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...hairstyles on the anthropoid coffins are Roman, but the style of decoration is Egyptian. The richness of the tomb decorations, Hawass notes, indicates that the inhabitants of Bahariya were prosperous. Indeed, the city flourished on its renowned wine, made from dates and grapes, which it exported throughout the Nile Valley...
...extra tenets. Says Marshall Chance, head of the Nuwaubians' Holy Tabernacle Ministries: "The main thing that brings us together is fellowship and facts." Among those facts: that black people are genetically su-perior to whites and that the Nuwaubians are direct descendants of Egyptians who, having walked from the Nile Valley to the Americas before continental drift separated the landmasses, are actually the original Native Americans. York and several hundred of his followers wandered from New York to Georgia in 1993, buying up 476 acres of land on the perimeter of Eatonton for $575,000. And now, as a tribe...
...digest graphical hierarchy of what we should be eating--was introduced in 1992, it seemed broad enough to cover everyone. Since then, however, variations have proliferated: pyramids just for children, for vegetarians, Southerners, Native Americans, Italians, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans and so on. Dietitians have created for us a virtual Nile Valley of nutrition...
...Pharaoh refuses. And so, at Moses' direction, Moses' brother Aaron touches the Nile with his staff, and it turns to blood. Egypt is then infested successively by frogs, gnats, flies, a pestilence on livestock, boils on people and beasts, hail, locusts and "a darkness that can be touched." Scientific skeptics have assigned them myriad natural explanations, including a comet and a volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. The most ingenious effort is an ecological domino theory proposed in the 1950s by a scholar named Greta Hort: the Nile's many tributaries flood, infesting the great river with blood...
...film begins with a sweeping seven-minute prologue that evokes the misery of the slaves, the grandeur of the Egyptian empire and the infant Moses' famous basket ride on the Nile, until he is rescued by the Pharaoh's wife. In the Bible, Moses is rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, but the filmmakers decided a close relationship between Pharaoh's son Rameses and an adopted brother Moses would be more compelling than their interacting as uncle and nephew. Some other dramatic devices were also invented. "We have 88 minutes to tell 70 years in the life of Moses," says Katzenberg...