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The Egyptian Hand Med

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The Egyptian Hand Med  The golden throne of Tutankhamun in the Egyptian Museum  Cairo Egypt🇪🇬  Civilization of thousands of years... The Egyptian Hand Med

Wall painting depicting Ramesses III

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Wall painting depicting Ramesses III, Isis and Prince Amun-her-khepeshef the eldest son and appointed heir of Pharaoh Ramesses III. He died when he was about fifteen years old and depicted in his well preserved tomb, QV55 (in the Valley of the Queens) Luxor - Egypt. He lived in the 20th Dynasty and died circa 1160 BC. https://www.facebook.com/groups/244348590218134/permalink/264265648226428/

THE ANCIENT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA

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THE ANCIENT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA The Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of arts. The idea of a universal library may have been of Demetrius of Phalerum, an exiled Athenian, to Ptolemy I Soter; but it was built in the reign of his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. The Library quickly acquired many papyrus scrolls. It is estimated that 40,000 to 400,000 scrolls were housed at any given time. Despite the belief that the Library was burned and destroyed once, but it actually declined gradually over several centuries, starting with the exodus of intellectuals in 145 BC.

Ramesse II

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His Majesty Vesermaatre Setepenre Ramesse Meriamon - Ramesse II. The Great is captured in relief at his temple in Abu Simbel killing his enemies at the Battle of Kadesh ... or was it different? 13st BC circa 1260 BC.

The penguin galaxy 🐧

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The penguin galaxy 🐧 guards its 🥚 NGC 2936 is an interacting spiral galaxy located 326 million light years away in the constellation of Hydra. NGC 2936 interacts with the elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, located just below it....

UNIVERSITY OF ANCIENT TAXILA

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UNIVERSITY OF ANCIENT TAXILA It  was a renowned ancient university in the city of Taxila, then capital of the Achaemenid territories in North West ancient Indian subcontinent (now Pakistan) following the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley around 515 BCE. Persian conquest made Taxila University a very cosmopolitan environment of various cultures and ethnicities to exchange knowledge. The University was renowned for science especially medicine, arts, both religious and secular subjects were taught, and even archery and astrology. Students came from distant parts of India. It is believed that over 10,000 students from China, Babylon, Syria and Greece in addition to Indian students studied there.

Siberian Princess shows off her 2500 year old tattoos

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Siberian Princess shows off her 2500 year old tattoos  The Siberian Ice Maiden, also known as the Princess of Ukok, is a mummy of a woman from the 5th century BC The 25-year-old woman, who is thought to be one of the earliest known victims of breast cancer, was excavated from her icy tomb almost 20 years ago Researchers found the woman's tattoos were designs based on fantastical-looking animals

হিটলার কি সত্যিই ৬০ লাখ ইহুদি হত্যা করেছিলেন?

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হিটলার কি সত্যিই ৬০ লাখ ইহুদি হত্যা করেছিলেন? ================================= হলোকাস্টের মিথ: যেভাবে তৈরি হয়েছে বিশ শতকের সবচেয়ে বড় মিথ্যাচার ! আধুনিক বিশ্বের ইতিহাসে হলোকাস্ট খুবই গুরুত্বপূর্ণ এক প্রসঙ্গ। এ এমন বিষয়, যার উপর পা রেখে অস্তিত্বে এসেছে একটি রাষ্ট্র। ঐতিহাসিক রবার্ট বি গোল্ডম্যান লিখেছেন- ‘হলোকাস্ট ছাড়া ইজরাইল নামক রাষ্ট্র গঠন সম্ভবই ছিলো না।’ গোল্ডম্যানের কথাটি যেভাবে ঐতিহাসিক, তেমনি ধর্মতাত্ত্বিক। ইহুদীদের ধর্মগ্রন্থে আছে হলোকাস্টের ধারণা। তালমুদের ভাষ্য হচ্ছে, ইহুদীরা যখন রাজ্যহারা হয়ে যাবে, তখন ৬০ লাখ ইহুদীকে আত্মবিসর্জন দিতে হবে। তারপর প্রতিষ্ঠিত হবে ইহুদীদের নিজস্ব রাষ্ট্র! নিজেদের একটা রাষ্ট্রের জন্য ৬০ লক্ষ প্রাণ দান ইহুদীদের পক্ষে কখনো সম্ভব হয়নি, যদিও তাদের প্রয়োজন ছিলো রাষ্ট্র অর্জন। কেননা শতাব্দীর পর শতাব্দী যাবত দেশে দেশে তারা উদ্ধাস্তুরূপে উৎপীড়নের শিকার হয়ে জীবন যাপন করছিলো। হিটলারের নাজিজম যখন জার্মানিতে উস্কে উঠলো, তখন সেখানকার ইহুদীদের পিঠটা একেবারে দেয়ালে ঠেকে যায়। পিঠ দেয়ালে ঠেকে গেলে যে কোন জাতির জন্যেই একটা না একটা প্রতিবিধান হয়ে যায়। এটা অনেকটা প্র

A centaur was a creature from Greek mythology which was half-man and half-horse

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Mythical Creature in Greek Mythology ~ CENTAUR  A centaur was a creature from Greek mythology which was half-man and half-horse. The head, arms and torso were human and joined at the waist to the body and legs of a horse. These creatures represented barbarism and unbridled chaos and were frequently represented in Greek architectural sculpture and pottery decoration. However, despite their bestial and lustful reputation, some centaurs were not unfavourably portrayed in myths unless they were under the effects of wine. Perhaps then they are a cautionary metaphor for the dangers we all face if we should forget our civility and lose control of our faculties. Origins The father of the race of centaurs was Centaurus, himself the offspring of Ixion who had made love to Hera, or more precisely, a cloud made by a jealous Zeus to resemble Hera. The centaurs were believed to live in the forests of Thessaly, beyond the laws of man. These mythical creatures may actually have had a basis in reality

This dead German soldier was one of the "last stand" defenders of German-held Cherbourg

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This dead German soldier was one of the "last stand" defenders of German-held Cherbourg. Captain Earl Topley, who led one of the first outfits into the fallen city, blamed him for killing three of his men. France, 06/27/1944. The past and the present collide as touches of colour appear on this emotive shot on rue Armand Levéel in the French city of Cherbourg. Ghosts of war: Artist superimposes World War II photographs on to modern pictures of the same street scene. Source :- Historical expert Jo Teeuwisse, from Amsterdam.

Another statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence is the so-called

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Another statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence is the so-called Rape of Polyxena by Pio Fedi produced between 1855 and 1865. Classically speaking, however, it is not accurate to the original myth. Polyxena is considered the Trojan version of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She is not in Homer's Iliad, appearing in works by later poets, perhaps to add romance to Homer's austere tale.  During the Trojan War, Polyxena and Troilus were ambushed when they were attempting to fetch water from a fountain, and Troilus was killed by the Greek warrior Achilles, who soon became interested in the quiet sagacity of Polyxena.  Achilles, still recovering from Patroclus' death, found Polyxena's words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of Apollo to meet her after her devotions. Achilles seemed to trust Polyxena—he told her of his only vulnerability: his vulnerable heel.  It was later in the temple of Apollo that Polyxena's brothers, Paris and Deip

It is the first Pharaonic historical paintings known as

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It is the first Pharaonic historical paintings known as the Naarmer or Narmer as it was written on it. It was written and drawn during the reign of Pharaoh Narmer, who united the two Egyptian faces, and embodied the scene of the unification of the two countries, and the victory of the Pharaonic king over his enemies. The name of the pharaoh on the board is "Naar-Murr" , written with the symbols "Fish" and pronounced "Naaar" and "Chisel" and pronounced "Murr". This difference in pronunciation of the name, as it is believed that the name has several meanings, and archaeologists have not agreed on the true meaning of the name . There is at the top of the panel in the first face, we find two sides of a woman who has an ear and two horns of a cow, which is the goddess Mebat, which was named after Hathor, and between the two sides we find the facade of the palace, “Al-Sarkh” and the name of Narmer is engraved inside, and in the picture below

The Spanish Armada set sail with 130 ships and 30,000 men and headed for the English Channel.

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28 MAY 1588 The Spanish Armada set sail with 130 ships and 30,000 men and headed for the English Channel. Its aim was to travel to the Netherlands where an additional 30,000 soldiers were waiting to be transported for a huge planned invasion of England.  The aim of the Armada was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and her Protestant regime. It was prompted by Elizabeth's sanctioned execution of Mary, Queen of Scots but King Philip II of Spain's had other reasons to invade England. He wanted to stop English interference in the Spanish Netherlands where they were assisting Dutch Protestant rebels. The plan also aimed to stop English and Dutch privateering against Spanish ships in the Americas.  English ships sailed from Plymouth to attack the Armada as it progressed through the English Channel before anchoring off Calais. The Armada was damaged at the Battle of Gravelines before the Spanish fleet was driven by unfavourable winds up the eastern coast of England.  The Armada failed to

The Father of England - King Alfred

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The Father of England - King Alfred the Great burns some cakes and defeats the Vikings (Danes) at the Battle of Ethandun (878): For years, the kingdom of Wessex in Britain, ruled by Alfred, had been under attack from Viking forces. Alfred had maintained a tenuous hold on his throne, but in the beginning of 878, he was forced to flee into the marshes of Somerset to hide from yet another Viking invasion. His time there marked a significant turning point in the history of England and the medieval world. Alfred could have chosen to stay in the swamp and eke out a peasant’s existence, but instead, he emerged to battle the Vikings and, in doing so, shaped the England we know today. . . . Alfred was a scion of the kingdom of the West Saxons, the most powerful and long-lived of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. But at the end of the 8th century, the Viking diaspora had suddenly changed all that, and in 878, after bearing the indignity of multiple military defeats and the deaths of all the adult males

Plataea (479 BC) - The battle where Western civilization hung in the balance:

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Plataea (479 BC) - The battle where Western civilization hung in the balance: The Battle of Plataea was fought between the united city-states of ancient Greece and the mighty Persian Empire, and while it was the most important battle of the Greco-Persian Wars, it is not nearly as well-known as three other battles. Thermopylae was a Greek defeat, and Marathon and Salamis, although Greek victories, were only temporary setbacks for Persia, which returned to the fight each time. Plataea, however, was decisive and effectively ended the Persian invasion. If the Greeks had lost this battle and become merely one more province of the Persian Empire, the cultural flourishing of Greece in the 5th century BC might not have taken place. This victory ensured the continued independence of the Greek city-states - permitting an astonishingly rich period of art, science, and philosophy to begin which would lay the foundations for Western civilization. So much was on the line and so stacked the odds seemed

The first case of shell-shock

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"It was while I was in this Field Hospital that I saw the first case of shell-shock. The enemy opened fire about dinner time, as usual, with his big guns. As soon as the first shell came over, the shell-shock case nearly went mad. He screamed and raved, and it took eight men to hold him down on the stretcher. With every shell he would go into a fit of screaming and fight to get away. A much larger number of soldiers with these symptoms were classified as 'malingerers' and sent back to the front-line. In some cases men committed suicide. Others broke down under the pressure and refused to obey the orders of their officers. Some responded to the pressures of shell-shock by deserting. Sometimes soldiers who disobeyed orders got shot on the spot. In some cases, soldiers were court-martialled. It is heartbreaking to watch a shell-shock case. The terror is indescribable. The flesh on their faces shakes in fear, and their teeth continually chatter. Shell-shock was brought about i

The catastrofic flood in 1987 caused 57,300sqk submerged affecting millions in Bangladesh.

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My granny told me stories of flood she experienced in her life. While describing the devastation, I can still remember, I saw her teary eyes. She mesmerized how fierce the wind force was, how her thatched hut fell down, how the goats washed away!! She had five pieces of rusty breads for the four family members from the relief fund.  No food, no clean water, no medication! People stood up the whole night and the whole day in the water logged huts, and then, they slept for a couple of hours on the banana rafts. Flood in Bangladesh in 1987 was a complete horror. It was also the year I was also born in, and my granny and my mother told me later, how hard it was to keep me alive.  I stole the photo to describe the memory.

In 1999, some people made a remarkable but horrible discovery near the summit of Volcán Llullaillaco in Argentina

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In 1999, some people made a remarkable but horrible discovery near the summit of Volcán Llullaillaco in Argentina. It was the bodies of  three Inca children who had been the victims of a ritual sacrifice. They were found with gold and silver statues aswell as food in a shrine over 20,000 ft above sea level. Evidence from their bodies show they were consuming alcohol and coca leaves during their final years and the girl in the picture still had coca leaves in her mouth. One of the victims had strangely been stuck by lightning after death. They were so well preserved from the cold conditions that there was still traces of a lung infection in the pictured girls lungs and lice in the hair of another, 500 years after their deaths. These people back then, including the children, believed they were doing the right thing; it was seen has an honour to be sacrificed and children were seen as the purest of beings, which is why they were selected.

On February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo

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On February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean immigrant was shot 41 TIMES by American police officers for bringing his wallet out to identify himself, as he couldn't speak English.  All 4 cops who shot him dead were found not guilty.

Volkswagen was founded

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Volkswagen was founded On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany–then under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party–forms a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk, or “The People’s Car Company.” Originally operated by the German Labor Front, a Nazi organization, Volkswagen was headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. In addition to his ambitious campaign to build a network of autobahns and limited access highways across Germany, Hitler’s pet project was the development and mass production of an affordable yet still speedy vehicle that could sell for less than 1,000 Reich marks (about $140 at the time). To provide the design for this “people’s car,” Hitler called in the Austrian automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche. In 1938, at a Nazi rally, the Fuhrer declared: “It is for the broad masses that this car has been built. Its purpose is to a

Auschwitz gets a new doctor: “the Angel of Death”

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Auschwitz gets a new doctor: “the Angel of Death” On May 24, 1943, the extermination camp at Auschwitz, Poland, receives a new doctor, 32-year-old Josef Mengele, a man who will earn the nickname “the Angel of Death.” Born March 16, 1911, in Bavaria, Mengele studied philosophy under Alfred Rosenberg, whose racial theories highly influenced him. In 1934, already a member of the Nazi Party, he joined the research staff of the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, and eager to advance his medical career by publishing “groundbreaking” work, he began experimenting on live Jewish prisoners. In the guise of medical “treatment,” he injected, or ordered others to inject, thousands of inmates with everything from petrol to chloroform. He also had a penchant for studying twins, whom he used to dissect. Mengele managed to escape imprisonment after the war, first by working as a farm stableman in Bavaria, then by making his way to South America. He became a