Word: lagoons
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Like Mount Sinai, the Sea of Reeds (mistranslated as the Red Sea) has been located at various sites all over the Middle East. A current scholarly favorite is Lake Sirbonis (now called Sabkhet el Bardowil), a Mediterranean lagoon on the northeastern shore of the Sinai separated from the sea by a narrow land barrier. Critics claim to discern several different accounts within the Bible, depending on which of four ancient versions of the story has been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down...
...billion Mandalay Bay development, to open in March 1999. The casino hotel, with a separate Four Seasons hotel on top and a monorail connecting it to the company's other properties, Excalibur and Luxor, will be set in a 12-acre park with a wavemaking machine in the lagoon. Says Schaeffer: "Nobody anywhere in the world is building resorts like Las Vegas...
...first site, a Taino village on the northern coast of Cuba now known as Los Buchillones, has been protected from decay in a layer of clay at the bottom of a shallow lagoon. Last May a Canadian-Cuban team discovered the nearly intact remains of a Taino dwelling buried in the muck. It has since located the foundation of as many as 40 structures, most likely a combination of communal buildings, outbuildings and single-family houses. The site is so extensive, says David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, that "there's no doubt that a regional chief...
...Sissano Lagoon, separated from the ocean by a fragile spit of sand where villages once grew, is now a place of the most primitive horrors. Limbs hang from the coconut trees, freshly tamped graves dot the beach, and huge saltwater crocodiles crawl from the red-tinged sea to scavenge on the unburied dead. Bodies swiftly rotted by the tropical heat come apart in emergency workers' hands. And to the surviving villagers, many of them amputees after gangrene invaded their wounds, it is a place to be ever forsaken, a steaming graveyard carved out by elemental demons. New villages, crude...
...seven Papua New Guinea villages destroyed by tidal waves may have lost an entire generation of children, whose small bodies were smashed against the trees, drowned in the lagoon or dragged out to sea as the waves retreated. The number of child fatalities was so high that many schools are not expected to reopen. The official death toll from last Friday's disaster -- caused by earthquakes out at sea -- stands at 1,200, but with thousands still missing and the mangrove swamps and lagoons littered with corpses, authorities fear it may be closer to 3,000. And that...