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...rendering such services, Ahmed Abboud has also done himself a few good turns. At 66, he is Egypt's pharaoh of free enterprise, with properties worth (by his estimate) $60 million. He is boss of the nation's largest shipping line (the Khedi-vial Mail Line), monopolizes the sugar-refining, fertilizer and distilling industries, and also owns or controls at least ten of Egypt's most important companies, including real estate, bus line, textile and cotton-trading interests. Altogether, Ab-boud's companies supply Egypt's leading newspapers with 60% of their advertising revenues. Last...
Carved between 2350 and 2175 B.C., the texts describe some events going back beyond the year 3000. By that time the culture of Egypt had matured, and to a large extent it was centered in the person of the Pharaoh. When a Pharaoh died, he was supposed to go to heaven to take his place among the gods. The texts, usually inscribed on the eastern walls of his tomb where he might conveniently see them, served no other purpose than to speed him on his journey...
Sometimes the texts invoked charms and magic, sometimes mumbo-jumbo ("Mti, Mti, Mti, Mti . . ."), sometimes sheer bravado ("Heaven thunders, the earth trembles before [the king] . . ."). But they also pleaded good works on behalf of the Pharaoh ("I gave bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, I ferried him who had no boat...
...their gods with a genial mild-and-bitter (brewed from wheat and honey) almost 40 centuries earlier, circa 6,000 B.C. Genesis 9:21 notes that after the Flood Noah "drank of the wine, and was drunken." The ancient Egyptians, too, were prodigious tipplers: according to his temple inscriptions, Pharaoh Ramses III (c. 1198-1167 B.C.) personally stood the gods 466,303 jugs of beer...
...artist Auguste Leroux. A dog in a recent Dali picture is the image of a dog in Anye Bru's Martyrdom of St. Mcdin (circa 1500), and the Dali horses in his set for the ballet Mad Tristan look like John Frederick Herring's 19th century favorite, Pharaoh's Horses. A.B.C. captioned its story "Three Coincidences," and let its readers judge for themselves...