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Hosni Mubarak resigns.
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"Egyptians have inspired us, and they’ve done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best..."
““Egyptians have inspired us, and they’ve done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained through violence””
- President Obama
- President Obama
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Archaeology of Ancient Greece
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life: Egypt: The Moments We’ll Remember
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Artfull Surgery (Arch. Mag.)
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Amazons: Is Herodotus’ Tale Fact or Fiction?
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Human Rights.
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Rocks... Rock
Now if this isn’t proof of how much a nerd I am, I don’t know what is! But… I really love studying the textures of the limestone.
The natural layers of the sediment that formed the stone…
… and the chisel marks from when the stone was cut to build the house!
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Irrational numbers clock
Irrational numbers clock
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THE PERMIAN PERIOD The Permian[note 1] is a geologic period and...
THE PERMIAN PERIOD
The Permian[note 1] is a geologic period and system characterized among land vertebrates by the diversification of the early amniotes into the ancestral groups of the mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs and archosaurs. The Permian Period follows the Carboniferous and extends from 299.0 ± 0.8 to 251.0 ± 0.4 Mya (million years before the present). It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era and famous for its ending epoch event, the largest mass extinction known to science. The Permian Period was named after the kingdom of Permia in modern-day Russia by Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison in 1841…
(read more: Wikipedia)
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Archaeology. Cave Wall Art.
Archaeology. Cave Wall Art.
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newsweek: Highlights from this week’s NEWSWEEK, the first issue...
Highlights from this week’s NEWSWEEK, the first issue under Tina Brown:
The Hillary Doctrine
How she’s shattering glass ceilings everywhere.150 Women Who Shake the World
In advance of The Daily Beast’s second annual Women in the World Summit, Newsweek looks at 150 remarkable women.Born-Again Feminism
Kathleen Parker once angered feminists with her book Save the Males, but recently she has had a change of heart. “I’ve become a born-again feminist after decades of feeling that feminism had veered off course,” she writes. It was the struggles of women in the Middle East that led Parker to reconsider her positions.What’s So Funny About Mormons?
Another reason to skip Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark: The Book of Mormon, the new musical from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, opens March 24.Harvey Weinstein’s Favorite Mistake
“You are no Kate Moss,” the flight attendant who caught him smoking said after Weinstein mentioned she does it all the time.
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life: In his best-selling novels The Kite Runner (2003) and A...
life:
In his best-selling novels The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), author Khaled Hosseini sets his stories across several tumultuous decades, reflecting the changes in Afghanistan, the country of his birth. But reading about the challenges there — the lingering effects of Taliban rule, the devastation caused by war, the plight of refugees returning to their country only to find their homes reduced to rubble — cannot compare to experiencing them first-hand, as Hosseini himself discovered in 2003, when he visited Afghanistan for the first time in 27 years.
In this gallery, Hosseini shares his memories from his trips to Afghanistan, explains the work that must be done, and how you can help.
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Egypt Decree Keeps Antiquities Minister Out of Jail
Egypt Decree Keeps Antiquities Minister Out of Jail:
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Zahi Hawass gets year in jail, loses job for refusing to carry out a court order, CNN is told
- The antiquities minister says an appeals court has decreed he will keep his job, not serve time
- Charges stem from a lawsuit brought by the then-tenant of a Cairo Museum bookstore
- The order came after the process he was to stop was already over, Hawass says
- Zahi Hawass says the appeals court issued a decree on Monday that will keep him out of jail and allow him to stay in his post
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EGYPT: Antiquities Minister’s Fashion-line Photo Shoot Roils His Critics
EGYPT: Antiquities Minister’s Fashion-line Photo Shoot Roils His Critics:
A blog by an American photographer recently circulated in Egyptian media has prompted activists to accuse Zahi Hawass, the nation’s flamboyant archaeologist and minister of antiquities, of abusing his position by using historic relics as props to promote a clothing line under his name.
Twitter and Facebook pages are collecting signatures from Egyptians who want to file a report with the attorney general on allegations that Hawass was “Endangering Egypt’s Artifacts.”
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Democracy Begins With Fairness
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Dr. Zahi Hawass Facebook Fan Page
Dr. Zahi Hawass Facebook Fan Page:
World-renowned archaeologist, Zahi Hawass currently serves as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Director of Excavations at Giza, Saqqara and the Bahariya Oasis.
Dr. Hawass is responsible for many exciting recent discoveries, including the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza and many other discoveries concerning the construction of the pyramid. He discovered the satellite pyramid of Khufu and revealed the secrets behind the so-called doors found inside the pyramid….
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mineraloftheday: Happy Earth Day from the Mineral Of The Day...
Happy Earth Day from the Mineral Of The Day Team!
We pledge to support conflict-free minerals and gemstones and sustainable mining practices!
What will you do today to preserve our natural resources?
The blue minerals forming the water are corundum, and the light green minerals are prehnite and dark green are malachite!
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Top text: “Get in argument with boyfriend” Bottom text: “He...
Top text: “Get in argument with boyfriend”
Bottom text: “He told me he thought Dances With Wolves was boring”]
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majorsplashback: Anticline-syncline pair in Silurian strata,...
Anticline-syncline pair in Silurian strata, Newfoundland, New Jersey. The anticline has a relatively rounded hinge. The axial plane of the anticline is inclined very steeply to the left.
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