Tag: History
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Queen Hatshepsut
Image – Sphinx of Hatshepsut Original Location: Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY I fell in love with Hatshepsut (hat-chep-soot) while reading the book The Woman Who Would Be King by UCLA Professor and Egyptologist Kara Cooney. Ms. Cooney paints an amazing portrait of life in…
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Remembering D-Day
Near the end of our France tour, we spent an entire day visiting various D-Day locations and beaches. We had a wonderful British ex-military guide that brought June 6, 1944 into vivid detail, and yet managed to focus on the positive and keep most of the day light. Our first stop was the small town…
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