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To: Free ThinkerNY

Cleopatra wasn’t black. Time to end that stupid myth.


2 posted on 06/17/2010 8:18:13 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: Clock King

The Ptolemies were Greek, were they not?


3 posted on 06/17/2010 8:19:06 PM PDT by steve8714 (They auctioned my house. I pray and work for better days ahead, God willing.)
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To: Clock King

On the other hand, she wasn’t pretty either. Let’s keep some myths.


5 posted on 06/17/2010 8:19:58 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Clock King

Sounds to me that they don’t want the movie to flop.

Perfectly reasonable.


9 posted on 06/17/2010 8:22:25 PM PDT by BobL (The whole point of being human is knowing when the party's over.)
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To: Clock King

She was Greek.


20 posted on 06/17/2010 8:25:22 PM PDT by Salamander (You don't know what's going on inside of me. You don't wanna know what's running through my mind.)
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To: Clock King

Okay the Macedonian Ptolemies had been there for 300 years, but Cleopatra (VII) was the first to bother to learn to speak Egyptian. Hardly "gone native".

42 posted on 06/17/2010 8:29:59 PM PDT by Vide
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51 posted on 06/17/2010 8:34:26 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: Clock King
Cleopatra wasn’t black.

neither was Yul Brynner.

65 posted on 06/17/2010 8:45:01 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Clock King
Cleopatra wasn’t black.

Neither was James West. Didn't stop them from casting Will Smith as the lead in Wild, Wild West.

66 posted on 06/17/2010 8:46:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Clock King

Don’t mention this in McDonald’s.


159 posted on 04/22/2011 9:30:25 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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