In the first few weeks of the First World War, the British Army requisitioned more than 120,000 horses to serve across the Channel. In four years of conflict, some eight million horses, donkeys and ...
This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...
One afternoon, Jack and Mary, who are siblings, were on their way home on Nathan Road. Suddenly, Jack kicked something, and ...
Unfortunately, not all sentiments expressed in songs deserve to live forever. Systemic racism has been known to work itself ...
The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...
The term Egyptian cotton gets thrown around a lot as shorthand for very fancy sheets, but not all Egyptian cotton is created equal. Some sheets made from Egyptian cotton will be certified as such ...
The Greek diasporic queer Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and ...
A special opening ceremony was held at Bibliotheca Alexandrina for the second edition of the“A Tale of Two Cities: Athens and ...
The Prince of Egypt is a sweeping epic of a musical with music and lyrics by Grammy and Oscar winner Stephen Schwartz, a book by Philip LaZebnik, and 10 new songs written by Schwartz, together with ...
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