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ancient Egypt
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  • He had his back to a rack of paperback books about oral-genital contacts from ancient Egypt to the present and so on, and the clerk supposed Billy was reading one of these.†  (source)
  • The night was sweet with the dust of autumn leaves that smelled as if the fine sands of ancient Egypt were drifting to dunes beyond the town.†  (source)
  • The rulers of ancient Egypt used to marry their siblings, you know.†  (source)
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  • In ancient Egypt, I'd read somewhere, schizophrenics were worshiped as gods.†  (source)
  • They were built to play up the connection between the British Empire and the Egyptian Empire.†  (source)
  • The custom goes back to ancient times, and some female mummies in ancient Egypt have cut genitals.†  (source)
  • Cleopatra's old capital, you know, where the Egyptian Empire fell apart, so magic tends to get twisted around.†  (source)
  • He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army.†  (source)
  • In ancient Egypt, it was the symbol for Ra—the sun god—and modern astronomy still uses it as the solar symbol.†  (source)
  • He looked over his shoulder and saw a tall woman with the head and claws of a sleek feline, wearing the robes of ancient Egypt, leap at least twenty feet and land squarely on Nicholas Flamel's back, driving him into the ground.†  (source)
  • Rockefeller Jr. Sam Walton John Jacob Astor 153.6 151.7 England Monarchy 15 16 142.9 141.4 England United States House of Tudor Standard Oil 17 18 128.0 115.0 United States Germany Wal-Mart American Fur Company Monarchy First Bank of the United States Ptolemaic Inheritance Rensselaerswyck Estate 19 20 Odo of Bayeux 110.2 Stephen Girard 99.5 England France Cleopatra 95.8 Ancient Egypt Stephen Van Rensselaer III 88.8 United States No. Name Wealth in Billions (USD) Origin C o m p a n y or Source of Wealth Richard B. Mellon 86.3 United States Gulf Oil Alexander 84.7 Turney Stewart William Backhouse Astor Jr. Don Simon Iturbi Patifio Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Frederick Weyerhaeuser Moses Taylor Vin†  (source)
  • Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.†  (source)
  • She might have stepped out of the histories' ancient Egypt.†  (source)
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