Word: scarabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scarab of Egypt (Atauchus sacer), for example, Fabre discovered, possesses the instinctive gift of making a perfect sphere of dung for its food and a perfect pear for its larva, even as the bee is born with the gift of making a hexagonal prism...
Inside the sarcophagus lay Unjebanen-jebet's almost disintegrated mummy, swathed in golden chains. A golden mask covered his face. On his breast lay a jasper scarab with the inscription: "Do not betray me, O heart, on the day of judgment." Beside him, to aid him on his journey, were jeweled or golden images of his gods, and golden dishes, beautifully wrought. One dish showed a bas-relief of women swimming through lotus flowers...
...bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government leaders were killed. He was publicly cashiered, but with the outbreak of war in China was taken back into the Army. In December 1937, on his own initiative he ordered his artillery and air squadron to fire on the British gunboats Ladybird, Scarab and Bee, and on the U.S.S. Panay, which was sunk. For this gross insubordination he was reprimanded but never punished...