015-06-25

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| List of hoards in Britain

| 2010-07-13

| rowspan="2" | Did you know that over 1,200 hoards in Britain from the Roman period have been found, but the very few hoards in Ireland containing Roman coins and silverware were probably loot taken from Britain by Irish raiders?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/List_of_hoards_in_Britain 3,400 views]

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| List of hoards in Ireland

| 2010-07-16

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/List_of_hoards_in_Ireland 1,900 views]

| List of Bronze Age hoards in Britain

| 2012-07-17

| Split from List of hoards in Britain.

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| List of Iron Age hoards in Britain

| 2012-07-17

| Split from List of hoards in Britain.

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| List of Roman hoards in Britain

| 2012-07-17

| Split from List of hoards in Britain.

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| List of hoards in the Channel Islands

| 2012-07-06

| Did you know that that one of the archaeological hoards found in the Channel Islands comprised coins minted in Alexandria in Egypt?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/List_of_hoards_in_the_Channel_Islands 1,300 views]

| List of Khitan inscriptions

| 2010-12-25

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| List of Jurchen inscriptions

| 2010-12-29

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| List of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad

| 2011-09-16

| Did you know that the Chinese government has published a list of sixty-four important cultural relics (one of them pictured) that are forbidden to be exhibited outside of China?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/List_of_Chinese_cultural_relics_forbidden_to_be_exhibited_abroad 16,200 views]

| List of Tangutologists

| 2012-10-26

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| List of Tangut books

| 2013-04-06

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| List of pagodas in Beijing

| 2014-12-16

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| List of Khitanologists

| 2016-04-10

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| List of hoards in the Isle of Man

| 2017-06-30

| Split from List of hoards in Britain.

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| A History of Ireland in 100 Objects

| 2017-06-30

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| Frome Hoard

| 2010-07-08

| Did you know that the Frome Hoard was found by a metal detectorist just 35 cm (14 in) below ground in Somerset and contained 52,503 Roman coins (coin pictured)?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/Frome_Hoard 8,800 views]

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| Shrewsbury Hoard

| 2010-07-09

| Did you know that the first find by amateur metal detectorist Nick Davies was the Shrewsbury Hoard, which contained around 10,000 bronze Roman coins?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/Shrewsbury_Hoard 2,200 views]

| Furness Hoard

| 2011-07-01

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| Bredon Hill Hoard

| 2011-10-17

| Did you know that some of the nominally silver Roman coins from the Bredon Hill Hoard (pictured) only have a 1% silver content?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201111/Bredon_Hill_Hoard 10,300 views]

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| Grouville Hoard

| 2012-06-27

| Did you know that that a huge hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins was found in Jersey in {{nowrap|June 2012}} after two metal detectorists spent a few hours a year for 30 years searching for a suspected hoard?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201207/Grouville_Hoard 10,890 views]

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| Middleham Hoard

| 2014-02-06

| Article started by PatHadley and Johnbod

Did you know that the Middleham Hoard from Yorkshire included seven Spanish-American reales but only two of them were real (unreal real pictured)?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201402/Middleham_Hoard 6,361 views]

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| Lenborough Hoard

| 2015-01-02

| Did you know that the Lenborough Hoard, found just before Christmas 2014, is believed to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins ever discovered in Britain?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201501/Lenborough_Hoard 3,638 views]

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| Seax of Beagnoth

| 2010-08-18

| Article expanded from stub by S Marshall and others, and I helped expand it to a Good Article

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| Crosby Garrett Helmet

| 2010-09-13

| rowspan="2" | Did you know that the Crosby Garrett Helmet, discovered this year, has a winged griffin on it, whereas the similar Ribchester Helmet (pictured) may have had a sphinx on top, but the Newstead Helmet only had a plume holder?

In the news on 8 October 2010: A Roman parade helmet discovered by a metal detectorist in May 2010 is auctioned for £2.3 million ($3.6 million)

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201009/Crosby_Garrett_Helmet 5,100 views]

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| Newstead Helmet

| 2010-09-14

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201009/Newstead_Helmet 2,400 views]

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| Waterloo Helmet

| 2010-09-15

| Did you know that the Waterloo Helmet, dredged from the River Thames in 1868, is the only Iron Age helmet with horns ever to have been found in Europe?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201009/Waterloo_Helmet 9,500 views]

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| Meyrick Helmet

| 2010-09-16

| Did you know that the Meyrick Helmet (pictured) combines the shape of a Roman auxiliary helmet with Celtic La Tène style decoration?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201009/Meyrick_Helmet 7,000 views]

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| Wandsworth Shield

| 2010-09-27

| Did you know that the Wandsworth Shield (pictured) has a repoussée design of two large birds with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a masterpiece of British Celtic art?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201010/Wandsworth_Shield 5,000 views]

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| Nimrud Ivories

| 2011-03-08

| Did you know that crime writer Agatha Christie used her face cream to clean the more than 2500-year-old Nimrud Ivories (example pictured) after their excavation?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201103/Nimrud_Ivories 13,500 views]

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| Trumpington bed burial

| 2012-03-17

| Did you know that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed, with a gold and garnet cross on her breast?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Trumpington_bed_burial 12,792 views]

| Happisburgh footprints

| 2014-02-07

| Article started by Braincricket
In the news on 8 February 2014: The earliest human footprints outside of Africa are discovered in the United Kingdom.

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| Admonitions Scroll

| 2010-08-10

| Did you know that the Admonitions Scroll (detail pictured), a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903?
Failed GAR because no PD translation of the accompanying text available, so I made the translation myself.

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201008/Admonitions_Scroll 5,500 views]

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| Testament of Ba

| 2011-01-23

| Did you know that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba, an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, was discovered in the British Library in 2009?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201101/Testament_of_Ba 2,400 views]

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| Dunhuang Go Manual

| 2011-01-25

| Did you know that the Dunhuang Go Manual is the earliest surviving manual on the strategic board game of Go?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Dunhuang_Go_Manual 2,500 views]

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| Menggu Ziyun

| 2011-01-29

| ... Menggu Ziyun is a 14th century rime dictionary of Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Menggu_Ziyun 950 views]

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| Irk Bitig

| 2011-02-04

| Did you know that the Irk Bitig (Book of Omens) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Irk_Bitig 1,500 views]

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| Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union

| 2011-09-18

| Did you know that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union, discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Auspicious_Tantra_of_All-Reaching_Union 2,800 views]

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| Nova N 176

| 2012-02-07

| Did you know that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Nova_N_176 1,600 views]

| The General's Garden

| 2012-11-13

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| The General's Garden (Tangut translation)

| 2012-11-14

| Did you know that the Tangut translation of the Chinese military text The General's Garden predates the earliest surviving Chinese edition by 200 years?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201211/The_General%27s_Garden_(Tangut_translation) 1,318 views]

| Bible translations into Manchu

| 2013-11-24

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| Springmount Bog Tablets

| 2017-06-27

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| Stele of Sulaiman

| 2011-10-01

| rowspan="2" | Did you know that Om mani padme hum is engraved in the Lantsa, Tibetan, Uyghur, 'Phags-pa, Tangut and Chinese scripts on a 1348 stele, and in the Tibetan, Jurchen, Chinese, and Mongolian scripts on a 1413 stele?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201110/Stele_of_Sulaiman 1,600 views]

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| Yongning Temple Stele

| 2011-10-01

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201110/Yongning_Temple_Stele 800 views]

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| Tangut dharani pillars

| 2013-12-23

| Did you know that two dharani pillars (pictured) erected in Baoding in 1502 are inscribed with the latest known examples of the Tangut script?''

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201312/Tangut_dharani_pillars 4,074 views]

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| Baisigou Square Pagoda

| 2011-09-17

| Did you know that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union, discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Baisigou_Square_Pagoda 2,300 views]

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| Cloud Platform at Juyongguan

| 2012-10-27

| Did you know that the 14th-century Cloud Platform at Juyongguan (pictured) in Beijing is inscribed with Buddhist texts in six different scripts: Lanydza, Tibetan, 'Phags-pa, Old Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201211/Cloud_Platform_at_Juyongguan 3,471 views]

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| Camberley Obelisk

| 2011-11-30

| Did you know that the 18th-century Camberley Obelisk (pictured) may have been built by John Norris to communicate by heliograph with Sir Francis Dashwood at West Wycombe church, about {{convert|20|mi}} away?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201212/Camberley_Obelisk 7,822 views]

| Pagoda of Chengtian Temple

| 2016-09-03

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| One Hundred and Eight Stupas

| 2016-09-04

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| Hongfo Pagoda

| 2016-09-15

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| International Dunhuang Project

| 2011-01-18

| Did you know that the International Dunhuang Project has made over a quarter of a million images of Silk Road manuscripts and other artefacts available online?
Failed GAR due to overreliance on the IDP website as a source.

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201101/International_Dunhuang_Project 1,500 views]

| File:Novo-Mihailovsky Palace (Saint Petersburg) 2012.jpg

| Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences

| 2012-02-02

| Did you know that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Institute_of_Oriental_Manuscripts_of_the_Russian_Academy_of_Sciences 400 views]

| File:Liubo players in pottery tower.jpg

| Liubo

| 2009-07-12

| 5× expansion of an existing article

Did you know that when he was crown prince the future Emperor Jing of Han killed the Prince of Wu during an argument over a game of Liubo by throwing the game board at his opponent?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/200907/Liubo 1,900 views]

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| Chairman Mao badge

| 2010-07-23

| Did you know that the earliest known Chairman Mao badges were made from used toothpaste tubes?
All Mao badge images deleted on Commons

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201008/Chairman_Mao_badge 3,900 views]

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| Rhinoceroses in ancient China‎

| 2011-09-24

| Did you know that rhinoceroses in ancient China were used as models for wine vessels?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Rhinoceroses_in_ancient_China 7,200 views]

| File:Milvus migrans front(ThKraft).jpg

| Shite-hawk‎

| 2011-10-09

| Did you know that, contrary to claims of a medieval origin for the term shite-hawk, it originated as British military slang for the Black Kite (pictured)?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201110/Shite-hawk 12,800 views]

| File:Saxon Princess Kirkleatham.jpg

| Bed burial‎

| 2012-03-19

| Did you know that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed, with a gold and garnet cross on her breast?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201203/Bed_burial 4,690 views]

| Pseudo-runes‎

| 2012-07-26

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| Sideways I

| 2012-08-23

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| Tangutology

| 2012-10-26

| Did you know that Tangutology developed as an academic discipline after the Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov discovered a hoard of Tangut documents at the lost city of Khara-Khoto in 1908?

| [http://stats.grok.se/en/201211/Tangutology 1,864 views]

| Dharani pillar

| 2013-12-23

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| Odiham Castle, Hampshire. 12 May 2012.

| 9 January 2013

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| Royal Gold Cup

| Featured article on 2010-07-10

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| List of chronometers on HMS Beagle

| Featured list on 2013-06-17

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User:BabelStone has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,

and therefore, I've officially declared today as BabelStone's day!

For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,

enjoy being the Star of the day, dear BabelStone!

Peace,
Rlevse
00:03, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

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