Walid Damouny

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Read the full story, “The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture,” here. 

Dave Cascino (of Thunderclap.it fame) saw this in North Brooklyn near the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.  

In 1896 W. M. Flinders Petrie discovered the Merneptah Stele — also known as the Israel Stele or Victory Stele of Merneptah — in the first court of Merneptah’s mortuary temple at Thebes. It is inscribed on the reverse of a large granite stele originally erected by the Ancient Egyptian king Amenhotep III, but later inscribed by Merneptah who ruled Egypt from 1213 to 1203 BC. The black granite stele primarily commemorates a victory in a campaign against the Libu and Meshwesh Libyans and their Sea People allies, but its final two lines refer to a prior military campaign in Canaan in which Merneptah states that he defeated Ashkelon, Gezer, Yanoam and Israel among others. It is preserved in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.When she took her vows as a Sister of Loretto, she chose the name Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. (via Early Years of Mother Teresa)