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With the Germans in control of Syria, Egypt, the vital Canal Zone, and the oil refineries at Abadan would come under the direct threat of continuous air attack.

These new rulers, who added the Byzantine Empire to Islam, who with Egypt brought Southern and Western Arabia with the Holy Cities also under their authority, and caused all the neighbouring princes, Moslim and Christian alike, to tremble on their thrones, thought it was time to abolish the senseless survival of the Abbasid glory.

Mary Browne could be Exhibit A for any Afrocentric curriculum that wanted to claim ancient Egypt as its own.

He sails from Brundusium to Greece 243 He besieges Pompey at Dyrrhachium 244 Is compelled to retire 241 Battle of Pharsalia, and defeat of Pompey 244 Pompey flies to Egypt 245 His death 245 Caesar is appointed Dictator a second time 245 The Alexandrine War 245 47.

CHAPTER XLVII THE PROMISED LAND One sunset, shortly after his marriage, word came to the tent of Kenkenes that an Amalekite chieftain on his way to Egypt had paused for the night just without the encampment of Israel.

The servant in his enthusiasm and the importance of his mission told the Amalekite that he came from a prince of Egypt.

Thrasamund has just completed the construction in Carthage of an amphitheater and a vast therma that, I hear, are the grandest in all Libya outside of Egypt.

Thus in lower Egypt the transitional Amratian culture -- a Neolithic culture that was acquiring the use of metal -- knew of gold from Nubia before 4000 B.

Their key symbol was the looped cross of ancient Egypt, the crux ansata -- the sign of life.

Turning away from the windows, Blake noticed that the cobwebbed cross above the altar was not of the ordinary kind, but resembled the primordial ankh or crux ansata of shadowy Egypt.

Hence the Ank Cross or Crux Ansata of Egypt, scepter of the Lord of the Dead that never die.

It is certain that it occurred in the antient sphere of Egypt, whence the Grecians received it.

Lycophron, who was of Egypt, and skilled in antient terms, styles Calchas, who was the priest of Apollo, a swan.

Egypt, the name Anzac is born out of circumstances less than romantic.

Ptolemy Apion, bastard son of horrible old Ptolemy Gross Belly of Egypt, has just died in Cyrene.