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MUMMIES, TOMBS, AND TREASURE
Mummies, tombs, and treasures of Egypt's ancient civilization is an interesting and informing story. The rich and royal people of Egypt were bandaged and buried in tombs. Some of the mummies' tombs were robbed and destroyed. A rise in taxes and living costs caused people to steal from the tombs. Priests who wanted to preserve the mummies and keep them safe took other mummies' remains to secret hiding places. Also, people would rewrap the mummies after a certain amount of years. Most mummies were given new coffins and reburied. Scrolls, canopic jars, and shabtis were buried along with the mummies.
The tombs remained undisturbed for about three thousand years, until 1875 when tourists, souvenir seekers, art collectors, and archaeologists came ...
HENRIETTA MUIR EDWARDS Born in Montreal on December 18, 1849, Henrietta Muir Edwards was one of Alberta's "Famous Five Women". She began her fight for woman's rights at her home in Montreal with her sister. Here she founded the Working Girls' Club, which offered meals, reading rooms and study classes, in 1875. Henriett...
Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, near Hillsborough. He doesn?t know for sure of his age, he has seen no proof and his master will not inform him. Most masters prefer for their slaves to stay ignorant. He believes that he was around twenty-seven and twenty-eight when he began writing his narrative...
Beginning in the mid sixteenth century, French explorers were able to establish a powerful and lasting presence in what is now the Northern United States and Canada. The explorers placed much emphasis on searching and colonizing the area surrounding the St. Lawrence River 'which gave access to the Great Lakes and the heart of the continent'(Micros...
Review of The Social History Of Truth by Steven Shapin Chapter 1 When someone says that something is true,they are usually stating that it corresponds to the facts of how things really are. Academic philosopher?s distiningish what is true and what is taken to be true by a process of sorting?No single being can constitute knowledge. All one can do i...
Lincoln at gettysburg-the mani Lincoln's Gettysburg Address The Manipulation of Language The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize a gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom". By tracing its first birth to the...
