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- 211: Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
- ... Anne Rice, obviously with more space to explore her vampires, made an entire world of vampires living incognito with mortals. She actually has a family tree of vampires which decends from a vampire in ancient Egypt. Her vampires can be found in every country and area in her novels. This is made possible because traveling is very easy for her vampires. Dracula can as long as he takes some of his ... her own good and for the good of others. Anne Rice creates all of the vampires in her novel in an Adam and Eve sort of way. The first vampire Akasha was a sorcerer in Egypt through magic she transformed herself into a vampire. Akasha then creates her husband Enkil by trnsfusing her blood with his. Through time the two created more vampires and the ones they created made more vampires ...
- 212: St. Francis Of Assisi
- ... Spain, Germany, Hungary, Portugal and Syria. 100 years later, he had gained an additional 30,000 followers to his Order. Two years later, Francis left Italy on an unbelievable missionary endeavour. He travelled to Damietta, Egypt, where he crossed wars being fought by crusaders and Saraceans. Incredibly, he survived a stay inside the Saracen camp and even had a discussion with Melekel-kamel, Sultan and commander of the Mussulman force. Francis ... Sultan strongly thought about. The Sultan fearing that his people wouldnt accept the ordeal is what kept Francis request from taking place. However, the Sultan did allow Francis and his followers to preach throughout Egypt. Five of Francis followers left Portiuncula and journeyed to Morocco. Here they proclaimed themselves as King of Kings, Jesus Christ. This resulted them being cast into chains amidst the town square. Lying there naked, they ...
- 213: Oh Boy
- ... made him the patriarch of many nations. There are four other religions that have roots in Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam and he Baha'i World Faith. Moses led the Israelite people out of bondage is Egypt and later Joshua led them into the Promised Land. The Jewish Scriptures consists of the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. They also use the Talmud contains stories, laws, medical knowledge and other things ... study the Torah and to worship God only. The Jewish people rest on the Sabbath day, which begins at sundown on Friday evening. They celebrate Passover which to recall the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt. There are three large groups of Judaism in the world today. Conservative Judaism: A group that was created in the nineteenth century to counteract the reform movement. Orthodox Judaism: The oldest, most diverse and most ...
- 214: Princess Diana 3
- ... Wales spent part of their honeymoon at the Mountbatten family home at Broadlands, Hampshire. They then flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht HMY BRITANNIA for a twelve-day cruise through the Mediterranean to Egypt. They finished their honeymoon with a trip to Balmoral. Diana and Charles made their vacation home at Highgrove House near, Tetbury, Cloucestershire, and shared an apartment in Kensington Palace. The Princess had two sons. Prince ... when she traveled to Norway to attend a performance by the London City Ballet, of which she was patron. Diana visited many other countries on her own including Germany, the United States, Pakistan, Switzerland, Hungary, Egypt, Belgium, France, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nepal. Diana was best known for her charitable work. During her marriage, Diana was president of over 100 charities. The Princess did much to publicize work on behalf of ...
- 215: The PLO
- ... was a melting pot for religious and cultural influences. It has also, unfortunately, been a natural battleground for the region's powerful states and thus subject to domination by them, the first of these being Egypt in the third millennium BC. When Egyptian power began to wane in the 14th century BC, the country was again invaded: this time by Hebrews, who were a Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia, and by Philistines ... Sea. It is about 42km (26 miles) long and 6.5 to 8km (4 to 5 miles) wide. It too, like the West Bank, was a part of the British Mandate from 1917 to 1948. Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip from 1948 until the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (except for a brief period of Israeli occupation in 1956- 57) when it passed to Israeli control. The Gaza Strip is densely populated ...
- 216: Alexander's Empire
- ... their attack. The Tyrians on the island surrendered in 332 B.C, after seven months of fighting. Alexander's use of huge siege machines at Tyre introduced a new age of warfare. Alexander next entered Egypt. The Egyptians welcomed him as a liberator from Persian rule, and they crowned him pharaoh. On the western edge of the Nile Delta, Alexander founded a city in 331 B.C. and named it Alexandria ... Libyan Desert, a part of the Sahara, to the oasis of Siwah. He consulted the oracle of the god Zeus-Ammon, and, according to legend, the oracle pronounced Alexander the son of god. Alexander left Egypt with an army of 4000,000 foot soldiers and 7,000 cavalry. He crossed the Euphrates and entered Mesopotamia where in 331 B.C. he met the Persian king once more at Gaugamela, east of ...
- 217: Female Genital Mutilation
- ... a tradition and social custom to keep a young girl pure and a married woman faithful. In Africa it is practiced in the majority of the continent including Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mozambique and Sudan. It is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual, which is performed by Muslims, Coptic Christians, Protestants, Catholics and members of various indigenous groups. Female genital mutilation is usually performed on girls ... ancient Egyptians. A Greek papyrus dated 163 BC refers to operations performed on girls at the age they received their dowries. A Greek geographer reported the custom of circumcision of girls he found while visiting Egypt in 25 BC. In Africa female circumcision has been reported in at least twenty-six countries and can be viewed as a public health problem because of its wide geographic distribution, the number of females ...
- 218: Causes and Results of the Crusades
- ... Crusade gave the Muslims enough time to revive and although Zangi had died, his successor Nur ad-Din was able to expand and gain power. In 1169 his forces took lead by Saladin took over Egypt. Nur ad-Din later on dies leaving his power to Saladin. Saladin finally invaded the city of Jerusalem and Jerusalem surrendered on October 2. The only major city left in Crusader hands was Tyre in ... off good when they captured the Egyptian sea port Damietta in 1219. The strategy was to capture Cairo and control Sinai, to cut off the remaining Muslim powers from the wealth and grain supplies of Egypt. However the attempt to capture Cairo failed and soon they were forced to surrender Damietta. When judged by military standards, the Crusades were a failure. One of the many Crusades was successful. And the victory ...
- 219: Marcus Antonius
- ... along with impatriotically. In 32 B.C. Octavian declared war on Mark Antony. Octavian's naval forces defeated Antony's and Cleopatra's combined fleets in the Battle of Actium. Antony and Cleopatra retreated to Egypt where they were soon pursed by Octavian. In 30 B.C., the couple committed suicide shortly after Octavian reached Egypt. After writing this paper, I have come to realize that Mark Antony was an outstanding historical figure. Despite his troubled childhood, Antony pursued his life to the fullest.
- 220: Milton's Presentation of the Fallen Angels
- ... names after the Fall ("Got them new names, till wand'ring o'er the earth") and that they became known to man as the heathen idols of the Old Testament and the pagan deities of Egypt and Greece. A rich portrait of mythological and biblical history is painted, through the equation of the angels with the false gods and characters who featured in these past times. What is made clear throughout ... lover of Venus, frantically worshipped every year in Babylon; the Philistine fish god Dagon, and the Syrian sun god Rimmon. Indeed, the angels have manifested themselves in other ages, as the "bleating" animal gods of Egypt that Milton scorned so - who "with monstrous shapes" are the renewed Olympian gods in "brutish forms", Osiris, Isis and Orus. Their destructive nature is all-pervasive, as the Holy Land could not escape it ("nor ...
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