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Most scholars, though, think he never got there. After Alexander's death in Babylon, or present-day Iraq, the body was sent back to Macedonia for burial. But Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals, hijacked the corpse and eventually took it to his home base in Alexandria; having the Emperor's remains gave Ptolemy huge political clout...
...same map, in combination with the fossil record, confirms that Africa was the birthplace of humanity and thus the starting point of the original human migrations. Those findings, plus the great genetic distance between present-day Africans and non-Africans, indicate that the split from the African branch is the oldest on the human family tree...
...resurrection of the St. Vincent case deals with the difficulties of facing the past and the personal memories which have since been either healed or deeply repressed. The film enters Kevin's present-day existence, as well as those of the other victims of the orphanage. Their responses to their years in St. Vincent range significantly, from anger and resignation to revenge. The wide span of emotions testifies to the moral ambiguities involved in re-examining the case so many years later. As the film makes clear, there are no clear-cut answers to dealing with this painful territory...
...through food and drink unites the three women in Reardon's book, through their particular tastes vary. Meanwhile their individual stories cast faint reflections of life outside the kitchen, from Fisher's Hollywood of the 1940's to Child's "02138 zip code set" in '60s Cambridge, to Waters' present-day Berkeley...
...staging suffers from the nonsensical directions written into the script. The presence of the four extras who comprise the "later generation" (Anna Blair, Anataria Marie Brown, Jennifer Joel, and Flora Prescott) is largely inexplicable. For most of the play they sit around and watch the main action, dressed in present-day garb; are they meant to frame the spectacle as a play within a play...