On this day, 6 March 1964, a striking sugarcane worker called Kowsilla, a.k.a. Alice, was killed in Guyana by being severed in two by a tractor driven by a scab. The British Tate sugar company was using African scabs to try to break a national strike of predominantly Asian workers. A dozen women were picketing the Leonora estate when the scab, Felix Ross, drove over them killing Kowsilla, breaking the backs of and permanently disabling two others, Jagdai and Daisee Sookram, and severely injuring Kisson Dai, who lost a kidney, and others. Ross was acquitted of any crime. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1367625660089247/?type=3
The oldest pyramid in Egypt is OPEN for tour!! The intriguing Step Pyramid of King Djoser was built 4,700 years ago. It started off as a mastaba tomb — a flat-roofed structure with sloping sides — and, through a series of expansions, evolved into a 197-foot-high pyramid, with six layers, one built on top of the other. The pyramid was constructed using 11.6 million cubic feet of stone and clay. The tunnels beneath the pyramid form a labyrinth about 3.5 miles long.
What a privilege to add this experience to our Egyptian Journey’s itinerary.
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