Zut Alors!

http://www.touregypt.net/museum/tutc2.htm

Sure hope I find a better image of this!


Look at the beautiful chain this cute little guy's on. They made thin thin thin gold wires and then wove them together to create that chain.



Allright, sing it with me...

"Fiiiive gold-en riiiiiings!"
Sorry. Couldn't he'p myself.






The Egyptians used gold of varying purity. I'm not slagging this piece, obviously.
They also used electrum (a gold and silver amalgam) of varying recipe. Some electrum is white, some is gold; and some proportions result in weird shades of both yet neither!

http://www.touregypt.net/museum/tutc3.htm

The blue stuff is faience, glass paste. Very little of the blue stuff on Tutankhamon's famous mask is turquoise and lapis. Most of it is faience.


The Djed Pillar represents stability. It is thought the symbol itself is a stylized image of the spine.
The World-Tree (Yggdrasil) of Norse myth and The Tree of Life are vaguely analagous.



Rats! Now I can't remember what Nebkheperura means! I just can't find the file! Ra is the Sun god, and kheperu is manifestations. Neb escapeth me entirely.
/Me trundles off to find a book...That's Right! A book! Screw google this time - I know exactly where to find it. :D

Nebkheperura means Ra is the Lord of Manifestations.
Tutankhamon means Living Image of Amon.
[Card game interrupted meh :) ]


It's designed so that the vulture is looking directly at the wearer.

Articulated Scarab Amulet Egyptian, Faience, 18th - 20th Dynasty (1570 B.C. - 1070 B.C.) ...this scarab is designed to protect the mummy from harm. This particular example is extraordinary because of the fine level of craftsmanship used in constructing the legs of the beetle. The spell on the reverse is one of protection with a large cobra threatening death for disturbing the body. This specimen was recovered at Memphis.

Sounds perfectly reasonable.

Where do I get mine, and does it work against spammers?

Queen Teuta (also Queen Tefta) of Issa, was an Illyrian queen and regent who reigned approximately from 231 BCE to 228 BCE.

Awilda Daughter of a 5th century Scandinavian king; possibly legendary rather than historical.

Ææthelflææd (872/879 - 918)

Joanna of Flanders (c. 1295 - September 1374)

Jeanne de Clisson (1300 - 1359)

Gráinne Ní Mháille (c. 1530 - c. 1603), also known as Granuaile or Gráinne Mhaol, known in English as Grace O'Malley

Charlotte de Berry (1636 - Unknown)

Jacquotte Delahaye, AKA Back From the Dead Red (17thC)

Anne Dieu-le-Veut (born ca 1650)

Mary Read (c.1690 - 1721)

Ingela Gathenhielm (11 September 1692 - 29 April 1729)

Anne Bonny (March 8, 1700 - possibly April 25, 1782)

Eric Cobham (c. 1700 - 1760 or after) was a pirate in the early 18th century who with his wife, Maria Lindsey operated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence from their Newfoundland base.

Flora Burn (ca 17?? - 17??)

Rachel Wall (c.1760 - October 8, 1789)

Charlotte Badger (b 1778 - d in or after 1816) is widely considered to be the first Australian female pirate despite her being from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. She was also one of the first two white female settlers in New Zealand.

Ching Shih (c. 1785 - 1844)

Charlton Street Gang One of the earliest river pirate gangs raiding small cargo ships in the North River of New York Harbor during post-Civil War period of the 1860s. With the well protected ocean liners and major shipping vessels reserved for the Manhattan Westside dockyards however, the gang began to raid merchant shipping upriver.
Under the leadership of Sadie the Goat, the gang stole a sloop in 1869 and soon began raiding merchant shipping and raiding homes along the Hudson River from the Harlem River as far as Poughkeepsie and Albany, New York. Flying the flag of the Jolly Roger, the gang was extremely successful soon becoming known for kidnapping wealthy men, women, and children for ransom.

Lai Choi San (Mountain of Wealth) was a 20th century Chinese pirate. She was the most powerful and well-known female pirate leader in Chinese history, rivaled perhaps only by Cheng I Sao of the previous century, commanding a fleet of some 12 junks in the area of Macao and the South China Sea during the 1920s and 30s.

Also: Women in piracy

Pirate-y goodness, arrr. Here be some of the grreatest worrks of lit'rachur, ye scurvy landlubberz! Arrrr!

"Falling in love is a risky business
But loving a pirate princess
who can hang you at any moment
is plain suicide"
He likes being her Cabin Boy: check out her leather outfit and high boots!
snicker snicker

"Um, actually madame doesn't require a titty-lift. Perhaps some of the older ladies of your tribe...?"



"She could outfight, outlove any man in her crew!"
Heh heh heh heh

Another spamming scumbucket has struck, ironically spamming my last post about a spammer.  Thanks, Vox.  You're so cool.

A Vox user by name of fghty, which has no public blog posts, has left me stupid spammy comments.  If I even wanted a "designer handbag," I sure as hell wouldn't buy from a spammer.

There is no way to report spam that I can see, and I already know what happens when you ask Vox a question: nothing.

Wings
The Fall

Day by day
The moon gains on me.
Day by day
The moon gains on me.

Purchased pair of flabby wings.

I took to doing some HOVERING.
Here is a list of incorrect things.

HOVERED mid-air outside a study.
An academic kneaded his chin,
sent in the dust of some cheap magazines.
His academic rust could not burn them up.

Recruited some gremlins
To get me clear of the airline routes.
I paid them off with stuffing from my wings.
They had some fun with those cheapo airline snobs.

The stuffing loss made me hit a timelock.
I ended up in the eighteen sixties.
I've been there for one hundred and twenty five years.
A small alteration of the past. Can turn time into space.

Ended up under Ardwick Bridge

With some veterans from the U.S. Civil War.
They were under Irish patronage.
We shot dead a stupid sergeant,
but I got hit in the crossfire.
The lucky hit made me hit a time lock.

But when I got back
The place I made the purchase no longer exists
I'd erased it under the bridge.

Day by day
The moon came towards me.

By such things
The moon came towards me.

So now I sleep in ditches

And hide away from nosey kids.
The wings rot and feather under me.
The wings rot and curl right under me.
A small alteration of the past
Can turn time into space.
Small touches can alter more than a mere decade.

Wings

Clematis florida 'Sieboldii'

Zone: 6 - 9    Height: 10'+  Very fast and vigorous grower    Spread: 36"    Class: Vine    Bloom Time: Spring through Autumn (in Yankistan)    Soil Type: Average    Siting: Pt to Full Sun - Filtered or morning sun    Pruning: Cut to a pair of buds 1' from the ground in February

Images above and to right are of incompletely opened blooms.

Also known as C. ‘Sieboldiana’, this plant was introduced by Dr Philipp von Siebold to the Leiden Botanical Garden in Holland and then to the British Isles in 1835. This unusual clematis has a flower that resembles a passion flower and is much sought after. The habit is similar to C. florida and C. f. Plena. The 10 cm (4in) diameter flowers have 6 creamy white outer tepals in summer, creamy green in autumn, which are overlapping to make a fully rounded flower, especially as the tips of the tepals recurve back. The outer tepals are offset by a dramatic central boss of purple petaloid stamens about 5 – 6 cm across, which remain for a week after the outer tepals have fallen away. The flowers are sterile but the plants sometimes revert to C. f. Plena.

Flowers:  early summer to early autumn outside, under late autumn under glass (UK)

A splendiferously colored Eastern China native. It provides a radiant show of 4-inch flowers with creamy white sepals and large, full, bursting center domes of rich purple stamens, brushed ever so slightly with pale lime green.