Link to my Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mel.-White/author/B007FHDCHE
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Class links - Egyptology week 1
Recent finds in Egypt:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/new-egyptian-mummies-0014355
Recommended:
Oriental Institute of Chicago on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OrientalInstitute
My favorite Egyptologists
- Geraldine Pinch
- Joyce Tyldesley
- James P. Allen
- Jan Assman
Fun reading: The Amelia Peabody books by Egyptologist Barbara Mertz
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Class links - Roaring Twenties - 08/03/20
An hour of twenties music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNEJITxi2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNEJITxi2Y
A good look at the "Other Half" - Rosalind Russel in "Auntie Mame"
Jeanne Toussaint
What the English language pages don't tell you about Jeanne Toussaint
Debutante practice for presentation to queen
The Sloaney (luxury lifestyle magazine)
Listverse: the wildest parties in history:
Graphic Novel - Lackadaisy (which will also be an animated short film)
(page 1 of the comic; https://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=1)
Oheka Castle - the second largest private home (now a hotel) in the US
Friday, July 24, 2020
Class Links - Roaring Twenties - July 27, 2020
Some of the fun things to explore today!
Short filmsBabe Ruth, King of Swat in "Perfect Control"
Cookbooks
Mary Ronald's Century Cookbook on Archive.org
https://archive.org/stream/cu31924003579038#page/n1/mode/2up
Perry Ladies' Cookbook
http://www.kancoll.org/books/perry/index.html
https://archive.org/stream/cu31924003579038#page/n1/mode/2up
Perry Ladies' Cookbook
http://www.kancoll.org/books/perry/index.html
A simple fruit shrub (fruit vinegar for drinking) - there are lots of recipes, some of them take months to make. This one doesn't.
And since it's summer, a cherry-balsamic shrub
Or how about "water pie"
Tents and campers of 1920-1930 (in case you want an adventure)
Short filmsBabe Ruth, King of Swat in "Perfect Control"
Link to Citizen Archivist for National Archives
Chautauqua Society
Thursday, July 23, 2020
2020 Bingo
Because things are just so strange this year - a collection of odd news stories that made people ask:
News links included. Updated when I run across stuff.
"Zombie cicadas" infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zombie-cicadas-infected-mind-controlling-fungus-west-virginia
This River Of Black Sludge Recorded In Arizona Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
https://allthatsinteresting.com/arizona-ash-flash-flood
07/18/2020 Giant swarm of flying ants spotted from space over UK
https://news.sky.com/story/giant-swarm-of-flying-ants-spotted-from-space-over-uk-12030835
07/13/20 2020 adds "plague squirrels" to its apocalypse bingo card
https://z100radio.iheart.com/content/2020-07-13-2020-adds-plague-squirrels-to-its-apocalypse-bingo-card/
07/01/20 Part of Lassen Volcanic National Park closed after angry otter bites swimmer -
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/California-lake-closed-after-angry-otter-bites-15380136.php
07/01/20 - National coin shortage has retailers pleading for exact change
https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/national-coin-shortage-has-retailers-pleading-for-exact-change/?fbclid=IwAR3Z7D3c-sp0x_NAojNnfWpoDhq7wQiRNy4IINj2QAHm9Xc00jK4WMMvYsY
06/14/20 Locusts Are A Plague Of Biblical Scope In 2020. Why? And ... What Are They Exactly?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/876002404/locusts-are-a-plague-of-biblical-scope-in-2020-why-and-what-are-they-exactly
05/29/20 Monkey steals COVID-19 blood samples from a lab technician in India
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/monkey-steals-covid-19-blood-samples-from-a-lab-technician-in-india/ar-BB14MhGm
05/27/20 More Than 100,000 People Have Now Died From COVID-19 In The U.S. -
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/100000-us-coronavirus-deaths_n_5ebd9b0bc5b66e2790db0a8b
05/25/20 George Floyd protests
https://web.archive.org/web/20200602235547/https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-protests-timeline.html
05/18/20 Freshwater river turns blood-red ‘like a biblical plague of Egypt’
https://nypost.com/2020/05/18/freshwater-river-turns-blood-red-like-a-biblical-plague-of-egypt/
05/04/20 'Murder Hornets,' with sting that can kill, land in US
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/murder-hornets-sting-kill-lands-us-70495354
04/07/20 Record-size hole opens in ozone layer above the Arctic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/07/record-size-hole-opens-in-ozone-layer-above-the-arctic
04/07/20 Chernobyl radiation levels spike as forest fires rage -
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/europe/chernobyl-fire-radiation-scli-intl-scn/index.html
01/10/20 Enormous 'Megafire' In Australia Engulfs 1.5 Million Acres
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795169417/enormous-mega-fire-in-australia-engulfs-1-5-million-acres
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Back in Cairo
The ship's Internet turned out to be too unreliable to upload posts, which means that I will be uploading various posts and notes later this week. I burned up ALL of my International data usage (not hard to do when you're the Geek Princess) and was left with the occasional small bits of free Internet via the ship's satellite. It was slow... almost as slow as some of the fast modems of 30 years ago.
A good story needs photos, don't you think?
So here we are, back in Cairo, at the Mena House Hotel. It's just after sunset, and that's Khafre's pyramid sitting on the plateau behind us, dividing the dark land from the indigo sky. We can't see the Sphinx from here, but I know it's watching us. The hotel sound system is playing classical music with an oriental theme. I can't identify either the piece or the composer, but it's a violin arabesque that flits and echoes around the walls of the 2nd floor lobby balcony where I'm sitting and typing.
The grounds of the hotel are green and lush - there's several pools and the walks are lined with flowering plants. Big fat bumblebees stumble and buzz contentedly here, and I saw the familiar pale green-white of a cabbage butterfly ghosting across the lawn. You can even see the occasional scarab beetle, looking just like a piece of jewelry, trundling along on its way to an unknown destination. There's not much traffic this weekend -- it's a four-day weekend here in Egypt and everyone who can has gone out of town. The hotel grounds are quiet and fairly cool, although the temperature is hovering at 100.
The hotel, like all hotels and public places, has guards (discretely armed) who control the gates as fiercely as any guardian in the ancient books called The Book of Gates. We don't feel threatened here -- the sense is that since military service is compulsory for young men, that they have to be given something to do while in the military, and keeping the flocks of trinket-sellers away from tourist hotels is one of the things that they do. More about that later.
Night has fallen while I was writing this blog and downloading my homework from the University of Manchester. I need to go back to the room and dress for dinner, leaving Khafre's "mansion of millions of years" to watch the brilliant night skies for me.
A good story needs photos, don't you think?
So here we are, back in Cairo, at the Mena House Hotel. It's just after sunset, and that's Khafre's pyramid sitting on the plateau behind us, dividing the dark land from the indigo sky. We can't see the Sphinx from here, but I know it's watching us. The hotel sound system is playing classical music with an oriental theme. I can't identify either the piece or the composer, but it's a violin arabesque that flits and echoes around the walls of the 2nd floor lobby balcony where I'm sitting and typing.
The grounds of the hotel are green and lush - there's several pools and the walks are lined with flowering plants. Big fat bumblebees stumble and buzz contentedly here, and I saw the familiar pale green-white of a cabbage butterfly ghosting across the lawn. You can even see the occasional scarab beetle, looking just like a piece of jewelry, trundling along on its way to an unknown destination. There's not much traffic this weekend -- it's a four-day weekend here in Egypt and everyone who can has gone out of town. The hotel grounds are quiet and fairly cool, although the temperature is hovering at 100.
The hotel, like all hotels and public places, has guards (discretely armed) who control the gates as fiercely as any guardian in the ancient books called The Book of Gates. We don't feel threatened here -- the sense is that since military service is compulsory for young men, that they have to be given something to do while in the military, and keeping the flocks of trinket-sellers away from tourist hotels is one of the things that they do. More about that later.
Night has fallen while I was writing this blog and downloading my homework from the University of Manchester. I need to go back to the room and dress for dinner, leaving Khafre's "mansion of millions of years" to watch the brilliant night skies for me.
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