Tag: egypt
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December 26, 2007 02:43 AM EST --
I'm not sure whether this is a good thing, or just really annoying. I mean, really. Are they going to fine Washington DC next for having an obelisk? It says 'even if it's for personal use, . . .
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October 12, 2009 12:19 AM EDT --
I've dotted countless I's
And crossed a thousand T's
Yet my beloved mummy
Lies in state in Thebes!
Casper has again graced me with a lovely poem, and of course . . .
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June 23, 2008 09:24 PM EDT --
Har em Akhet
By Isis Andersen
Har em Akhet
who encircles the Horizons of Atum Kheper Ra
Great Sphinx
Eternal God
Lord of Mysteries
Watcher in the . . .
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January 11, 2009 12:34 PM EST --
Hey Friends,
I have just uploaded some photos ... I took it when I was at Marina last summer. I hope you enjoy it.
Love & Peace,
Mary,
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January 14, 2008 10:17 AM EST --
A s I work with my son on his Ancient Egypt school project, I am amazed at how much I already know about this amazing civilization. So much of their cultural is known to us and even copied . . .
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January 18, 2008 04:44 PM EST --
The museum had two gift shops, one called the Children's Pyramid Shop and the other general gift store, which, really, wasn't actually a store. It was like a mezzanine with counters and items . . .
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April 29, 2008 12:41 AM EDT --
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January 12, 2009 05:13 AM EST --
A Famous Catholic Church, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
It's called the Bazilique
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July 16, 2008 06:48 PM EDT --
This article is largely based on "The Epic of Gilgamesh" by N K Sandars published in the Penguin Classic series in London.
If you ever wanted an original of this Epic then Amazon.com would . . .
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March 06, 2009 04:00 PM EST --
From the cover: "Construction on a new hotel in Alexandria, Egypt, crashes to a halt when workers excavate the ruins of an ancient tomb filed with relics that date back to Alexander . . .
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May 06, 2008 11:40 AM EDT --
Oh, great Alexander,
Hero of my childhood dreams.
You who shaped my life.
Why have you left me haunted?
At the feet of Aristotle you learned,
Reason . . .
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March 13, 2009 03:14 PM EDT --
This is book three in a LONG series by this author. The author is actually an Egyptologist and writes the fiction under this pseudonym. She writes non-fiction under her real name.
The books are set in . . .
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March 15, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
Author: Elizabeth Peters
this was the 4th book in the series. In a way it is a continuation of book three as the Master Criminal that Amelia Peabody had been attributing all crimes to in the previous . . .
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March 31, 2006 05:30 AM EST --
O.K., Everybody up, we're leaving."
"Everybody up"
"Everybody to the riverside,"
Men walked through the streets, calling out in the early morning. The sun was . . .
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August 28, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
author Elizabeth Peters
This book was given to me by my cousin - it is the second in a series and was published in 1984. The book has MANY sequels. I've started to order them...
The two . . .
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November 21, 2007 10:12 AM EST --
Six years have passed since that morning, but still today, when I come across that dusty and tattered book now tucked away in a . . .
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April 08, 2008 08:14 AM EDT --
China reportedly is working on a deal with a major advertising agency. Their problem this week is the continuing fallout of the so called Tibet Riot- unhappy crowds trying to snuff out the traveling olympic . . .
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December 01, 2006 05:38 AM EST --
Having lived in Texas only a short time, today was Snuffy’s (my son) and my first visit to the Kimbell Art Museum. I was awestruck before even reaching the door. Sunlight flashes from the reflecting . . .
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January 17, 2008 10:14 AM EST --
So, Wombats, with the ease of looking things up on the internet these days, do you ever do other types of research? Do people still use the library? Reference books? First hand knowledge?
I, for one, . . .
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April 11, 2008 11:11 PM EDT --
Very quickly some are seduced by the lure of semantics.
Let's not use this word, let's use another word, let's not address the issue, let's change the direction of the conversation. . . .
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