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When submitting these wikipedia articles, it's a good idea to leave a comment with a little quip about why you found this interesting.
by sergiotapia 12y ago
When submitting these wikipedia articles, it's a good idea to leave a comment with a little quip about why you found this interesting.
- benbreen 12y agoSorry, meant to earlier - I find the calendrical significance fascinating. It's almost a form of proto-writing in some ways (in the sense that it encodes knowledge in a material yet non-illustrative form) but I love the fact that it does so while also being, well, a hat. I also enjoy the potential connections to other Bronze Age oddities like the Trondheim Sun Chariot and the Nebra Sky Disk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundholm_sun_chariot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundholm_sun_chariot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk But if I had to be totally honest, I found this while researching the history of wizard hats and that's what I like the most about it. Granted, there's almost certainly no link there, but it's fun to imagine a scenario whereby Bronze Age proto-druid ceremonial headgear leads to Gandalf's hat.
- mooreds 12y ago> whereby Bronze Age proto-druid ceremonial headgear leads to Gandalf's hat. Or, more likely, vice versa, given the end of the Third Age was far before 1000 BC.
- danparsonson 12y agoI personally love the idea of a conversation along the lines of "What's the date today?" - "Hold on, let me consult my hat"
- mkhpalm 12y agoIt is fascinating. Something I wonder is why nobody thinks that "sky disk" is a bronze age buckler.
- ArekDymalski 12y agoEven better solution would be to get more people using tldr.io so we could see the summaries while hovering on the front page.