# What is it? (With picture) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 28, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428 "2017-01-28T19:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/1 "2017-01-28T19:47:17Z")
What the heck is this thing shown on the Macedonian 10 dinari bill? [![](http://www.numismondo.net/pm/mkd/mkdP.9a10Denar1993OYr.jpg) ](http://www.numismondo.net/pm/mkd/mkdP.9a10Denar1993OYr.jpg) Are aliens living in Macedonia?😉 ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/2 "2017-01-28T19:51:19Z")
It is a monument to the Illinden uprising in Krusevo. [http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/krusevo.nspx](http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/krusevo.nspx) > **[Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilinden%E2%80%93Preobrazhenie_Uprising)** > > Suppression of the uprising. > The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, or simply the Ilinden Uprising of August–October 1903 (Bulgarian: Илинденско-Преображенско въстание, romanized: Ilindensko-Preobrazhensko vastanie; Macedonian: Илинденско востание, romanized: Ilindensko vostanie; Greek: Εξέγερση του Ίλιντεν, romanized: Eksegersi tou Ilinden), was organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which was prepared and carried out by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, with the... ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/3 "2017-01-28T23:25:58Z")
4 minutes flat. Bravo!! ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/4 "2017-01-28T23:48:02Z")
but what is it supposed to represent? mc ---
**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/5 "2017-01-30T23:41:58Z")
A futuristic artistically-rendered [head of a mace](http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2014/01/krusevo-makedonium-symbology-of-the-ilinden-spomenik-macedonia.html). ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/6 "2017-01-30T23:52:56Z")
I saw that in an episode of _Ultraman_, decades ago! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/7 "2017-01-31T00:53:42Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I saw that in an episode of _Ultraman_, decades ago! 🙂 Hell, I thought I read “the [Illidan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illidan_Stormrage) Uprising” in **BeepKillBeep** ’s post… ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/8 "2017-01-31T01:18:59Z")
It is the bottom of the boot, the last thing you will ever see. As it stomps on your face, forever. I saw it in a Disney movie. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/9 "2017-01-31T17:14:52Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Hell, I thought I read “the [Illidan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illidan_Stormrage) Uprising” in **BeepKillBeep** ’s post… Clearly, you were not prepared. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/10 "2017-01-31T19:37:22Z")
> [@Intelligently\_Designed](#): > > A futuristic artistically-rendered [head of a mace](http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2014/01/krusevo-makedonium-symbology-of-the-ilinden-spomenik-macedonia.html). thank you for that link! i tried to find to find it on my own and failed (sigh) mc ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/11 "2017-01-31T23:22:43Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Clearly, you were not prepared. 😃 Someone needs a universal XP penalty… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-picture/778428/12 "2017-02-01T10:15:06Z")
Link to Wiki for [monument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilinden_(memorial)) itself.