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Alam & Alad. In Egypt, Babylon and China, the whole culture was built on the ideas of the stargazers. Each nation was ruled by the incarnation or representative of some sort of Sun God or Son of Heaven, and each regarded the bull as the sacred animal, the chief constellation of the zodiac (or circle of life). "These correspondences," says Moran, "were not accidental. They were part of a vast cosmological system . . . The slaughter of a bull at the spring equinox on altars so far separated as Ur of the Chaldees and the Valley of the Han shows common roots...
Although the profession of public accounting is relatively young, the art of bookkeeping and accounting originated in Babylon, 5,000 years ago. As business has expended over the centuries, accounting techniques have grown increasingly complex--even beyond the comprehension of all except these skilled in them. But their basic purpose stays the same: to write the story of business transactions in a clear and significant language, the language of money. Modern business could not exist without these techniques...
...presumed that when good Americans die, they go to Paris. Other authors have observed that bad Americans go there to live. Elliot Paul has often gushed in agreement with Wilde; Scott Fitzgerald tended, a little guiltily, to think the opposite. By putting a Paul title to a Fitzgerald story (Babylon Revisited), this picture tries to please everybody...
Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...
...Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance and "a cast of thousands" in Novelist Thomas B. Costain's story about the cup Christ used at the Last Supper; 2) Land of the Pharaohs, which was written for the movies by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner; 3) Daniel and the Woman of Babylon, which has not yet been cast...