Writing by Andromeda on Thursday, 11 of September , 2008 at 4:41 pm
A new dynasty emerges. Threatened from abroad, Ramesses II leads an army north to fight the Hitites at Kadesh. The battle beomes his crowning achievement, and the basis for a new period of stability and wealth. Resources flood into Egypt. A new capital is built, artisans revel in an explosive period of building, and The House of Life becomes the intellectual centre for the empire.
Writing by Andromeda on Thursday, 11 of September , 2008 at 4:35 pm
Already 1,000 years old, Egypt is a shadow of its former self. By 1560 BC the kingdom lies divided among foreign rulers. But Ahmose, one of the last Egyptian princes, rises to defeat the Hyksos and the Nubians. The New Kingdom is born, uniting Egypt once again. After Ahmose dies, Hatshepsut becomes the first female Pharaoh.
Writing by Andromeda on Thursday, 11 of September , 2008 at 3:40 pm
By 1400 BC the Egyptian empire stretches from Northern Syria to the Sudan in Africa. Led by Amenhotep III, it is a golden age of wealth, power and prosperity. Remarkable diplomacy is used to keep the empire’s rivals at bay. Art, technology and new ideas flourish and Egyptian rulers are seen as gods. After the death of Amenhotep III, his son Akhenaton initiates drastic changes. Consumed by a monotheist belief, he orders a new capital built in the desert, marries the beauty Nefertiti, and embarks on a campaign of religious repression.
Egyptologist Dr. Kara Cooney has appeared on many television programs and talk shows discussing ancient Egypt. She is an authority on the ancient language of late Egyptian, particularly hieratic ostraca and papyri from the village of Deir el Medina. Visually, she specializes in coffins and funerary art of the Ramesside period.
During the summer of 2003, Cooney worked on the return of the King Tut exhibition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as researched a number of Egyptian pieces for inclusion in the Museum Loan Network database. She was also involved with the installation of the Cairo Museum exhibit “Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt,” which opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (where she was the Samuel H. Kress fellow) in the summer of 2002. Please Login or Register to see the link.
Writing by Andromeda on Thursday, 4 of September , 2008 at 1:41 pm
Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.
Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Patton’s army. Dunham’s mother went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the G. I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to Hawaii.
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Writing by Uriel on Monday, 18 of August , 2008 at 12:43 pm
Political philosopher and visionary, husband and father, dynamic orator and militant minister. In his lifetime, Malcolm X was many men. Born Malcolm Little, he later became “Detroit Red” and “New York Red” — a hustler, drug pusher, pimp, con man and the head of a Boston robbery ring. After spending time in prison, he emerged as Minister Malcolm — Malcolm X, the fiery, eloquent spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Finally, he became El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, an internationally recognized leader and advocate for oppressed peoples. He was both loved and despised, revered and feared– until an assassin’s bullet cut him down at age 39.
American Experience marks the 40th anniversary of his death with “Malcolm X — Make It Plain.” This in-depth film portrait goes straight to the heart, mind and message of one of the modern era’s most complex figures. Actress Alfre Woodard narrates the special. Please Login or Register to see the link.
Writing by Uriel on Saturday, 12 of April , 2008 at 3:59 pm
The afterlife of Princess Diana may accept its antecedent added to the ambulance ride and the analysis during that ride than to the blow itself. With billions of humans throughout the planet absorbed in her afterlife and the could cause thereof, it is a abysmal abstruseness of why the focus of board and media avoid this analytical breadth of inquiry, which paradoxically seemed to be a abstruseness to the French Interior Minister and the Badge Chief of Paris as well.
Our abstruseness ties in as to why a VIP may accept been traveling after a badge escort in an ambulance taking, after adequate explanation, one hour to get to a hospital. Please Login or Register to see the link.
Writing by Uriel on Sunday, 11 of November , 2007 at 1:25 pm
Elli Perkins née Present (1949 – March 13, 2003) was a mother of two, a professional glass artist, and a Scientologist who lived in Western New York. She was a senior auditor at the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York. Her son, Jeremy, started showing signs of strange and disturbing behavior. She attempted to correct this with treatment by non-psychiatric means consistent with her Scientology beliefs, but his schizophrenia progressed to the point where he felt Elli was poisoning him, prompting an unsuccessful suicide attempt. When this failed, Jeremy instead murdered his mother. Please Login or Register to see the link.
But in this fascinating documentary (first shown on Channel 4 in July 2007), historian Bettany Hughes looks behind some of the myths of Athens’ golden age. She finds a very warlike and aggressive state, which was also capable of terrible mistakes, misdeeds and atrocities. Please Login or Register to see the link.
