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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 27, 2020 3:31:33 GMT -5
I subscribe to a bimonthly magazine called ANCIENT EGYPT MAGAZINE. I caught up on the April/May issue recently. There was an article about Anubis. Interestingly, and the magazine features some extremely knowledgeable writers, there has never been consensus on whether Anubis’ head is a jackal. Other “contenders” include wolf, dog and fox. I always presumed jackal, but it’s interesting to read that there is no consensus. The sheer range of canine creatures in that region - now and then - is all part of the confusion. Always good to see such things debated. A fox I kind of doubt, but it's clearly a canine. What is Seth, though? He kind of looks like an aardvark! Since Dave Sim ended his Cerebus series with a few connections to ancient Egypt, there might have been something there!!! Seth is a Set animal (that's seriously the name they have given it), which is either fictional or a composite creature. The hieroglyph voor Set shows a doglike creature with a forked tail though its snout does resemble an aardvark. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 18, 2020 11:15:33 GMT -5
It is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote in the U.S. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 18, 2020 12:57:44 GMT -5
And their first election it was Harding/Coolidge vs. Cox/FDR (Woodrow Wilson declined to run for a third term due to health, something FDR would be the last one to do later on, and Wilson's VP Marshall was seen as terminally indecisive).
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 18, 2020 13:17:11 GMT -5
And their first election it was Harding/Coolidge vs. Cox/FDR (Woodrow Wilson declined to run for a third term due to health, something FDR would be the last one to do later on, and Wilson's VP Marshall was seen as terminally indecisive). Wilson desperately wanted a third term. He asked his Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby, to nominate him at the 1920 Democratic Convention and personally blocked the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo (his son-in-law and Secretary of the Treasury) in the hopes that the delegates would turn to him. Fortunately his incredibly poor health precluded any rational thought of nominating him a third time. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 0:31:01 GMT -5
It is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote in the U.S. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 19, 2020 13:54:12 GMT -5
Around the time that the Schoolhouse Rock song came out, The Archie cartoon had a new show, The US of Archie, featuring the gang at different points in US history, for the Bicentennial. One episode featured Susan B Anthony and her efforts towards suffrage.
Speaking of Schoolhouse Rock, 16 of their songs were written by Lynn Ahern, who was a secretary at the ad agency that developed the cartoons. She used to bring her guitar to work, to play on her lunch break. She was asked to take a stab at writing a song for the Grammar Rock segments and came up with "A Noun is a Person Place of Thing." She went from secretary to jingle writer, to a career as a composer on Broadway.
The singer for "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" is Essra Mohawk, who also sang "Intergections!" and wrote songs for Cyndi Lauper and Tina Turner, as well as the Shangri-Las and played, for a time, with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 16, 2020 8:02:13 GMT -5
I've always been interested in Ancient Egyptian history, but recently I've gotten much deeper into it, thanks to a series of 48 lectures with Professor Bob Brier, Ph.D for The Teaching Company. These lectures date from the late '90s or early 2000s, I believe and, having worked my way through them all, I can wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone wishing to gain a greater understanding of the history of Ancient Egypt.
The lectures are very entertaining and watchable, and Brier is a wonderful lecturer whose love of the subject is really infectious. The series traces the history of Egyptian civilisation right from the earliest, pre-history period, up through the Old Kingdom and the construction of the pyramids, then into the Middle Kingdom and the famed New Kingdom, with the likes of Akhenaten the heretic Pharaoh, Nefertiti, Ramesses the Great, and Tutankhamun to name just a few, before culminating in the Ptolemaic period and the story of Cleopatra. It's just excellent stuff!
The lectures are all available on YouTube and here's a handy-dandy playlist if you're interested...
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 16, 2020 13:02:00 GMT -5
I've always been interested in Ancient Egyptian history, but recently I've gotten much deeper into it, thanks to a series of 48 lectures with Professor Bob Brier, Ph.D for The Teaching Company. These lectures date from the late '90s or early 2000s, I believe and, having worked my way through them all, I can wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone wishing to gain a greater understanding of the history of Ancient Egypt. The lectures are very entertaining and watchable, and Brier is a wonderful lecturer whose love of the subject is really infectious. The series traces the history of Egyptian civilisation right from the earliest, pre-history period, up through the Old Kingdom and the construction of the pyramids, then into the Middle Kingdom and the famed New Kingdom, with the likes of Akhenaten the heretic Pharaoh, Nefertiti, Ramesses the Great, and Tutankhamun to name just a few, before culminating in the Ptolemaic period and the story of Cleopatra. It's just excellent stuff! The lectures are all available on YouTube and here's a handy-dandy playlist if you're interested... Does he mention the inter-dimensional aliens and Kurt Russell?   |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 16, 2020 13:55:25 GMT -5
I've always been interested in Ancient Egyptian history, but recently I've gotten much deeper into it, thanks to a series of 48 lectures with Professor Bob Brier, Ph.D for The Teaching Company. These lectures date from the late '90s or early 2000s, I believe and, having worked my way through them all, I can wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone wishing to gain a greater understanding of the history of Ancient Egypt. The lectures are very entertaining and watchable, and Brier is a wonderful lecturer whose love of the subject is really infectious. The series traces the history of Egyptian civilisation right from the earliest, pre-history period, up through the Old Kingdom and the construction of the pyramids, then into the Middle Kingdom and the famed New Kingdom, with the likes of Akhenaten the heretic Pharaoh, Nefertiti, Ramesses the Great, and Tutankhamun to name just a few, before culminating in the Ptolemaic period and the story of Cleopatra. It's just excellent stuff! The lectures are all available on YouTube and here's a handy-dandy playlist if you're interested... Thanks so much for that, Confessor! The man is a treasure! I'll make it a point to watch all of these lectures! A small detail about episode 2, though: the Neanderthals never made it to the Nile valley. I suppose that back when these lectures were first given, some other ancient hominid might have been mistaken for them. No Neanderthal remains were found in Africa, and the very few Neanderthal genes that made it into African genomes appear to have been carried by more modern Europeans whose ancestors had already mated with Neanderthals. Also, their supposed ceremonial burials are highly, highly speculative and based on the presence of pollen and pigments in the vicinity of buried bones... not incompatible with the ceremonial burial of a painted body on a bed of flowers, but also no definitive proof. |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 16, 2020 16:53:07 GMT -5
I've always been interested in Ancient Egyptian history, but recently I've gotten much deeper into it, thanks to a series of 48 lectures with Professor Bob Brier, Ph.D for The Teaching Company. These lectures date from the late '90s or early 2000s, I believe and, having worked my way through them all, I can wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone wishing to gain a greater understanding of the history of Ancient Egypt. The lectures are very entertaining and watchable, and Brier is a wonderful lecturer whose love of the subject is really infectious. The series traces the history of Egyptian civilisation right from the earliest, pre-history period, up through the Old Kingdom and the construction of the pyramids, then into the Middle Kingdom and the famed New Kingdom, with the likes of Akhenaten the heretic Pharaoh, Nefertiti, Ramesses the Great, and Tutankhamun to name just a few, before culminating in the Ptolemaic period and the story of Cleopatra. It's just excellent stuff! The lectures are all available on YouTube and here's a handy-dandy playlist if you're interested... Thanks so much for that, Confessor! The man is a treasure! I'll make it a point to watch all of these lectures! A small detail about episode 2, though: the Neanderthals never made it to the Nile valley. I suppose that back when these lectures were first given, some other ancient hominid might have been mistaken for them. No Neanderthal remains were found in Africa, and the very few Neanderthal genes that made it into African genomes appear to have been carried by more modern Europeans whose ancestors had already mated with Neanderthals. Also, their supposed ceremonial burials are highly, highly speculative and based on the presence of pollen and pigments in the vicinity of buried bones... not incompatible with the ceremonial burial of a painted body on a bed of flowers, but also no definitive proof. Hey, I'm sure you're right. I Googled the three words Neanderthals in Egypt and most results seem to agree with you. Weirdly, the Great Courses website still claims that Neanderthals settled in the Nile Valley some 70,000 years ago and attributes this claim to Brier. But it's actually sourced from what Brier said in these old lectures. So Brier may not be of this opinion any more. As you say, maybe this was a more widely held belief back in the 1990s? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 20:08:46 GMT -5
I shall watch that lecture. The latest issue of Ancient Egypt arrived through my door. I’ve only had a quick look at it, but there is an article asking why the Ancient Egyptians only use wheeled transport for warfare? I can’t wait to read that. The mag is definitely worth a subscription if Egypt interests you. Latest cover:  Contents:  |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 21, 2020 15:11:30 GMT -5
Just stumbled upon part 1 of a 3 part series on PBS. Called Wild Metropilis it explores how wildlife is adapting to co-exist alongside mankind as we destroy the natural forests and jungle habitats forcing adaptation to living in our human jungles of concrete, steel, artificial parks and our natural garbage and waste.
Many animals and insects have learned to not only survive, but thrive as the threats and natural predators they faced in the wild are lessening. From river dolphins in the amazon playing and assisting local family Fischer's iin return for feeding, to otters in China's canal's and waterways able to grow to 3 times their natural family size, to Macau monkeys in Singapore living a lazy pampered life in temples as well as wild monkey mafia's running rampant in the city thriving from all the food and garbage waste to be found. Owls and Falcons living in large city rooftops preying upon pigeons and rats to coyote's and javelina who travel into towns hunting small easily caught animals for feeding on. Insects that live warmly and safely under city sidewalks and streets, coming out to help keep our cities cleaned by devouring all our tossed aside and wasted food or trash.
This is an amazing and incredible story that goes unseen or unrecognized by many that lives right under and around our very feet. I recommend looking for this on your local PBS channels!
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 21, 2020 15:50:38 GMT -5
Here's today's absurd US History lesson, courtesy Jack Holmes, here: www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34096023/trump-supreme-court-senate-republicans-legitimacy/A president who won millions fewer votes from actual citizens than his opponent did is set to make a third lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court, meaning he will have installed one third of the justices. This can happen if his nominee is approved by a Republican Senate majority hailing from states that represent around 15 million fewer actual citizens than the Democratic minority. In this way, a president who has never commanded the support of a majority of the American population can enact a potentially decades-long conservative majority on the Supreme Court with the help of a minoritarian Senate caucus. This is a major crisis for the legitimacy of the American political system, one which Republicans will navigate by simply saying, "F**k you." |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 15, 2020 18:36:20 GMT -5
A very impressive series of documentaries... It really takes its time and does not go for the flashy tidbits.
Sumer has been a favourite subject of mine since reading a YA novel about it in the sixth grade, so this video was a delight!
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Post by berkley on Oct 15, 2020 20:34:47 GMT -5
A very impressive series of documentaries... It really takes its time and does not go for the flashy tidbits. Sumer has been a favourite subject of mine since reading a YA novel about it in the sixth grade, so this video was a delight! Yeah, they're fascinating for some of the same reasons the Egyptians are: it's spine-chilling to think that these civilisations pre-dated the ancient Greeks by a longer span of milllenia than the ancient Greeks pre-date us today. That alone already blows my mind even before I start thinking about what we know of their history and culture, the mythology, etc . |
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