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The letter present on the dress is in fact the "TAU - greek letter", but it's the lowercase version.
The letter on the first step of the staircase (counting from above) is the "PI - greek letter" but it's a different lowercase version called the "POMEGA".
SIDE NOTE: If you search on the 13 page of 617 on the link below, you will find the hebrew and greek ...
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Most Ancient Egyptian royals were literate, because they had to understand both the magical utterances, word plays, ideograms and such from the pyramid texts (https://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/) even in the afterlife which had its dangers. And assuming that after you die your Ka does not suddenly know how to read and write, the pharaoh needed to be literate ...
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Why do universities prefer to have their own police force?
I can address this a little bit in the United States context.
As you noted, the rise of campus police forces came after campus protests in the 1960s. Many state legislatures passed laws that instructed college administrators to address "disorder," such as this one in New York state from 1969:
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This goes back to Frederick Barbarossa. He granted the university the so called scholar's privilege the privilegium scholasticum or authentica habita in 1150s. Full universities had to be granted papal or princely privileges to be founded but from 1150s on they had judicial autonomy. It was the result of active and collective defiance of students and ...
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It is very hard to know know when more than 50 % of Humans over the age of 16 knew that the Earth is roughly spherical.
The two regions with the largest populations are China and the Indian subcontinent. It is quite possible that at various times they had a total of two thirds of the world's population.
It is said that intellectual elites in India ...
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The Wikipedia article Myth of the flat Earth gives a general summary for the Western world as:
According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat Earth darkness' among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now).
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Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-Earth error ...
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