And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Spooky, but fascinating for a guy that lived nearly five thousand years ago.
Statue of the Priest Kaaper, known as Sheikh el-Belad (sycamore wood, eyes made from rock crystal rimmed with copper), from North Saqqara, Egypt. Dated to the Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, ca. 2494-2345 BC.
Fascinating. Because a) the wood lasted that long b) we are closer in time to the birth of Christ than this guy was. Antiquity was a loooongg stretch of time...
Fascinating. Because a) the wood lasted that long b) we are closer in time to the birth of Christ than this guy was. Antiquity was a loooongg stretch of time...
ReplyDeleteThat is the guy from Stargate.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Jeffrey Toobin with a Woody
ReplyDelete"Archaeologists discover tomb of first pedophile."
ReplyDeleteI see Boy George
ReplyDeleteI wonder why there's that cheek patch
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