topics: olives, economy, Carthage, HISTORY, Phoenicians, Punic Wars, architecture, hammams (baths); jump to dispatch

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At 6:00 PM October 23, 1997
Sunrise (local): 6:33 a.m. Sunset (local): 5:34 p.m.	Weather 87°F
Traveled Since Yesterday 25 mi / 40 km Cumulative 572 mi / 921 km	Lat: 36° 50' 05" N Lon: 10° 13' 03" E Elev: 0 ft / 0 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Tunis
Where We're Staying: Mongi's house
Places We Visited: Ruins of Carthage (museum, Punic port, Antonine Baths, Tophet), Center for Arab and Mediterranean Music, and a hammam ("Turkish bath")
Featured Site: Carthage
Person of the Day: Phoenician Princess Elyssa Dido
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: olives!; Breakfast: pastries; Lunch: bread and cheese; Dinner: spaghetti and fried rice, with pomegranate for desert; Olive Count: 561
Word of the Day: Alhamdeleelah means "I hope that you have eaten well" in Arabic.
Tech Fact of the Day: The Roman alphabet forms the basis for all of the Romance languages (can you figure out which ones they are?), but if the Punic wars had ended with the Carthaginians the victors, we might all be using the Phoenician 22-letter alphabet.: Flat Count: 2; Broken Spoke Count: 7


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