OKay all you muggles I read that so many People began taking pictures in King's cross station that they put up a sign and a little book cart that is just partly showing. I had to stand in line to get my picture taken there.
Today went to British library. Then I left and went to the British Musuem. I saw lots of cool things including the Rosetta Stone (The stone that had Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian demotic, and Greek) They knew how to read the Greek so a Frenchman named Jean-François Champollion deciphered the Script in 1822. Pretty amazing. Some of those Europeans just thought the hieroglyphics were simply pictures.
Here are some of the Metopes from the Partheon in Athens. In fact there is a huge room in the British Musuem that has tons of Partheon parts in it. It kind of makes you wonder what the Greeks must think about the Brits having all of this stuff. There is even a plaque on the wall that attempts to justify why the Brits have all this. (They were stopping the Greek people from vandalizing it). Oh well. It is beautiful.
Then I went to the National Portrait Gallery and saw a ton of original portraits of Elizabeth I and Edward VI, Anne Bolyen, Thomas More. It was amazing. The colors are so deep and bright.
Tomorrow I am not going to the library I am staying in my room and typing up my notes and doing a little writing to my dissertation. I need a day where I don't have to walk 10 miles. My dogs are barking.
In other news. I miss my beautiful wife. I talk with her everynight but this is the longest we have been a part. I miss her and my little baby inside of her. She is coming in about a week. Can't wait.
Cheers,
3 comments:
Those Hoagwart pictures are really cool! Wish I was there with you!
Miss you and Love you,
Hannah
I'm working on the Oxford thing for ya. Jiddu is at my parents house right now, so she said she'd ask him...
When I said she, I meant my mom... hello pronoun usage!
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