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Hi Anthony,
I was very happy to read your excellent paper on the way that Khufu's pyramid design was based on Egyptian experience with the Nile, its flooding, and the way that the flooding was seen as life-giving to the extent of becoming part of their cosmology and eschatology in the sense of the final destination of the king after death. While it is speculative, that speculation is bas
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Sue
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Ancient Egypt
When people watched the soap Dallas Texas was a more interesting place.
That's how Brits punctuate that sentence. See the problem?
Here, it would be like this:
When people watched the soap Dallas, Texas was a more interesting place.
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Sue
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Coffee Shop
"Do not iron clothes on body" was funny, too. It's hard to believe that people would actually do that, but apparently they do.
The Midol one about the dangers of an enlarged prostrate was amazing. The comment noted that takers of this product were not likely to get or have enlarged prostrates.. yeess.. but I was thinking that men probably take it because it could be the only r
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Sue
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I wonder if it's possible that a pyramid itself would have no
function, but rather be the place or conduit for a spiritual
function to take place for a dead pharaoh or person. That
function would depend on the time, belief system, and the
people who created the set-up, so to speak.
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Sue
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Ancient History
Lee Wrote:
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> Dave,
>
> This is a common phrase meaning "all the surviving
> works" of an author.
Lol. That's easy for you to say. (I don't know if you're
old enough to remember Laugh-In.)
Sue
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Dave L Wrote:
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> Well - how it works is that you listen to Brain of
> Britain on the radio (or now the internet) while
> you are doing something else - usually something
> mundane and repetitive - then you shout out the
> answers - and if the answer's right you give
> yourself a pat on the back. lol
>
>
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Sue
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Did you know that bees in organic colonies are not dying off?
From all I've read, the use of pesticides and gm plants has
been a culprit.
Sue
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Sue
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Laboratory
Label (on Web site): Warning: This costume does not enable flight or super strength.
Should Superman be worried? lol
Sue
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Coffee Shop
Dave L Wrote:
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> Hi Sue - you should try the "Brain of Britain"
> quizz on BBC Radio 4 website.
>
> It's an old favourite of mine - but this year's
> series hasn't started yet - maybe june.
I'm curious. How does that work?
Sue
p.s. -- I just learned that "flask" or "
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Sue
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Punny funny, eh?
I know I'm going to have to suck it up and get a special
cryptic crossword dictionary at some point... that is, if
I want to get really serious and improve at the more
difficult ones in places like The Herald. Sometimes I can
do a Herald crossword all the way through, and I am rather
proficient at the Coffee Break ones that they put out daily.
However, Coffee Break
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Sue
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Dave L Wrote:
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> 'Fraid I know nowt about bridge and am also
> hopeless at riddles and crosswords
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> As for the clue - un lit - is French for a bed -
> together give unlit = dark
Thanks. That makes sense now. Somehow I had been
wondering if it had anything to do with Paris being
called the City of Lights.. h
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Sue
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In my entire life, I've never come across a vending machine
that would accept pennies.
Sue
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Sue
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I never would have got that one.
Why is the answer "unlit"?
I've been making riddles out of the bridge ones. Here's a couple of them.
Why is bridge such a rich game?
And.. what do you call a lifetime of bridge? ;-))
Sue
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Today, reading something made me become aware.. in a new way.. of colony collapse disorder. Here are some links:
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In cases of colony collapse disorder, flourishing hives are suddenly depopulated leaving few, if any, surviving bees behind.
The queen bee, which is the only one in the hive allowed to reproduce, is found with just a handful of young worker bees and a rese
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Sue
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Laboratory
It has an occult mystique created by people
like the theosophists, I think.
Other than that, I don't believe Egypt is any
more interesting than any other culture or
place.
Sue
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Sue
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Hermione Wrote:
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> Sue Wrote:
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> > I love Kurasawa's work.
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> > Have any of you seen his version of Macbeth?
> > Stunning.
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> "Throne of Blood"? We got some of the way
> through, and then something went wrong
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Sue
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Paper Lens
I do like working Sudoku and Kakuro, but I've lost interest in them for the time being. I really like working the cryptic crosswords and playing practice bridge tournaments on Bridge Baron. My bridge classes end this week, so I'm waiting for my move to Austin to take it up again at tables.
I think it takes a special kind of person to get way into math like spherical trig. I had a
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Sue
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I'm about to watch season two of Life on Mars. That is such a great show. I'm sorry to learn that the ending is so traumatic, but I'll be there whenever season three rolls out, probably next year. Oh well. Sigh.
I used to think of Peter Davison as the quintessential Dr. Who... so it's hard for me to imagine John Simm as the Dr. But I agree that he and Liz White are a g
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Sue
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Paper Lens
I love Kurasawa's work.
Have any of you seen his version of Macbeth? Stunning.
Sue
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It's funny because I had just the opposite reaction to the story about Lily. I like it when my expectations are turned upside down. In fact, that's much of the reason that British tv appeals to me so much.. the original plots and surprises.. along with the great acting, producing, writing, directing, and everything else.
Sue
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Sue
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I think I understand where you're coming from. Perhaps it had something to do with budget constraints. Acc. to Poliakoff, they filmed the entire three-plus hours of the show in one month, December 1997 and maybe a couple of days into 1998. The whole scenario was something of a rush job, and it looks to me as though a great deal of time and effort were taken on an amazing number of set cha
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Sue
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Paper Lens
Hi Hermione,
I'm wondering what disappointed you at the end. I think Poliakoff was showing what actually happens to a collection like that, if someone can find a home for it. He said that a similar scenario actually occurred to the archives of an old British film studio, which was bought out and about to be destroyed when one lone woman took boxes of stuff home to sit in her living roo
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Sue
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Hi Maat friends,
Have any of you seen Stephen Poliakoff's tv film Shooting the Past, made in late 1997? It came around on my Netflix queue and now, after watching the first two parts, I must say that it spoke to me in a deep, poignant and compelling way.
I highly recommend this show to everyone.
Sue
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Sue
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Lee Wrote:
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> This assertion (with respect to musical "heresy")
> is not new. The church at times made various
> pronouncements on what could and could not be used
> in ecclesiatical music. The question of muical
> heresy is sometimes bound up with the practice of
> so-called "musica ficta," i whi
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Sue
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Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> Really? The Sudokus I've played hardly ever had
> the
> diagonal part, until one day four puzzles like
> that
> were included in a puzzle book, and I enjoyed the
> new
> challenge.. but after two puzzles I had it
> mastered.
> Sudoku is too limited and predictable for me now,
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Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> I'm afraid I don't know what you mean, because all
> Sudokus should be filled to have the nine numbers
> diagonally, horisontally and by boxes at the same
> time, and yet none overlapping. That's the very
> point of the game.
Really? The Sudokus I've played hardly ever had t
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Have you worked the Sudokus that also play diagonally, meaning all nine numbers have to fit in every horizontal line, every box, and every diagonal line? Those are interesting, too.
You should also try Kakuro (sp?). I like that one because I have to use math and logic, which is good brain exercise. After a while, I find that I just remember how certain number combinations work, which is n
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Doug M Wrote:
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> Partly right.
Humans are not primary colors they
> are multivariant shades of brown,red, tan and pink
> based on the effects of UV radiation from the sun,
> which does not produce humans in primary colors.
I've seen bright red sunburns on people's skins.
I remember burning somewhat red, whic
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Sue
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Ancient History
That's cool that you have them in Finnish, also.
I'm having a lot of fun solving them, and I'm
getting so much faster and better it's unreal.
Pretty soon, I'll be looking at the more
intermediate level ones and then, who knows,
the advanced ones. Onward and upward!
Sue
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