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- 241: Richard Nixon's Presidency
- ... search for accommodation between the two superpowers and an effort to reduce the danger of nuclear war. Other parts of the world were not neglected. In the strategically vital Middle East, Nixon established links with Egypt while maintaining the U.S. commitment to Israel. After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, the United States replaced the Soviet Union as the dominant influence in Egypt. At home, Nixon adopted the so-called New Federalism, a program designed to end what he said was the Democratic habit o f Congress passed part of the plantion rates, he reversed himself dramatically in ...
- 242: Art Essay
- Art Essay The body has been used as a sign or symbol in art for centuries. The body was used to symbolize perfection in ancient Greece, and in Egypt, to give a precise image for the God of the After-life. Not to mention their colossal monuments which promote power and glory, and are used to intimidate. However contemporary artists use the body as ... the goddess. It is a symbol of the power and immortality of the gods and the sole purpose of the artist is to convey this beauty and power to the people of Ancient Greece. Ancient Egypt is also another place in which the body was used as a symbol or sign. Colossal monuments such as The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel was a symbol of great power and ...
- 243: Your Chemical World
- ... metal tools -440 Leucippus decerns that matter is composed of indivisible particles -360 Aristotle rejects atom theories with such power that it I not until the Seventeenth century that it is truly revived 400 In Egypt the word chemistry is used to describe the change of matter. 1620 Sir Roger Bacon introduces Inductive thinking to pave the way for scientific theory 1661 Robert Boyle defines an element 1709 Daniel Fahrenheit devises ... metal tools -440 Leucippus decerns that matter is composed of indivisible particles -360 Aristotle rejects atom theories with such power that it I not until the Seventeenth century that it is truly revived 400 In Egypt the word chemistry is used to describe the change of matter. 1620 Sir Roger Bacon introduces Inductive thinking to pave the way for scientific theory 1661 Robert Boyle defines an element 1709 Daniel Fahrenheit devises ...
- 244: The Egyptian Religion
- ... that hatched and made the moon and sun, from the sun came Amon-Ra, the sun god from him came air, from the air, the earth, from the earth, the Nile and from the Nile Egypt, which is how Egypt got the nickname the gift of the Nile. Therefore the characteristics of the Egyptian faith are very strict. The Egyptians performed many rituals that characterize their religion. First, when a person died, their body was ...
- 245: Tattoo Or Not To Tattoo... The
- ... Erik Reime think that it goes back to biblical times, in fact it could be conceived that GOD created the first tattoo when he put "the mark upon Cain" (3). For others it originated n Egypt or as V. Wageman reviews in Victoria Lautmans book The New Tattoo the first tattoo may have come about when "some stone age klutz fell down near a hearth[and] found charcoal embedded in his ... art of henna tattooing. In her article "Body of Art" Maya Brown reports that according to Rabi R. Dabit, founder of the first henna salon in the US." Mehndi is believed to have originated in Egypt more than 7,000 years ago". In fact in a recent article "answers" published in Essence magazine the writer explains the process is more detail. They report that the tattoo like designs are achieved by ...
- 246: Arianism
- ... and became at last a martyr. From this learned man the school of Antioch drew its inspiration. Eusebius the historian, Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Arius himself, all came under Lucian's influence. Not, therefore, to Egypt and its mystical teaching, but to Syria, where Aristotle flourished with his logic and its tendency to Rationalism, should we look for the home of an aberration which had it finally triumphed, would have anticipated ... the strife. Many bishops of Asia Minor and Syria took up the defence of their "fellow-Lucianist," as Arius did not hesitate to call himself. Synods in Palestine and Bithynia were opposed to synods in Egypt. During several years the argument raged; but when, by his defeat of Licinius (324), Constantine became master of the Roman world, he determined on restoring ecclesiastical order in the East, as already in the West ...
- 247: Greek And Roman Art
- ... Mummy Portrait of a Man and Mummy Portrait of a Young Woman. The Roman Portraits are located at The Menil Collection in Houston. The Mummy Portrait of a Man is from the Fayum region in Egypt. It was painted about 150-200 B.C. It is painted in encaustic on wood, and is a Fayum portrait. The Mummy Portrait of a Young Woman is also from the Fayum region and painted ... Qarun. This lake was a project of the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty, and it was this lake that made a desert area of about 100 kilometers into one of the most fertile areas in Egypt. It was such an amazing feat that the lake still to this day provides this region water keeping it fertile. The purpose of the Mummy Portrait of a Man as well as the Mummy Portrait ...
- 248: ALCHEMY
- ... metals, that in it their various substances were incorporated. This black powder was mystically identified with the underworld form of the god Osiris, and consequently was credited with magical properties. Thus there grew up in Egypt the belief that magical powers existed in fluxes and alloys. Probably such a belief existed throughout Europe in connection with the bronze-working castes of its several races. Its was probably in the Byzantium of ... was built, and this is borne out by the circumstance that the art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the Alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was brought to Morocco and thus in the eighth century to Spain, where it flourished exceedingly. Indeed ...
- 249: Construction Of The Great Pyra
- ... of his argument, but instead chooses to judge other individuals theories and make his own opinions. There are many weaknesses in his theory and the majority of his facts are incorrect. Von Dδniken states that Egypt had no prehistory and the pyramids were built by extra-terrestrials. This is entirely untrue and there are many facts to disprove this idea. If Egypt had no prehistory it would not explain the other pyramids that still exist. These pyramids clearly show the evolution or technological advancement in the construction of the pyramids. The inside of the pyramids contained vast ...
- 250: The Roots of Christianity
- ... quite well around the circumstances or agent of change. What did remain consistent is the belief in the same God. It was this same God - the one who "brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery"- who was the changing agent in the person of Jesus of Nazareth whom was known to his followers as the Christ. The movement was solidified though both social conditions ... glory of their faith. Thus, did the Islamic nations set their sights on the Byzantine Empire. Soon the armies of Islam had snatched Palestine and Syria out of the grasps of the Byzantine. Asia Minor, Egypt and N. Africa converted to Islam, and Jerusalem, a holy city for Christians and Moslems alike, fell to the conquerors. The Islamic Empire was then larger than the Roman Empire had ever been. Unlike the ...
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