Abuwtiyuw is one of the earliest domestic animals whose name is known. A
lightly built Egyptian hunting dog similar to a greyhound, with erect
ears and a curly tail, he is believed to have been a royal guard dog of
the 6th Dynasty (2345–2181 BC). He received an elaborate ceremonial
burial in the Giza Necropolis at the behest of an unknown pharaoh. An
inscribed stone listing the gifts donated by the pharaoh for Abuwtiyuw's
funeral was discovered by Egyptologist George A. Reisner in October
1935. It was apparently part of the spoil material incorporated into the
structure of a 6th-Dynasty mastaba (pharaonic-era tomb) in Cemetery
G 2100 in Giza West Field, close to the western side of the Great
Pyramid of Giza. The inscription on the white limestone tablet, which
measures 54.2×28.2×23.2 cm (21.3×11.1×9.1 in), is composed of ten
vertical rows of hieroglyphs, separated by vertical lines. The stone was
probably originally installed in the demolished funerary chapel of
Abuwtiyuw's owner.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuwtiyuw>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1602:
The Bodleian Library (pictured), one of Europe's oldest
libraries, opened on the grounds of the University of Oxford in England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodleian_Library>
1892:
Despite racial divisions, black and white union members united
in a general strike in New Orleans, Louisiana, US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_New_Orleans_general_strike>
1912:
First Balkan War: The Greek Army accepted the surrender of the
Ottoman garrison at Thessaloniki, one day before the Bulgarian Army
arrived to do the same.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki>
1940:
The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek
units repulsed the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elaia%E2%80%93Kalamas>
1987:
A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a
Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at
least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nubcake:
(Internet slang, pejorative or humorous) A noob; a newb; a newbie.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nubcake>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I
know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in
falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
--Julian of Norwich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich>
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