The iron dagger of King Tutankhamun. Color picture of the iron dagger (Carter no. 256K, JE 61585) with its gold sheath. The full length of the dagger is 34.2 cm.
On this day, 20 May 1978, 15,000 demonstrators attempted to blockade the Narita airport in Japan on the day of its official opening. A march of children around the site began, followed by a procession of disabled protesters in wheelchairs. The demonstrators were met by 13,000 riot police, and violent clashes broke out as police fired water cannons and protesters responded with petrol bombs. One group of helmeted radicals attempted to crash through a gate with flaming vehicles, and a group of left-wing students cut a cable at a traffic control centre near Tokyo, halting all air traffic in Japan for several hours. Protesters were angry at the development displacing farmers.
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And then your hip would break because their medical staff is garage and they don’t have the same regulations as over so no you’re back to square one you fucking tool
that is american propaganda used to justify their lack of a working healthcare system. it’s not true and even if it was what good would having slightly better healthcare do if it’s only accessible by the richest members of society?
The american middle class thinking they have access to the best medical care in the world is always depressing. For some treatments even the upper middle class would need to spend most of their wealth just to get the same level of healthcare available for free in other developed nations (and some underdeveloped ones). It’s one of the many reasons why life expectancy in the US is ranked on the same level as several third-world countries.
Additionally, american medical research is fantastic, but your works and guidelines are more beneficial to other countries than yourselves due to your fucked up healthcare system.
… Recently it has been reported that the most ancient Egyptian iron artifacts, i.e., nine small beads, excavated from a tomb in Gerzeh (Egypt) and dated about 3200 BCE (Stevenson 2009), are made of meteoritic iron, carefully hammered into thin sheets (Johnson et al. 2013; Rehren et al. 2013). Our finding confirms that excavations of important burials, including that of King Tutankhamun, have uncovered pre‐Iron Age artifacts of meteoritic origin (Johnson et al. 2013).
As the only two valuable iron artifacts from ancient Egypt so far accurately analyzed are of meteoritic origin, we suggest that ancient Egyptian attributed great value to meteoritic iron for the production of fine ornamental or ceremonial objects up until the 14th C. BCE. Smelting of iron, if any, has likely produced low‐quality iron to be forged into precious objects. In this context, the high manufacturing quality of Tutankhamun’s dagger blade is evidence of early successful iron smithing in the 14th C. BCE. Indeed, only further in situ, nondestructive compositional analysis of other time‐constrained ancient iron artifacts present in world collections, which include the other iron objects discovered in Tutankhamun’s tomb, will provide significant insights into the use of meteoritic iron and into the reconstruction of the evolution of the metal working technologies in the Mediterranean.
Finally, our finding provides important insight into the use of the term “iron”, quoted in relationship with the sky in Mesopotamian, Hittite, and Egyptian ancient texts (Bjorkman 1973; Waldbaum 1999): beside the hieroglyphic “image,” which already existed before the XIX dynasty with a broad meaning (as “mineral, metal, iron”) (Erman and Grapow 1982; Hannig 2003, 2006), a new composite term “image,” literally translated as “iron of the sky,” came into use in the 19th dynasty (13th C. BCE) to describe all types of iron (Bell and Alpher 1969; Erman and Grapow 1982). In the same period, we can note a text at Karnak probably describing a meteorite3 (Kitchen 1975). The introduction of the new composite term suggests that the ancient Egyptians, in the wake of other ancient people of the Mediterranean area, were aware that these rare chunks of iron fell from the sky already in the 13th C. BCE, anticipating Western culture by more than two millennia.
just lettin y'all know from a legal standpoint this is super not legally binding, they gave you that money and it’s yours now UNLESS YOU SIGN THIS. theyre obviously trying to make this look like a notice but it’s not, it’s a legally binding contract if you sign and return it so SHRED THAT SHIT
At the height of the Greek crash in 2011, staff at Viome clocked
in to confront an existential quandary. The owners of their parent
company had gone bust and abandoned the site, in the second city of
Thessaloniki. From here, the script practically wrote itself: their
plant, which manufactured chemicals for the construction industry, would
be shut. There would be immediate layoffs, and dozens of families would
be plunged into poverty. And seeing as Greece was in the midst of the
greatest economic depression ever seen in the EU, the workers’ chances
of getting another job were close to nil.
So they decided to occupy their own plant. Not only that, they turned it upside down.
For
a start, no one is boss. There is no hierarchy, and everyone is on the
same wage. Factories traditionally work according to a production-line
model, where each person does one- or two-minute tasks all day, every
day: you fit the screen, I fix the protector, she boxes up the iPhone.
Here, everyone gathers at 7am for a mud-black Greek coffee and a chat
about what needs to be done. Only then are the day’s tasks divvied up.
And, yes, they each take turns to clean the toilets.
When
the workers consulted the local community about what they should start
to produce, one request was to stop making building chemicals. They now
largely manufacture soap and eco-friendly household detergents: cleaner,
greener and easier on their neighbours’ noses.
Staff use the
building as an assembly point for local refugees, and I saw the offices
being turned over to medics for a weekly free neighbourhood clinic for
workers and locals. The Greek healthcare system has been shredded by
spending cuts, its handling of refugees sometimes atrocious; yet in both
cases, the workers at Viome are doing their best to offer substitutes.
Where
the state has collapsed, the market has come up short and the boss
class has literally fled, these 26 workers are attempting to fill the
gaps. These are people who have been failed by capitalism; now they
reject capitalism itself as a failure.
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“ Among the interesting items found in the wrappings of the king’s mummy [Tutankhamon] are two wonderful daggers with their sheaths.
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