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Black Pharaoh Trove Uncovered
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| 1-20-2003
| Ishbel Matheson
Posted on 01/20/2003 2:39:11 PM PST by blam
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posted on
01/20/2003 2:39:12 PM PST
by
blam
To: spetznaz
Ping.
To: mhking
ping.
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posted on
01/20/2003 2:44:31 PM PST
by
spetznaz
(When i say i am perfect people say i am arrogant .....but i am just being darn honest!)
To: blam
""Many of the sculptures were savagely destroyed, with smashed heads and broken feet.
Professor Bonnet says that this shows that the Egyptians were not content with simply conquering Kush. They also wanted to obliterate the memory of the black pharaohs and their unique culture from the face of the earth.""
Is Prof. Bonnet accusing the Egyptians of genocide?
I would imagine that the Egyptians wanted to erase the memory of their humiliation at the hands of what they would have considered the barbarians from the south.
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posted on
01/20/2003 2:47:14 PM PST
by
jimtorr
To: blam
Standard Egyptian approach, to truly kill someone, you have to destroy their likeness and remove any mention of their name. I wouldn't immediatly buy into the dating on the find without hearing the facts; but, the initial summation sounds reasonable as to why the feet and faces were smashed.
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posted on
01/20/2003 2:48:10 PM PST
by
Havoc
To: blam
Any statues marked "Aida" or "Amonasro"?
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posted on
01/20/2003 2:48:35 PM PST
by
Publius
To: blam
Black Pharoh- don't these guys know better than to mess with Nylarlothotep
To: blam; dighton; Jeremiah Jr; general_re; aculeus; chance33_98; babylonian
To: blam
Good grief what is with the formating of this article? Every sentence is its own paragraph? What was this written for, "Fun Facts on the World Around Us?"
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posted on
01/20/2003 2:51:47 PM PST
by
yankeedame
(Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.)
To: blam
Did they find any schematics of flying machines?
To: yankeedame
Fun Facts 'R Us - - Hehe...
Check the Black Diana. How'd she get in here?
To: yankeedame
"Good grief what is with the formating of this article? Every sentence is its own paragraph? What was this written for, "Fun Facts on the World Around Us?" I checked the article soure.
The post is almost identical to the original article in format.
The also found this:
To: Happy2BMe
"The post is almost identical to the original article in format." Almost? I didn't change a thing, it's exact.
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posted on
01/20/2003 3:27:21 PM PST
by
blam
To: Thinkin' Gal
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posted on
01/20/2003 3:32:06 PM PST
by
blam
To: DreadCthulhu
NylarlothotepIt's been awhile. What was his m.o.?
To: blam
Oh, I never doubted that for a minute! (Sorry if I gave the impression that I suspected you have somehow "modified" the lay out of the article.) I was grouching at whoever originally wrote the article, and the editor who let is through.
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posted on
01/20/2003 4:00:07 PM PST
by
yankeedame
(Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.)
To: yankeedame
"I was grouching at whoever originally wrote the article, and the editor who let is through." That would be BBC.
Web editors, as a rule, have a loathing for long paragraphs. There is an unattributed suspicion that web readers are converts from TV and, thus, have short attention spans. It must be the video monitor vs TV set thing.
I'm a writer and, up to a point, I agree with them. I try to keep my paragraphs in compact four and five line groups -- just so that the format is more inviting, graphically. It is, by the way, also a good way to discipline your self-editing.
But some web editors (like this one, evidently) are incapable of distinguishing between the definition and purpose of a sentence vs a paragraph.
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posted on
01/20/2003 4:28:42 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
To: blam
Holy Pthok !!
Does this mean the brothers were being profiled back in Ancient Egypt ??
To: genefromjersey
From "The Nubians and Olmecs" link above.
To: okie01
What you're looking at is AP style, written to make editing easier for the newspapers that pick up Associated Press stories. It's common for news paper writers to format their stories this way.
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posted on
01/20/2003 5:22:41 PM PST
by
JoeA
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