Monday, November 26, 2007
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA POST
BUSBECQ, Augier Ghilsende-1522-1592 Flemish diplomatist and traveler. b in Commines, educated at Louvan, paris, venice, bologne and padua. several important employments and negotiations. twice sent by emperor ferdinand to court of soliman II made collection of curious inscription and manuscripts, and on 2nd journey to constantinople, took an artist w/ him to draw rare plants and animals. 1562 returned to vienna and appointed tutor to sons of emperor Maximillian II. wrote discourse of the state of the ottoman empire and relation of his journeys to turkey.
BUSHIRE(AMBUSCHEHR)-town of persia. briish naval porion of persian gulf.
BUSHMEN/BOSJESMANS-saab/saan in native tongue. south african aborigines. allied to hottentots, but different of kaffre or negro.
BUSIRIS-mythical king of egypt. not found in monuments or lists, but mentioned by later greek writers and mythologists. by apollodoms, he was made son of egyptusand an egyptian king, or else son of poseidon and lyssianassa. after 9 years of famine, phrasius, seer of cyprus, came to egypt and announced that the end of the famine would not come til a foreigner was yearly sacrificed to zeus or jupiter.busirus then sacrificed the cypriot prophet. more god blah blah blah heracles bl;ah blah blah.
pic is Busbecq
