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... fingers and toes - Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from counting on fingers and toes - Adoption of ...
... fingers and toes - Hand - numerals show derivation of Verbal reckoning from Gesture - counting - Etymology of Numerals -Quinary , Decimal , and Vigesimal notations of the world derived from counting on fingers and toes - Adoption of ...
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... fingers , and produce fire with the simplest kind of fire - drill twirled by hand . They are most truthful and honest . Their monogamy and conjugal fidelity contrast strongly with the opposite habits of the more civilized Singhalese . A ...
... fingers , and produce fire with the simplest kind of fire - drill twirled by hand . They are most truthful and honest . Their monogamy and conjugal fidelity contrast strongly with the opposite habits of the more civilized Singhalese . A ...
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... fingers , a number being called by one player , and he having instantly to touch the proper finger ; while in the Samoan game one player holds out so many fingers , and his opponent must do the same instantly or lose a point . These may ...
... fingers , a number being called by one player , and he having instantly to touch the proper finger ; while in the Samoan game one player holds out so many fingers , and his opponent must do the same instantly or lose a point . These may ...
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... fingers shown has to be called , the successful caller scoring a point ; each should call the total before he sees ... finger - game , and the Romans had their finger - flashing , ' micare digitis , ' at which butchers used to gamble ...
... fingers shown has to be called , the successful caller scoring a point ; each should call the total before he sees ... finger - game , and the Romans had their finger - flashing , ' micare digitis , ' at which butchers used to gamble ...
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... fingers went clear in , it was favourable , but a check was an ill omen ; on the question of a party crossing the country in war - time , the locking of all the fingers , or the stoppage of some or all , were naturally interpreted to ...
... fingers went clear in , it was favourable , but a check was an ill omen ; on the question of a party crossing the country in war - time , the locking of all the fingers , or the stoppage of some or all , were naturally interpreted to ...
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