Word: scarab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year two other sophisticated U.S. ROVs, Scarab 1 and Scarab 2, reached the wreckage of Air-India Flight 182, which plunged into the North Atlantic 110 miles southwest of Ireland on June 23. Scarab 1 located and retrieved the 747's voice and flight-data recorders from a spot 6,700 ft. deep, while Scarab 2 mapped and photographed the wreckage, some of which was later retrieved. Their achievements enabled experts to determine that the jet's forward baggage hold had been ripped apart in the air, almost certainly by a bomb...
...succinctly, Menenhetet's life is a long series of extraordinary feats such as running over a mountain, carrying a chariot or slaying more Hittites than you could ever shake a scarab at--and crashing humiliations like getting exiled to a desert outpost and being sodomized (more than once) by the Pharaoh. These events are punctuated by various hexes and incantations, long processions to one temple or another, descriptions of statues and animals and peasants and eunuchs (many eunuchs) and life in the seraglio and the smell of different perfumes and incenses and precious stones and robes and linens...