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Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (/ s ɔː l t, s ɒ l t /; 20 September 1851 – 19 April 1939) was a British writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals.
An excellent account of Salt and his trials and tribulations collecting antiquities in Egypt is in Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East, 1750-1850, Knopf, 2005; Manley, Deborah; Rée, Peta (2001). Henry Salt: Artist, Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist. London: Libri. ISBN 978-1-901965-04-9. OCLC 48506350.
James H. Hyslop reviewed the book contemporaneously for the International Journal of Ethics, strongly praising the book's intentions "its spirit shows the finest feelings a moral being can possess" but also arguing that it failed to present a theoretical justification for the equal rights it presumes between humans and animals: "No fundamental position, philosophical or theological, is taken ...
Henry Salt may refer to: Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), English writer, campaigner for social reforms, vegetarian, and animal rights advocate; Henry Salt (Egyptologist) (1780–1827), English artist, traveller, diplomat, and Egyptologist; Mr. Salt (Mr. Henry Salt), fictional character from the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Salt of this Sea (Arabic: ملح هذا البحر, romanized: Milh hadha al-bahr) is a 2008 Palestinian film directed by Annemarie Jacir and was an Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival in 2008.
The Great Sphinx of Tanis is a granite sculpture of a sphinx, whose date may be as early as the 26th century BC.It was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Amun-Ra in Tanis, Egypt's capital during the 21st Dynasty and the 23rd Dynasty.
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