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Ahmadinejad roadshow seduces an adoring public Eyewitness report: Iran's president arrives on a US-made helicopter - an evangelist from the sky Simon Tisdall in Meshkinshahr, Iran Saturday August 19, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves from his office in Tehran. Photograph: Getty He arrives amid a hurricane of swirling brown dust and deafening noise. A dense, rolling cloud of straw and dirt sweeps across the parched field, enveloping turbaned dignitaries, battering the hoisted green, white and red flags of Iran, and forcing thousands of enthralled onlookers to shield their eyes. As the rotors of the venerable American-made Huey 214...

Expert: Cleopatra Seduces Antony on Vase By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Cleopatra Seducing Antony? April 13, 2004 — The epic romance between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman general Marc Antony was immortalized on a Roman vase that is now housed at the British Museum, according to an expert in classical art. Susan Walker, former deputy keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum who is now the head of a similar department at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, believes the Portland Vase shows Cleopatra seducing Antony, while cupid and Anton, the son of Greek mythological hero Hercules,...