Word: giza
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...Begin subscribes to a common assumption that the three Giza Pyramids were built by the Israelis' enslaved ancestors. In fact, the stones probably were trundled by indigenous peasants between 2600 and 2500 B.C.; the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt is believed to have occurred about 1,200 years later...
...bare hill at Giza, some three miles from downtown Cairo, stands a simple rest house occasionally used by President Sadat. Its principal feature is a wide veranda that overlooks the Pyramids. The light and shadows constantly change the shape of these massive triangles leaning against each other. These are structures at once simple and monumental; they have endured the elements and man's depredations for as close to eternity as man can reach by his own efforts. In no other place in the world is man forced into humility so exclusively by one of his own accomplishments. In this...
...execute him unless the government paid $300,000 and released 60 of their comrades from jail. Even while the government negotiated, the kidnapers last week carried out their threat. Three days after the sheik's disappearance, his body was discovered in a house near the pyramids at Giza. He had been tortured, strangled and shot through...
...ready when Kissinger's 707 landed in Cairo. President Sadat extended a graceful welcome to "my friend Dr. Kissinger." Ailing with influenza, Sadat had risen from a sickbed to greet the Secretary, and his words could scarcely be heard at a press conference following their discussions at Giza Residence...
...complete works of Zane Grey; his favorite author, he once said, was Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe), whose novels he discovered while he was in prison. He lives with his attractive, half-British second wife, Gehan, and their four children in a comfortable house at Giza, a Cairo suburb...