Word: amon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Worth, Tex. prides itself on being a bang-up Western cow town, likes the virile stench of its stockyards, despises cultured Dallas 33 miles to the east. Biggest man of Fort Worth is rich, blustery, football-mad Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Star-Telegram, who seldom misses a chance to publicize his city at Dallas' expense. Four years ago he stole the show from Dallas' official Texas Centennial Exposition by hiring Broadway's Billy Rose to put on a red-hot Frontier Centennial at Fort Worth. Since then Dallasans have burned like a slow fire...
...Achaeans and Philistines. The better to exploit her new-won sea power, Egypt moved her capital from Thebes, 400 miles up river, to Tanis, 60 miles from modern Alexandria, close to the sea but not too close to suffer from pirates. The religious capital remained at Thebes, ruled by Amon's high priests. Smendes, sprig of a rich merchant family, founded the 21st (Tanis) Dynasty. His successor, Psousennes I, reigned 46 years...