BrOOklyn-JOrusalOm

A loong cycling journey from Brooklyn to Jorusalom, where the O’s are bicycle wheels, continued into Egypt, 1st to the climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, on to the pyramids in Giza, Abusir and Saqqara and then up the Nile soourcewards.

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    Heraclitus ‘Panta Rhei’ lived in Ephesus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

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    Inside the old, 14th century, hamam.

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    Artemis II Artemis symbolizes fertility. The 2 old Artemis statues here in Ephesus have many breasts like bunches of grapes. These are very different Artemisses from the hunting Nature goddess with a bow, like her one day younger brother Apollo. The bow and arrow stand for the rays of the moon (Artemis) and the sun…

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    After Artemis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis

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    Yesterday up and up looking out over very old civilization valley Selçuk, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selçuk, Ephesus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus, Apasa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arzawa While please listen to Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa on the putin horror genocide 🇺🇦 https://www.patreon.com/posts/freedom-square-63254073?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_source=post_link&utm_campaign=patron_engagement

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    Arete https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arete Arete, excellence/moral virtue is one of the 4 aediculae (shrines) showing the virtues wisdom, excellence, knowledge and intelligence at the reconstructed Celsus library. Arete is best described by Hannah Arendt in the book The Human Condition. « Excellence itself, arete as the Greeks, virtus as the Romans would have called it, has always…

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    In the old days the satellite dishes had the eyes and ears of many people

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    Here is Zelensky’s speech to the Ukrainian and Russian people with English subtitles before war broke out. Worth watching in full: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p-zilnPtZ2M&feature=youtu.be https://mobile.twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1496636169819406342 To defeat Putin, we need to unite against the ideology of Putinism: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/24/sanctions-defeat-putin-authoritarian-ideology-russia-ukraine

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A loong cycling journey, from the original BrOOklyn to far away JOrusalOm. Where capital O’s are wheels. Started 26 July 2021; numbers are number of days en rOute; now onward to COP27, and further in Egypt