Building Pharaoh's Ship

[Robatoy]

Most of that wood came from the Sahara Forest. My grand dad was a lumberjack there.

[Greg Neill]

Douglas Fir was an available substitute for the original resource.

[krw]

He did a hell of a job!

[Lobby Dosser]

Most of that wood came from the Sahara Forest. My grand dad was a lumberjack there.

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It had forests and rivers and lakes during the last ice age.

[Larry Jaques]

Some excellent programs [Nature (with George Page, RIP), Nova, Roy Underhill ;] and some good ones [TOH, NYW] came out of PBSs otherwise lackluster, politically-correct, extremely liberal programming.

Those (5% good) programs could have stood on their own, bringing in any necessary funding. The others (95% bad) can't, and that's why PBS is foundering.

It's loser admin, not org.

-- Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills. -- Minna Thomas Antrim

[Larry Jaques]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! So it's for _him_ The Lumberjack Song was written.

-- Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills. -- Minna Thomas Antrim

[dpb]

Doug fir from _FRANCE_????

Somehow the irony seems lost in the followups, here...

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[J. Clarke]

Apparently the question they were trying to answer was whether the Egyptians could build a ship that could operate safely on the Red Sea. No big cedars in Lebanon anymore so the archaeologists had to do the best they could with what they could get.

It's on Netflix for streaming--kind of interesting actually.

[DGDevin]

Apparently large quantities are also grown in Germany and New Zealand.