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arrived : November 17, 2011
limited number of fat quarter and half metre sets with our curated selection of 11 prints are available.
Here is us 'toeing the line' for one of our formal inspections (lockers, bunks, required knowledge, etc.) during Basic Training. You have to toe the line no matter what whenever a Drill Sergeant enters the floor, or whenever he just feels like calling us out, which is quite frequent and it usually
means that you are about to do some 'corrective training'. In the middle you can see the weapons rack for the M16s.
My first Basic Frosting Class at Give me Some Sugar. Now I can frost like the pros :) Plus it timed perfectly with Alan coming home from Europe.
Baking by Loni Diep.
Basic bath remodel, walls reframed, drywall, new wiring, lighting, vanity, new tub, toilet, floor and wainscoting.
Rather than instantly lose my front wheel to thieves, I replaced the quick-release skewer with a hex-nut one. It still requires just two adjustable wrenches to take off and thus doesn't compare to, say, a locking skewer. The point here is not to be theft-proof, though, only to be harder to thieve than the bike next to it.
Egypt, wood
Students practised writing on limestone flakes or pottery fragments called ostraca, as well as on wooden or stone tablets, and trial pieces. Training included basic spelling and grammar exercises and the copying of whole texts. These were either dictated or copied from examples. For easy reuse, tablets or writing boards were waxed and written upon with a stylus, or ink inscriptions were erased and overwritten.
[British Museum]
Taken in the Exhibition
Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt
(October 2022 - February 2023)
For centuries, life in ancient Egypt was a mystery.
We could only glimpse into this hidden world, until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone provided the key to decoding hieroglyphs, allowing us to read this ancient script. The breakthrough expanded our understanding of human history by some 3,000 years.
Marking 200 years since the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, this major exhibition took visitors through the trials and hard work that preceded, and the revelations that followed, this ground-breaking moment.
Hieroglyphs were not just beautiful symbols, they represented a living, spoken language. From romantic poetry and international treaties, to shopping lists and tax returns, the hieroglyphic inscriptions and ancient handwriting in this exhibition revealed stories that are fantastically varied. As well as an unshakeable belief in the power of the pharaohs and the promise of the afterlife, ancient Egyptians enjoyed good food, writing letters and making jokes.
The show charted the race to decipherment, from initial efforts by medieval Arab travellers and Renaissance scholars to more focussed progress by French scholar Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) and England’s Thomas Young (1773–1829). The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, with its decree written in hieroglyphs, demotic and the known language of ancient Greek, provided the key to decoding the ancient signs. The results of the 1822 breakthrough proved staggering.
Using inscriptions on the very objects that Champollion and other scholars studied, this immersive exhibition helped visitors to unlock one of the world’s oldest civilisations.
[British Museum]