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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Starry Night and Crows in Cornfield

Posted by Robert Schmick at 5:05 AM

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Robert Schmick: Newfield, Maine, United States; I received my MA and Ph.D. from New York University in Education. I am the museum director of 19th Century Willowbrook Village.

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Assyrian Empire, Ashurnazirpal II, Bowdoin College.

From the Assyrian Empire of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Iraq, which can be seen at Bowdoin College

This stellae is from Nimrud, or Kalakh of yore, in what is now Iraq. This dates from the time of Ashurnazirpal II, and it can be seem at Bowdoin College here in Maine.

This is a genuine anorak (Aleut), as it is made from seal intestine making it entirely water resistant. I saw this at the very interesting and worth-a-visit Peary-Macmillan Polar Exploration Museum at Bowdoin College in New Brunswick, ME recently ( March, 2013).

This is the mummy that I mentioned that I witnessed being unearthed at the Ramesseum in Egypt, circa 1995 ( I lived in Egypt at an earlier period---1988 and worked as a teacher in Cairo. I saw this while on summer vacation from a teaching gig in Istanbul, Turkey. It spoke to me.