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Another mummy, known as KV35YL, was identified as both the sister of Akhenaten and the mother of Tutankhamen, meaning that Tut was the product of a brother-sister coupling. "She cannot be Nefertiti," says Hawass, citing another popular speculation that Nefertiti, Akhenaten's chief consort, was Tut's mother, "but she can be any of the five daughters of Amenhotep [Akhenaten's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Malaria, Not Murder, Killed King Tut | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

Television personality Stephen Colbert is distantly related to Elizabeth Alexander, the African-American poet who read at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Oscar-award winning actress Meryl Streep, and Queen Noor, the queen consort of Jordan...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skip Gates Traces Ancestry of the Famous | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...this case, the man (or god) is Jupiter (Joshua Taylor), the king of the gods, and the focus is on his affair with Semele (Kathy D. Gerlach ’07, GSAS ’13), a mortal. At the guileful behest of Jupiter’s divine consort, Juno (Stephanie Kacoyanis), Semele withholds intimacy until Jupiter promises to give her immortality and show her his true form, a move which ultimately kills...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Semele’ Succeeds in Making Opera Feel Modern | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...vice president at IBM handing over details of Sun Microsystems's financials, which he had access to only because IBM was contemplating buying Sun. A managing director of Intel passing along the company's revenue and profit numbers before they were publicly released and later asking his hedge-fund consort for a job with one of his "powerful friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrests Open a Window on Hedge-Fund Culture | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...that poetry, and all those songs, about something that lasts no time at all.") Father Jack should be opposed to David as a suitor, but he practically pimps the girl to him. Jack's rule for courtship is the same as for placement at Oxford: he wants Jenny to consort with the upper class so she can marry well. What else is an education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carey Mulligan in An Education: A Star Is Born | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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