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Earliest multiplication tables discovered in 2,300-year-old Chinese tomb

Archaeologists excavating at the Qinjiazui archaeological site in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, China, have unearthed bamboo slips dating back to the Warring States period (475 BCE – 221 BCE)...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2023/12/earliest-multiplication-tables-discovered-in-china/

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Earliest multiplication tables discovered in 2,300-year-old Chinese tomb

Archaeologists excavating at the Qinjiazui archaeological site in Jingzhou, China, have unearthed bamboo slips dating back to the Warring States period.

Archaeology News Online Magazine

set of seven agate tubular beads from China, probably Warring States Period (475-221 BCE) or earlier. The longest bead measures 9cm long.
Sold at auction by Sothebys, 15th of June 2023, Lot 93.

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> In the freest of republics as well as in the most tyrannical of empires, all foreign policy, the diplomatic negotiations which produce or forestall war, are equally the private property of the Executive part of the Government, and are equally exposed to
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check whatever from popular bodies, or the people voting as a mass themselves.
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War is the health of the state - Randolph Bourne

This classic first part of an essay entitled "The State," left unfinished at Bourne's untimely death in 1918, it explores the connection between patriotism, war, and the State.

libcom.org
Heat Turned Up On Wagner Forces As Prigozhin's Coup Enters Day Two

Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's vow to crush the rebellion, Yevgeny Prigozhin's forces are on the move toward the Russian capital.

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Sengoku “States” Part II
This episode broadly covers the developments in the Date, Oda, and Mori Clans during the first half of the 1500s.
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2023/03/30/sengoku-states-part-ii/
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Sengoku “States” Part II - A History of Japan

This episode broadly covers the developments in the Date, Oda, and Mori Clans during the first half of the 1500s.

A History of Japan - Podcast
Sengoku “States” Part I
This episode broadly covers the developments in the Imagawa, Takeda, and Uesugi Clans during the first half of the 1500s.
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2023/03/27/sengoku-states-part-i/
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Sengoku “States” Part I - A History of Japan

This episode broadly covers the developments in the Imagawa, Takeda, and Uesugi Clans during the first half of the 1500s.

A History of Japan - Podcast

Three glass beads from the Warring States period, China, 475-221 BCE. The largest bead measures 4.7 cm. Sold at auction by Christies, September 2022

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