The book could be seen as an allusion to the history as described by Moses ; for the minor Prophets, in promising God ’ s assistance to his people, must often remind how God in a miraculous manner brought up the Jews from Egypt.

In the second year of the Peloponnesian War ( 430 BC ), Thucydides described an epidemic disease which was said to have begun in Ethiopia, passed through Egypt and Libya, then come to the Greek world.

# Alchemy in Greco-Roman Egypt 642 CE, the earliest Western alchemists such as Mary the Jewess, Cleopatra the Alchemist, and Zosimos of Panopolis described early laboratory equipment.

Islamists in Egypt and other Muslim countries have been described as " not politically dominant today, but ... extremely influential.

described as " semi-legal " and was the only opposition group in Egypt able to field candidates during elections.

Ibn Battuta described it as " an exceedingly large city " with many rich merchants, noted for its high quality fabric that was exported to other countries including Egypt.

In 1898, the Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities described the structure as " the largest of all the temples of Egypt, the so-called Labyrinth, of which, however, only the foundation stones have been preserved.

The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive of any in Ancient Egypt, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus.

Diodorus Siculus gives another version of the myth in which Osiris was described as an ancient king who taught the Egyptians the arts of civilization, including agriculture, then travelled the world with his sister Isis, the satyrs, and the nine muses, before finally returning to Egypt.

Eduard Rüppell described the heavy mortality of the enslaved Sudanese before reaching Egypt: " after the Daftardar bey's 1822 campaign in the southern Nuba mountains, nearly 40, 000 slaves were captured.

2000 KW Curtis steam turbine circa 1905. The first device that may be classified as a reaction steam turbine was little more than a toy, the classic Aeolipile, described in the 1st century by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria in Roman Egypt.

In 1551, Taqi al-Din in Ottoman Egypt described a steam turbine with the practical application of rotating a spit.

At this time, the prefect of Egypt was Tenagino Probus, described as an able soldier who not only defeated an invasion of Cyrenaica by the nomadic tribes to the south in 269, but also was successful in hunting down " Skythian " ships in the Mediterranean.

" Nizar Kabbani, perhaps the Arab world's most renowned modern poet, described him as ` the last prophet `, and the scale of popular veneration for him in Egypt, or the wider Arab world, is " arguably greater than that of any other political leader since the prophet Muhammed ," according to author Tarek Osman.

Goshen is described as the best land in Egypt, suitable for both crops and livestock.

Cleopatra ’ s power has been described as “ naked, hereditary, and despotic ,” and it is argued that she is reminiscent of Mary Tudor ’ s reign — implying it is not coincidence that she brings about the “ doom of Egypt .” This is in part due to an emotional comparison in their rule.

A 2006 documentary film by Simcha Jacobovici, The Exodus Decoded, suggests that the Santorini Island volcanic eruption ( c. 1623 BC, +/- 25 ) caused all the biblical plagues described against Egypt, re-dating the eruption to c. 1500 BC.

King Abdullah II of Jordan described the assassination as a " crime "; Lebanon's president Emile Lahud vehemently denounced the Israeli act as "... a crime will not succeed in liquidating the Palestinian cause "; Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said: " Violence will increase now because violence always breeds violence "; the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mohammed Akef, described Yassin as a " martyr " and his assassination a " cowardly operation.

* Jean-François Champollion, in his trip to Egypt from 1828 to 1830 through Memphis, described the giant discovered by Caviglia and Sloane, made a few digs at the site and decrypted many of the epigraphic remains.

In the fifth he described the mode of life amongst the Sabaeans in Arabia, and the Ichthyophagi, or fish-eaters, the way in which elephants were caught by the elephant-eaters, and the mode of working the gold mines in the mountains of Egypt, near the Red Sea.

Gold rushes presumably extend back as far as gold mining, to the Roman Empire, whose gold mining was described by Diodorus Siculus and Pliny the Elder, and probably further back to Ancient Egypt.

The Two Ladies, Wadjet and Nekhbet, remained patron deities of the rulers of Ancient Egypt throughout every dynasty, including that of Akhenaten ( who often is described as having abandoned all but one solar deity ), and they all bore their images on their crowns and included special names associated with these goddesses among their titles.

So far, two fossil relatives of the shoebill have been described: Goliathia from the early Oligocene of Egypt and Paludavis from the Early Miocene of the same country.

Sets of house rules become formalized, as described in the previous section.

Among Alexander's most notable built works are the Eishin Campus near Tokyo ( the building process of which is soon to be outlined in his forthcoming book Battle ); the West Dean Visitors Centre in West Sussex, England ; the Julian Street Inn ( a homeless shelter ) in San Jose, California ( both described in Nature of Order ); the Martinez House ( an experimental house in Martinez, California made of lightweight concrete ); the low-cost housing in Mexicali, Mexico ( described in The Production of Houses ); and several private houses ( described and illustrated in " The Nature of Order ").

Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.

James Stirling, a British writer who visited the Southern United States in 1857, described the distinction between slaves who were house servants and slaves who were field hands in his book, Letters from the Slave States:

The house has been described as sublime, a temple hovering between heaven and earth, a poem, a work of art.

The first church described in the city is a small building that was probably originally a small prayer house.

Fraternal polyandry is permitted in Sri Lanka under Kandyan Marriage law, often described using the euphemism eka-ge-kama ( literally " eating in one house ").

The only Hrörek described in Western chronicles was Rorik of Dorestad, a konung from the royal Scylding house of Haithabu.

Julia hated the rustic house, which she described as an " unattractive cabin ".

In the 2006 edition, the university was described as follows: “ The University of Tulsa is one of the sleeper gems of the Great Plains, a private school large enough to house numerous top-flight programs but small enough to facilitate one-on-one instruction provided in a homey atmosphere .”

The Guardian reporter Andrew Clark described the years of 2006 to 2010 as " tumultous " in which the heartland of America is " mired in gloom " with high unemployment around 9. 6 %, with average house prices falling from $ 230, 000 in 2006 to $ 183, 000, and foreboding increases in the national debt to $ 13. 4 trillion, but that despite the setbacks, the American economy was once more " bouncing back.

One Scottish writer described his Highland countrymen this way: They greatly excel the Lowlanders in all the exercises that require agility ; they are incredibly abstemious, and patient of hunger and fatigue ; so steeled against the weather, that in traveling, even when the ground is covered with snow, they never look for a house, or any other shelter but their plaid, in which they wrap themselves up, and go to sleep under the cope of heaven.

A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as an upper house and a lower house, which often differ in duties, powers, and the methods used for the selection of members.

The term house model was coined to described the type of work.

He described the engine noise as: " strange, loud pulsating roar ... unique ... a deep pulsating rumble that vibrated the house and made the windows shake ... similar to rocket engine noise, but deeper, with evenly timed pulses.

Ingeborg Hoesterey described the architecture featured in Metropolis as eclectic, writing how its locales represent both “ functionalist modernism art deco ” whilst also featuring “ the scientist ’ s archaic little house with its high-powered laboratory, the catacombs the Gothic cathedral ”.

Human CPXV infections are commonly described in relation to contact with diseased domestic cats, sometimes directly from rats or domesticated house mice.

The house, which Jefferson designed, was based on the neoclassical principles described in the books of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

The area surrounding the house can be described briefly as a wasteland, with swamps, a moat, and the like.

Within the walls of Verulam, which he took for the name of his Barony, the essayist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon built a refined small house that was thoroughly described by the 17th century diarist John Aubrey.

The house incorporated a number of curiosities and innovations he has designed including gas lighting, a doorbell worked by compressed air and an air conditioning system: described by Joshua Field as " He has a good stove for heating the rooms with hot air which enters the rooms and staircases at convenient places.

The size of an apartment or house can be described in square feet or meters.