Posted on 01/17/2018 3:30:31 PM PST by mairdie
I remember reading a historical novel where a guy represented himself as a eunuch to get close to the girl. They found out he wasn't and so they "corrected the problem."
If I remember my Three Stooges correctly, Queen Hotsy Totsy went to pieces shortly after they discovered her.
You have to wonder. They didn’t know their anatomy all that well, so maybe they missed a critical part. And one man could substitute for another ... who’s looking too closely at a slave?
Reminds me of Madeleine Khan’s scene in “History of the World, Part I.”
I was thinking of “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.”
After Tut died was forced into marriage to vizer, AY.
She wrote a secret letter to Hittite king asking him to send prince to marry
Hittite Emperor suspecting trap sent court physician on mission to check out story.
Find it was true and dispatched one of his sons to Egypt to marry her. Details leaked and Hittite prince and party were ambushed at frontier and massacred. She disappeared
shortly after this , presumably murdered.....
I loved the Nile cruise as well. Safe, the food was great, and expert tour guides accompanied us as we visited several temple and tombs. I was able to walk in the actual tomb of Tut at the Valley of the Kings.
A day at the Cairo museum is also a must! No long lines waiting to see the Tut exhibit, so much more than that to see as well.
Good summary.
When the security conditions are iffy, the Egyptian Tourism Department cranks up the bodyguards, and tourists get a royal experience.
Beautiful names. I hope she enjoys them. Love Maureen O’Hara. Sure I’d love your aunt if I’d known her. So many good people in this world.
How can you tell?
He is not retarded!
I agree. Everyone you meet has an amazing story, if you can just get them to tell it.
My aunt is a very nice woman, with great endurance (having been married to my uncle, who is a Noodle, for 45 years), but not the dazzler Maureen O'Hara was ;-).
No one in their right mind wanted to be a prince or a princess for most of Egyptian history, I would think. Might be good for a long afterlife after getting their brains taken out thru their noses, but not much good for the here and then.
Good point.
Unfortunately, the “marry in” concept caught on throughout the Middle East and North Africa, regardless of religion. I recently read a book, “Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus,” by Joachim Jeremias, a German Biblical scholar. He mentioned that it was desirable for a priest to marry his niece, his brother’s daughter, because that way he could be sure of her pure bloodline.
I LOVE the stories that come out on FR about fathers and mothers and miscellaneous relatives. These are REAL good people, not just characters in books. They influenced people and are remembered with love for the kindnesses and small events that made up their lives. And when we remember them, too, then we help their memories last past them.
Glad you still have yours. Grandmother was raised among 16 siblings and those were the “aunts” whose funerals I spent my childhood attending. Aunt Eva was so gentle she could put her hand in a goldfish tank and the fish would swim onto it to be raised momentarily out of the water. Her apartment was filled with canaries.
My 5th great uncle was a Dutch Reform theologian who wrote a dissertation on why someone couldn’t marry their deceased spouse’s sibling.
http://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/jhl/marriage-jhl-p02-03.htm
My daughter Sally (who is a royal pain in some ways) is like a Disney princess with animals. They come out of the woods and the ponds and gaze at her, sighing (I suppose), “We love you, Sally!” A turtle came out of the lake when we were fishing with the Cub Scouts and let her carry it all over, let the Cubs pet it, and then, she said, “Goodbye, little turtle,” and it swam off in the lake. Life is weird.
My father died three years ago from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease, but my mother is still kicking, trying to control everything around her ... just like me!
How interesting! I was baptized Dutch Reformed. My mother was from Philadelphia, and Northern Ireland before that.
That reasoning was why Stonewall Jackson didn’t marry the sister of his late first wife.
I’m so glad. I miss my mother desperately. It’s hard not to try to control when you know you know better than those around you. Isn’t it really just to keep things running smoothly?
How absolutely exciting!!!!!
My best friend’s cousin is still deeply connected with one of the churches in Westchester Co NY. I collect a great many Dutch Reform books because of the John Henry research. It’s always seemed like a religion that was WAY ahead of its time.
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