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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dragons, alternating in yellow and white, to honor Adad, the god of wind, and Marduk, Babylon's chief deity. Panels also depicted the mushhushshu, a dragon-like creature covered in scales - its front legs feline, its hind legs belonging to a bird of prey, its tail resembling a scorpion's stinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babylon: Visions of Vice | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...patrons take off their shoes before they sit on cozy bamboo mats and indulge in Vietnamese rice wines with purported medicinal properties. Lychee and banana-flavored shots get the night going, but potent animal-based spirits are said to have more lasting effects: snake wine reduces back pain and scorpion wine is thought to be a sexual stimulant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spice of Hanoi | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...commit suicide.” Such is the reasoning of Boxer Santaros as he struggles to save the world in Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales.” Played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (“The Scorpion King”), Santaros mysteriously turns up at the beginning of the film with amnesia. He’s a movie star who co-writes a screenplay (with a porn star, no less) about the end of the world as we know it. What Santaros and his co-writer don?...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Southland Tales | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...Ruth, a classy, soft-spoken gladiator who is nicknamed "The Natural." For fans, his endurance, toughness and proficiency embodies mixed martial arts, the technical name of the sport. Such is his fame that he is now making a foray into movies, with a lead role in Universal's The Scorpion King: The Rise of the Akkadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ultimate Fighting's Ultimate Fight | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

While older generations may look at this classy Kong with a pang of nostalgia, the freshmen know nothing else. They will continue to lose fake IDs at the door, drink Scorpion Bowls until they black out, and devour scallion pancakes at 2 a.m. in blissful ignorance of the dive it once...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: So Long, Old Kong. We Will Miss Thine Venerable Decrepitude. | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

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