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.

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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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sericulture: (agriculture) The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sericulture

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