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...were very compleat anglers. We were compleat with a $300,000, 46-ft. Heli-Home, which consists in effect of an S-58 Sikorsky helicopter mated to a Winnebago motor home. The ultimate in Arvees (recreational vehicles), it is a cross between a magic carpet and a pasha...
...Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
This anecdote is one of the more outrageous tales that British-born Archaeologist Brian Fagan records in this brisk and knowledgeable history of the plunder of Egypt. But it was only one of thousands of depredations, many carried out on a much grander scale. During the reign of Pasha Mohammed Ali (1805-1849), for example, one-quarter of the great Temple of Dendereh was quarried away by Egyptians to build a saltpeter factory. Ali also ordered the excavation of the exquisite Temple of Esneh because he wanted to use it as a secure munitions depot. Art collectors were scarcely better...
...Sadat was imprisoned by the British from 1942 to 1944 for collaborating with the Germans. He was jailed again from 1946 to 1949 for having allegedly participated in the assassination of Finance Minister Amin Osman Pasha...
...downstairs den, and ate the steamed vegetables and lean steaks he prefers (when not training, he relishes fried buffalo fish and gargantuan vanilla ice cream sundaes). But most of all Foreman played with his pets-four dogs and two horses. Foreman is particularly proud of his two German shepherds, Pasha and Daggo. He commands them with a smattering of German. "Platz, Daggo!" he will yell. "Stay. Stay." Daggo joined him on the trip...