How To Use Egyptian In A Sentence
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The first, built by Solomon (1012 B.C.) appears from the Biblical description [6] to have combined Egyptian conceptions (successive courts, lofty entrance-pylons, the Sanctuary and the sekos or “Holy of Holies”) with
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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It seems that Egyptians continued to use hieroglyphs from around 3000 b.c. until the time of the Roman Empire.
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The earliest samples of enamel using glass can be traced to before 2,500 B.C. to the Sumerian and Egyptian civilisations.
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Around 3000 B.C., the Egyptians developed a writing material using papyrus, the plant for which paper is named.
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The ancient Egyptian language was written and spoken for two-thirds of recorded human history, and a great volume of economic and legal records are preserved in papyri and inscriptions, including some spectacular documents that go back to 2000 B.C.
Beyond the Pharaohs
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These include a nice Nigerian guy who sells the best roast chicken around (he did this in Paris as well), a couple of Egyptians and a Tunisian who make great chicken shawarma and a couple of Turkish guys who do the same with beef.
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Europeans have also learnt to miscall the Egyptians “Arabs”: the difference is as great as between an Englishman and a Spaniard.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Upper Egyptians eat a bread called bittaw, straight from its ancient name baa tw.
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Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds.
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Newtown is the place to be this month if you have an interest in palmistry, astrology, numerology, Egyptian sand reading or other forms of divination.
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Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity.
From This Beloved Hour
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Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed.
The Sermons of John Owen
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The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
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I’ve also read mesopotamian myths that have survived including the Avesta from the Zoroastrians which serves as a foundation of Judaism combined of course with the cult of Amun (the egyptian cult of the one god).
Think Progress » As New Orleans Drowned, Chertoff Was Focused On Avian Flu and Immigration
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Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigour, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was with rigour_.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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Egyptians used bath oils, white powders, and abrasives to clean their teeth.
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He conquered the lands up to Carchemish, but an Egyptian-Hittite treaty signed in 1283, which divided Syria between them, frustrated the Assyrians 'westward movement.
E. The Kassites, the Hurrians, and the Arameans
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How were ancient peoples able to construct monumental Egyptian pyramids in an age devoid of the tools of modern technology?
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In fact, the word Bible comes from the word Byblos, another Carthaginian port from which the majority of Egyptian papyrus was exported.
Blowback
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Egypt itself may not have been the oldest _nation_, but Egyptian history is certainly the oldest _history_.
History of Education
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Cuvier, in one of a series of lectures, delivered at Paris, in the spring of last year, says, "the name chemistry, itself, comes from the word _chim_, which was the ancient name of Egypt;" and he states that minerals were known to the Egyptians "not only by their external characters, but also by what we at the present day call their _chemical characters_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831
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Thomas Pynchon 's Gravity's Rainbow, the vocoder is a vehicle, a proxy for forces bigger than the freaks-Egyptian Lover, JFK-who employ it.
Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
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The doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient Egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils.
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Kate Augusto, Danielle Capalbo and Nick Mendez report that Ayman Nour, a leading political dissident in Egypt, has decided to return to prison and finish his sentence in order to dramatize what he calls the Egyptian government's ongoing lack of respect for democratic values.
Archive 2009-05-01
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They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
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One of the ornamented fragments represents a row of floreated-like decorations, and each decoration shows on its side a concentric circle, consisting of three rings, -- the whole ornament being one which is found in later Egyptian eras, not unfrequently along the tops of walls in the interior of chambers, etc.Mr. Perring represents this fragment of sculpturing from the brick Pyramid of Dashoor, in his folio work, _The Pyramids of
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
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Arab dreams: Qaddafi (left) spent his youth as a fervent admirer of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the pan-Arab nationalist icon of the era.
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Small favas, which the Egyptians call ful hammam, or bath beans, are not only quicker to cook, they're easier to peel.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Ful For Love
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The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
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Friday's demonstration had a joyful and entrepreneurial air, with face-painters emblazoning the Egyptian flag on takers young and old, carts with fresh popcorn, and women offering hard-boiled eggs and koshary, the national dish of lentils, rice and pasta topped with a spicy tomato sauce.
A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
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Egypt has had full diplomatic relations with Israel since the 1979 Camp David peace accords were signed by former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
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Just like the rock art, Pharaonic Egyptian art emphasises the clothing and accoutrements rather than the physical features.
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Despite a government campaign to depict the victim as a drug user and thief, Egypt's independent press refused to drop the story and thousands of Egyptians staged silent vigils to demand justice.
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Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life.
April 2007
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The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions.
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Although the Egyptians were warlike, they found times for peaceful games.
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Egyptian finance, as he feared panic towards the end of the term fixed; but the Ambassador said that the Chancellor attached no importance to any form of control.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
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The sign is carried by many Egyptian deities in their mythology.
Christianity Today
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It consists of the former Egyptian embassy and a one-time annexe to Russia's embassy knocked together.
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Yet he did not know that Wake minor would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian
Stalky & Co.
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The structure, designed by John B. Jervis, had blank walls, huge central and corner pylons, and a blank cavetto cornice, a concave bracket that lines the edge of many ancient Egyptian temples and facades.
19th-Century Egyptian Revivalism
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The Egyptians had a bases 10 system of hieroglyphs for numerals.
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OSAMA RUSHDIE, FORMER EGYPTIAN MILITANT (through translator): I believe that these youngsters are aiming at two goals, one against Egyptian government and one against the West, based on the known principles of al Qaeda.
CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2006
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The word, which means "of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing," is spelled "demotic" - without the "k.
Undefined
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It is said to have been discovered by Pythagoras while in Egypt, but was most probably taught to him by the priests of that country, in whose rites he had been initiated; it is a symbol of the production of the world by the generative and prolific powers of the Creator; hence the Egyptians made the perpendicular and base the representatives of Osiris and Isis, while the hypothenuse represented their child Horus.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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The Egyptian priests and rulers were often buried with necklaces of waterlily blossoms, for the lilies symbolized resurrection from the dead.
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Even though the Egyptians were warlike, they found time for peaceful games.
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There were at least three separate cosmogenies in Egyptian mythology, corresponding to at least three separate groups of worshippers.
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Its illustrations - detailed, accurate, and delightful - portray plants ranging from Aegyptian water lily to zebra-flowered arum, commonly known as jack-in-the-pulpit.
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There's a little bit of Walk Like an Egyptian in there, plus brass stabs, a kicking bassline and a bit played on a Theramin.
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In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs.
Teddy-risation™
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Bread was available at subsidised prices in unlimited quantities to all Egyptians.
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We tailor our double mercerized 100% Egyptian cotton lisles in a classic golf cut, mindful of the necessary balance between freedom of movement and an elegant fit.
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The mufti, Egypt's chief Muslim jurisconsult, serves at the pleasure of the Egyptian government.
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And just as you would think that we have had our fill of diseases, the deadly Plague has been reported in neighbouring Libya, poising a valid threat to the Egyptian western borders.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Between the Swine Flu and Approaching Plague
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For seven years, he had been administrative director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, more popularly known as the mukhabarat — the secret police.
No Tee Time for Zubaid
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The British had knocked out radio communications but a mobile transmitter had announced, referring to the General Assembly resolution, that sixty-four nations were supporting the Egyptians.36
Eisenhower 1956
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As Gordon and his troops (200 Egyptian soldiers) sailed up the Nile in their _dahabeah_, the boat was often blocked by the tangled water weeds.
The Story of General Gordon
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The Egyptian hieroglyph for ‘city’ was a circle surrounding a cross; but squares and grids were always the more favoured geometry of utopian planners.
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The sting of this title is in its tail: traditionally we have had dictionaries of Hellenic or Egyptian or Roman mythologies.
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The scientific name is Corchorus olitorius, also called jute mallow and Egyptian spinach.
2: Vegetables and small fruits in the tropics
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I get lost among the cornucopias of chotkies and tat, and am somehow spilled back out to the main Jemaa El F'na Square, where one charmeurs de serpent pulls me under his black umbrella and wags his head at his Egyptian Cobra actually, Naja haje legionis, a sub-species found in southern Morocco as his associate blows his bagpipe-like melody in his ghaita.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
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Seeds of Terror
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A stone floor, engraved with both Egyptian hieroglyphs and Roman numerals, occupies the ground between them.
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The hero can trace his lineage back to the Egyptians and looks exactly like an ancestor of 2000 years ago.
Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
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The military overthrow of the Egyptian government produced an unwelcome rise in oil prices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing has yet been said about the cursive writings of the Egyptians; but they had two cursive writings – namely, the "hieratic," and the "demotic.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Despite their creativity - whether in modifying Egyptian and Near Eastern forms, or inventing the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture - Greek artists worked in established genres.
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The Egyptians under the Hyksos pharaohs invaded the Near East, and then came to Greece.
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Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone - no one is allowed into this large area.
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Also the Fathers of the Coptic Church, who usually wrote in Greek, addressed some of their works to the Egyptian monks in Coptic .
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Today's Gregorian calendar derives from the Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman calendars.
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Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
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Cagliostro," however, was unsatisfied with its rituals and devised a new system which he called Egyptian Masonry.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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Said Sadek, who teaches political sociology at the American University of Cairo, said many Egyptians applaud the arrests, because they were afraid the former president and his close associates were in the process of trying to incite "a counter-revolution:""In many revolutions, if you do not take a strong stand to neutralize the leading members and leaders of the previous regime they can cause trouble and they would lead what is called the counter-revolution.
Hospitalized Mubarak Officially Detained in Egyptian Corruption Probe
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He was transferred to FBI custody in a smooth co-operative effort between Egyptian and US authorities.
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I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.]
Old Calabria
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It consists of the former Egyptian embassy and a one-time annexe to Russia's embassy knocked together.
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I consider her stiff, slender figure, Egyptian in its stubborn angularity.
MOON PASSAGE
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Egyptian thorn Gabra: burquqe, burq'uq'e Giriama: msemeri, munga, muhegakululu Ilchamus: lkiloriti, lkilorit Kamba: kisemei
Chapter 7
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But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch.
The Hermits
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British mercy flights had airlifted 5,000 Egyptians home by last night.
The Sun
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While the Egyptian natives revolted in the Delta (201200), Antiochus III attacked him in the Fifth Syrian War.
G. Ptolemaic Egypt to the Roman Conquest
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The secret arts of the Egyptians were passed orally from one generation to the next.
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Since 1981 after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in charge of the political arena today.
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From the wrapped waistcloths of the Egyptians to the tunics, mantles and togas of the Greeks, men enjoyed untrammeled freedom.
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Lampblack was also mixed with olive oil or balsam gum to make ink by early peoples, and Egyptians are known to have used lampblack as eyeliner.
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Some of the Egyptians use a form of hookah called the narghile or nargeeleh -- so named because the water is contained in the shell of a cocoanut of which the Arabic name is nargeeleh.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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Nevertheless, the idea has survived, gaining credence even in official circles, and continues to be invoked in any discussion, official or otherwise, of the future of the Egyptian theatre.
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Some classic examples are Egyptian vultures, New Caledonian crows and bowerbirds.
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A member of the militant Egyptian group al-Jihad, bin Laden's former chief of security, and before that one of his bodyguards, al-Adel is believed by intelligence officials to have assumed the role of al-Qaeda's military commander — making him No. 3 in the organization.
Pharaohs-in-Waiting
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Egyptian-style kebabs have chunks of lamb seasoned in onion, marjoram and freshly squeezed lemon juice, and roasted on a spit over an open fire.
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Dr. Abou El Fadl looked, by the way, nothing like the image evoked by "Egyptian dissident," being kind of hunched over, diffident, mumbly, and short.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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A circus strongman who specialised in bending steel bars, he found a lucrative alternative career digging out Egyptian antiquities for wealthy patrons.
Times, Sunday Times
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They will not be among the Egyptian idolaters in the future; they will be among the immoral Canaanites.
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The Vice Dean reminded us of a significance of a comments of Enobarbus as a shrewd as good as mostly sarcastic spectator of this adore affair: an researcher both detered by his master's debility in agreeable to Cleopatra's charming energy as good as fascinated himself by a Egyptian queen's witchery.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Khepri was the sacred scarab, whom the Egyptians believed was associated with the power of renewal, rebirth and resurrection.
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Beds are fitted with Egyptian cotton linen and the stylish bathrooms have fluffy towels and bathrobes and plentiful toiletries, which you are invited to take away.
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From the wrapped waistcloths of the Egyptians to the tunics, mantles and togas of the Greeks, men enjoyed untrammeled freedom.
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He speaks soaringly of the need for political change and the potential for Islam to deliver Egyptians from a cruel history of political exploitation.
Egypt's Islamists Pushed to Right
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Al-Zawahiri is a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).
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For when he calls Joppa, "Joppa of the Phoenicians," -- he does not conclude Joppa within Phoenicia; but because the sea, washing upon that shore of Palestine, was divided in common speech into the Phoenician and the Egyptian sea (so Strabo before, "Afterward
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids.
Remnant of a Humanist Past
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Beer is rationed to the slaves building the Egyptian pyramids.
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The ancient Egyptian Magi observed another division of the year that was called the fatidic year and began at the vernal equinox.
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The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra is supposed to have used henna to color her hair.
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He said the vast majority of these animals were mummified because of their link with ancient Egyptian gods.
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The Egyptian intellectual and cultural life continues to be basically moderate and very pacifist.
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Made of 6 oz., extra-smooth Egyptian combed cotton interlock, this shirt features cotton / Lycra cuffs and neck for extra stretch where it counts, and a hemmed bottom.
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The positions of the hands of the executants on the harps and lyres, as well as the use of short and long pipes, make it appear probable that something of what we call harmony was known to the Egyptians.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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Yet British officials were being somewhat disingenuous in their criticism of the existing Egyptian prison system.
THE GUARDSMEN
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He criticized the the United States for what he called meddling in Egyptian affairs.
Iran expresses support for protests in Egypt and North Africa
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Parodies of the "expressionistic" blunder quickly sprang up in the Egyptian blogosphere; a popular one shows a young man who has inserted himself into the photograph and flies superhero-like ahead of the all of the leaders; in another photoshop collage Obama is looking at the fake photo, laughing.
Joscelyn Jurich: US Military Funding to Egypt Needs Investigation
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In my ignorance, I had supposed that Egyptian civilisation spread up the Nile, stumbled on the first of the cataracts and petered out in the great loop in which we were travelling.
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Now the jetty of the Dive Centre within the complex marks the limit of Egyptian territory, and woe betide anyone who thinks they might meander northwards equipped with aqualung and fins.
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Long before realistic portrait painting developed in Europe in the Renaissance, Roman-Egyptian artists did striking likenesses in wax on limewood.
Egyptian Mummy Portraits
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He used to wear an Egyptian ankh, a star of David and a crucifix around his neck.
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An Egyptian-educated scholar, Nik Aziz said non-Muslims had nothing to fear from strict sharia punishments, known as hudud, and a lot to gain from them, especially Malaysia's large and wealthy ethnic Chinese minority.
Now, here's a political platform....
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The Egyptians strove with the Romans for the possession of the Nile Valley.
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The ancient Egyptians had this down to a fine art long ago; a smooth and hairless body was the standard of beauty, youth and innocence.
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In addition to painted statues and frescoes, Clark has also applied the technique to a range of manuscripts and artifacts including illuminated papyri, 18th Dynasty Egyptian faience, Persian manuscripts, medieval bibles, and Syriac lectionaries.
Pigment Microscopy
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Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the rider expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian gamin, who ran along by asinus’s side.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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And he does try to bury( in my Egyptian cotton sheets) bones and things that are so badly decomposed they evade identification.
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He said his brother was more concerned for his colleagues, Egyptian nationals who have no consular support.
Times, Sunday Times
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He insisted that Rahman merely said it was time to "reevaluate" the cease fire because of the Egyptian government's oppression and recalcitrance.
Lynne Stewart's Long Struggle for Justice
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Below the trench is a lace negligee of barbed wire, all the barbed wire the kibbutz had in 1948, and beyond that are Egyptian tanks, just where they stopped when they could go no farther.
Zion's Vital Signs
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The ancient Egyptians cultivated opium poppies, however the use of opium was generally restricted to priests, magicians, and warriors, and was associated with religious cultism.
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Lampblack was also mixed with olive oil or balsam gum to make ink by early peoples, and Egyptians are known to have used lampblack as eyeliner.
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HUSSEIN HARIDY, EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN (through translator): I got in touch with the Pakistani government late last night, and I informed them officially that Cairo, the Egyptian government, denies the involvement of any Pakistani citizen in the Sharm el-Sheikh explosions.
CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005
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Is Casting Already Underway For THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN? – Collider.com
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the wealthy Egyptian more commonly provided for the future of his Ka by bequeathing a portion of his estate to the priesthood, in prepayment for sepulchral meals in perpetuity.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The ancient Egyptians mummified more than just human corpses.
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But now when an Egyptian simpleton is tortured by the hands of a Libyan officer - a government representative - in an official police station for a prolonged period of time with the intention of torture and homicide, and when the guy is shipped back in a pile to spend the rest of his life incapacitated - when all of that happens, will we see thousands of Islamists demonstrating in his defense?
Global Voices in English » Egypt: What’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander
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Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse.
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple
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Filmed on location in Egypt, the series also focuses on the story of the Ancient Egyptians, whose secrets and belongings the adventurers were so desperate to uncover.
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The ancient Egyptians knew ways to preserve dead bodies from decay.
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Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Book summary
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Godfrey did not hesitate, but attacked immediately, charging headlong while the Egyptians were still in their camp.
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Thousands of Iranians gathered in several locations across Tehran Monday, heeding calls in recent days by opposition leaders to demonstrate in solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian protesters.
Tehran Beats Back New Protests
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The Egyptian sand smooths behind him into vast concentric circles.
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Another Egyptian army sacked a nearby town and killed all its inhabitants, but then likewise withdrew.
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Nobody's questioning the fact that he was the mentor of Zawahiri and the ideologue of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
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Chemical analysis of cosmetics samples found in Egyptians tombs and the reconstitution of ancient recipes as reported by Greco-Roman authors have shown that two non-natural lead chlorides (laurionite Pb (OH) Cl and phosgenite Pb2Cl2CO3) were purposely synthesized and were used as fine powders in makeup and eye lotions.
Egyptology News
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A model of a combined brewhouse and bakehouse found in an Egyptian tomb is to be seen in the museum.
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Horus is my favorite, because of my love of egyptian mythology.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Stefan’s Review Forum
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The Apis bull, a sacred animal to the Egyptians, came to be known as the incarnation of Osiris, god of embalming and cemeteries.
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Every July the Egyptian New Year began when the Nile flooded with snowmelt from the mountains.
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Later, a Brotherhood member allegedly attempted to assassinateEgyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1952.
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The Egyptian Halls in Union Street, now mouldering, is not only Thomson's finest commercial building but one of the most extraordinary commercial buildings of its time.
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All this scene is written in the worst form of Persian – Egyptian blackguardism, and forms a curious anthropological study.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Today's Gregorian calendar derives from the Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman calendars.
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From picture-writing to pictorial phonetism was an enormous stride; but as we know nothing of the condition of the Egyptian vocabulary at that remote time, we cannot possibly estimate to what extent pictorial phonetism supplied a means of coherent communication between man and man.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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It is not patriotism, that is to say undiluted concern for the nation as a whole, which leads some of the modern Egyptians to prefer an entirely native government to the Anglo-Egyptian administration now obtaining in that country: it is restlessness; and I am fortunately able to define it thus without the necessity of entering the arena of polemics by an opinion as to whether that restlessness is justified or not justified.
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
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Egyptian scarabaei were perched on an Alpine mountain; there a clay amphora, of the shape of the Greeks or Romans, was adorned with gaudy plates cut out of fashion magazines.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879
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Thereafter England also enthusiastically embraced the craze for Egyptian antiquities.
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The ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.
The Sun
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The opening rally was completed with an exquisite cross-court backhand drop from the Egyptian.
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The diamond was not very well known among the ancients; and if we add to this reason the similarity between the words smiris, the Egyptian asmir, "emery", a species of corindon used to polish precious stones, and shmyr, the Hebrew word supposed to mean the diamond, we may conclude with probability that the limpid corindon was intended.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Take a good look at the first tatty and filthy old Egyptian banknote you handle and you'll see why.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the result is, that _the astronomical chronology of the Egyptian monuments sustains the Bible chronology_. [
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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Star in Isaiah 14: 12 The Book of Isaiah has the following passage: christian on the run in egypt 'aida' brings ancient egypt to tuacahn as egypt's mubarak comes to washington, labor unr est surges at home big names left out of egypt squad captive egyptians defeat somali pirates, sail free egypt labor strikes point to desperate conditions egypt restoring historic synagogue egypt: 26 hizbullah suspects stand trial egypt: 34 fishermen free months after hijacking egypt: 34 fishermen freed months after somalia hijacking egypt: israeli freeze must include east jerusalem egypt: us to release mideast peace-talk plans in sept. egyptian crew members overpower
WN.com - Photown News
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Some of his observations about the Egyptian capital and its people are wonderfully apt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike most other ancient Egyptian masks, which covered the faces of the dead in their tombs, the Anubis mask has mouth and eye holes and was designed to be worn, probably during the ritual of mummification.
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My aunt was extremely ill after she had a terrible reaction to morphine given to her in an Egyptian hospital.
The Sun
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We all dug into and quickly demolished the large plate Lamb Shoulder $27, a meltingly soft piece of flavorsome meat served atop smoked oats and sprinkled with the Egyptian Dukkah spice.
Jay Weston: Mezze's Marvelous Middle-Eastern Menu
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I have been on the front pages of Egyptian magazines.
Times, Sunday Times
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The word 'Passover' comes from the belief that God inflicted plagues upon the Egyptians to force them to free the Jews.
For Christians and Jews, a Holy Week
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So long as the Egyptian surplus was under the control of the Commission of the Debt, and Baring and the sirdar could guarantee the Suez Canal and the India Route, Salisbury would permit no military operations.
Three Empires on the Nile
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The term Passover refers to the Jewish homes that were "passed over" by God's angel of death, sent to snatch the Egyptians' firstborn as punishment for the pharaoh's refusal to free the Jewish slaves.
The Seattle Times
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Sudan is conquered and proclaimed a Egyptian-British condominium.
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The collection of Egyptian antiquities is the best in the world.
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From there, *Kʰaputar 'The Summits'? would become the word for the entire Minoan region, perhaps in connection to the Horns of Consecration, a very sacred and prominent symbol undoubtedly related to the Egyptian aker symbol representing the sun both emerging from and setting into the two horizons.
A thought on the real name for the land of the Minoans
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The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).
Ulysses
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On this 13-day tour you'll see imperial eagles, Egyptian vultures and Dalmatian pelicans, plus frescoed monasteries, Roman ruins and the monuments of the Thracian horsemen.
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Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the titles of "Poppy Flowers" and "Vase with Flowers, " on Saturday from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in the Egyptian capital.
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Other examples in the two inch thick cardboard bound volume include rousing poems exhorting the empire to action, and photos of Egyptian women dressed proudly in traditional garb.
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In 1964, a group of archaeologists discovered an Egyptian tomb in the necropolis of Saqqara.
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An example of the support of rebellion in the notes is found in that on Exodus 1: 19, where the Geneva annotators endorse the disobedience of the Egyptian midwives regarding the killings of Hebrew male children.
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We conclude from the Papyrus Rhind (say 1700 B. C.) and other documents that Egyptian geometry consisted mainly of practical rules for measuring, with more or less accuracy, (1) such areas as squares, triangles, trapezia, and circles, (2) the solid content of measures of corn, &c., of different shapes.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
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The Strangford Apollo, the Apollo of Thera, and the Apollo of Tenea, are even represented in the canonical, or "hieratic" attitude, with clenched hands, and arms straightened to the sides, which stamps all Egyptian figure-sculpture in stone.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The exclusionary policy changed in Egypt after the Battle of Raphia (217), where Ptolemy IV employed 20,000 Egyptians in his victory over Antiochus III.
5. The Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E
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That the language contained a very large number of monosyllabic words is, however, certain; and as phonetism is necessarily syllabic, we may assume that the earliest Egyptian scribes had a rich mine of syllabic forms to draw upon.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The Egyptian military standard was generally surmounted by the figure of a lion in gilded bronze, the lion being sometimes surmounted by a fan-shaped ornament.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Despite a myriad of problems, now there is a new energy, or, as the Egyptians say "hawa gadid" -- a new air.
Ahmed Zewail: A Compass of Hope for Egypt:The New "City for Science & Technology" Is the Aswan Dam for the 21st Century
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Because he is not the best candidate to head this international cultural organization and because he has been a member in corrupted regime for more than 20 years … Again as an Egyptian I refuse this candidacy which I believe is an insult to Egypt before the UNESCO
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Will Farouk Hosni be Unesco’s Next Director General ?
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Palestinians celebrate the resignation of Egyptian … Hosni Mubarak Photo in Slideshow: Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama Entertainment Video: Stars get fit, fabulous ahead of the Grammys Entertainment Video: The Conversation: 'Carbon Nation' Report Abuse The term Muslim Brotherhood is an umbrella term for a variety of movements.
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Jesus used his powers to smite Egyptians and to torment people who believed in Him and God.
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While it is possible that the Egyptians borrowed the idea for ideograms and phonograms from the Sumerians, many experts think that would be very unlikely.
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Two Egyptians were arguing outside the room, their voices loud and guttural.
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Besides the four brigades of Khedivial infantry, together with artillery, cavalry, and camelry, and minor details, the Egyptian army also included a large transport column of some 2800 camels and about as many men.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
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Egyptians tend to wash down these libations with black tea.
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Alexander the Great and his generals introduced the practice to the Phoenicians, Egyptians and Carthaginians.
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Ancient Egyptians knew the sublimity of exterior space (think of the pyramids under moonlight), but interior space for them was darkness and clutter.
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Why is a preserved Egyptian body a mummy?
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The region was famed in the 1970s for its raptor population, with four vulture species, lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, black Aegypius monachus, Griffon Gyps fulvus and Egyptian Neophron peranopterus; four eagle species, golden Aquila chrysaetos, short-toed Circaetus gallicus, booted Hieraeetus pennatus and Bonelli's Hieraeetus fasciatus and breeding lanner falcons Falco biarmicus.
Meteora Group of Monasteries, Greece
