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...acquired the scar on his cheek he brought back from prison. He wasn't one of those receiving punishments, he tells his already unsettled daughter; he was one inflicting them. His sense of guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book of the Dead with him. A dew breaker, we will learn, is a torturer who goes out before dawn to collect his victims...
Gauguin had worked out the essentials of his style before he left France. Though he exhibited regularly with the Impressionists, their matter-of-fact imagery, their art of the moment, was exactly unsuited to his aspirations toward an art of classical weight. The gravity of the Egyptian statuary and Hindu stone carvings he loved, their sense of eternity, was not to be found in the picnic scenes that beguiled Monet and Renoir. Even in France, Gauguin had ventured in search of locales in which day-to-day life might still show glimpses of ancient mystery. For a while, the peasant...
...little is actually known about the primordial soup from which life emerged, they hope the Rosetta mission will help them unlock the secrets of how it all began on Earth - or perhaps even elsewhere in the universe. Hence the name, inspired by the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. Rosetta is an ambitious and technically challenging mission. It will not be easy to keep a rendezvous in 2014 with a comet tearing through space near Jupiter. The 165-kg-payload orbiter is to chase, circle and remotely study the comet, as well as dispatch a 100-kg lander...
...tested if Talat succeeds in bringing both sides to the negotiating table next month. "The Turks will have to appear realistic, and reasonable to the world this time around," says Turkish Cypriot commentator Metin Munir. "There is not much room, or time, left to maneuver." No Foul Play EGYPT Egyptian and French officials ruled out terrorism as the cause of a plane crash early Saturday that killed all 148 passengers and crew, blaming a technical fault. The Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines was carrying mostly French tourists returning to Paris . It plunged into...
...Europe - isn't worried. It has taken him eight months to travel a 4,500-km route from Mogadishu and begin this perilous October crossing, and along the way he has gone without food and water plenty of times. His optimism seems rewarded four hours later, when the young Egyptian piloting the green-and-white fishing boat spots the lights of Malta, steers left, and announces that the Italian coast is just 10 hours away. But there's still no land in sight the following afternoon when the motor stutters and dies. The boatman tries a few times to restart...