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By Archie Barwick
Archie Albert Barwick used to be an enthusiastic younger 24 yr previous whilst he joined the 1st AIF in overdue August 1914 - his carrier quantity was once 914. while he learnt that he'd been accredited into the military, he used to be so chuffed he grew to become somersaults for natural pleasure. this is often his diary, that he saved during the warfare - from Cairo to Gallipoli, from Marseilles via to the poor wintry weather of 1916 within the Somme, from Ypres to Pozieres. He used to be wounded thrice and despatched again to the battling, prior to ultimately vacationing again domestic in December 1918. This diary is just a treasure - brilliant, alive, compelling. His description of the struggle is via turns down-to-earth, frightening, illuminating, humorous, touching and extraordinarily unhappy. but his voice and character shine via. In his diary, Archie describes a person as being 'merry & vivid & by no means downhearted' and this might be an outline of Archie himself. Readable, lively and buzzing with existence, In nice Spirits is a distinct and awfully relocating tribute to the Australian personality and the ANZAC spirit.
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But that isn’t all the Bible has to say about ancient Babylon. Do you know the story of the Tower of Babel, when the people of a great city tried to build a tower that would reach up to heaven, and God was angry at their pride and stopped them building any 26 higher by making them all speak different languages so that they could no longer understand one another? Well, Babel is Babylon. So now you will be able to understand the story better. For, as you know, the Babylonians really did build gigantic towers ‘the top of which reached even to the heavens’, and they built them so as to be nearer to the sun, the moon and the stars.
So now you can write ‘Osiris’ in hieroglyphs! But think what a job it must have been to decipher all that Egyptian writing when people became interested in hieroglyphs again, two hundred years ago. In fact, they were only able to decipher them because a stone had been found on which the same words were written in three scripts: ancient Greek, hieroglyphs and another Egyptian script. It was still a tremendous puzzle, and great scholars devoted their lives to it. You can see that stone – it’s called the Rosetta Stone – in the British Museum in London.
The Egyptians were immensely proud of their writing – indeed, they were almost in awe of it. And of all professions, that of scribe was the most highly esteemed. Would you like to know how to write using hieroglyphs? In fact, learning this sort of writing must have been incredibly hard, as it’s more like constructing a picture puzzle. If they wanted to write the name of their god, Osiris, they would draw a throne ( ), which was pronounced ‘Oos’, and an eye ( ), which was pronounced ‘iri’, so that the two together made ‘Os-iri’.
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