Word: papyrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunting ground of pirates. But long before it was first sighted by Europeans in 1823, the lake began receding before the southward encroachment of the Sahara Desert. Scientists suspect that it was also draining away through an underground outlet. As Chad was transformed into a wilderness of swamplands and papyrus jungles, its water level dropped to a point where it no longer flowed out through the Bahr el Ghazal. Rice farmers along the river banks and the lake's once-fertile shores packed up and moved southward. With the maximum depth of the lake down to 22 feet...
Last week Publishers Simon & Schuster were beaming over the page proofs of Newman's latest work that will be published next month. The World of Mathematics is a massive, four-volume anthology of the best writing in the field, from the time man started to figure on papyrus to the automatons that can replace man. The editors have reason to beam. The anthology is already a runaway bestseller-an astounding fact, since publishers traditionally expect prestige rather than profits from first-rate scientific books. Prodded by a $100,000 advertising campaign, the public has almost bought out the first...
...dense papyrus swamp 50 miles from Nairobi last week, the Mau Mau were making what the British hoped was their last stand. Sixty terrorists were trapped, including several members of the hierarchy which has directed the four-year war against their fellow Kikuyu tribesmen and their white employers. With an estimated 3,000 Mau Mau at large in scattered groups, the British felt that "the emergency" was almost ended...
...diggers can determine, the Egyptians were building great palaces of brick and stone. They had effective copper tools, including wood saws and the finest needles. They worked with fine artistry in wood, ivory, leather, textiles, metals, precious stones. They had a fully formed written language and papyrus to write it on. Their religion formed the principal features that would dominate Egypt for 3,000 years. They had skillful agriculture, a centralized government and a leisured ruling class...
Nowadays, artists switch styles as often as their wives change hairdos. But things were slower in Egypt. For 3,000 years, Egyptian artists respected the same old rules. Egypt's painters apparently learned theirs from papyrus scrolls which depicted almost everything they might be commissioned to produce. Art was mostly a matter of faithful copying; those who learned the trade became "scribes of outlines." But the painters who adorned Egypt's tombs had a bit more freedom than her sculptors and architects...