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Disruptor, Tax the Rich, Tax Religion, Universal Basic Income, Knight, Munster, There is no planet B DonalClancy@Wordpress.Com

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Fawlty Towers Luxor We stayed in a number of properties in Egypt. In Cairo we spent most of our time in Villa Layla, a rambling hostel in a beautiful old colonial style mansion. The big bonus with Layla was the swimmi…

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Kadesh relief 2 I mentioned back in Karnak how the Kadesh Relief as a piece of propaganda was installed in multiple locations. You don’t have to travel far from Karnak to find the next version. Luxor Temple …

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Luxor Temple Luxor is an arabic name which means β€œthe palaces” referring to the many temples found in and around the town. Historians often refer to the older name of Thebes, as the ancient southern…

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Is it cruel to put Cynthia Erivo on the cover of the GQ "Men of the year" issue? Seems to me they are presenting he as particularly butch here.
Is Cynthia Ariana Grande's sugar daddy.

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Night at Luxor Temple If you stay in Luxor town it is an easy stroll to the Luxor Temple. At night it is floodlit so it makes for a pleasant stroll past the site. 1,001 Arabian columns? It makes for a very dramatic scen…

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False Tomb of Tutankhamun Beside the Carter House is an exact replica of the tomb of Tutankhamun from the valley of the Kings. This project was created to ease the damaging effects of thousands of tourists blundering throug…

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The Carter House The house built by Howard Carter on Ulwit al-Dibban (Hill of the Flies) is a really pleasant space. It is beautifully proportioned and has that β€œjust right” feel you get from excellent …

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Howard Carter To the north-east of the al-Qurna you will come to the site where Howard Carter built his house. Carter is famous as the excavator who uncovered the Tomb of Tutankamun. I will follow this with a po…

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TT52 – Tomb of Nakht We now move on to the tomb of Nakht, which reminded me a lot of the tomb of Ti all the way back in the Old Kingdom and the Saqqara complex. Nakht is just up the hill from Ramose. He was a scribe an…

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TT55 – Tomb of Ramose We have now move out of Deir el-Medina to Sheikh abd al-Qurna which is just over the hill from the homes of the artisans. Here you can find a number of the tombs of high officials from the courts o…

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Go easy on the old man. He suffers from dementia. He hasn't a clue what's going on.

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Temple of Hathor At the end of the valley of the workers houses in Deir el-Medina you can find the old coptic monastery of Saint Isidorus the Martyr of Chios. Being adopted by the Christians was a good way for paga…

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TTY – Monochrome Style Tomb The final tomb from Deir el-Medina I am calling TTY and like TTX I can’t identify the correct tomb number or the name of the occupant. It is decorated in what is known as the Monochrome Style…

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TTX – Perhaps Pashedu I have to admit that my recording skills fell apart for this and the next posting. In future I need to be better at documenting my photostream by having a clearly labelled photo of the place I ente…

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TT1 – Tomb of Sennedjem If you have not guessed yet the tombs in the Valley of the Kings are designated KV# (Kings Valley) and those in the Valley of the Queens are QV#. Today we have a TT designation which stands for The…

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Tombs of the Nobles and the Workers Lying between the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Kings you will find the village of the tomb builders β€œDeir el-Medina”. Nearby in Old Qurna are found the tombs of court offi…

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QV44 – Tomb of Khaemwaset Khaemwaset was another son of Ramesses III who got a tomb to himself in the Valley of the Queens. This is not to say that he was into drag. I’m not suggesting he was not into drag, but I have…

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QV55 Tomb of Prince Amunherkhepeshef If you struggle to remember how to say Hatshepsut this one is going to kill you. Prince Amunherkhepeshef is so difficult to say that the authorities of the Valley of the Queens simplified the name …

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QV52- Tomb of Queen Tyti Our first port of call in the Valley of the Queens was QV52. The tomb of Queen Tyti is a simple layout. From the entrance A you proceed down the corridor B to the chamber C which has storage chambe…

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Valley of the Queens The Valley of the Queens is in the same massif as the Valley of the Kings and between the two you can visit Deir el-Medina, the village where the tomb builders lived, and the Tombs of the Nobles. T…

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What have Fredo Corleone and Prince Andrew in common?
Their brothers had to wait for mother to die before pulling the trigger.

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KV1 – Tomb of Ramesses VII Our last visited tomb KV1 is one of the first you encounter at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. Because it is a small and simple tomb it is less busy than many of the others. For me this wa…

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KV9 – Tombs of Ramesses V & VI Back when I worked in Advertising we used to joke that Theft is the most sincere form of Flattery. Tomb KV9 was intially built for Pharaoh Ramesses V, fourth pharaoh of the New Kingdom 20th dynasty…

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World War 3 is the legal case for a 3rd term.
He is that much of a narcissist that I guarantee it is an option on the table.

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KV16 – Tomb of Ramesses I The founding father of Egypt’s 19th Dynasty was not nobly born. He was father to Seti I and grandfather to Ramesses II (the Great). He came from a prominent military family based in the Nile …

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KV11 – Tomb of Ramesses III The first tomb we visited in the Valley of the Kings was the tomb of Ramesses III (KV11). For those paying attention we already met Ramesses III in Karnak where he constructed a temple for himself …

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The Tomb of Ti On our way from the Serapeum to the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara we visited the Mastaba of Ty, also known as the Tomb of Ti. As I was organizing my photographs of the tombs of the Valley of th…

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Can Halloween get any scarier than this?

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Over 100 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza as Trump says 'nothing' will jeopardise ceasefire The US President defended Benjamin Netanyahu’s ordered strikes, saying Israel β€œshould hit back” after an Israeli soldier was killed.

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This is NOT a ceasefire.
#POTUS is living in CloudCuckooLand

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I have a very bad feeling about this...

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