These Egyptian faience tiles paved the floor near the window of the palace of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu. They are decorated with images of chained prisoners characterized by their ethnic attributes. It is a selection of five captives, representing peoples involved in the political world of the New Kingdom.
From right to left: the first captive is a Hittite with pale skin; his hands are tied behind his back and he wears a striped skullcap with a dotted rim. He wears a colorful short kilt and a garment tied at the shoulder.
There are tons of benefits to having a
community garden: stronger sense of community, promoting healthy eating,
learning what it really takes to grow your food. It’s also a great way
to make gardening a possibility for those living in urban homes with
less yard room, and to create a healthy town center for citizens of all
ages.
But where should you start if you’d like a community garden
of your own? We chatted with Rodney Spencer, the executive director of
City Slicker Farms, which provides community gardens for West Oakland
residents, to hear his top tips on how to get started.
A serial killer is exposed to a chemical that bonds his cells with water, which he can become as liquid, vapor or solid. In solid form her takes the shape of a killer snow man.
There was a family film with the same title released in 1998. It was very common for unsuspecting parents to rent the horror Jack Frost by mistake or mischievous video store clerks switched the boxes.
On this day, 20 December 1973, Spanish fascist prime minister who was hand-picked as general Francisco Franco’s successor, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated in Madrid. Basque separatists ETA had spent five months digging a tunnel under a road he went down to attend mass. They then detonated a bomb as he drove over, shooting his car 20 metres into the air and over a five-storey building, earning Blanco the nickname of “Spain’s first astronaut”. His successor was unable to hold together different factions of the government, and so this action was credited by some for helping accelerate the restoration of democracy after Franco’s death.
Pictured: A reconstruction of the event for the film Ogro (1979)
Learn more about the rise of fascism in Spain in our introduction to the Spanish civil war in podcast episodes 39-40. Find them on every major podcast app, or on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1611700219015122/?type=3
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