The patient sat there looking ill and asked, ''Flu?''
The doctor replied, ''No, I came on my bicycle actually!''
(5th) Earl of CarnarvonBorn 26 Jun 1866; died 5 Apr 1923 at age 56. The 5th Earl of Carnarvon (George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert) was a British egyptologist. He first dabbled in archaeology as a small boy, digging in the park at his ancestral home, Highclere Castle. Sent to Egypt for health reasons, he found a new fascination in the relics of the past. He funded and participated in excavations from 1907, until his association with Howard Carter and the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb on 27 Nov 1922. |
