A look at the last year, starting from jigsaw puzzles.

Found myself thinking about how 200 years is seen as a limit for how long countries remain viable, and remembered that Egypt's 18th Dynasty lasted just about that long - most were noticeably shorter. It ended quickly after the boy-king Tutankhamen died young without an heir. Maybe a notice for what it takes for such a thing to end.

Something about November just makes it difficult to get episodes done. So re-doing, here, a Thanksgiving episode, in its way, from a few years back.

This is the second Redux with it - last time was two years ago.

I thought I had written about this elsewhere, but this appears to be the closest I had done: https://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/06/plague.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osarseph - A possible second view of Exodus involving a priest who became the leader of a band of lepers, who managed to ally with the Hyksos to take over Egypt for a short time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten - Pharaoh of Egypt who temporarily replaced the polytheistic Egyptian religion with a monotheism based around Aten, the "sun disc." Father of Tutankhamen, whom you may have heard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten -Written by Akhenaten, it bears some resemblance to Psalm 104, indicating at least some cross pollination between Jewish and Egyptian holy writ.

https://thefounding.net/pilgrims-identified-israelites/ - a short essay built around Bradford

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24950/24950-h/24950-h.htm Project Gutenberg version of the History of Plymouth Colony

They called Dutch a strange and uncouth language, which raises the possibility that their attitudes towards "savage" natives might have been similar in Holland…

For no obvious reason, perhaps worth noting that this is contemporaneous with Hamlet, first performed around 1602. (Yes I know he's a Dane, not Dutch.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony

http://mayflowerhistory.com/clothing/

https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/what-wear

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