October 3, 2012

Did Anyone Help you Pack Your Case, Sir?

In 1974, the mummy of King Rameses II was flown to Paris from the Cairo Museum for scientific study. He was issued a passport that listed his occupation as “King (deceased).”

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In 1642, during the Thirty Years War, when soldiers attacked a village in Prussia the nuns from the town’s convent overturned the convent’s beehives. The angry bees drove back the attackers. The grateful townsfolk renamed their village Beyenburg (Bee town).

Adrienne Mayor, Archaeology, Nov-Dec 1995, page 36

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Adrienne Mayor, Archaeology, Nov-Dec 1995, page 36

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