How Did Egyptians Build the Pyramids? Ancient Ramp Find Deepens Mystery
Researchers in Egypt have discovered a 4,500-year-old ramp system used to haul alabaster stones out of a quarry, and news reports have suggested that it could provide clues as to how Egyptians built the pyramids. Yet while the ramp system is a significant technological discovery, the pyramid connection is still a bit of a stretch.
Archaeologists from the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo and the University of Liverpool discovered the ramp system’s remains in an ancient alabaster quarry at Hatnub, a site in the Eastern Desert. The ramp system dates at least as far back as the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid at Giza. Read more
The Dutch resistance was widely believed to be a man’s effort in a man’s war. If women were involved, the thinking went, they were likely doing little more than handing out anti-German pamphlets or newspapers.
Yet Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus, two years her senior, were rare exceptions — a pair of teenage women who took up arms against Nazi occupiers and Dutch “traitors” on the outskirts of Amsterdam. With Hannie Schaft, a onetime law student with fiery red hair, they sabotaged bridges and rail lines with dynamite, shot Nazis while riding their bikes, and donned disguises to smuggle Jewish children across the country and sometimes out of concentration camps.
In perhaps their most daring act, they seduced their targets in taverns or bars, asked if they wanted to “go for a stroll” in the forest — and “liquidated” them, as Ms. Oversteegen put it, with a pull of the trigger.
“We had to do it,” she told one interviewer. “It was a necessary evil, killing those who betrayed the good people.” When asked how many people she had killed or helped kill, she demurred: “One should not ask a soldier any of that.” […]
Today is a big day! Five years ago today, my sweetie Mango (@wafflesworld) found her forever home! Mango didn’t get the right care her first two years, but she has been growing so well and healthy since being rescued by friend Alicia!
To shellebrate, I found pink-loving Mango the pinkest card, the pinkest stickers, and a snuggly heart! I gave the heart a big CHOMP to send Mango lots of love and kisses! (Mom was too slow to get a picture of me chomping the heart.)
“On Friday, July 27, the full moon passed through the shadow of the Earth for 103 minutes. It was the longest “blood moon” lunar eclipse of the century, as the moon turned red in the shadow of the Earth for nearly two hours.” x – x – x – x
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