The Giza Plateau, My Friend The Spirit Guide of Zimbabwe, Folies Bergere Ends, and more… 

The Giza Plateau.

The Arab proverb goes, "Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids."

Clearly, that was a proverb from a long time ago, before malls and fast food.

I have visited Egypt 3 times and continue to marvel at how the Giza Plateau keeps changing in a lousy way. Someday it will be domed and a roller coaster will go around it; but right now, the Great Pyramid of Giza has kids jumping all over it, family picnics, and tons of garbage. Does Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and The Face Of Egypt, Zahi Hawass, ever visit? Has he seen the mess? 

I will say this for Hawass, he has singlehandedly been able to destroy the Old Testament story about the Israelites being hard labor slaves in Egypt (Exodus 1:12-14). Hawass has this to say about Moses and the “Let My People Go” Exodus story: “Really, it’s a myth.”  See HERE

The longstanding debate over who built the five pyramids of Giza, West of Cairo, was rekindled at the first official visit of an Israeli delegation to Egypt, in 1977.

"We built the pyramids," said the late Prime Minister Menahem Begin at the National Museum in Cairo. He spurred fury among Egyptian historians and archeologists.

Anyhow, I saw a documentary of TV that said there is no evidence that Moses ever led anyone out of Egypt. If anything, it was just him and a few friends who wandered around in the desert!

With Hawass’s spearheading the realignment of history, in the modern era Egyptologists now firmly believe that the pyramids were built by tens of thousands of skilled workers who camped near the pyramids and worked for a salary or as a form of paying taxes until the construction was completed.   

The worker's cemeteries were discovered in 1990 by archaeologists Hawass and Mark Lehner. They posited that the labor was organized into a hierarchy, consisting of two gangs of 100,000 men, divided into five zaa or phyle of 20,000 men each, which may have been further divided according to the skills of the workers.  

If it was so easy, why haven’t they been able to get people to move a few rocks that litter the path to the Great Pyramid? It could be a form of paying taxes or a civic pride project. Since no one has stepped forward, I must volunteer to organize it!

And the awesome Sphinx? Directly in its sight line is a Pizza Hut! You just don’t see that in the travel shows and the Discovery Channel documentaries. If you have the cash, you could even buy a condo looking down on the Sphinx.

If only Hawass could get the British, the French, and the Germans to return all the precious loot they took out of Egypt! Send the mummies home!  

The mummy and coffin of Hor (pictured), a priest, and dating from around 850BC, is in the British Museum. The mummy was donated by Henry Salt (1780-1827). Salt was the British Consul-General to Egypt and collected a large number of antiquities during his sojourn in the country, many of which were sold to the British Museum.

In the 1950s, President Nasser demanded the restitution of all Egyptian relics housed abroad. He was ignored by the British government. More recently, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo has suggested that it would welcome the return of relics that include the British Museum's mummies, although the Egyptian government has backed down.

Goodbye Les Folies Bergere.

The Final Ticketed Performances were on March 27 at 7:30pm & 10:00pm. The Final Show was on March 28 at 8:00pm. It’s been an iconic Las Vegas landmark topless show and it came to an end this past weekend. It almost made 50 years at the Tropicana. This is clearly the siren call of the end of The Strip! First Siegfried and Roy and now this!

I requested tickets for the March 27^th 7:30 show. I’ve seen the show several times, but this was the new and best production! I can’t believe it is over! The iconic billboard is going down! 
 
The Tropicana, whose parent company is trying to emerge from bankruptcy, plans to bring in fresh entertainment to the Las Vegas Strip property. Fresh? Does this mean Sheena Easton is coming back?

America got its first taste of the Les Folies Bergere on December 24, 1959 when the famed French revue, direct from Paris, came to Las Vegas and the hotel’s Fountain Theatre.

This last Les Folies Bergere production was sexier and more daring. It took cues from other topless shows and the Tropicana should have done more publicity for this revitalize production. The showgirls were thinner and tinier than ever. While I feel that the variety acts forced upon the audience there to see the girls and costumes are momentum killer, juggler-comedian Michael Holly was really quite funny.

Spiritual Healing Tour of the Victoria Falls.

I met Dr. Hwesa and “The Great Uncle” when I was in Zimbabwe. In fact, Dr. Hwesa calls me every week from Victoria Falls! Somehow, “The Great Uncle” provides an international phone card to the magnetic and fascinating Dr. Hwesa.

A European friend of Dr. Hwesa has organized a tour. Here is the first part of their brochure. 

Meet with the Spirits of Your Ancestors and experience the healing power of the Mighty Zambezi River at Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Smoke that Thunders, in a 4 day Spiritual Healing Tour with “The Great Uncle” channeled by Dr. Hwesa – with guaranteed results! The Royal Cultural Lodge in the heart of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, welcomes You with the unique hospitality of pure African Culture and Original Traditional Healing – the first of its kind! An existence which has withstood the test of time, according to spiritual authorities around the world.