Word: mediterranean
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...turns to blood. Egypt is then infested successively by frogs, gnats, flies, a pestilence on livestock, boils on people and beasts, hail, locusts and "a darkness that can be touched." Scientific skeptics have assigned them myriad natural explanations, including a comet and a volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. The most ingenious effort is an ecological domino theory proposed in the 1950s by a scholar named Greta Hort: the Nile's many tributaries flood, infesting the great river with blood-red soil from the high plateaus and reddish micro-organisms usually confined to up-country lakes. These micro...
Like Mount Sinai, the Sea of Reeds (mistranslated as the Red Sea) has been located at various sites all over the Middle East. A current scholarly favorite is Lake Sirbonis (now called Sabkhet el Bardowil), a Mediterranean lagoon on the northeastern shore of the Sinai separated from the sea by a narrow land barrier. Critics claim to discern several different accounts within the Bible, depending on which of four ancient versions of the story has been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down...
Burns stressed compromise in resolving the conflict in the Mediterranean over the sovereignty of disputed islands. "Happily U.S. and Greek issues are tending to converge now." Ambassador Nicholas Burns
Despite the historic claims of both sides to the narrow strip of land on the East coast of the Mediterranean, there is a cold reality that extremists (and unfortunately moderates as well) on both sides stupidly ignore: Two human peoples, who have a history of terrible conflict, are living in the same physical space and neither is going to leave. It is time to put thousands of years of history on hold and come to terms with that fact--and to ensure a peaceful existence for those who have the fortune of not yet being born into this terrible conflict...
...bodyguards, ran to assist a woman being robbed of her jewelry. Cruise is no neophyte knight in Armani armor. At a 1996 premiere of Mission: Impossible he lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them from being crushed. A few months later, while sailing in the Mediterranean, he rescued castaways from a burning boat. Also that year, he swooped in to comfort a hit-and-run victim and paid her hospital bill. Just another lucky citizen, saved by the beau...