Monday, July 31, 2017

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Bake the product in the oven at (110°C - 130°C) for 10-15 minutes

Blue acrylic paint, water and pearly pigment

Cover a glossy varnish

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Beer Battered Shrimp With Roasted Garlic Aioli - Duration: 3:43.

Hello everyone! I´m Albert Bevia with Spain on a Fork

today I´m going to show you how to make my

beer battered shrimp along with a roasted garlic aioli

now, we all love fried shrimp

but this recipe elevates the flavor profile

we´re going to be using a combination of flavors

that are going to explode in your mouth

this appetizer is easy to make

and it´s done in under 30 minutes

if this is your first time watching my channel

I encourage to click on that subscribe button

If your already a subscriber, welcome back!

ok the first thing we´re going to do is

we´re going to roast two cloves of garlic

I´ve had my oven pre-heating at its highest setting

and I´m going to leave in there for about 10 minutes

ok next let´s grab two cloves of garlic

let´s finely mince them and let´s add them to a mortar

ok its been about 10 minutes

since we added the garlic to the oven

so know I´m going to add

the roasted garlic to the mortar

and using a pestle I´m going to start

mashing down on the garlic until I form a paste

now let´s add 1 tablespoon of dijon mustard

and the juice of half a lemon

now let´s season it with some sea salt

and some freshly cracked black pepper

and let´s mix everything together

ok for our last ingredient we´re going to be adding about

3 tablespoons of extra virgin Spanish olive oil

we´re going to be pouring it in

in a slow stream while we continue to stir

now let´s cover our roasted garlic aioli

with some seran wrap and let´s add it to the fridge

ok now let´s start making our beer batter

let´s begin by adding 1/2 cup all-purpose flour to a bowl

now let´s add 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

and 1/2 teaspoon of smoked paprika

now let´s add a 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt

and 1 tablespoon of extra virgin Spanish olive oil

ok and for our last ingredients

let´s add a 1/4 cup of water

a 1/4 cup of beer

and let´s mix everything together

and this is the consistency we want in our batter

it´s thick and creamy

ok our beer batter is done

now let´s grab a small frying pan

let´s heat it with a medium heat

and let´s add 1/3 cup of sunflower oil

ok i´ve got about 15 jumbo shrimp

that have already been peeled and deveined

I´m going to add them one by one into the beer batter

until their well coated

ok and once our oil get´s hot

let´s start frying our shrimp

I´m going to be frying them in batches

that way I don´t overcrowd the pan

and after a minute to a minute and half

let´s start flipping them

and after frying our shrimp for about 2 1/2 to 3 minutes

let´s go ahead and start taking them out

transfer them to a plate with some paper towels

and once all our shrimp our cooked

let´s start plating our dish

let´s garnish our dish with some fresh parsley

and let´s season our shrimp with a little sea salt

and there´s our final dish of

beer batterd shrimp with a roasted garlic aioli

and know let´s give it a taste test

wow! it´s an explosion of flavors in your mouth

this is something you definitely want to try

if you enjoyed today´s video

on making this tasty appetizer

please subscribe to my channel

so you can receive all my future videos

until the next time...Hasta Luego!

For more infomation >> Beer Battered Shrimp With Roasted Garlic Aioli - Duration: 3:43.

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#19 Box whisky near Sandslån - Duration: 10:01.

In this episode Mia and I paddle across this bay...

...attend a whisky distillery tour...

...and sail back to Härnösand.

There on the other side of the water...

...is "Box Distillery"

Here you can rent a canoe for 50 kr and paddle across the water to attend a whisky distillery tour

(Song: "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?")

The view from the restaurant in Box distillery...!

Great view of the river Ångermanland!

"Its here where everything ends up..."

"we add water in here, around 800 liters..."

"The water is here for 40 minutes, then we filter it..."

"there are arms in the cisterns, slowly blending the malt and water..."

"During this process, the alcohol in the blend increases"

"Its no more difficult than putting petrol in the car"

"but more fun"

"This fluid is clear, its raw spirits"

"this is what we use... its 60% alcohol... completely clear..."

"Then the spirits enters the wood, where all the flavors are"

"When the temperature falls, the pressure falls and it goes back in the jar..."

"And this process continues throughout the summer..."

So much whisky!

Here we have the entrance to the distillery...

It is a lot I didn't know about whisky...

(Everything)

First, I thought that "Box" ment that they put the whisky in boxes...

That was NOT the case!

It was three ingredients in whisky...

water... malt... and yeast.

It is possible in this place to buy a whole jar of whisky

containing 60 bottles of whisky (!!!)

slightly overkill...

Maybe I could drink one bottle a year?

I think I have tasted whisky 10 times in my life

If I should start to drink whisky now, it might be (maximum) one bottle a year?

To buy one jar of whisky, containing 60 bottles would for me be bad economy!

Now we will take the canoe and go back to sandslån...

There it is!

What did you learn today about whisky?

...that its complicated!

much more complicated than I could assume

Three ingredients, but it can vary so much...

The jars..., storing times...., humidity..., temperature....

But apparently this was a good place!

The temperature shifts where good for the end result

But - how does one know?

If you succeed in a good bled... and than everything changes? Its a warm summer....?

The spirits does not goes into the jar....?

Then its a new sort of whisky again...?

yes.

Now we are back in Sandslån again

I want to recommend you to visit this place!

Inexpensive, I moored alongside this dock for 100 kronor a night, electricity included.

Friendly staff at the harbor,

80 kronor for staying, 20 for electricity. Nothing to argue about.

Now I want to show you this...!

Out in the water is the old timber sorting tower

Back in time people were working there, sorting lumber for the different lumber companies

The lumber had different marking on them, and someone sat in the tower and pressed buttons so the lumber went to the right pound

Today this tower is desserted...

I am tempted. What a great location!

Just fix it up and have it as a summer cottage out on the water!

How many people lives in a "flight tower" on the water?

That would really be something, tickles my fantasy!

Ernst, var är du (Swedish DIY summer programme on TV)?

Here you have a project for next summer!

If not, I might do it!

Last pictures... Here you can sit and relax...

Also places for RV´s

Plenty of space

Nice pesthouse, good toilets, good service...

Everything is good, except.... where are all the guests?

We leave sandslån and sail down the river...

Reached the bridge again, where we sang on top of our lungs with Jussi Björling

"At sea........"

Grand song!

Elvira is showing the knot to use when docking

How do you do it?

I give the rope to the person on the bridge

That person sends it back...

What do you say? Thank you, thank you!

One full circkle... zig zag... twist.... pull.

Perfect!

For more infomation >> #19 Box whisky near Sandslån - Duration: 10:01.

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★ Nightcore - Dragon Ball Super | OPremix | Ultimate Nightcore Mix | Sugu Music ★ - Duration: 3:06.

Dragon Ball Super OPRemix Nightcore

Sugu Music Nightcore

Nightcore Radio Live Stream 24/7

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Rethinking VAM! A Short Overview - How to Understand VAM Testing In Our School System - Duration: 5:13.

Right now in almost every public school in America our students teachers are being evaluated

Judged and labeled based on what many have coined junk science.

Value-Added models or VAMs for short are statistical models designed to measure the amount of growth that students make on large-scale

standardized tests to estimate how much of that growth and achievement can be attributed back to their students teacher.

While this method sounds promising and has been sold as such there are several flaws that make the issue more complicated than it might seem.

For example, many of the theoretical and methodological problems are often downplayed or ignored by those promoting VAM use. In

response, this video presents the

counter-argument to the pro- VAM narrative by focusing on the major statistical

concerns of VAMs and the real-life consequences that accompany their use,

especially when high-stakes tests are attached to VAMs estimates.

First of all like all measurement tools VAMs should be but unfortunately are not always reliable,

valid, and free from bias. In-fact based on the most current research, a teacher classified as adding value has a

twenty-five to fifty percent chance of being classified as

subtracting value the following year and vice versa. It would be just as reliable and a whole lot cheaper if

administrators simply flipped a coin to determine whether a teacher was indeed effective in this regard.

Related, VAMS should also be valid just as one would expect a scale to consistently measure weight that is with reliability,

one should also expect a VAM to measure what is actually supposed to measure, teacher effectiveness.

While there is limited evidence to suggest that VAMs are valid there are reasons for this, for example

surrounding the known problems with the tests upon which VAMs rely.

We know that such tests are poor measures of student achievement

and we know that such tests were never intended to measure teacher quality, our

growth, and student achievement from one to the next that could be attributed back to teacher quality

but they are being used this way regardless. We also know that VAMs estimates

do not correlate or relate well with many other measures of teacher effectiveness.

In-fact other measures sometimes flat out

contradict VAM Estimates and vice versa.

This should not happen

but it does, and it does so too often. This and about 25 other issues are still making

validity nearly impossible to achieve.

Further, research Evidence has shown that some teachers scores are indeed biased by the students they teach

especially when they teach classrooms with

disproportionate populations of

gifted and/or high need students. These are the students typically on the tails of the normal bell curve.

This happens in many ways because students are not randomly assigned to classrooms or teachers.

Regardless of what VAM statisticians in this area might say their

statistical controls

too often do not work effectively to con counter or control for this very real issue. All

these problems matter, but what matters more is the way in which these problems affect

people.

Despite mounting cautionary research, VAMs are being used for consequential decision-making purposes in many

states across America.

Teachers have been demoted,

demoralized, and dismissed because of these models that are at best correct some of the time.

To push human judgment out of these highly complex statistical equations as

others justify and their perpetual pursuit of objectivity is

scientifically wrong. If we are ever to truly find any value in

value-added modeling, as still currently conceptualize and use we still have a long long way to go. If

you are interested in reading more about the intended and unintended

consequences of value-Added models, I encourage you to read my book

'Rethinking Value-Added Models In Education: Critical Perspectives On Test and Assessment-Based Accountability'

Available for purchase at Roultedge.com and Amazon.com

All of my personal proceeds are going to the Okoto orphanage in Siem Reap Cambodia.

I have absolutely no interest in making any money off of the many many of which are shameful,

consequences coming about as a result of inappropriately attaching high State consequences to

and/or making high stakes decisions as based on VAMs, unlike others.

Thank you

For more infomation >> Rethinking VAM! A Short Overview - How to Understand VAM Testing In Our School System - Duration: 5:13.

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Криптовалюта Dash - Новости за 24.07.2017 - 30.07.2017 - Выпуск №72 - Duration: 4:34.

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Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse 200-500 250 D - Duration: 1:01.

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Markey: No good military option in North Korea - Duration: 2:11.

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PHILIPPINES : DAY 4 (WEDDING DAY) - Duration: 2:37.

best drink in the whole world

the ceremony just ended

it was so beautiful

the bride and groom were so beautiful

the speech was so beautiful, i loved it, that's it, so cool

and look, look at the view

it's so hot here, it must be 86°F but the humidity is insane

i let you discover the rest of the evening

the wedding is over, we just got back

it was the most beautiful wedding i've ever seen in my whole life

i can't even put into words

that's it. nothing else to say. see you tomorrow

For more infomation >> PHILIPPINES : DAY 4 (WEDDING DAY) - Duration: 2:37.

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[ ENG SUB ] SEVENTEEN — GOING SEVENTEEN EP 08 - Duration: 6:57.

( english subtitle by giantbaobei )

* Seventeen who practiced hard for Carats. *

* Mingyu looking swag while head banging *

* Wonwoo's rap that has all power and sexiness. *

* Vernon's gaze that has charisma. *

SK: See? You can do it.

SK: Why did you hesitate?

SK: In vocal team, it's important to sing well, but there's something else.

DK: Harmony. SK: Harmony is important. We do this, too-

* Making up for the harmony by playing ChamChamCham. *

JH: Everyone. I'll let you know one of Woozi's nickname.

JH: Ujirong. ( Wooz-Worm )

WZ: Everyone calls me VoBo because of you, too.

JH: I gave him those nicknames.

WZ: There's no reason behind it. JH: There's none.

JH: Also, when you see Woozi's video dancing to Crazy in Love,

JH: While we're doing it like this, Woozi did it his way sexily.

JH: After seeing that, i thought "Woozi, you're sexy like worm."

WZ: Worms are sexy?

JH: That's how i came up with that nickname.

JS: Performance team is so cool.

T8: We're currently practicing for the performance with water below us.

T8: It's... very hard.

T8: Because we have to dance with water below, i don't really know what to do.

T8: But we've worked hard. We'll show you a really cool stage.

SK: Wow, It's Jeon Wonwoo! Jeon Wonwoo!

WW: I never do this.

SK: You always joke around and do this to me!

WW: He's like this when the camera is on.

SK: Hyung always try to look chic whenever the camera is on.

SK: Every single time. He's.. like that, like that, like that.

WW: I want to eat Korokke. ( sounds like geurohke, which is what seungkwan said )

SK: If you say something like that, your gag won't be funny ( he's making wordplay )

SK: Woozi Hyung is sleeping. (3X)

DK: Take off his hat.

( ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! )

DK: What do you think you're doing...

DK: We were going to take things away from Woozi Hyung when he's sleeping.

DK: How could you came laughing?!

DN: I thought he was pretending to sleep..

SK: It's ruined!

DK: So that's how, SK: our Dino became tactless again, today.

SC: Look at him overreacting.

DN: Ey, he's not usually like that.

SC: But, still. Dino's the best at that kind of thing.

SC: BangChan is the best.

DK: Practice like you're rehearsing.

VN: Stop lying.

DK: You should do it sincerely so you could do better on stage.

DK: We'll always be the Seventeen who work hard.

WW: That's not how you practice during rehearsals.

WW: Earlier, you did this.

DK: I'm going to do that.

WW: For real? DK: Just once.

DK: If the reaction is not good, i won't do it.

WW: It's really hiphop-y

DK: I have a hiphop DNA.

JH: This... is really tiring.

DK: I want to show what we've practiced on stage really soon.

DK: We really want to show our passion on stage.

* Seventeen! You've worked hard.

( english subtitle by giantbaobei ~ thank you for watching! )

For more infomation >> [ ENG SUB ] SEVENTEEN — GOING SEVENTEEN EP 08 - Duration: 6:57.

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test to my flexibility and balance - Duration: 1:44.

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Rob Markman - I Don't Wanna Wait (feat. Kirby Maurier) - Duration: 3:47.

It's like where we're from, you'd be lucky to make it out

Not everybody gets this chance God help us all

J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League

8 Bars

I'm from the block where the powder blew minds 'Cross the street from the spot fiends crowded

two lines Summertime hot, had to shower two times

My very first pair was the Powder Blue 9s Thought Jordans and a gold chain was livin'

So I molded my image out of God's Son's vision To the point every communion that I'm gettin'

I'm in Bred 11s and Bordeaux 7s Christ, it was written and rap was our religion

Let my OG mold me, he hustled for a livin' 16 in the spot, close enough to smell it

Rode with him on his shift, he never let me sell it

Lost my mind 'round the time that bro got locked

Couple years before that is when Kev got shot I mean...

I could've been a crash test dummy Pumpin' for herringbones, beeper and sneaker

money

Said I don't wanna wait No, I don't wanna wait

'Til that sunshine turn to rain 'Til them good times go away

Said I don't wanna wait No, I don't wanna wait

'Til the devil take control Gotta hold on to my soul

Don't wanna wait

My brother got locked, I only visited once The ride was sick, smelled like someone pissed on the bus

He taught me when the gun buck, you duck

And I was only 18 the night I almost got touched Couple shots close range, I think God intervened

Same corner I seen needles in arms of a fiend Same corner I seen teens bear arms for the green

Same corner I seen kings die for a dream

Somethin' like survivor's remorse So when I hit St. Paul's, make the sign of the cross

Word to Wallace and the solace that I find in the lord

Found God 'round the time Al died in the Bronx

Bless Brad, bless Brad for the gangsta and the gospel

The Fix was like the Bible, Face was our Apostle

My fate was in the bottle, I chased with a Clamato

Vodka shots, no tomorrow, Hail Mary with my eyes closed

Said I don't wanna wait No, I don't wanna wait

'Til that sunshine turn to rain 'Til them good times go away

Said I don't wanna wait No, I don't wanna wait

'Til the devil take control Gotta hold on to my soul

Don't wanna wait

Everyone addicted to somethin' Some addicted to drugs, some addicted to hustlin'

Some addicted to women, some addicted to sinnin' It's the rush, the adrenaline, the high when it settle in

I tap a vein, hopin' that my dreams pop

'Cause I don't wanna wake up, and then the dream stop

But I can't sleep either Seen dudes better than me turn underachiever

Men with ambition get hit, turn up missin' I almost got shot, I started seein' things different

My homie baggin' in the kitchen

I'm just waitin' for this Hennessy to kick in

These drunk thoughts, soberin' my soul Seen karma come around, startin' to lose control

Just tryna get it 'fore the time pass 'Cause I don't know how long the ride lasts

Said I don't wanna wait No, I don't wanna wait

'Til that sunshine turn to rain 'Til them good times go away

Said I don't wanna wait No, I don't wanna wait

'Til the devil take control Gotta hold on to my soul

Don't wanna wait

For more infomation >> Rob Markman - I Don't Wanna Wait (feat. Kirby Maurier) - Duration: 3:47.

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Rethinking VAM! A Short Overview - How to Understand VAM Testing In Our School System - Duration: 5:13.

Right now in almost every public school in America our students teachers are being evaluated

Judged and labeled based on what many have coined junk science.

Value-Added models or VAMs for short are statistical models designed to measure the amount of growth that students make on large-scale

standardized tests to estimate how much of that growth and achievement can be attributed back to their students teacher.

While this method sounds promising and has been sold as such there are several flaws that make the issue more complicated than it might seem.

For example, many of the theoretical and methodological problems are often downplayed or ignored by those promoting VAM use. In

response, this video presents the

counter-argument to the pro- VAM narrative by focusing on the major statistical

concerns of VAMs and the real-life consequences that accompany their use,

especially when high-stakes tests are attached to VAMs estimates.

First of all like all measurement tools VAMs should be but unfortunately are not always reliable,

valid, and free from bias. In-fact based on the most current research, a teacher classified as adding value has a

twenty-five to fifty percent chance of being classified as

subtracting value the following year and vice versa. It would be just as reliable and a whole lot cheaper if

administrators simply flipped a coin to determine whether a teacher was indeed effective in this regard.

Related, VAMS should also be valid just as one would expect a scale to consistently measure weight that is with reliability,

one should also expect a VAM to measure what is actually supposed to measure, teacher effectiveness.

While there is limited evidence to suggest that VAMs are valid there are reasons for this, for example

surrounding the known problems with the tests upon which VAMs rely.

We know that such tests are poor measures of student achievement

and we know that such tests were never intended to measure teacher quality, our

growth, and student achievement from one to the next that could be attributed back to teacher quality

but they are being used this way regardless. We also know that VAMs estimates

do not correlate or relate well with many other measures of teacher effectiveness.

In-fact other measures sometimes flat out

contradict VAM Estimates and vice versa.

This should not happen

but it does, and it does so too often. This and about 25 other issues are still making

validity nearly impossible to achieve.

Further, research Evidence has shown that some teachers scores are indeed biased by the students they teach

especially when they teach classrooms with

disproportionate populations of

gifted and/or high need students. These are the students typically on the tails of the normal bell curve.

This happens in many ways because students are not randomly assigned to classrooms or teachers.

Regardless of what VAM statisticians in this area might say their

statistical controls

too often do not work effectively to con counter or control for this very real issue. All

these problems matter, but what matters more is the way in which these problems affect

people.

Despite mounting cautionary research, VAMs are being used for consequential decision-making purposes in many

states across America.

Teachers have been demoted,

demoralized, and dismissed because of these models that are at best correct some of the time.

To push human judgment out of these highly complex statistical equations as

others justify and their perpetual pursuit of objectivity is

scientifically wrong. If we are ever to truly find any value in

value-added modeling, as still currently conceptualize and use we still have a long long way to go. If

you are interested in reading more about the intended and unintended

consequences of value-Added models, I encourage you to read my book

'Rethinking Value-Added Models In Education: Critical Perspectives On Test and Assessment-Based Accountability'

Available for purchase at Roultedge.com and Amazon.com

All of my personal proceeds are going to the Okoto orphanage in Siem Reap Cambodia.

I have absolutely no interest in making any money off of the many many of which are shameful,

consequences coming about as a result of inappropriately attaching high State consequences to

and/or making high stakes decisions as based on VAMs, unlike others.

Thank you

For more infomation >> Rethinking VAM! A Short Overview - How to Understand VAM Testing In Our School System - Duration: 5:13.

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🌜 Feu De Camp & Bruit De La Nuit Pour Se Relaxer Et Dormir Calmement 🌛 - Duration: 4:01:13.

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Coimbra - Lower and Upper bound by the Botanical Garden - Duration: 2:19.

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3 exercices qui brûlent les graisses en un temps record ! - Duration: 5:31.

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Just How Crazy Were Egyptian Pharaohs? - Duration: 12:05.

Like many rulers from the time before we had running water and microwaves, the pharaohs

of Egypt were considered to be only rivaled in power by the gods their people worshipped.

Considering the ancient Egyptians worshipped a god with crocodile for a head, they must

have thought their pharaohs were pretty boss.

So boss in fact that they let them get away with some pretty ridiculous things during

their time in power, for example let's talk about that time…

10.

Pharaoh Psamtik III Let His Army be Defeated… to Save Some Cats

As you may recall from The Mummy movies, cats were kind of a big deal in ancient Egypt.

This is mostly due to the animal being closely linked with the cat-headed goddess of warfare

and balls of twine, Bastet.

In addition, cats were revered for the role they played in protecting food stores and

homes from disease by killing pests likes snakes and rats.

As a result, it was considered a crime in ancient Egypt to harm or, through inaction,

allow a cat to come to harm.

Basically, the pharaohs coined the three laws of robotics millennia before Asimov, and used

them to protect the thing that poops under your stairs.

Perhaps the greatest example of a pharaoh placing the well-being of cats above that

of his own people was when pharaoh Psamtik III literally told his army not to fight because

an enemy commander had released hundreds of cats onto the battlefield.

That commander was Persian king Cambyses II who, knowing of the Egyptians love of cats,

had his men collect as many as they could prior to the battle and ordered them to simply

walk up to the front gate of Pelusium (a major Egyptian stronghold) holding them, along with

releasing hundreds more into the enemy ranks as they advanced.

The Egyptians, under threat of death from their pharaoh, had no choice but to let Cambyses'

men walk straight into the city unchecked.

Cambyses' men then methodically slaughtered anyone who dared challenge them, using shields

with cats drawn on them, because oh yeah, even striking an image of a cat in ancient

Egypt was enough to get in trouble.

The end result was a total victory for Cambyses, who celebrated in a dignified, noble fashion.

Just kidding.

He ordered the defeated Egyptian army to march past him as he threw cats at them while screaming

insults at their god.

Luckily for Psamtik, this is by no means the most embarrassing thing to happen to a pharaoh,

with that honor likely belonging to…

9.

Pharaoh Menes, the Legendary Pharaoh Who Was Killed by an Angry Hippo

Pharaoh Menes (sometimes written as Mena, or sometimes simply Min) was reportedly Egypt's

first pharaoh, and his journey to unify all of Egypt under a single ruler is the stuff

of legend.

Not because it was awesome, but because we know virtually nothing about Menes' life

or rule.

He's just from that long ago.

In fact, historians are only really confident about a few key details from Menes' life:

That he ruled Egypt during a time of relative peace, that he was well-respected by his people,

and that he was stomped to death by a hippo after 62 years on the throne.

Exactly how Menes met his end at the hands of a hippo isn't known, because apparently

that's not a detail anyone back then felt was all that interesting to note.

All we know for sure is that somehow the first Egyptian pharaoh was mysteriously ambushed

while surrounded by guards, by a hippo.

Speaking of dead pharaohs, did you know…

8.

Pharaoh Rameses Got a Passport, Long After He Was Dead

Ramses II is considered to have been one of ancient Egypt's greatest rulers, judging

by just how many monuments were built in his name and the fact he was alternatively known

as Ramses the Great by his subjects.

After a 96-year long career as a pharaoh, Ramses was probably looking forward to spending

some quality time alone as a corpse in a pimpin' gold coffin, but the museums of the world

had other ideas.

Like many great pharaohs, Ramses' corpse was exhumed and put on display in a museum,

his near-century-long legacy as a man thought of as no less than a god summed up by a single

placard in a language his ancient mind couldn't comprehend.

In 1974, after years on display, Ramses' corpse was showing its age and it was agreed

that it should be sent to a Paris laboratory to be prettied up.

Not wanting the memory of one of the greatest pharaoh to be sullied by listing him as luggage,

the Egyptian government granted Ramses an official Egyptian passport for his journey.

Along with listing his name and age (some 3,000+ years at the time he flew), the passport

also listed Ramses occupation as "King" with a small disclaimer adding that he was

dead, as if the fact he was 3,000 years old didn't already give that away.

7.

Pharaoh Sesostris and His Big Ol' Vagina Statues

Pharaoh Sesostris is a pharoah who may or may not have existed, with modern historians

believing that he may actually be a composite figure with the stories told about him being

gleaned from the lives of several pharaohs from across Egypt's history.

These pharaohs include the aforementioned Ramses the Great and Seti the First.

As a result, we don't know exactly who the following story is actually attributed to,

but we had to share it, because… well, you'll see.

The story goes that Sesostris was an incredibly confident military leader who hungered for

battle, openly mocking enemies he felt fought poorly and applauding those he felt fought

with honor.

To this end the pharaoh is said to have taken to erecting statues in the middle of conquered

cities he felt didn't put up much of a fight with a giant vagina carved into it.

A symbolic insult suggesting that the conquered city's army fought like women.

Again, we have no idea about the veracity of this tale since it's main source is the

notoriously unreliable scholar of history, Herodotus, but put yourself in our shoes and

tell us you wouldn't at least mention a pharaoh with a penchant for erecting giant

vagina statues as an insult?

6.

Pharaoh Akhenaten Got Rid of Religion, So Egypt Got Rid of Him

Akhenaten is a pharoah notable for two things: attempting to introduce monotheism to ancient

Egypt, and the resulting backlash that saw him nearly erased from all of history.

Basically, Akhenaten attempted to abandon the traditional Egyptian religious beliefs

of believing in multiple awesome gods, and instead tried to convince his people to believe

in and worship a single, super god called Aten.

Perhaps because Aten was a lame disk of light with dozens of arms instead of a cool crocodile

man or dog-headed grim reaper, the people of Egypt largely rejected this new religion

and mere days after Akhenaten died, every reference to Aten – and by extension Akhenaten

(who styled himself as Aten's representative on Earth like some sort of sun-pope) – was

scrubbed from Egypt.

Everything from the vast temples the pharaoh built to simple cooking pots bearing an image

of Aten were destroyed, and Akhenaten himself was branded a traitor, with every mention

of his rule being erased from every historical record.

So complete was this process that his modern scholars had no idea Akhenaten had even existed

until the late 19th century, when some of the items that survived the purge of his new

religion were discovered.

5.

Many Pharaohs Ceremonially Masturbated Into the Nile

Whacking it (the proper scientific term) played a surprisingly big part in ancient Egyptian

culture, with the society's creation story literally involving one of their many gods

masturbating into the cosmos to create life as we know it.

As pharaohs were seen as being basically a single step below the various deities of ancient

Egypt, it was similarly customary for pharaohs to polish their bone and shoot some baby gravy

directly into the Nile every now and again.

The idea behind this bizarre practice was that, like the gods before them, the pharaoh

was infusing the river with his holy seed, encouraging life to spring forth from its

waters in the form of a good harvest.

Of course, not every pharaoh did this, because not every pharaoh had a tallywacker, which

didn't stop them pretending they did.

Just ask…

4.

Pharaoh Hatshepsut and Her Big Fake Beard

While the image of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh is undeniably that of a rippling, golden skinned

man with a crooked staff, a silly hat, and a stupid beard, Egypt did have its fair share

of vagina-owning pharaohs.

Among them was Hatshepsut, one of Egypt's most celebrated rulers and a woman credited

with one of the longest and most successful reigns of any ruler from history, female or

otherwise.

Along with establishing major trade routes that helped fill Egyptian coffers full of

gold and various spices, Hapshetsut is also credited with inventing that killer eyeliner

all the pharaohs wore.

History notes that Hatshepsut's gender was seldom an issue for her subjects and many

statues were built in her honor sporting her delicate features, and oddly enough, a big

beard.

You see, in ancient Egypt that stupid little beard thing was seen as a symbol of "pharaonic

power" and all pharaohs, male and female, were expected to have one during special ceremonies.

The problem for Hatshepsut, other female pharaohs, and even male pharaohs who couldn't grow

a half decent beard, is that this obviously wasn't possible.

As such, elaborate fake beards were constructed to be used by the pharaohs who, for whatever

reason, didn't like the idea of actually growing and maintaining a real one.

Hatshepsut went a step further than this, though, and she's recorded to have ordered

that all statues of her were to capture her likeness while also simultaneously depicting

her as a man to silence any naysayers who believed she couldn't rule because of her

gender.

As a result of this, Hapshetsut's statues are a curiosity among historians, as they

clearly depict her with female facial features, but a buff man's body and a beard.

3.

Pharaoh Cleopatra Once Had Herself Delivered Naked in a Carpet

Cleopatra, like Hapshetsut, was one of Egypt's celebrated female rulers.

However, unlike Hapshetsut, who went out of her way to appear as a man, Cleopatra was

famous for using her womanly wiles to get her own way.

This is no better summed up than by the story of how she got Julius Caesar into bed.

The story goes that Cleopatra, who was renowned across the ancient world for being both beautiful

and exceptionally cunning, sought to secure Caesar's assistance in bolstering her political

power during a diplomatic visit by the Roman ruler.

Seeing as, at the time they met, Caesar was a 52 year old man and she was a nubile 20

year old, Cleopatra realized the best way to do this would probably be with her vagina.

To absolutely ensure that Caesar would have no chance to spurn her advances, she stripped

completely naked and had several slaves roll her up in a giant carpet (some sources say

bed sheets), which she then asked to be delivered to Caesar as a "gift".

The slaves knocked on Caesar's door, told him they had a present for him, then unrolled

the fabric towards the foot of his bed, revealing a naked Cleopatra, who then invited him to

have some sex.

The resulting love affair between Caesar and Cleopatra formed one of the ancient world's

most influential power couples, and it all started with a sex-move straight out of Barney

Stinson's playbook.

2.

Pharaoh Pepi II and his Honey Covered Slaves

Pharaoh Pepi II was a fairly unremarkable pharaoh, all things considered.

Sure, he ruled Egypt and probably did the five knuckle shuffle into the Nile a few times,

but he was mostly content during his rule to gorge himself on food and chill with Ra

by bathing shirtless beneath the burning Egyptian sun.

Pepi, however, had a particular dislike of flies, in particular when he was trying to

eat, which was an issue because Pepi was always stuffing his face.

To counter this problem King Pepi had a designated slave in his sizeable entourage covered in

honey every day.

This slave would invariably attract the flies, who'd become stuck to the honey and thus

be unable to bother Pepi while he ate.

This worked so well that Pepi eventually had a honey covered slave stand in every room

of his palace so that he'd never be bothered by flies again, proving that even the most

minor annoyances can be totally avoided, provided you're rich and powerful enough, and also

have an army of slaves willing to be dipped in honey.

1.

Pharaoh Tutankhamun had a Dagger From Space

We're not going to front by pretending anyone reading this far down on a list of ancient

Egyptian pharaohs doesn't have some sort of an idea about who Tutankhamun is, so we're

just going to get right to it and say he had a knife FROM SPACE.

Specifically, Tutankhamun had a small dagger experts believe was forged from the iron heart

of a meteorite.

Found in the pharaoh's tomb in the 1920s, the dagger, despite being thousands of years

old, is still sharp enough today that the TSA wouldn't let you board a plane with

it.

But here's the thing: nobody is really sure where the dagger came from, because historical

evidence suggests that the ancient Egyptians weren't suitably advanced enough to smelt

iron, let alone forge a weapon using space metal.

This has led historians to presume that the dagger was a gift from a foreign nation who

did possess that technology.

While historians are pretty confident that the foreign nation wasn't the Martians,

they haven't explicitly ruled it out either, so we guess those Ancient Aliens guys might

have had a point.

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