While most people are still able to (albeit it probably a bit incorrectly) answer what an archaeologist does, anthropologists are a species less known to the general public and media. Derived from the Greek 'anthropos' (human), anthropology means, 'the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings' according to the Princeton WordNet, and is most often used to refer to 'cultural anthropology'. But anthropology student Dai Cooper is doing her bit to make the discipline just that bit more famous... on YouTube. In just a few weeks, the 'Anthropology Song: A little bit Anthropologist' has become immensely popular, especially for a song about anthropology, even threatening to beat the usual YouTube hits 'cat being cute' and 'cat acting like a typical cat' in the charts.
Horrible Histories is a fascinating series of books for children, covering all such niceties as the Rotten Romans, the Savage Stone Age, and of course the err... Awful Egyptians. With over 20 million copies sold, the series was that much a success, that the CBBC turned it into into a series, which might just be even more horribly original than the books. The Tudors and Victorians were that popular they got their own theatre show and the Ruthless Romans made it into a computer game, available for PC, Wii and Nintendo. And then there's the Terrible Treasures game online, which enlightens us by teaching us some facts of great importance: the Romans used a sponge as toilet paper, a bad hair day is solved by fresh gladiator's blood and mashed mouse brains make excellent toothpaste. And it's all really true (says the talking rat).
Submitted by Meral Crifasi on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 16:46
While living in San Francisco back in 1991 my first year in the United States I have started watching Saturday Night Live. Became a huge fan during my 7 years of stay and now I go back and watch the old episodes in YouTube when I need a good laugh.
Today I stumbled across this hilarious and yet a classic Saturday Night Live skit featuring King Tut. The song is extremely catchy and back in the days when it was released became a big hit and sold millions of copies. In 1978-79 a traveling special exhibit of the treasures from King Tutankhamen's tomb was a huge hit at museums around the country, people stood in long lines to get in as first opened in the Metropolitan in New York . This inspired the parody on Saturday Night Live.
Of course this video also teaches you the extreme Egyptian moves where dancers point their arms and head in different directions in an imitation of ancient Egyptian paintings. Some facts about the crew: the "backup group" Martin used for this song was a collection of studio singers. For the purpose of this song, they were called The Toot Uncommons.
This kind of folding armchair appeared as early as the Song dynasty and was amongst the very first folding chairs ever designed. It became particularly popular as a design style in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
It can be unfolded with crossed legs. The back of the chair has three assembled parts: the upper part is engraved with a dragon and the middle part is engraved with a unicorn, rock and glossy ganoderma. Each joint is wrapped with steel.
Horrible Histories is a fascinating series of books for children, covering all such niceties as the Rotten Romans, the Savage Stone Age, and of course the err... Awful Egyptians. With over 20 million copies sold, the series was that much a success, that the CBBC turned it into into a series, which might just be even more horribly original than the books. The Tudors and Victorians were that popular they got their own theatre show and the Ruthless Romans made it into a computer game, available for PC, Wii and Nintendo. And then there's the Terrible Treasures game online, which enlightens us by teaching us some facts of great importance: the Romans used a sponge as toilet paper, a bad hair day is solved by fresh gladiator's blood and mashed mouse brains make excellent toothpaste. And it's all really true (says the talking rat).
