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Show Origin of the Double Eagles. Doth Russia and Germany display two-headed eagles on tholr standards. Yet this symbol Is considered by some heralds to bo merely tho result of tho horaldlc practice of "dimldla-Hon." "dimldla-Hon." This wns simply a child's way of Impaling two coats-of-arms on tho samo shield by tho prlniltivo method of cutting ench In half and taking the dextor half of ono nnd tho slnUter half of tho other and placing them hack to back, as it wcro. Strango two-headed beasts naturally resulted as, for lnstanco, when a Hon nnd an caglo wero halved and Joined togoth-or. togoth-or. Tho grlffln Is supposed to hnvo been evolved from two llonu rampant by dlmldlntlon. |