Word: nile
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...there was at the Garden. Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam performed a ferocious version of Masters of War that demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk now can comfortably encompass the salty sensitivity and social speculation of Willie Nile's Hard Times in America (Polaris) as well as the rap-inflected rage of the Native American activist John Trudell on AKA/ Grafitti Man (Ryko). It has a newer, wider compass, and, as ever, Bob Dylan is magnetic north...
...herding sheep or cattle, the Sumerians in what is now Iraq were already living in cities, drinking beer, keeping time with a primitive clock and transporting goods with their new invention: the wheel. Furthermore, they could record these deeds in the world's first written language. Along the Lower Nile, Egyptians were beginning to construct monumental buildings and decorate stone palettes and other objects with hieroglyphs; craftsmen worked skillfully with copper and silver. In China and Mesopotamia merchants were keeping track of their accounts with primitive numbering systems. In the southwestern Pacific, islanders were sailing double-hulled canoes, having mastered...
Typically, Harvard isn't very interested in student suggestions, so I might as well be Nile basin. They didn't ask anyone (until it was too late) about our suggestions for a University president. They never ask us about selecting deans or overseers or any other administrators who will governs us for the four years we are at school. And a student center, well, it's not like the entire concept is supposed to satisfy our needs...
Throughout his lecture--a revisionist version of history that attributed virtually every success of modern society to the ancient Egyptian civilization of the Nile--Jeffries denied charges that he is a bigot, at one point citing his presidency of a Jewish fraternity while in college as evidence...
...enter a world of claims about technological innovation so absurd that they lie beyond satire, like those made for Soviet science in Stalin's time. Afrocentrists have at one time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell battery by observing electric eels in the Nile; and that late in the 1st millennium B.C., they took to flying around in gliders. (This news is based not on the discovery of an aircraft in an Egyptian tomb but on a silhouette wooden votive sculpture of the god Horus, a falcon, that a passing English businessman mistook some decades...