History stuff

Those of you who read Waltari's The Egyptian, or watched the B movie probably don't know it is a loose retelling of an ancient Egyptian text Tale of Sanehat.
more HERE.

and yes, that old fashioned film is at YOUTUBE:

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and yes, the old clunker Cleopatra is there too...back when Elizabeth Taylor was still thin, and Richard Burton was still sober.

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If you want to try to look like Cleopatra, Pixiewoo has a video:



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StrategyPage posts the youtube video of that Chinese UFO.

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Webecoist has an essay on a lot of yuckky medical treatments from the good old days.
Actually, a lot of these work...if I have time I'm going to post about it on my medical blog.

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Barnes and Noble's book blog talks about a book on the Sultan of Zanzibar...including this single paragraph mentioning how he was involved in the East African slave trade:
"It began a millennium before the West's," Bird writes of the practice, "and continued for more than a century after." But it was really only after the international market for ivory and spices took off that the East African slave trade succeeded in devastating Central and East Africa. Many more slaves were needed to run plantations and transport tusks, so slavers began to provoke tribal wars (to generate prisoners). Eventually they simply raided and razed entire villages, driving their captives so mercilessly to market that most of them died before reaching it.

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