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February 1

Names for Arab-American women similar to Tiger Mom and Mama Grizzly

Is there a term for Arab-American women in the US in similar how Asian women are called Tiger Moms and how White women are called Soccer moms, Hockey Moms and Mama Grizzlies? Donmust90 (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

You do know that "soccer mom"/"hockey mom" and "tiger mom" have very different connotations? The first set implies a rich round of middle class extracurricular activities for the children, while the last implies an intense focus on their educational achievement. "Mama grizzly" is a political term strongly associated with Sarah Palin. Anyway, the answer to your question is that no such term is known to the general U.S. public. AnonMoos (talk) 00:22, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Identifying an artist

Hi all, I randomly came across File:Russo-French skirmish during Crimean War.PNG on Commons, and wondered who the artist was. The image has been cropped slightly to hide the artist's signature, the original is here at the NY Public Libraries digital collection. Even so, the name is still partially hidden, looks something vaguely like J. Le Blount. Can anyone identify the artist? MinorProphet (talk)

This is Julien Le Blant, see here. --Viennese Waltz 10:14, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Wow, that's fantastic! Thank you very much. MinorProphet (talk) 12:24, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Updated description on Commons, probably needs a name change as well... MinorProphet (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Resolved

Confederate naval flag officers and commodores

I'm not very familiar with the American literature about the Civil War, so I can't find the right place to look for the (seemingly) simple fact of how many naval flag officers and commodores the Confedarcy had. I know that Buchanan was the only (full) Admiral and Semmes the only Rear Admiral. I also know that Flag Officer was considered a regular rank of flag rank (equal to an Admiral first, later equal to a Rear Admiral) for some time and then fell out of use (when?), while Commodore was more or less only an unoffical courtesy title. But I can't find a full list of all Confederate flag officers and commodores. This register of officers names only five Flag Officers and not a single Commodore. This can't be all, can it? 2A02:8109:BD1D:4400:49FE:B236:F09C:E034 (talk) 19:24, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Suh, Commodore George N. Hollins feels he has been slighted. Pistols at dawn? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:42, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

A Library of Virginia Confederate Navy search for "commodore" claims that French Forrest ("Commodore, Virginia Navy in 1861.") and Matthew Fontaine Maury ("Commodore, C.S. Navy") also held that rank. Flag officers in the same database include: Samuel Barron ("Flag Officer commanding naval forces in Europe"), William W. Hunter (" Captain Flag Officer in Georgia waters in 1863-1865"), and a J. R. Tucker (not this guy) ("Flag Officer commanding a Float [sic], C.S. Navy").

Josiah Tattnall III was also a flag officer. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:06, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

There's this long list (of indeterminate reliability) of "Flag Officers Confederate Navy". I'm not sure they're all flag officers, but it includes Commodore Lawrence Rousseau. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:22, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Updated like Albright '69 on proto-Sinaitic inscriptions

Albright's "The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions" is great, but too many errors that have been improved by eg Orly Goldwasser 2006, is there something like that but recent? Temerarius (talk) 23:42, 1 February 2024 (UTC) Temerarius (talk) 23:42, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure the book is really that great, since while it raised some interesting possibilities (connections with Egyptian hieroglyphics etc), it didn't persuade many scholars of additional readings of specific Sinaitic words beyond the already-established לבעלת, so it left the decipherment question pretty much where it was. You could ask at the article talk page Talk:Proto-Sinaitic script, which has been active at times... AnonMoos (talk) 05:07, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Albright is creative. https://imgur.com/a/XgQYbvb He interpreted a ligature here, when there's a hieroglyph that looks like it. Who knows what a Semitic speaker would call that, if that were it. That note on the teth is unrelated. Temerarius (talk) 01:42, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Anybody know what a duck and moon means? Temerarius (talk) 03:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Probably part of someone's name; see Fact 7 here.  --Lambiam 11:42, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Can it be a goose? Nomen (ancient Egypt) § Heraldic appearance: The title Sa-Rê, literally meaning "Son of Ra", was written with the sign of a sun-disc and that of a goose placed below.

Good one!

That scarab's design makes this photo look familiar. I'm trying to find the photo of that scarab. If it's there, it's not on the next page. Temerarius (talk) 19:30, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

While I've got your attention, anybody know these two?Temerarius (talk) 20:10, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

𓂓 13093 looks like the lower one Temerarius (talk) 22:16, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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