Merry Christmas, Darlings

.... 2 (And this ataxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city... Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will ...he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt. this is what Christmas is all about, and quickly, just because I...

Part III: Dionysos and the Ptolemies

...“And mortals have been kings over Egypt, they say, for a little less .... It was this that overthrew Egypt , by palliating the king’s effeminacy,...father the kingdom of Egypt and Libya and Syria and Phoenicia and Cyprus...lands and, bringing them back into Egypt, to fit out for military ... had been carried out of Egypt by the Persians and having ... he sent (his) forces to Egypt through the canals that had ...

Part II: Dionysos and Kingship

... it.” – Pausanias, 2.20.4-2.23-7-8   Welcomed by Proteus “After Hera inflicted madness upon him, he wandered over Egypt and Syria . The Egyptian king Proteus first welcomed him.” - Apollodorus, 2.29   Dionysos grants King Midas the Golden Touch “Midas, the Mygdonian king, ...

[part four: fill] Turkey and the Family Gathering of Agonizing Doom [Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, OC!s]

... and the Family Gathering of Agonizing Doom Author: Anon Type: Fic Status: Complete Characters, Pairings: Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, OC!Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan Rating: 1 star Original Request: I want to see the Middle ...

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside

... have not. Experts said in some places, like Egypt, harassment appears sometimes to be out of vengeance, ... Yemeni women say they have been harassed, while in Egypt, out of a sample of 1,000, 83 ... an unprecedented public acknowledgment of the problem in Egypt and elsewhere in the region, and drove the ... harassment on women's dress and behavior. In Syria, men from traditional homes go shopping in the ...

Фотографии года 2009 | Reuters | vol. 3

...Hermon army base in the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, February 9, 2009. Israel's national ... in a smuggling tunnel while repairing it in Rafah near Gaza's border with Egypt January 22, 2009. Hundreds of Palestinians came to the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt on Thursday to try to repair smuggling tunnels bombed by Israel during a 22-...

it makes somewhat more sense this way. unfortunately, I could not write this on my final

.... *enter 1967 Six Day War* EGYPT: We will mock Israel! They will ...FORBID IT. ISRAEL: ...we shall wait. EGYPT: *moves into the Sinai* ISRAEL: .... FIX THIS PROBLEM. ISRAEL: *sulks* EGYPT: ...we did not just get ...: Uh, guys -- ISRAEL: NO WAR. EGYPT/SYRIA: *move into position* UNITED ... it's fun. *meanwhile, fighting* EGYPT: War's over! We have ... you guys annoy me sometimes. EGYPT: The war has been over for...

Flavius Josephus

... and others were found in a single jar in Egypt. But when reading them, they were obviously false... written...was of great dignity, came at this time into Syria, with a few others, being sent by Caesar to ...Judea, which was now added to the province of Syria, to take an account of their substance, and to...had been consul, and who was now president of Syria, and accused Pilate of the murder of those that...

12. Allan Massie (1986), Augustus

...a wider secondary audience in mind, as for example when he presents a letter sent to him by Antony from Egypt with the comment, 'I publish it now merely for the record, that historians be not deceived' (p. ... Gallic wars. On the next page, he describes Agrippa doing the same via the foundation of colonies in Syria, and on this topic even comments 'It provides a focus for what, to coin a word, I may ...

... free together with the booties that they had acquired. He was also known as the King of Egypt and Syria. The war if Jerusalem still exist today. Between the Israel and the Palestine. The power struggle has... his short reign. Only when a German Emperor remembered him and presented Syria with some kind of gifts to honor Saladin, did many Muslims remembered ...