Alexandria

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure (a US organization) is holding a conference on breast cancer awareness in Alexandria, Egypt this week. But the Israeli doctors and cancer researchers who had been already received invitations and gotten permission to attend suddenly had their inviations rescinded by the Egyptian government.

Seeing as Susan G. Komen herself was a Jew, and that this conference is being sponsored by a US organization (and in the US, you cannot bar/refuse someone from attending a conference based upon their religion), it seems kind of ironic to me that they're continuing with the conference in light of this move.

Scaling a wall lets you turn the clock back

By Desmond Bieler
I’m not sure if Jimmy Galindo, my rock-climbing instructor, meant to be funny when he told me that the sport involved “a steep learning curve,” but that line’s so good, I’m swiping it.

Indoor rock climbing: It’s a lot of fun, but you might say there’s a steep learning curve.

How steep? Well, Galindo’s Sportrock in Alexandria, Virginia, has walls as high as 40 feet, similar to the other two gyms I visited, Earth Treks in Columbia, Maryland, (44 feet) and Results on Capitol Hill (38 feet).

(CNN) -- Hundreds of Egyptians took part Monday in the funeral of Marwa Sherbini, an Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death last week in the German city of Dresden in a crime believed to be racially motivated.

Egyptians take part in the funeral of Marwa Sherbini, who was murdered in Germany last week.

Sherbini, 33, was stabbed to death Wednesday in a courtroom as she prepared to give testimony against a German man of Russian descent whom she had sued for insult and abuse.

The man, identified in German media as Alex A., 28, was convicted of calling Sherbini, who wore a headscarf, "terrorist," "bitch" and "Islamist" when she asked him him to leave a swing for her 3-year-old son Mustafa during an August 2008 visit to a children's park.

Timeline of Table Tennis Milestones
with thanks to the late Ron Crayden (ENG)
and his book, The Story of Table Tennis - the first 100 years
with updates by the ITTF Museum

1880s
Adaption of lawn tennis to the dining table with improvised equipment
1890s
Several patents registered in England and the USA
Manufactured sets produced under trade names such as Gossima, and Indoor Tennis, with Lawn Tennis style rules
1900
Introduction of celluloid balls to replace rubber and cork ones. The celluloid ball had the perfect bounce, and the game became a huge success
1901
Table Tennis Association and rival Ping Pong Association formed in England; amalgamated in 1903
First books on the game published in England

Archaeologists searching for the tomb of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra may be closer to locating the burial site of the legendary lovers.

Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, shows a bust believed to be of Cleopatra and a mask of Marc Anthony found at the temple of Tasposiris Magna near Borg al-Arab, 50kms west of Alexandria.
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LONDON: A sexagenarian granny, who has tied the knot 23 times, has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most married woman.

Linda Wolfe, 68, first got married at the age of 16.

The mother of seven achieved such a huge tally after becoming "addicted to the romance" of getting hitched.

Her longest marriage lasted seven years while her shortest was just 36 hours.

Her list of husbands includes a convict, a vending machine mechanic, a preacher, barmen, plumbers and musicians.

Two of her husbands turned out to be gay, while two others cheated on her.

Linda, of Alexandria, Indiana, has been single for ten years.

She, however, says that is "on the lookout for number 24".