Word: conquests
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After the Arab conquest of 641, the Copts resisted the onslaught of Islam for two centuries. But as a result of periodic cycles of persecution under successive Muslim conquerors, and waves of immigration from Arabia, the Copts were reduced from a majority to a minority. Today, according to official census figures, they constitute less than 10% of Egypt's 43 million population (Copts complain, however, that they are systematically undercounted). They are the largest Christian entity in any Middle Eastern country, with small communities in the U.S. and Canada, South Africa, Australia and other countries...
...cryptic tablets tumbled thousands of names, places, deals and directives, accounts of taxes paid, textiles traded and treaties sealed. One tablet listed 70 names of animals; another, 260 ancient cities not yet known to historians. Still another was a breakdown of booty taken in a conquest of neighboring Mari, 240 miles away: the victorious commander got 15%, the rest went to the king of Ebla. Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents -and confirming his readings of the new language...
...cream is American by right of conquest, however. George Washington owned a gadget for making ice cream. Thomas Jefferson loved it. An American woman named Nancy Johnson invented the hand-cranked, rock salt-and-ice freezer in 1846, although she neglected to patent the machine. Robert M. Green, a Philadelphia visionary, gave the world the ice-cream soda in 1874. The ice-cream cone was the hit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 in St. Louis. Christian Nelson, an Iowa candy-store proprietor, thought up chocolate-covered ice cream in 1919 but got nowhere until Russell Stover...
...meeting opened on a note of scarcely tolerable grief as the participants huddled in the vast plaza of Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem documentation center dedicated to Holocaust victims. In tears, they watched a sound-and-light show of the German conquest of Europe and of the eventual liberation, the sound track hammering home the pounding of Luftwaffe bombs. Whipped by a cold wind, the survivors broke into songs like I Believe, sung by their relatives on the way to the gas chambers. The group then recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
...pool at Southfork. Standing by the broken railing on the second-floor balcony is mean ole J.R. Ewing. It seems clear whodunit. The question is, whoizzit? Possibilities: Sue Ellen, who was about to run off with Dusty; Pam, who kidnaped J.R.'s son; Leslie, a recent J.R. conquest; and Kristin, back in Dallas and threatening a paternity scandal. Best bet: the trigger-happy Kristin. -By E. Graydon Carter On the Record...