MIGHTY MUCAL MUSSELS OF THE MUDDY MOVING MANSIONS Lucky am I, to look after my interests. Listen to my heartbeats. Fashion my feelings. Lucky am I, to focus on meanings. Seeing the real things. Touching with reason. That moving within me. That living without. Have we too easily escaped the shallows? Where we could have followed [...]
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The Sea Peoples
THE SEA PEOPLES Rarely is change so complete. So damaging. So replete. Maybe when the Neanderthals were killed off? When the Roman Empire collapsed? When Chinese dynasties died? Catastrophic change. And none greater than the destruction of the great Mycenaean Palace states of Greece and the Middle East. Empires of chariots and bronze! Who did [...]
The World Order That Collapsed Before
THE WORLD ORDER THAT COLLAPSED BEFORE We often think that new weapons change the balance of power. Chariots in old Egypt. Nuclear bombs in World War II. And now, nuclear weapons in North Korea. It is tempting to believe that the great collapse of the late Bronze Age civilizations, around 1,200 B.C. in the Mediterranean, [...]
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AKHENATEN, TUT, AND ZANNANZA!
AKHENATEN, TUT, AND ZANNANZA! "My husband is dead. I have no son. But they say that you have many sons. If you would give me one of your sons, he would become my husband." And Pharaoh! The request is in Akkadian cuneiform, but from the wife of an Egyptian King. It is written to Suppiluliuma, [...]
THUTMOSE III OF EGYPT: GREATER THAN EITHER ALEXANDER OR NAPOLEON?
THUTMOSE III OF EGYPT: GREATER THAN EITHER ALEXANDER OR NAPOLEON? Power is a growing fire. The more it consumes, the larger the slaughter. It is only bound by the fuel it finds. Opportunity found to grow and follow. Follow a Pharaoh willing to wield its power. Follow him to Canaanite Megiddo. Chariots race the Jezreel [...]
HATSHEPSUT, THUTMOSE, AKHENATEN, AND TUT; THE PRICE OF POWER IN THE 18TH DYNASTY!
HATSHEPSUT, THUTMOSE, AKHENATEN, AND TUT; THE PRICE OF POWER IN THE 18TH DYNASTY! It had to do with a splendid security. Life leavening waters following long, linear banks. A green-fringed river flowing north, flooding north, through the cruelest of deserts. Water! Food! Food for many! And many man made monuments celebrating gods and rulers for [...]
Egyptian Obelisks and their Teeth of Time
EGYPTIAN OBELISKS AND THEIR TEETH OF TIME Obelisk. That is a Greek term meaning "meat skewer." The ancient Egyptians called them Tekhenu. And they made still smaller monuments called Stelae. The great Assyrian King Ashurbanipal boasted about being the first to steal an obelisk from Egypt in 663 B.C. "Two tall pillars made out of [...]
Vascular Plants of Allen Dale Farm, Shelby County, Kentucky
The Historical Geography of Boston
Bunker Hill! Well, Breed's Hill, actually. And not really part of Boston, then. It lay across the Charles River on a peninsula that looked like an island. That is where Charlestown was established. Now it is a nice, upscale residential area with the Bunker Hill monument in the middle. The USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides" (which [...]