Cigars of the Pharaoh - Cigars of the Pharaoh Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du Pharaon) is a Tintin book by Hergé. Tintin exposes a ring of opium distributors. Like the other early adventures it is a sequence of short, unconnected skirmishes; but for the first time Hergé introduces a common thread, the mysterious cigars. The book version is considerably shorter than the version that was published serially. This original version is now also available in book form. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. Synopsis Tintin is on a ship with Dr Sarcophagus, an Egyptologist, who tries unsuccessfully to keep a paper from going overboard. Sarcophagus then realizes that the paper is not the Kih-Oskh papyrus he thought it was but a travel agency prospectus. Tintin then bumps into Roberto Rastapopoulos, also a.
Pharaoh - Pharaoh Pharaoh is a title used to refer to the kings (of godly status) in ancient Egypt. See History of Egypt. See also monarch. The term derives from the words pr-o, meaning Great House. It was not commonly used by the Egyptians themselves to refer to their monarchs, but is frequently used by modern historians due to its use in the Bible, especially the Book of Exodus. NB: the dates given must be regarded in most instances as approximate. Dating systems for Egyptian studies are quite various, depending on how they are constructed and what assumptions are used. What is presented below is one such interpretation, but it is assuredly not the only one. See also: Egyptian chronology, Conventional Egyptian chronology. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1.
Pharaoh Hound - Pharaoh Hound Pharaoh Hound Alternative names Kelb Tal-Fenek Country of origin Malta Classification FCI: Group 5 Section 6 AKC: Hound ANKC: Group 4 (Hounds) CKC: Group 2 - Hounds KC(UK): Hound NZKC: Hounds Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC, KC(UK), NZKC The Pharaoh Hound is a breed of dog, specifically a member of the sighthound family..
Karnak - Egypt, Thebes. It is situated about 2 miles North of Luxor. For many centuries Karnak was the religious centre of Egypt, with each Pharaoh adding, or altering to the temple complex. It was the main temple for the cult of Amon, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses were worshipped there. The temple now has a daily Sound and Light show, which gives an insight into the history of this sacred site. External Links http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/karnaktm.htm http://www.touregypt.net/karnak.htm.
Khufu - Khufu Khufu (in Greek known as Cheops) was a Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt's 4th dynasty, reigning from around 2589 BC to 2566 BC. He was the son of King Sneferu, and Queen Hetepheres, and unlike his father, was remembered as a cruel and ruthless Pharaoh. Khufu had several sons and his immediate successor was his son Djedefre. He is most famous for the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Little else remains in his memory, and only one miniature statuette of him has been discovered. His mummy was never discovered..
Killer ants - ants (Dasymusilla magnifica) Western USA Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) Argentina, Southern Europe, Southern USA, California Very small, attack mostly other ants. The main supercolony (Italy, Atlantic coast of Spain) is said to be the largest cooperating ant population in the World. Pharaoh ants (Monomorium pharaonis) Worldwide In February 2000, an invasion of Pharaoh ants terrorized office workers in Berlin, Germany. Red harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) Western USA Bright red myrmicine ants whose venom has the highest relative azoicity of any ants species. Images Bulldog ants (Soldier ants, Genus Myrmecia) Australia They are said to be repelled by yellow objects. Belonging to the subfamily Myrmecinae, these are the most primitive extant ants. All but one of the three score or so species is found in Australia. Bullet ants (Paraponera clavata) range?.
Kiya - Kiya Kiya was a wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton. Little is known about her, and she is scarely documented until Akhenaton's first (and Chief) wife Nefertiti disappears from the record. The name itself is cause for much debate. It appears to be a "pet" form, rather than a full name, and as such could well be a contraction of a foreign name, such as the Mitanni Gilukhipa or Tadukhipa. However there is no evidence to support that she was not of Egyptian origin. In inscriptions, she is given the titles of "The Favorite", and "the greatly beloved", but never described as "heiress" or "chief wife", which suggests that she herself was not of royal Egyptian blood. Her full titles read, The wife and greatly beloved of the King of Upper.
KV55 - the most talked about tombs of the entire valley, perhaps due to its clear connections with the reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. When the tomb was discovered, in 1907, it was found to have been ransacked and desecrated. The shrine for enclosing a coffin had been dismantled and pieces scattered everywhere. Names had been erased, but not everywhere... some traces remained, and those have served to complicate the problem even more. In fact, there are traces of the names of Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Tiy, Sitamun (a daughter and wife of Amenhotep III) and the enigmatic Kiya (who is believed by some to have replaced Nefertiti late in Akhenaten's reign). The shrine appears to have been made for Akhenaten's mother, Tiy, who is thought to have been originally buried in KV55..
KV62 - were painted with scenes from the Book of the Dead. The tomb was literally packed with items, but they were in great disarray. And yet, Carter was able to photograph garlands of flowers, which of course disintregated when touched. Due to the state of the tomb, and to Carter's meticulous recording technique, the tomb took nearly a decade to empty, the contents all being transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Even though Tutankhamun was a minor Pharaoh, for the first time, it was possible to get an idea of the riches which were buried with an Egyptian king, and they were truly astounding. Considering also that his tomb was somewhat small, one can only wonder what more important Pharaohs had buried with them. It is often said that Tutankhamun's tomb.
Jewish history - the Fertile Crescent. Traditionally Jews around the world claim descendance mostly from the ancient Israelites (also known as Hebrews), who settled in the land of Israel. The Israelites traced their common lineage to the biblical patriarch Abraham through Isaac and Jacob. Jewish tradition holds that the Israelites were the descendents of Jacob's twelve sons (one of which named Judah), who settled in Egypt. Their direct descendents respectively divided into twelve tribes, who were enslaved under the rule of pharaoh Ramses II. In the Jewish faith, the emigration of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan (the Exodus), led by the prophet Moses, marks the formation of the Israelites as a people. Jewish tradition has it that after forty years of wandering in the desert, the Israelites arrived to Canaan and conquered it.
Joseph (dreamer) - was sold as a slave to Potiphar, was later freed, and became the chief adviser to the Egyptian pharaoh. Joseph was the elder of the two sons of Jacob by Rachel (Gen. 30:23, 24), who, on the occasion of his birth, said, "God hath taken away [Heb. 'asaph] my reproach." "The Lord shall add [Heb. yoseph] to me another son" (Gen. 30:24). He was a child of probably six years of age when his father returned from Haran to Canaan and took up his residence in the old patriarchal town of Hebron. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age," and he "made him a long garment with sleeves" (Gen. 37:3, R.V. marg.), i.e., a garment long and full, such as.
Jochebed - indicated merely as being the daughter of Levi, her name not being given. She is also mentioned in Exodus 6:20. The name Jochebed means "Jehova is her glory". In Jewish rabbinic literature Jochebed is identified by some rabbis in the Talmud with Shiphrah, one of the midwives ordered by Pharaoh to kill the new-born male children (Exodus 1:15-16). Her name is given various interpretations (Talmud, Sotah 11b; Midrash Exodus Rabba i. 17). The "houses" with which God recompensed the midwives (Exodus 1:21) were those of priesthood and royalty, realized, in the case of Jochebed, in the persons of her two sons Aaron and Moses (Ex. R. xlviii. 5). One rabbis identifies her as being the same person as Jehudijah (I Chronicles 4:18), this name, interpreted as "the Jewess," being given to.
Julius Caesar - to be a love match. Following a difficult year as Consul, Caesar was given Proconsul powers to govern Gaul (southern France) and Illyria (the coast of Dalmatia) for five years. He was not content with an idle governorship. Instead, he started the Gallic Wars (58 BC-49 BC) in which the all of Gaul (the rest of France) and parts of Germania were annexed to Rome. Among his legates were his cousins Lucius Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, Titus Labienus and Quintus Tullius Cicero (Cicero's younger brother). Caesar waged war against various peoples, defeating the Helvetii (in Switzerland in 58 BC, the Belgic confederacy and the Nervii in 57 BC and the Veneti in 56 BC. In 55 BC he attempted an invasion of Britain and, in 52 BC he defeated a.
Imhotep - name to written history, Imhotep (sometimes spelled Amenhotep), as the Pharaoh Djosèr's Vizier, designed the Pyramid of Djzosèr at Saqqara in Egypt around 2630- 2611 BC. (3rd Dynasty). Imhotep also served as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. He was said to be a son of Ptah. He was revered as a genius and was showered with titles. His full list is 'Chancellor of the King of Lower Egypt, First after the King of Upper Egypt, Administrator of the Great Palace, Hereditary nobleman, High Priest of Heliopolis, Builder, Sculptor and Maker of Vases in Chief'. Two thousand years after his death his status was raised to that of a god. Imhotep became the god of medicine and healing. He was linked to Asclepius.
Immanuel Velikovsky - 1924 to 1939 Velikovsky lived in Palestine, practicing psychoanalysis - he had studied under Freud's pupil, Wilhelm Stekel in Vienna - and editing Scripta Academica Hierosolymitana. In 1930 he published the first paper to suggest epileptics are characterized by pathological encephalograms, now part of the routine diagnostic procedure. Some of his writings appeared in Freud's Imago. After reading Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Velikovsky conceived the possibility that Pharaoh Akhnaton, the real hero of Freud's book, was the legendary Oedipus, (a thesis later argued in his book, Oedipus and Akhnaton.) In 1939, Velikovsky took a sabbatical year, traveling with his family to New York only a few weeks before World War II tore Europe apart. For eight months he worked on Oedipus and Akhnaton in the libraries. In April 1940, Velikovsky was.
Hatshepsut of Egypt - BC; sometimes spelled Hapshepsut) was a female Pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th dynasty. She ruled from 1473 BC to 1458 BC. She was the daughter of Thutmose I. Ostensibly regent for Thutmose III of Egypt, she gradually assumed power for herself, eventually being crowned as Pharaoh. Along with it, she assumed the male trappings of power, wearing the male clothing and even false beard of the Pharaohs and having herself addressed by the male titles. She was a hands-on ruler, leading a successful military campaign in Nubia and traveling on a rich trading mission in Punt. Hatshepsut is regarded as the first female monarch in recorded history. See also: List of Pharaohs.
Havok - off the plane, in hopes that they would survive. The Summers boys were put in an orphanage and Alex was soon adopted, though his brother Scott remained there for much of his childhood. Alex went on to earn a degree in geophysics. As a young man, Scott - now the hero Cyclops and the leader of the X-Men - located Alex and they discovered that Alex was also a mutant. Unable to fully control his powers, Alex was captured by the villain The Living Pharaoh, who shared the same energy-absorption abilities. Locking Alex in a shielded cell, the Pharaoh was able to absorb additional energy to become The Living Monolith. After the Monolith was defeated by the X-Men and Alex as freed, the Monolith returned to normal. Alex was then captured.
Hergé - a strip written by a member of the newspaper's sports staff, but soon became dissatisfied with this series. He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict words come out of the characters' mouths. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, by "Hergé", appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième on January 10, 1929, and ran until May 8, 1930. In January 1930, Hergé introduced Quick and Flupke, a new comic strip about two street urchins from Brussels, in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième. For many years, Hergé would continue to produce this less well-known series in parallel with his Tintin stories. In June, he began the second Tintin adventure, Tintin in the Congo (then.
Voyagers - to travel in time and ensured that history unfolded as we know it. For instance, in the first episode Jeffrey ensures that baby Moses' basket travels down the Nile where it's met by Pharaoh's daughter. Many historical figures appeared in this series, among them George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, Cleopatra, Thomas Edison, and Harriet Tubman. At the end of each program, actor Peluce said, "To learn more about [whoever appeared in the show], make a voyage down to your public library; it's all in books!".
History of Egypt - difficult country to attack, which is why Pharaonic Egypt was for so long an independent and self-contained state. Once Egypt did succumb to foreign rule, however, it proved unable to escape from it, and for 2,300 years Egypt was governed by foreigners: Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks and British. President Nasser used to say that he was the first native Egyptian to exercise sovereign power in Egypt since the last Pharaoh, Nectanebo II, was deposed by the Persians in 341 BC, and he was only slightly exaggerating. Egyptian has been divided by this encyclopedia into five periods: History of Ancient Egypt: 3000 BC to 332 BC History of Greek and Roman Egypt: 332 BC to 639 AD History of early Arab Egypt: 639 to 1517 History of Ottoman Egypt: 1517.
