Word: cleopatra
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...offenders. Something fantastically imaginative will be necessary to soften the rigidity of both sides. One possibility might be a meeting of leaders of the great powers in Cairo, as soon as it seems safe or feasible. We do not mean that President Eisenhower should float like Cleopatra down the Nile on a bubble-top barge, nor that Egyptians should be induced to shout "Aisha Khrushchev," through the streets of Cairo, nor that Pandit Nehru should stage a passive demonstration. But the collective action of these figures would not fail to make a very strong impression upon the belligerents. This plan...
...graduate of Courtois' fake-factory, a celebrated forger named Vrain-Lucas, later went into business for himself, and managed to convince some of France's finest scholars of the authenticity of hasty notes from Cleopatra to Caesar, Alexander to Aristotle and Lazarus to St. Peter, despite the fact that they were written in Old French...
...isles of Greece. On the shores of this history-steeped sea were said, done, written and made the best part of what the West still lives by. The story of the Mediterranean is the story of Christ and Moses and Mohammed, of Homer and Socrates, Caesar and Cleopatra, of Alexander and Saladin and Richard Lion-Heart. It is also the story of Mussolini and Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...essay entitled "The Two Worlds of Antony and Cleopatra," Alfred David 3G won the $150 Winthrop Sargent Prize for 1955-56. The annual prize was awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...this," said Jesuit Archaeologist Antonio Ferrua, who headed the digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted to the labors of Hercules. Other pictures seem to be scenes from contemporary Roman life, such as a teacher apparently lecturing about anatomy...