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...PRESENT-DAY EGYPT “I don’t know if I will ever get used to working in the heat of the Egyptian desert. I honestly think I am about to pass out,”... ...eariness, thanks to Dustimaine’s harsh words, Mitch and Alex continued to work in the hot Egyptian climate for another couple of hours. Dehydration ... ... revealed. Their eyes grew wide as they saw what appeared to be a large, carved ankh, the Egyptian symbol of immortality, of life. “I don’t believe ... ...iling in it like nothing I’ve seen before.” “These symbols look an awful lot like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,” Alex started, “but they’re kind of ... ..., and, well…this doesn’t exactly fit the profile, you know. I mean, the ankh is obviously Egyptian, but…” “Bob, we know. We know exactly what you’re... ...g with Odai and Senarra joined them. Prince Amoni, who had been off talking to one of the engineers, ran over to re- join his brother when he saw the... ...hough the room was secured and the plans were kept in a locked cabinet. One of Victarius’ engineers, Rhodan, was working late in a nearby room and c... ... was taken aback, “I cannot believe this!” Then realizing how close Vic- tarius was to his engineers, he turned to him, “I am so sorry, Victarius.” Th...

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...on they’re in now. Besides, are any of us scientists or at least computer engineers?” “I’m a computer guy,” Josh piped up. “We’ll have to fgure it ou... ...lways that reminded them of old documentaries on the discovery of Ancient Egyptian tombs. They didn’t leave the entry area. A man in army fatigues a...

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...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and Chi... ...nd scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ...ogists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound value it had ei... ...ng research discovery was finding that Cleopatra‘s lineage was Greek, not Egyptian. Ptolemy I, her dynasty‘s pharaoh, was Alexander the Great‘s boyho... ...read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Merchants, cameleers, c... ...gol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then w... ... never occurred to me, but common sense confirms his contention that with engineers and architects ―everything begins with a pencil.‖ Petroski t... ...nd in the sixteenth century. He considers the pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 ...

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...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China... ... and scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ...ogists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound value it had ei... ...ng research discovery was finding that Cleopatra‘s lineage was Greek, not Egyptian. Ptolemy I, her dynasty‘s pharaoh, was Alexander the Great‘s boyho... ...read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Merchants, cameleers, c... ...gol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then w... ... never occurred to me, but common sense confirms his contention that with engineers and architects ―everything begins with a pencil.‖ Petroski tra... ...nd in the sixteenth century. He considers the pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 Th...

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... called volcanoes for 25 million years. Funeral Pyre… … This is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… cr... ...ecame a cultural nation of dimwitted fools, idiots… and liars: To lie like an Egyptian was a Roman’s highest praise for being out-smarted by a rival ... ...s that Egypt had once been. As if that were a reason to be proud of being an Egyptian, while living lives of near- total slavery and mindless submis... ...nd mindless submission to all and any authority figures in their culture. The Egyptians kept on revolting and rebelling… even being found slaughtere... ...for an armistice. The Romans slaughtered the mercenaries and slaughtered the Egyptians until they got so tired of killing weak, screaming cowards; ... ...r Explosion. Not Energy. For thousands of years: Greek scientists and Roman Engineers used destructive explosions; and called it ‘Energy’. The onl... ...osive energy of steam by trapping it inside a metal cylinder. Then American Engineers used that same metal cylinder to trap the destructive explosi... ... of tilling the soil for them, they built huge palaces and castles by letting engineers and slaves do all the dirty work of building these piles of ... ... were chosen to fly these missions in their mechanical sperm-rockets were all engineers. They were all dead souls. Their souls had died a long time...

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...entered his eyes. “You are in your room,” I said. “Where?” “Beside your Egyptian chair.” “Can I sit down on it?” “Yes, it’s ready for you.” Gras... ... sent threads to the ceiling. Wisps floated in front of me where a man in Egyptian clothes, headband studded with rubies, sat beside his courtesan. ... ...eparate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered about the n... ...t wasn’t enough for us to quarrel over money! You, with your scarab, your Egyptian clothes, your obelisks, your slaves, your woman! Perhaps Kleis is... ...lue and gold. The Kamen brothers were, as always, mysterious, stiff, like Egyptian clay long dried by the sun. It is too bad they can’t apply some o... ... of the refectory, and have it transported to Paris. He discussed it with engineers and architects who said it was impossible. “What a study...the K...

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...nts of Jericho. But we don‘t have the stone tablets of Moses, evidence of Egyptian chariots in the Red Sea, or the remains of Noah‘s ark. We can be ... ...ly exist? Could he write? If he wrote did he write in his native tongue of Egyptian? If he wrote in Egyptian did he write the Pentateuch in hieroglyp... ...h in hieroglyphics? Or did he know Phoenician writing, which was based on Egyptian writing? If he lived about 1200 BCE he couldn‘t have written in H... ...hey may have developed their concept of there being only one God from the Egyptians or the Zoroastrians. Many think 48 that the ideas of Mithrai... ...ders the killing of whole nations, or lets the Red Sea engulf the pursing Egyptians after Moses had crossed. Can he tell lies, do uncharitable acts,... ...ls and services while paying more in taxes than they take out, like Indian engineers and doctors, or British or Chinese businessmen. The negative imm... ... are no longer needed because machines do the work. The needs now are for engineers, computer specialists, and venture capitalists.‖ —―A... ...mong the groups and among individuals in the groups. For example computer engineers from India are much more likely to contribute to the society tha... ... Or they may only want some highly skilled people like doctors or computer engineers. They may want only people of a certain religion or race, or the...

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....................................................... 67 Vessels of the ancient Egyptians......................................... 68 Ancient Egyptian ... ...ly settled. Moses mentions them frequently at the time when he accompanied the Egyptian King Sesostris in his great expedition through Asia and Europ... ...avigators, there are other peoples who lay claim to the honor, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, each asserting that they were the earliest navi... ...arkable for its stupendous works; but the greatness and resourcefulness of the Egyptians are not only to be seen in pyramid, obelisk, sphinx and colos... ...ntation of Rameses III (about 1250 B.C.) watching a naval battle, in which the Egyptian fleet is engaging the battle-ships of the Shardana and Takkara... ... victory, and had studied the fortresses planned by Vaughan. The assistance of engineers was therefore called in and Tortuga was put in a condition of... ... a home for outlaws, and here the robbers of the deep made their nest. Skilled engineers ran parallels, redoubts were thrown up on the enclosing point...

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...owed to be subject to this Christianity, which had the plagiarism of Ancient Egyptian Literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Plato, Confucius, and God kno... ...he void devour her energy, and then she fell into the sleep that the Ancient Egyptians thought of as the death of the soul. When the quilt fell from t... ...e that she engraved onto the interior walls of her brain the way the ancient Egyptians chiseled eulogies in the tombs of the pharaohs. The smells of ... ... and experimental construction was done without the mathematical formulas of engineers, her hobbies were natural. They were diversions and she knew t... ...orrent memories loving and still as a photograph. Chapter 41 To the ancient Egyptians man died each night in this void absent of the sun god and then... ...l to command human affairs. The ancient and relatively forgotten myth of the Egyptians explained manﾁOs mysterious absconding from the night in seven ...

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...ctive people from the faltering economies of the West to immigrate. German engineers, American doctors and physicists, and British bankers were amon... ...unding we concentrated on studying solar power. We worked closely with the engineers at Shanghai University, which is in the forefront of solar resea... ...n the forefront of solar research. We lured the highest level German solar engineers here with large amounts of Arab and Chinese cash. The Arabs have... ...ave. We have one who is fascinated with ancient Egypt. She is now with the Egyptian Department of Antiquities. I am fascinated with the times of the...

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... It is wrong to say that only the consumer benefits. If a firm improves itself, re-engineers its production processes, introduces new management t... ...t liability" approach also fits here. The owner (and his "long arms": manufacturer, engineers, builders, etc.) of the Titanic were deemed responsib... ...ing tale of survival recounted in the book and eponymous film, "Alive"). 2. The Egyptian Scenario Resources become so scarce that family units... ... It is wrong to say that only the consumer benefits. If a firm improves itself, re- engineers its production processes, introduces new management te... ...omputing. These, in turn, drive software companies, creators of content, financial engineers, scientists, and inventors to a heightened complexity ... ...r without having to understand its inner workings. The more that happens, the more engineers closest to the technology become incapable of contribu...

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... It is wrong to say that only the consumer benefits. If a firm improves itself, re-engineers its production processes, introduces new management t... ...t liability" approach also fits here. The owner (and his "long arms": manufacturer, engineers, builders, etc.) of the Titanic were deemed responsib... ...ing tale of survival recounted in the book and eponymous film, "Alive"). 2. The Egyptian Scenario Resources become so scarce that family units... ... It is wrong to say that only the consumer benefits. If a firm improves itself, re- engineers its production processes, introduces new management te... ...omputing. These, in turn, drive software companies, creators of content, financial engineers, scientists, and inventors to a heightened complexity ... ...r without having to understand its inner workings. The more that happens, the more engineers closest to the technology become incapable of contribu...

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...For this pow- dery miracle, but for the intervention of the king, the said engineers would have been condemned as heretics and abet- tors of Satan, by... ...know the legend of your ancestors, who were thought much of by the ancient Egyptians, who held them in great veneration, and adored them like other sa... ...rbs, alchemising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; a... ...ow very well. Now if this etymology of the street harass you, and also the Egyptian nun, I will lend you a curious and antique parch- ment, found by m... ...e of our Lady the Virgin, the mother of our Blessed Saviour, stolen by the Egyptians about eighteen years since. Of this time, in conse- quence of the... ...onvent, she who bears witness has remembrance of the flight which the said Egyptian took twenty months after her entry into the convent, so subtilely ...

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...ng them in alphabetical order—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all b... ...tment of these problems is now. Finally, the time is drawing near when the Egyptian and the nations of India will ask us, “Are things going on for eve... ...e greatest devotion to the sovereign, and still truer was this of Indians, Egyptians, and the like. It might be easy to press this theory of devotion ... ...e classical past—except for such special cases as the feeding of Rome with Egyptian corn—trade was a traffic in luxuries or slaves, war a small specia... ...s chooses his doctors as persons able to secure health, and his electrical engineers as persons able to attend to his tram ways, lighting, etc., etc.;...

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...e to his ill-repute when he put him- self into the service of T achos, the Egyptian. They thought it too unworthy of a man of his high station, who wa... ...l countries with his renown, to let himself out to hire to a barbarian, an Egyptian rebel, (for T achos was no better) and to fight for pay, as captai... ...rs; he was compelled daily to submit to the inso- lence and vanity of this Egyptian, and was at length forced to attend him into Phoenicia, in a condi... ...shortly after deserted 86 V olume Two him, and was proclaimed king by the Egyptians. This man invited Agesilaus to join his party, and the like he di... ...ay as you see cause; but I am the servant of Sparta, appointed to head the Egyptians, and therefore I cannot fight against those to whom I was sent as... ...ny other instances of Cicero’s friendship, had been made head of the state engineers when he was consul, would not receive him into his house, sending... ...our children?” On hearing Theophanes, the Les- bian, who was master of the engineers in the army, praised for the admirable way in which he had consol... ...and Labeo, the latter his lieutenant, and the other chief of- ficer of his engineers. In the meantime, one of his compan- ions, that was very thirsty ...

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...the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Sol... ...centuries later, a translation of this precious book, which was written in Egyptian, was made by Joseph Smith, junior, a Vermont farmer, who revealed ... ...imple mummy showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians. The Elder’s story became somewhat wearisome, and his audience gr... ...stead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains. But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its difficulties by wind- i... ...y delighted, and found the plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on...

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...ir cut short in the artist fashion, hanging level and full almost like the Egyptian princess’s. She was small and delicately made, with warm colouring... ... level on either side of her head, her straight, small, softened features, Egyptian in the slight fulness of their curves, her slender neck and the si... ...ve one was not mad, that one was not a figure in the hall of kings in some Egyptian tomb, where the dead all sat immemorial and tremendous. How utterl... ...lly Gerald got hold of everything. And then began the great reform. Expert engineers were introduced in every department. An enormous electric plant w... ... and delicate system ran almost per- fectly. He had a set of really clever engineers, both mining and electrical, and they did not cost much. A highly... ...issolution. This was why her face looked like a beetle’s: this was why the Egyptians worshipped the ball-roll- ing scarab: because of the principle of... ..., fate which one asks for, which one accepts in full. He sat still like an Egyptian Pharoah, driving the car. He felt as if he were seated in immemori...

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...d great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock. They could scarcel... ...he har- pooner—commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. The order to ... ...passage of the Israel- 157 Jules Verne ites and of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you have met with the traces under the water ... ... the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instru- ments of Egyptian origin.” “That is evident,” I replied; “and for the sake of archae... ...r Land,” I continued; “this low coast which rounds off to the south is the Egyptian coast. And you who have such good eyes, Ned, you can see the jetty... ...ent Captain Nemo will be shut up in his room, probably in bed. Neither the engineers nor the ship’s crew can see us. Conseil and I will gain the centr... ...ly with the motive of destroy- ing it. Captain Anderson, the officers, and engineers con- sulted together, and had it posted up that, if the of- fende...

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...lle Poule,” the captains of the French ships, and Captain Alexander of the Engineers, the En- glish Commissioner, attended the disinterment. His Royal... ...-magazine of St. John of Acre was blown up sky-high, with eighteen hundred Egyptian soldiers in company with it. The French said that l’or Anglais had... ...asant to a high- minded nation like the French—at the very moment when the Egyptian affair and the balance of Europe had been settled in this abrupt w... ... Go on imagining more battalions of Infan- try, of Artillery, companies of Engineers, squadrons of Cuirassiers, ditto of the Cavalry, of the National ...

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...ats in the course of that nautical operation. Then, all my crew assisting, engineers and firemen included, by the ex- ercise of much anxious ingenuity... ...les, and inclined planes of soaped planks, toiling in the sun like ancient Egyptians at the building of a pyramid, we got it as far as the house and u... ...oner. Robinson’s story is too ingenious altogether. That other tale of the engineers of the Nan-Shan finding Schultz at midnight in the engine-room bu...