Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present preparing a brief, definitive me morial biography of Cat Mike, soon to appear in limited edition from a London publishing house. Other books by Savant Sir Ernest Budge include: The Coptic History of Elijah the Tishbite; The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus ; An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary; The Book of the Dead; The Book of the Bee; and The Mummy (Enlarged Edition...
...years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...
Rinehart never lived so wildly in the Egyptian hotel as he did that night in Harkness. . . . The Grand Central Station saw two hundred alumni, and wife, dance "Up the Street" by the light of red flares, until two policemen arrived. . . . At eleven o'clock in Cambridge the great drum of the band, accompanied by one trumpeter, marched Mount Auburn Street until Sunday made victory...
...time of Jesus, the Romans retreated and desert sands quickly covered buildings. In 1920 British soldiers accidentally discovered Dura. Word went to the late Gertrude Bell. She sent a call to Professor James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, who was at Luxor, Egypt, his headquarters for Egyptian research. He sped to Dura, hastily made photographs and maps. As the result of his recommendations, the General Education Board gave money to dig at Dura. Rewards: rare colored frescoes, fine sculptures, important inscriptions, and best of all-Greek, Latin and Aramaic parchments. Rarely have parchments of the period been found...
...into the ship's hold, knife ready. Aithra, the sorceress, had strange powers. Just then she managed a mighty storm to stay the murderer's hand. She blew their ship to bits, dipped them together deep into the sea and brought them up finally on her own Egyptian shore. Aithra was glad to have a wily hand in Helen's history. And so began as confused a mass of supernatural detail as ever bewildered an operatic audience...