Sentences with phrase «about pharaohs»

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Organization and dogma are about power and control, whether it is a pharaoh, Constantine, Napoleon, or Mao; or anyone in between.

Not long before, Yahweh did the same thing with the pharaoh in Egypt: every time the pharaoh was about to let the Israelites god, Yahweh hardened his heart to ensure that he would say «no» and keep them a while longer as slaves.

In this adorable book, Buster and his three classmates learn about history by dressing up as knights, pharaohs, a Roman solider, and more.

The team found that pharaoh cuttlefish making crab - like arm movements caught about twice as many fish.

In 1955, Howard Hawks made a very good epic spectacle called Land ofthe Pharaohs that depicted a slave uprising against an evil pharaoh.William Faulkner wrote the screenplay, but later expressed hisdisappointment about the project because he «didn't know how ancientEgyptians talked.»

For example, how do children learn that some people they hear about (Peter Pan) are made up and never lived, whereas others (the Pharaohs) were real?

The longest ruling female pharaoh, little is known about Hatshepsut, but Cooney effectively reconstructs a likely portrait of the fascinating pharaoh's life.

To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe — a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

If you should decide to write a novel about a topic you know almost nothing about, a scholarly discipline requiring years to master, if you feel compelled to set the story in a land you've scarcely visited, during an era you can only dimly conjure from childhood reading and yellowed clippings, if you have followed your hyperactive and petulant imagination down a rabbit hole and there gazed at glowing, magical projections of inverted pyramids and pith - helmeted lunatics and pharaohs with unconventional appetites, but found little by way of actual knowledge, rest easy, because at the British Museum you will make a new friend: an expert who not only knows everything, but who is required — yes, required — to answer all your e-questions, no matter how many, how foolish, how wrong - headed, fantastic, or...

Pharaohs are capable of learning just about anything, whether it be basic house training, obedience, the aforementioned agility or anything else you care to teach them.

But Hirst has always had more than a little touch of the provocateur about him, so in this encyclopedic show on the history of mankind and art, he slips in allusions to Walt Disney's Pluto, to a pharaoh who looks a lot like Pharrell Williams, and to a mythological character who seems to have leapt out of Paul McCarthy's imagination.

This watercolor is a dream about black life on the Nile in the time of the pharaohs.

Featuring more than 50 treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb and artifacts representing other important pharaohs and notables, the exhibition includes recent scientific research about King Tut.

In fact, it is another Schnabel, titled «Ozymandias,» after the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem about a prideful pharaoh's fallen monument.

Or about the unearthed tomb of the semite given a pharaoh - like burial with his 11 brothers buried in surrounding tombs.