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CAIRO: Ancient Egyptian artifacts that were part of a touring exhibition to Europe and the US have returned home, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has said.
“The Secrets of Sunken Egypt” featured items that had been discovered underwater, in the Mediterranean Sea, in Alexandria.
Mostafa Waziry, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the show had achieved great success in all of its host cities.
Waziry added that the exhibition began its worldwide tour at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris in 2015, moving to the British Museum and then onto Zurich’s Rietberg Museum, which was the last stop in its European journey.
Gregory Perillo, an artist and philanthropist known as ‘Crazy Horse,’ dies two days shy of his 94th birthday
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Perillo was surrounded by family when he died, just two days shy of his 94th birthday.
Although his health had been declining over the last few months, Perillo painted each day until 10 days before his death.
Gregory and Mary Perillo
Born in Greenwich Village to Italian immigrant parents Gregorio and Antoinette Perillo, when Perillo was just 2 years old, his family relocated to Castleton Corners.
Perillo graduated from PS 29 in his home community and the school where he would eventually donate artwork, and McKee High School.
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The Republican power couple of
Matt Schlapp, head of the American Conservative Union and the Conservative Political Action Conference, and his wife
Mercedes, a former top Trump White House official, are teaming for a podcast.
Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, they will host their
Washington Post columnist
Dana Milbank is taking a leave of absence to write a book about the GOP. To nobody’s surprise, it won’t be a positive book. He told Facebook friends it will be about “the Republican Party crackup over the last 25 years.” …
The Young America’s Foundation has launched a “Campus Bias Tip Line” to help conservative students navigate college life. Spokesman
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Today is Thursday, March 11, the 70th day of 2021. There are 295 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 11, 1918, what were believed to be the first confirmed U.S. cases of a deadly global flu pandemic were reported among U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 would die. (The worldwide outbreak of influenza claimed an estimated 20 to 40 million lives.)
On this date:
In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln removed Gen. George B. McClellan as general-in-chief of the Union armies, leaving him in command of the Army of the Potomac, a post McClellan also ended up losing.