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...analyst, with some understatement: "There is often a disparity between these stories and the subsequent Judeo-Christian ethic that has been derived from them throughout the centuries." Genesis chapter 12, as Visotzky was disagreeably reminded, seems to find Abraham allowing his wife to be taken into Pharaoh's harem both to ensure the couple safe passage through Egypt and "so that all may go well with me." Sarah, barren, offers her slave, Hagar, to Abraham as a kind of surrogate mother but when Hagar gets pregnant, Sarah becomes jealous and beats her (16). Lot sleeps with his daughters (19). Jacob...
...sort of music together. Chi reports that the tenor has finally proclaimed his love for his 26-year-old aide. "Nicoletta and I are very happy, as you can see. To hide it or to deny it would be a crime," he said. "She is my favorite of my harem...
...some nest in spider webs; others fashion "tents" out of leaves. In southern India, for example, the male short-nosed fruit bat spends as long as two months painstakingly chewing the veins of leaves and palm fronds until they collapse into a shelter that will house him and a harem of as many as 20 females...
...Hittite princesses were Ramesses' seventh and eighth wives; he had taken his first two, Nefertari and Istnofret, at least a decade before he ascended to the throne. Then there was also a harem. "If he got tired of huntin', shootin', rootin' and tootin'," says Liverpool's Kitchen, "he could wander through the garden and blow a kiss at one of these ladies." By the time he took over from Seti, Ramesses had at least five sons and two daughters. One of Istnofret's sons was Merneptah, Ramesses' 13th boy, who eventually succeeded him (the older ones are presumed to have...
...Scottish comedian Billy Connely once started a show, to much laughter and applause, by asking, "Isn't `A Whiter Shade of Pale' the most pretentious piece of crap you've ever heard in your life?" He's half right. Procol Harem's famous ditty (and only hit) has always been annoyingly obscure. But it's also strangely beautiful. Lennox's eerie modern version of the song is almost an improvement on the overblown original...