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- 311: Saddam Hussein
- By: Stephen Bedell Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi political leader, was born to a poor Arab family on April 28, 1937. Hussein studied law in Egypt after his attempt to assassinate the premier of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem, in 1959. In the summer of 1968, the Baath party returned to power and named Hussein as deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command ...
- 312: Shel Silverstein
- ... Mississippi River just to wash it down. And when he'd eaten every state, each puppy, boy and girl He wiped his mouth upon his sleeve and went to eat the world. He ate the Egypt pyramids and every church in Rome, And all the grass in Africa and all the ice in Nome. He ate each hill in green Brazil and then to make things worse He decided that for ...
- 313: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... traveled to Norway, where Conan Doyle went skiing for the first time. Shortly after this trip, Doyle helps introduce the sport of snow skiing in Switzerland.23 In 1895, Doyle and his wife traveled to Egypt for the winter season. A doctor told them that she would benefit from the therapeutic surrey air. Then they traveled up the Nile River to Sudan, an East African country. This trip later provided the ...
- 314: Pompeys Rise To Political Prom
- ... his clientela, to advertise monarchs and nations bound to his personal allegiance. (Ad fam. 9, 9, 2: regum ac nationum clientelis quas oestentare crebro solebat). Pompey had from Thrance to the Causasus and down to Egypt acknowledging his predominance. The worship of power, paid homage to Pompey as a god, a saviour and a benefactor, devising before long a novel title, the warden of earth and sea. (ILS 9459 (miletopolis)). Although ...
- 315: Political Policies Between The
- ... the Western alliance whilst both sides called for greater arms reductions. (Isaacs, Downing 1996). In addition to this, a series of International events managed to inflame both the United States and the Soviet Union. Firstly Egypt visited Israel making peace after many years of heated conflict. The Camp David Accords mediated by Jimmy Carter came to pass which infuriated Moscow and further alienated the east in international affairs. In opposition to ...
- 316: Napolean
- ... Italy) and strengthened his position in France by sending millions of francs worth of treasure to the government. In 1798, to strike at British trade with the East, he led an expedition to Turkish-ruled Egypt, which he conquered. The British admiral Horatio Nelson, leaving him stranded, however, destroyed his fleet. Undaunted, he reformed the Egyptian government and law, abolishing serfdom and feudalism and guaranteeing basic rights. The French scholars he ...
- 317: The Crucible By Arthur Miller
- ... that person bad lucks before his or her journey is over. If this occurs the individual can take twelve steps backwards to ward off the bad luck (cat-report 6). This belief originated in ancient Egypt where the cat was considered sacred and to kill one was sacrilege. It is believed that the folklore surrounding the black cat began in the Middle Ages when it was associated with witches. It is ...
- 318: Philosophies In Voltaires Cand
- ... Candide poses this question: " But surely reverend father, there is a great deal of evil in this world. "(pg. 141). The dervish responds: " And what if there is? When His Highness sends a ship to Egypt, do you suppose that he worries wether the ship's mice are comfortable or not? "(pg. 141). Voltaire now is saying that the evil in this world is so trivial, like the mice on a ...
- 319: Fahrenheit 451 - A Charred Exi
- ... as on Beatty s helmet and car, as well as its reference by Granger at the end of the book, serves as a metaphor to this rebirth. The Phoenix was a mythical bird of ancient Egypt that, after its five hundred-year existence, consumes itself in flames and is reborn from its own ashes (Sisario 105). The resurrection of the Phoenix signifies the cyclical nature of human life and civilization. Beatty ...
- 320: Midaq Alley
- ... neveen Midaq Alley Book Review Naguib Mahfouz is the author of the book Midaq Alley that was translated from Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick. First published in 1966, Midaq Alley displays a historical period of Egypt in the most intimate sense as it is persesnted through the lives of the characters that inhabit the alley. Although the book is set in the early forties it possesses a taste of eternity as ...
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