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This read like a college football tweet until the last three words.

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The government doesn't have the average person's well being in mind either.

Government bureaucrats (and especially politicians) only care about their own power and position....just like everyone else.

Putting too much power into the hands of any single group, or single individual, is a certain recipe for tyranny. There is no perfect solution, and anyone who claims to have one is just angling to increase their own power and position.

The best we can hope for is a society in which various factions and groups are engaged in a Mexican standoff, and no one is too big for their britches.

I’ve heard of a similar tale about the Sicilian garbage pickers who, also lacking government support and protection, worked with the Mafia which also started the whole mafia and garbage collection issue

Lawrence even felt betrayed during the war based on what I’ve read, and choose to continue fighting for the Brits knowing damned well what that meant.

It was still the better of two options.

Thanks for visiting and the feedback! I 3d scanned the interior with a Leica BLK 360 and Matterport Pro 2 following a similar process as I did at Luxor Temple here: https://blog.mused.org/digitizing-luxor-temple-a-virtual-field-trip-for-students-around-the-globe/

I'll write up a new post about Khufu next.

I used the Matterport SDK with Three.js to build the Guided Tour version because in the past this has been much more accessible to our users than alternative methods in game engines.

I'd previously been building digital exhibitions for museums and libraries often enough that by working with a few of my friends from other cultural heritage projects, we experimented with integrating a virtual guided tour and digital exhibition content (longer form narratives, item/artifact records + metadata, membership signup, etc.). That's what we're working on now.

Well, apparently they found a ‘lost’ chapter from his book where he is even more vocal about the issue.

Revealed? This was well known about. It's literally one the main facts about his life most people, who know about him, know.

It’s also worth mentioning that the British didn’t really “capture” india through conquest or war. Nor did they directly rule the entire subcontinent.

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Seems like it was a major plot point in the movie.

> seven pillars of wisdom

Expected Sabaton

I thought this was Trevor Lawrence for a second since the Jaguars played in the UK today and was very confused.

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Yeah, but that was the whole point... I compared the worst to the best stressing why Tomatoes weren't used with complimentary justifications about cooking.

Sure. And that was the point, which you somehow took extremely defensively.

In a conversation about scurvy and vitamin C, tomatoes are a less-than-ideal example, especially when you point out that the vitamin c is destroyed

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Yeah, but it was a side example, some other fruits and vegetables could have been used... Bell pepper and cabbage are good examples

No surprise there. Everyone interested in that man beyond watching the movie knew his opinion long ago.

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Yes. His story is fascinating. I saw David Lean's film when I was young and was inspired by it. The film is so much more exciting, but the book is obviously more accurate and insightful. I was quite disappointed when I found out Lawrence wasn't actually in the charge of Aquaba because he accidentally shot his camel 🐪

How do they penetrate the tree cover? Isn't there going to be a lot of reflection from leaves? I know tree cover is normally Farr from 100% but it must still must be quite a challenge.

I mean, just in that old habits die hard and tomatoes, which are difficult to store, transport, doesn’t keep fresh long, vitamin C gets destroyed easily, means specifically they probably weren’t looking towards this as a scurvy cure

Carved pumpkins were originally carved turnips and rutabagas meant to scare off evil spirits and also referenced a folk tale about a greedy man named Jack.

Carving pumpkins became a thing when British and Irish people began colonizing North America and began using pumpkins instead, which had the advantage of being bigger, easier to carve, and more abundant in the Americas than turnips or rutabagas.

While it's often popular to try to connect these practices to ancient Celtic polytheism, the truth is the actual evidence is quite lacking. Not much is actually known about any ancient Celtic religion or its practices.