Nate showed up at Lew's desk one day with a thick folder that had some kind of royal crest on it, featuring a two-headed eagle.
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The Internet informs me that the double-headed eagle crest was being used by the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time of the Chicago World's Fair. My memory from having read this chapter previously was that Franz Ferdinand is coming to visit the Chicago World's Fair and needs better protection than he's going to get in two decades in Sarajevo.
It's an ancient symbol found in various places in the ancient world. I suspect the ancients, knowing that they didn't have full knowledge of their entire world, could easily believe in two-headed creatures. Some Greek jerk out tending to his sheep probably saw two eagles sitting in a tree but from his perspective, it looked like a two-headed bird and he shrugged and thought, "I guess those exist." Then he kicked the grass and turned back to look at his sheep where two of them were off in the distance at the top of a hill. But from his perspective, it just looked like a sheep with two asses and no head. So he shrugged and thought, "I guess those exist."
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