Nyuserre Ini was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, the sixth ruler of the
Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom period. The younger son of
Neferirkare Kakai and queen Khentkaus II and the brother of the short-
lived king Neferefre, Nyuserre probably lived in the second half of the
25th century BCE and reigned for more than two decades. He was
succeeded by Menkauhor Kaiu, who could have been his nephew and a son of
Neferefre. Nyuserre built three pyramids for himself and his queens and
completed a further three for his father, mother and brother, all in the
necropolis of Abusir. His temple dedicated to the sun god Ra was named
Shesepibre or "Joy of the heart of Ra"; it is the largest such temple
that survives from the Old Kingdom. He also completed the Nekhenre, the
Sun Temple of Userkaf in Abu Gorab, and the valley temple of Menkaure in
the Giza necropolis. The state-sponsored funerary cult established at
Nyuserre's death lasted until the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyuserre_Ini>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1914:
World War I: Belgian troops were victorious at the Battle of
Halen, but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of the
country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halen>
1945:
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project,
written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the
public just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyth_Report>
1969:
Riots erupted in the Bogside area of Derry and spread across
much of Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Northern_Ireland_riots>
1990:
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue
Hendrickson found one of the most complete discovered skeletons of
Tyrannosaurus rex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_%28dinosaur%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sericulture:
(agriculture) The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sericulture>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our
American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who
we are. That’s not our America.Our United States of America is not
about us versus them. It’s about We the people!And in this moment, we
must all speak truth about what’s happening.Seek truth, speak truth
and fight for the truth.
--Kamala Harris
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris>