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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menkauhor_Kaiu>
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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>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
proot:
A command to a donkey or mule to move faster.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proot>
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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>
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