King Ramesses II in a chariot with a bow and arrow during the siege of a Syrian fortress. The scene was modified and an Atef crown was added above the blue crown to insinuate the edification of Ramses the second. scene from the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel.
“Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever, and tho’ himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.”
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense (via philosophybits)
2. A bronze votive statuette of Bastet (Late Period, 664 – 332 BC).
Sekhmet stands with her hands at her sides, wearing a long sheath
dress and a sun disk. Bastet wears a short-sleeved, tight-fitting
dress decorated with a cross-hatched pattern, and carries an aegis in
her left hand.
Sekhmet and Bastet had a dual nature, with Sekhmet being the peaceful
counterpart of Bastet. The Egyptian myth of the Eye of Re describes
the goddess Hathor-Tefnut: “She rages like Sekhmet and is friendly
like Bastet.”
Olga Vever: born Mid-1890 - died November 1, 1917 (old style) Worker-seamstress, participant of the October armed uprising in Moscow in 1917.
Of Latvian nationality. She came to Moscow during the First World War, was a seamstress in a factory, before that she participated in the performances of the Latvian working troupe.
In October 1917, she joined the Red Guard as a nurse of the Latvian squad. Took part in the battles for the Alexevskoe Military School in Lefortoto, the central telephone station (Milutinsky Lane, now house № 5).
She died on Nikolskaya Street at the attack on the Kremlin, near which she was buried.
