A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

His repeated experimentation with the techniques of fiction testifies to an independence of mind and an originality of approach, but it also shows him touching at many points the stream of literary development back of him.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

Mrs. Coolidge would knit, and the President would sit reading, or playing with the many pets around them.

Modern psychiatric knowledge provides us with many keys to unlock the significance of behavior of the kind.

We are all, though many of us are snobbish enough to wish to deny it, in far closer sympathy with the art of the music-hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabue, or even Shakespeare and Titian.

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Inherently incapable of cooperating with others, he ran his own show regardless of how many party-line Democratic toes he stepped on.

But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

The tiny hamlet of Chesterton to the north, with the fens and marshes lying on down the Ouse River, may have attracted him often, as it did many other youths of the time.

To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.

In magnificence of equipage and retinue the abbots vied with the first nobles of the realm.

Although he had some trouble with the peasantry, the lands and treasures of the church enabled him to propitiate the nobles and for a time to provide for the expenses of the court.

There were no longer church lands available with which to conciliate the nobles, the burden of taxation was heavy, and Albert's rule became unpopular.

Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian I with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.

The country prospered under his rule, but not peacefully, as his laws interfered with the ambition of powerful nobles.

His reign was marred by a constitutional struggle with the Aragonese nobles, which eventually culminated in the articles of the Union of Aragon-the so-called " Magna Carta of Aragon ", which devolved several key royal powers into the hands of lesser nobles.

In the beginning of 1222, the discontent serviens ( nobles ) came to Andrew's court in large numbers, and they persuaded the king to issue the Golden Bull which confirmed their privileges, including the right to disobey the King if he acted not in line with the provisions of the Golden Bull ( ius resistendi ).

Ajmer is notable for its public schools formed in accordance with the precepts of English public schools, amongst which are Mayo College, founded by the British Raj in 1875 to educate the children of Rajputana's royalty and nobles.

Froissart describes, with less specificity in this passage, some of the nobles that were assembled at, or just prior to the Battle: "... the Englishmen were coasted by certain expert knights of France, who always made report to the king what the Englishmen did.

Robert the Bruce, intending to join Wallace and commit troops to the war, sets up a meeting with him in Edinburgh where Robert's father has conspired with other nobles to capture and hand over Wallace to the English.

The Emperor summoned the separate armies of his nobles and with the Empress Taytu beside him, ordered his forces forward.

Brunehault became enraged with Columbanus, stirred up the bishops and nobles to find fault with his Rules regarding monastic enclosure.

City dwellers who had fought alongside nobles in battles to defend their cities were no longer content with having a subordinate social status, but demanded a greater role in the form of citizenship.

Henry IV ’ s insistence that Antipope Clement III was the real pope had initially been popular with some of the nobles, and even many of the bishops of Germany.

At the top were the Emperor and Court nobles ( kuge ), together with the Shogun and daimyo.

In Algeria, " desert Berbers and Arabs usually have a rigid class system, with social ranks ranging from nobles down to an underclass of menial workers ( mostly ethnic Africans )"

This system was so fixed, the mores so strong, the affiliation and culture so widely ingrained that while nobles were insisting that certain exclusive privileges be theirs, theirs alone and of their offsprings, shepherds in the countryside were insisting, occasionally with violent demonstrations, that their jobs be strictly hereditary.

He surrendered to Hernán Cortés along with the surviving pipiltin ( nobles ), and offered him his knife and asked to be killed.

They had to contend not only with the Cathars, the nobles who protected them, and the people who respected them, but also with many of the bishops of the region, who resented the considerable authority the Pope had conferred upon his legates.

There are 39 names ( eight earls and thirty one barons ) at the start of the document, all of whom may have had their seals appended, probably over the space of some weeks and months, with nobles sending in their seals to be used.

Political leaders are known to have claimed actual divinity in certain early societies — the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs being the premier case — taking a role as objects of worship and being credited with superhuman status and powers.

The term " pharaonic circumcision " ( Type III ) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, and " fibula " ( in " infibulation ") refers to the Roman practice of piercing the outer labia with a fibula, or brooch.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich ´ s Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

* Land of the Pharaohs, with audio interview excepts of director Howard Hawks

* Phyllis and the Pharaohs: A 1950s-style doo-wop group with Rita Moreno on lead vocals and the entire male adult cast on backup.

850 until 622 BCE ) in the court of the Egyptian Pharaohs ( down to the Lagid dynasty known as Ptolemies, ending with Cleopatra ).

In Egyptian art, Min was depicted as wearing a crown with feathers, and often holding his penis erect in his left hand and a flail ( referring to his authority, or rather that of the Pharaohs ) in his upward facing right hand.

Pharaohs are often depicted with the emblems of Maat to emphasise their role in upholding the laws of the Creator.

After a few successful clashes with the Pharaohs over the control of Syria, Mitanni sought peace with Egypt and an alliance was formed.

A constant repetition of Passes and Intervals leads to the tantalizing prospect that Pernese outlook in general may be cyclical rather than progressive ; this similarity with Egypt under the Pharaohs would explain the long duration and rigidity of Pernese culture.

Richard Berry released his version in April 1957 ( Flip Records 321 ), originally as a B-side, with his backing band the Pharaohs, and scored a regional hit on the west coast, particularly in San Francisco.

The term Tex-Mex is also used in American rock and roll for Tejano-influenced performers such as the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados ( featuring Flaco Jiménez, Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm ); Los Super Seven ; Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ; Los Lobos and Latin Playboys ; Sunny and the Sunliners ; Louie and the Lovers ; The Champs ; Ry Cooder ; Calexico ; Cecilia with Viva Texas ; The Mars Volta ; Los Lonely Boys ; and Selena y Los Dinos.

The slang phrase " L7 " can be heard in the Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs song " Wooly Bully " (" Let's not be L7, come and learn to dance ..."), in the Rick James song " Bustin ' Out " (" L7-just a little too damn straight ..."), and in the Paul McCartney song " C Moon " (" I could be L7 and I'll never get to heaven if I fill my head with glue ").

So instead of searching on the unlikeliest places, King decided to bring the almost-original lineup back together ( Hank Shermann, Michael Denner and Timi Hansen with Bjarne T. Holm sitting in on drums ) and they re-recorded the songs specifically for the game ( though " Curse of the Pharaohs " was cut from the final game due to gameplay reasons ).

One of these was the single of the theme music ( with French vocals, released both in 1983 and 1985 with different sleeve covers ), and another was an audio story named " La Malediction du roi Touthankamon ", based on the episode " Curse of the Pharaohs ".

As with most Pharaohs, Seti had several names.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich's Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

Pharaohs of the Twelfth through Eighteenth Dynasty are credited with preserving for us some of the most fabulous of Egyptian papyri:

By the end of 1954, Berry left the Flairs to form his own group, the Pharaohs, while also continuing to work with other groups as a singer and songwriter.

In February 1996, Berry performed for the final time, reuniting with the Pharaohs and the Dreamers for a benefit concert in Long Beach, California.

) The country was once again split into two parts with the priests in Thebes and the Pharaohs at Tanis.

In Ancient Egypt, Pharaohs took a number of names-the praenomen, was the most commonly used, on occasion in conjunction with their personal name.