Isn't it ironic that 'fear and looting' retrieves 'fear and loathing' in google, but that 'fear and loathing' is transformed to 'fear and looting' in spell checking. That was in yesterday's story.
There is such a thing as 'fear and looting' - in America, in Peru, in Egypt, the French Caribbean, in St. Martin, ini Johannesburg, and 'sex' is added to the article about stories of the Blitz. One can play Fear & Looting at casinos as well.
Is there anything to loot in Las Vegas? Supposedly the Looting in Las Vegas article is about the 9% room tax to fund the convention centre and that there shouldn't be such a tax. Then there is a more intriguing article about casino owner, Ted Binion's murder and the looting of his $3.5 billion coin and ingot collection buried in underground vaults.
Real looting certainly happens in Egypt. The underground global economy of illicit antiquities has been estimated at $2 billion per year. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama counted 10,000 looting pits using high-resolution imagery from space. She has done all kinds of discovery with satellite imagery - she used satellite imagery to detect possible remains of a Norse/Viking presence at Point Rosee, Newfoundland.
Parcak is an Egyptologist, and has been documenting tombs and collecting images and GPS coordinates to assemble a database to answer questions about ancient Egyptian life. National Geographic partially funds Parcak's work for the database.
Her discoveries include the tombs at Lisht. She was recognized with the 2018 Lowell Thomas award and is a 2016 TED Prize winner. She has helped locate 17 lost pyramids, more than 1,000 tombs and more than 3,100 potential ancient settlements in Egypt. Egypt's Minister of Antiquities denies these numbers.
Her website says: "She aims to revolutionize how modern archaeology is done altogether, by creating a global network of citizen explorers, opening field schools to guide archaeological preservation on the ground, developing an archaeological institute, and even launching a satellite designed with archaeology in mind". Here's her website HERE. She invites us to become an explorer.
My recent explorations on holiday were focused on Arbutus tree bark. Here are a few of them.
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