Word: sonly
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...gigantic monuments of Rameses II provide no evidence of the enslavement of the children of Israel in Egypt. Indeed, Israel does not appear in Egyptian records until the reign of Rameses' son and successor Merneptah. By then it is clearly a nation, not a wandering mass of refugees. But some scholars argue that a group of people called the 'Apiru in Egyptian chronicles may actually have included the Hebrews. And they point out a papyrus fragment that may show that Semitic peoples were used for forced labor. Between 1630 and 1521 B.C., Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos, a Semitic...
...misery of the slaves, the grandeur of the Egyptian empire and the infant Moses' famous basket ride on the Nile, until he is rescued by the Pharaoh's wife. In the Bible, Moses is rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, but the filmmakers decided a close relationship between Pharaoh's son Rameses and an adopted brother Moses would be more compelling than their interacting as uncle and nephew. Some other dramatic devices were also invented. "We have 88 minutes to tell 70 years in the life of Moses," says Katzenberg. "We can never be a literal retelling of the Bible...
...great buddy, lived with him before the filming of East of Eden. But, no, it seems; Dean's pal was Tony Vargas, according to Renebome and Vargas himself. California rancher Bill Dorrance, an early teacher of horse whispering, was "like a grandfather to me," Monty writes. But Dorrance's son Steve says his father hardly knows Monty. Similarly, horse trainer Don Dodge, in whose stable Monty claims to have worked 16-hour days, told TIME, "Oh my goodness gracious! Those things just aren't true...
DIED. ALBERT GORE SR., 90, former Tennessee Congressman and Senator and father of the Vice President; in Carthage. A key mover behind the interstate highway system and a Southern liberal who took unpopular stands against segregation and the Vietnam War, he once advised his son not to settle for the No. 2 spot, calling it a "dead-end street...
Then there was the fellow from California who was searching for a 1956 story "about a young woman and her son who escaped Iraq and a horrible marriage." Only after we sent a copy of the story did he reveal to us that "the little boy in the photo is me." Another photo intrigued an Argentine woman who asked about a picture in our 75th-anniversary issue showing a little girl receiving a polio shot. Even though the caption said the photo was taken in Alabama, and our reader had no recollection of ever having lived there, she thought, just...