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07 February 2020

Glass, children and cows!

Was at the British museum today.  After almost two years. Actually revisited the very places that I viewed on my three trips earlier.  Nonetheless, got time to visit another gallery.  The rest for another visit(s)! 

New learnings of today:
The art of glass making and creatively using glass was something mastered in the BC!!  It is believed to have originated in the area around Israel. 

Second learning of the day, thought that the child potty was a modern invention! Not at all!  That credit also goes back to our great great forefathers... the Greeks, in Athens in the 6th century BC!

An amusing discussion:
In the Egyptian gallery, which also was the most crowded one, with all the mummies, saw a couple of animals mummified too!  Cats, of course!  Greeks thought of them greatly.  But also saw 'sacred bulls'.  Someone commented, "Hope Modi does not get wind of this! If he does, we'll soon have an official minister and a whole governmental department for the mummification of 'sacred cows'!"

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