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About television: "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box."

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." – Speech to staff, March 9, 1954

"If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the . . . confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought."


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  Egyptian pharaohs Egyptian pharaohs

Eighteenth dynasty (1540-1295)

Nebpehtyra Ahmose	1540-1515
Djeserkara Amenhotep I	1515-1494
Aakheperkara Thutmose I	1494-1482
Aakheperenra Thutmose II	1482-1479
Maatkara Hatshepsut	1479-1457
Menkheperra Thutmose III	1479-1425
Aakheperura Amenhotep II	1427-1401
Menkheperura Thutmose IV	1401-1391
Nebmaatra Amenhotep III	1391-1353
Neferkheperura Waenre Akhenaten	1353-1336
Ankhkhepura Smenkhkara	1338-1336
Nebkheperura Tutankhamun	1336-1327
Kheperkheperura Irmaat Ay	1326-1322
Dsjeserkheperura Setepenra Horemheb	1322-1295

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  Obelisk of the World Obelisk of the World
Obelisk. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt made it. And the Roman Emperors made its replicas. Really a lot of obelisks were made, from a small one as less than 1 meter to a large one as more than 30 meters. But there are only 30 obelisks at present, which are large-size ones standing outdoors.

Out of 30, only 7 obelisks are still remaining in Egypt, and 13 are in Rome, Italy. Other obelisks are - in Paris, London, New York, Istanbul, Florence, Urbino (a small town in Italy), Catania (Sicilia), Wimborne (a small town in Southern England), Arles (Southen France) and Caesarea (Israel), one obelisk respectively.  ¶ 2:58 PM 0 comments

  King Tut Drank Red Wine, Researcher Says King Tut Drank Red Wine, Researcher Says - Yahoo! News
King Tut Drank Red Wine, Researcher Says

By JENN WIANT, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 26, 2:08 PM ET

LONDON - King Tutankhamen was a red wine drinker, according to a researcher who analyzed traces of the vintage found in his tomb. Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane told reporters Wednesday at the British Museum that she made her discovery after inventing a process that gave archaeologists a tool to discover the color of ancient wine.

"This is the first time someone has found an ancient red wine," she said.

Wine bottles from King Tut's time were labeled with the name of the product, the year of harvest, the source and the vine grower, Guasch-Jane said, but did not include the color of the wine.

Several clues led scientists to believe the wine may have been red: drawings from the time of grapes being pressed into wine were red and purple, for example. But the color of King Tut's wine was impossible to verify until Guasch-Jane invented a process to detect a color compound not found in white wine called syringic acid.

To test her method, Guasch-Jane scraped residue from wine jars owned by the British Museum and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Two of the jars came from King Tut's tomb, discovered by English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

Patrick McGovern, an American molecular archaeologist, said he has discovered grape residue in northern
Iran that dates winemaking to 5400 B.C.

Scientists believe the first wine discovered in Egypt, buried in King Scorpion's tomb in about 3125 B.C., was produced in Jordan and transported 500 miles by donkey and boat to Egypt, he said. Eventually, grapevines were planted in Egypt.

Research shows that ancient Egyptian kings and members of the upper class drank wine regularly, but common people consumed it only during festivals and special occasions, Guasch-Jane said.

Wine was offered to gods in ceremonies, and kings were buried with jars of wine and food similar to what they consumed when they were alive, she said.

Guasch-Jane first reported her findings in the academic journal Analytical Chemistry last year.  ¶ 6:16 PM 0 comments

  Ptolemy I Soter Ptolemy I Soter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Royal Library of Alexandria was once the largest in the world. It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt after his father had set up the temple of the Muses, the Musaeum (whence we get "Museum"). The initial organization is attributed to Demetrius Phalereus, and is estimated to have stored at its peak 400,000 to 700,000 parchment scrolls. The library was destroyed by fire, but it is not certain as to when and how this happened. A new library was inaugurated in 2003, near the site of the old library.  ¶ 3:47 PM 0 comments

  Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piye 752 BC? – 721 BC
Shabaka 721 BC – 707/706 BC
Shebitku 707/706 – 690 BC
Taharqa 690 – 664 BC
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  The Shabaka Stone The Shabaka Stone

This it is said of Ptah: "He who made all and created the gods". And he is Ta-tenen, who gave birth to the gods, and from whom every thing came forth, foods, provisions, divine offerings, all good things. This it is recognized and understood that he is the mightiest of the gods. Thus Ptah was satisfied after he had made all things and all divine words.

(59)He gave birth to the gods, He made the towns,
He established the nomes,
He placed the gods in their (60) shrines,
He settled their offerings,
He established their shrines,
He made their bodies according to their whishes,
Thus the gods entered into their bodies,
Of every wood, every stone, every clay,
Every thing that grows upon him
(61) In which they came to be.
Thus were gathered to him all the gods and their 'Ka's,
Content, united with the Lord ofthe Two Lands.  ¶ 1:53 PM 0 comments

  Scholars Argue if Shakespeare Penned Plays Scholars Argue if Shakespeare Penned Plays - Yahoo! News
LONDON - Some scholars just won't let Shakespeare be Shakespeare. A small academic industry has developed to prove that William Shakespeare, a provincial lad from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have written the much-loved plays that bear his name.

The "real" author has been identified by various writers as Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere.

Now, a new book claims that the real Bard was Sir Henry Neville, an English courtier and distant relative of the Stratford Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself was simply a front man, claim Brenda James and William Rubinstein in "The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare."

James, an English literature lecturer, said Neville "wanted (the plays) to go under another name and wanted a poor relation to have a hand up."

James and Rubinstein, a professor of history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, argue that Shakespeare of Stratford, who came from a modest background and did not attend university, could not have had enough knowledge of the politics, foreign languages and European cities described in the plays to have written them.

Neville, in contrast, was well-educated, had traveled to all the countries used as settings in the plays and had a life that matched up with what "Shakespeare" was writing about at the time, the book says.  ¶ 11:37 AM 1 comments

  中国十大最流行名字,百万人同名 有你么? 中国十大最流行名字,百万人同名 有你么? - 文学城 www.wenxuecity.com

全国哪些名字最流行呢？这里公布top 10的姓名：竟然有130万人的名字都叫刘波！

　　 人数 姓名
　1306508 /人 刘波
　1055504/人 李刚
　 910694/人 李海
　 907476/人 张勇
　810936/人 王军
　765884 /人 王勇
　762666 /人 张伟
　717614/人 刘伟
　704742/人 王伟 　　
　695088/人 李伟
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  Ramesses II Ramesses II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. He lived from ca. 1302 BC to 1213 BC and reigned from either 1279 BC to 1213 BC or 1290 BC to 1224 BC. He ruled for a total of 66 years and 2 months, becoming pharaoh in his early 20s and dying in his ninetieth year. Ancient Greek writers (such as Herodotus) ascribed his accomplishments to the semi-mythical Sesostris. He is widely believed to have been the Pharaoh of the Exodus.

Prince Khaemweset (or Khaemwaset) was the 4th son of Ramesses II, by his queen Isisnofret.

He held the position of Crown Prince (although he died before his father, in year 55 of his reign), High Priest of Ptah and Governor of Memphis. He restored monuments of earlier kings and nobles, such as Shepseskaf, Sahure and Nyuserre Ini. He also restored the pyramid of Unas at Saqqara.

In later times he was remembered as a wise man, and stories were told about him in Greco-Roman times, such as the 'Stories of Setne Khamwas'.  ¶ 2:34 PM 0 comments

  Akhenaten Akhenaten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


How many are your deeds,
Though hidden from sight,
O Sole God beside whom there is none!
You made the earth as you wished, you alone,
All peoples, herds, and flocks;
All upon earth that walk on legs,
All on high that fly on wings,
The lands of Khor and Kush,
The land of Egypt.  ¶ 9:43 PM 0 comments

  Hatshepsut Hatshepsut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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  Sneferu Sneferu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Meidum Pyramid


Bent Pyramid


Red Pyramid

Sneferu, also spelt as Snefru or Snofru (in Greek known as Soris), was the founder of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt, reigning from around 2613 BC to 2589 BC.

The father of Egypt's most famous pyramid builder, Khufu, Sneferu was actually more prolific than his heir, being responsible first for completing his father-in-law Huni's pyramid at Meidum, transforming it from a step pyramid to a true pyramid, the first of its kind. He then went on to build his own step pyramid there. These were followed by the famous Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, and finally, the Red Pyramid. A small pyramid at Seila, near Meidum, is also believed to have been built at his command. While the pyramids built under Sneferu are individually smaller than the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the total volume of stone used in Sneferu's monuments is the largest of all pharaohs.  ¶ 9:49 PM 0 comments

  Narmer Palette Narmer Palette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  GPS users must plan for outages - IT Week GPS users must plan for outages - IT Week
The system relies on a network of satellites, which cannot be repaired once launched and have a limited lifespan. Sixteen of the present 28 satellites were built to last seven and a half years, but are now between eight and 14 years old. Twenty-four satellites are required for full coverage.  ¶ 6:11 PM 0 comments

  San Diego Zoo Weblogs » Wolong Panda Day Care Center San Diego Zoo Weblogs » Wolong Panda Day Care Center

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  Jumping Beans Howstuffworks "How do Mexican jumping beans work?"

When I was a kid growing up in southern California, my father used to take us to the 7-11 on the corner for Slurpees and gum. There was usually a display on the counter that held little clear plastic boxes of four or five Mexican jumping beans. You could hear the display rattle as the beans clicked against the plastic boxes. We would buy them and play games with them on the kitchen table. So, to answer your first question, Mexican jumping beans are real.

The next question should be, "Do Mexican jumping beans have the near-human mental capacity of the beans that help Speedy Gonzalez? Are they able to jump the length of a room, trip adversaries..." Unfortunately, no. Mexican jumping beans are about the size of a kernel of corn or a small bean. They do not wear sombreros. They do not jump into the air. They rock, or, on occasion, scoot a millimeter or two. Imagine a kernel of corn that scoots a millimeter in one direction every 15 seconds or so -- that's about as exciting as jumping beans get.

The thing that makes these beans jump is a tiny moth larvae that lives inside the bean. The moth lays its eggs in the flower of the plant, and the eggs are incorporated into the seeds. The larvae then eat out the interior of the bean and live there. When the larvae move, so does the bean. Eventually, the larvae turn into moths that emerge from the beans to repeat the cycle.  ¶ 2:30 AM 0 comments

  World's Oldest Noodles Alter View of Ancient Diet World's Oldest Noodles Alter View of Ancient Diet - Yahoo! News

Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Wed Oct 12, 2:00 PM ET

Archeologists excavating an ancient Chinese settlement discovered a small pile of well-preserved noodles after turning over an upside-down clay bowl.

The bowl was buried beneath 10 feet of sediment in Lajia, a small community located by the Yellow River in northwestern China that was destroyed by an earthquake about 4,000 years ago.

The thin, yellow noodles were about 20 inches long and resembled La-Mian, a type of traditional Chinese noodle made by grinding wheat to make dough and then repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.

The finding is reported in the October 13 issue of the journal Nature.

Prior to the discovery, the earliest mention of noodles was in a 1,900 year old book written during the East Han Dynasty in China, said Lu Houyuan, an archeologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who was involved in the discovery.

When the archeologists examined the starch grains and microscopic mineral particles that form in plants called "phytoliths," they received another surprise: the ancient noodles were not made from wheat like modern noodles, but from millet, a type of grain that, along with rice, formed the foundation of agriculture in ancient China.

"Archaeological evidence suggests that even though wheat was present in northwestern China 5,000-4,500 years ago, it wasn't commonly cultivated until much later," Huoyuan said in an email interview.

"It took a long time for wheat to become successfully naturalized in China," Houyuan told LiveScience. "It gradually spread from northwestern China to the East and to the South."

It was only much later, during the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, from 618 to 1279 AD, that wheat began to catch on with people in China, finally becoming the second largest staple grain crop in the country after rice.  ¶ 10:51 PM 0 comments

  Babel : arabic Babel : arabic

Arabic is one of the world’s largest languages, as well as an important language to religion and literature. Arabic is the writing language of more than 200 million people, but spoken Arabic varies more than it does for most other languages.

Arabic is difficult to learn, and later to remember. Arabic writing is easily learned, and Arabic grammar is simpler and more logical than many Western languages.

The great challenge with Arabic is the wealth of words. The use of verbs and nouns in Arabic has reached a level of accuracy which few Western languages can match (this author knows Eastern languages to little, to say anything about differences here).

The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters, but in some Arab countries, additional letters have been introduced.

Two verbs are normally ommitted from Arabic, to be and to have.

Instead of saying “My name is Erik”, you say “Name mine Erik” — 'ismî 'îrîk

The same applies for qualities: Instead of saying “She is a teacher”, you say “She teacher” — hiyya mudarrisa, “he tourist” — huwa sâ'ih

As for the verb “to have”, which can also equal “to own”: Instead of saying “He has a car”, you say “To him a car” — lahu sayyâra, “to her a book” — lahâ kitâb, “to me a house” — lî bayt

There are only two genders to Arabic, masculine and feminine. You take the masculine form, and add the ending “-a” to it. Then it is a feminine noun.

The little secret to understand writing Arabic, is thinking of it as handwriting. Their shapes will change in order to adjust to the writing of other letters, so that it becomes possible to write without lifting the pen up from the paper. 22 of the 28 Arabic letters have 4 variants: Standing alone; As the first letter in a word; Inside the word, between two other letters; As the last letter in a word, joining to the letter in front.

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  1000 Things Made Of Bamboo 1000 Things Made Of Bamboo  ¶ 2:51 PM 0 comments

  Medium Format Pinhole Lego Camera Thoughts About Photography: Medium Format Pinhole Lego Camera

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