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  2. History of Shintō Musō-ryū - Wikipedia

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    Shintō Musō-ryū, or Shindō Musō-ryū (神道夢想流) [1] is a traditional ( ko-ryū) school of the Japanese martial art of jōjutsu, the art of handling the Japanese short staff ( jō ). The art was created with the purpose of defeating a swordsman in combat using the jō, with an emphasis on proper distance, timing and concentration.

  3. Sheldon coin grading scale - Wikipedia

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    Sheldon coin grading scale. The Sheldon Coin Grading Scale is a 70-point coin grading scale used in the numismatic assessment of a coin's quality. The American Numismatic Association based its Official ANA Grading Standards in large part on the Sheldon scale. [1] The scale was created by William Herbert Sheldon .

  4. Coinage of the Republic of Venice - Wikipedia

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    The main coins minted during the Republic of Venice include: silver ducato (or Matapan), minted for the first time between 1193 and 1202; it was one of the first grossi. soldo, in silver, minted during the reign of doge Francesco Dandolo (1328–1339) and doge Giovanni Gradenigo (1355-1356). lira (including lira Tron ), minted from 1472.

  5. Milled coinage - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In numismatics, the term milled coinage (also known as machine-struck coinage) is used to describe coins which are produced by some form of machine, rather than by manually hammering coin blanks between two dies ( hammered coinage) or casting coins from dies. Milled edges of Indian five rupees coins.

  6. Air Force Specialty Code - Wikipedia

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    Air Force Specialty Code. The Air Force Specialty Code ( AFSC) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify a specific job. Officer AFSCs consist of four characters and enlisted AFSCs consist of five characters. A letter prefix or suffix may be used with an AFSC when more specific identification of position ...

  7. Shining Wisdom - Wikipedia

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    Shining Wisdom [a] is an action-adventure game developed by Sonic! Software Planning and Camelot Software Planning and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn. It was the last game in the Shining series to be developed for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive but was reworked for the Saturn late in development. Because of this, it is more typical of the ...

  8. Aruban florin - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, coins were introduced in denominations of 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents and 1 and 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 florin. Later, the 5 florin banknote was replaced by a square coin and the 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 florin coin was removed from circulation. The 5 florin was replaced in 2005 with a round gold-coloured coin, because the old square 5 florin coin was too easy to ...

  9. Shindō (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Shindō, Shindo or Shindou (written: , , , ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amane Shindō (進藤 あまね, born 2004), Japanese voice actress and singer. Charles J. Shindo, American academic. Eitarō Shindō (進藤 英太郎, 1899–1977), Japanese actor. Gaku Shindo (進藤 学, born 1980), Japanese actor ...