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Fury as Museum Bosses Cover Up Naked Egyptian Mummies to Protect 'Sensitivities' of Visitors
dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 21, 2008 | Jaya Narain

Posted on 05/21/2008 12:15:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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1 posted on 05/21/2008 12:15:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

PC makes it to museums...Nat Geo mag is doomed


2 posted on 05/21/2008 12:20:14 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No doubt muzzies.


3 posted on 05/21/2008 12:20:17 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They must have heard Bill Clinton was on his way for a visit.


4 posted on 05/21/2008 12:21:26 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Average White Conservative)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I didn’t know John Ashcroft was a Egyptologist.


5 posted on 05/21/2008 12:23:33 PM PDT by Unlikely Hero ("Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." --Berlioz)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I don't know about the visitors, but personally I wouldn't want my scrawny, unclothed, rotten body permanently exposed in a museum for tourists to see for a hundred years or more. Respecting the interests of the scientists and public is all well and good, but what about the dead guy?

Sorry, had to play devil's advocate ;).
6 posted on 05/21/2008 12:27:43 PM PDT by messierhunter
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not nearly as horrid as our very own Smithsonian refusing an exhibit extolling the American Dream offeredas a gift to the museum by very wealthy self-made people. Smithie is big on slavery exhibits though.


7 posted on 05/21/2008 12:30:55 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: messierhunter

“Sorry, had to play devil’s advocate”

Wouldn’t that be “dead-guy’s advocate” ?


8 posted on 05/21/2008 12:31:52 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Free ThinkerNY
IIRC, the ancient Egyptians were quite comfortable with nudity and diaphanous clothing.
9 posted on 05/21/2008 12:35:40 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oooh, baby, I just loved dried up 2700 year old husks. Mmmm...mmmm.


10 posted on 05/21/2008 12:39:25 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: messierhunter

I agree with you.


11 posted on 05/21/2008 12:39:43 PM PDT by llmc1
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To: Resolute Conservative
No doubt muzzies.

Once again GMTA

12 posted on 05/21/2008 12:39:57 PM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Then they’d better start covering up the various bog bodies in museums, and Otzi, the iceman.


13 posted on 05/21/2008 12:48:15 PM PDT by mass55th
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Too late! Have you read National Geographic lately? It has bought into AGW big-time! Al Goracle probably sits on the board. In their Traveler magazine they lambasted the museum dedicated to Kalashnikov, snarkily implying America was just as bad since we had a firearms museum (great place in Virginia by the way). The beauty of some of the old weapons as well as the dioramas at the NRA museum are quite a step above a hall dedicated to one weapon in Russia. So, Nat Geo is PC big time.


14 posted on 05/21/2008 12:49:40 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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I was going to answer him as well; sorry for the thread jack. I bought Nat Geo subscription about 10 years ago for my then 8 year old daughter. This was prompted by my love for them as a kid. My grandmother had every issue in a closet back to Perry at the pole (which I still have).

A new crew had come in and every EVERY article had some nasty anti-American, anti-capitalist blather in it. Front to back. Oh, plenty of advertising still, wouldn’t want to starve or anything. I cancelled after two years and told them explicitly why.

Back to mummies and their letting it all hang out.


15 posted on 05/21/2008 12:58:37 PM PDT by doodad
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To: 12Gauge687
Try the Frazier Arms Museum in downtown Louisville. It has a fine collection of historic American firearms, as well as a huge amount of British weaponry and armor dating from the Bronze Age all the way up through the Boer War.

The British weapon collection is on semi-permanent loan from the Imperial War Museum in Great Britain. They have tens of thousands of pieces that are taking up vast amounts of storage space, so they loan out as much as possible to keep their overhead costs down and to give folks in other countries an opportunity to see some of these fascinating weapons.

16 posted on 05/21/2008 1:06:09 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
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To: doodad

I second your sentiments - unfortunately, my subscription is a gift from my dad, so I still experience the sharp rise in blood-pressure each month when Nat’l Geographic is delivered.


17 posted on 05/21/2008 1:08:55 PM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: doodad

I have no idea where the crew came from but they’ve infected some fine periodicals like The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Travel and Leisure. As a design and construction professional, I have noticed these folks have overwhelmed any possible opposition to or questioning of Al Gore’s AGW groupthink.

The NRA’s American Hunter magazine had a wondeful tribute to Charlton Heston; you certainly don’t see that anywhere else. Along with other hunting and auto publications, that’s about all I read in non-news periodicals.


18 posted on 05/21/2008 1:12:55 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Thanks for the heads up! The Imperial War Museum is great; definitely a recommendation if you’re in Britain.


19 posted on 05/21/2008 1:18:26 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: colorado tanker
diaphanous clothing.

di aph a nous adjective (esp. of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent

I love FR.

20 posted on 05/21/2008 1:19:08 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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