The Pyramid of Sahure is a pyramid complex built in the late-26th to 25th century BC for the Egyptian pharaoh Sahure of the Fifth Dynasty. The main pyramid was built from roughly hewn limestone blocks bound with mud mortar and encased with fine white Tura limestone. Stone fragments believed to belong to the king's basalt sarcophagus are the only remains of the burial that have been found. A mortuary temple is adjacent to the pyramid's east face and to the south is a cult pyramid, constructed similarly to the main pyramid but on a reduced scale. The layout of the complex was adopted by succeeding kings of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, marking a milestone in pyramid complex construction. Sahure's mortuary temple became the object of a cult of Sekhmet around the Eighteenth Dynasty. The cult was active through to the Ptolemaic Kingdom. The temple also became the site of a Coptic shrine. The site was first thoroughly excavated by Ludwig Borchardt between March 1907 and 1908.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1695:
An earthquake measuring Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695_Linfen_earthquake
1927:
Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
1955:
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Passage_to_Freedom
2006:
The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Nepalese_revolution
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schlubby: (chiefly US, informal) Clumsy, oafish, or socially awkward; unattractive or unkempt. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schlubby
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