Travel agent Khayyam Ali turns to barbering
Thursday 25 February 2021
Travel agent Khayyam Ali got certified and opened his own barber shop, thus fulfilling his dream faster than he expected due to the impact of the pandemic on the travel industry. -
IN less than a year Khayyam Ali has gone from running a travel agency to cutting men’s hair. The owner of the Claxton Bay-based Kelvin Cruise and Travel Services Ltd told Newsday he anticipated the fallout in the travel industry even before a pandemic was declared, and started putting a contingency plan in place.
“When news first broke about covid19 I started paying attention. I mentioned to my father, ‘This virus looks like it will spread throughout the world and might affect travel.’
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" The Venus de Milo is perennially one of the hottest attractions at the Louvre Musuem in Paris, France. Todd Gipstein/Getty Images
She's one of the most recognizable figures in the art world, but shrouded in mystery. Ever since Louis XVIII donated her to the Louvre in 1821, she's captured the attention and praise of audiences and historians, but many are still baffled by her origins — who
is Venus de Milo, and what exactly happened to her arms?
The half-naked marble goddess many of us know as Venus de Milo actually likely represents two figures who are
notVenus, the Roman goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility. The statue is thought to represent either Aphrodite, Venus's Greek counterpart, or Amphitrite, the goddess-queen of the sea and wife of Poseidon. But when the statue was discovered in 1820 on the Greek island of Melos (Milos in modern Greek) and presented to Louis (who in turn donated her to the Louvre), no one was quite sure what to make of her.