Menkauhor Kaiu was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Old Kingdom period, the seventh ruler of the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th or 24th century BC. He ruled for possibly eight or nine years, following king Nyuserre Ini, and was succeeded by Djedkare Isesi. Although Menkauhor is well attested by historical sources, few artefacts from his reign have survived; less is known about him than about most Fifth Dynasty pharaohs, and no offspring of his have been identified. Khentkaus III may have been Menkauhor's mother, as indicated by discoveries in her tomb in 2015. Beyond the construction of monuments, the only known activity dated to his reign is an expedition to the copper and turquoise mines in Sinai. He ordered the construction of a sun temple, the last ever to be built, called the Akhet-Ra ("The Horizon of Ra"). Known from inscriptions found in the tombs of its priests, this temple is yet to be located. Menkauhor was buried in Saqqara in a small pyramid named Netjer-Isut Menkauhor ("The Divine Places of Menkauhor"). Known today as the Headless Pyramid, the ruin had been lost under shifting sands until its rediscovery in 2008.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1521:

Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and more than forty Spanish soldiers at the Battle of Mactan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan

1667:

John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton

1810:

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his "Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor", better known as "Für Elise" (audio featured), one of his most popular compositions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCr_Elise

1941:

Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil resistance and political organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Front_of_the_Slovene_Nation

1993:

Members of the Zambia national football team were killed in a plane crash en route to play a 1994 World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Zambia_national_football_team_air_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

proot: A command to a donkey or mule to move faster. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proot

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Man needed one moral constitution to fit him for his original state; he needs another to fit him for his present state; and he has been, is, and will long continue to be, in process of adaptation. And the belief in human perfectibility merely amounts to the belief that, in virtue of this process, man will eventually become completely suited to his mode of life. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower.   --Herbert Spencer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer