Word: niles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portrayed case of cellulitis as well as a degrading imprisonment by a tribe not thrilled at being discovered by civilization. The movie strongly hints at a homosexual bond between the two men -- at least until they fall into an unseemly squabble over who actually discovered the source of the Nile -- but also provides an unusual erotic scene between Burton and his fiancee. It is perhaps superfluous to add that neither antihero achieves a heroic...
...Judaism's primary manifestations is nationalistic: It promises the Jews a nation-state in the land between the Nile and the Euphrates Rivers(only a portion of which is now under the sovereignty of the state of Israel). Some of this land was originally conquered by the biblical Israelites from the peoples of Canaan, peoples whom the Bible records as steeped in immoral practices such as human sacrifice and incest. But it was conquest nonetheless...