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Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs" brings to life ancient wonders, historic intrigue and a modern-day forensic adventure, all in one eye-popping new film now at the Detroit Science Center's IMAX® Dome Theatre.
"The film was descriptive and made me want to go to Africa because it was so interactive," said Nyenye Jordan, a parent volunteer MacDowell Elementary. "My seven-year-old and his classmates were so engaged. They all love the Dome.
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REDLANDS - Pharaoh's Theme and Water Park could be open for business come summer, thanks to a unanimous Planning Commission vote Tuesday to approve a new conditional use permit for the park.
The permit has 32 conditions of approval outlining how the business will operate.
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Track & field
When she begins her business classes at the University of Memphis next fall, Anjila Reynolds will no doubt get an earful about the concept of return on investment.
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Prep basketball
Cordova 67, Raleigh-Egypt 65 (OT)
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Raleigh-Egypt 82, Walker Valley 59
MURFREESBORO - Gentry Hines was a freshman when Raleigh-Egypt played in its first state championship game in 2005, losing the TSSAA Class AA title to Bolivar Central. Now a senior, Hines has spent the last three seasons trying to get the Pharaohs back in the championship game.
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WANT TO GO Lunchtime Lecture WHAT: Egyptian Treasures from a Private Tomb by Ken Fox WHEN: 12:15 p.m. Feb. 10 WHERE: Clay Center ADMISSION: Free (museum admission extra) CONTACT: www.theclaycenter.org or 304-561-3500
It's 3 a.m. in downtown Chicago in 1977. Ken Fox, co-owner of Huntington's Magic Makers Costume Shop, fitfully attempts to sleep outside on the Field Museum steps. There are a few other people ahead of him to see that day's 10 a.m. debut of the first American showing of treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
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MUMMIES: SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS. Keith Melton's IMAX film travels to contemporary Egypt - and, through the miracle of cinema, thousands of years into...
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[...] Shoukry continued, "The new Israeli government must recognize that establishing a sovereign, contiguous and viable Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967 is the only path that will lead to real and permanent peace in the Middle East.
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Although some people wonder if he inspired Steven Spielberg's daring archaeologist Indiana Jones, the "colorful character" and "adventurer" labels used to describe Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie in press releases are just marketing exaggeration. "He was more like an anti-Indiana Jones," said Peter Lacovara of Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. "He was a real scholar, a very serious man.
Of course, there is an account of Petrie swinging down to a pyramid doorway on a rope ladder to examine a flooded burial chamber by candlelight while wading through foul water littered with coffins and skulls. "Well, yes, you sort of had to do that," Lacovara said. But the man's professional accomplishments are far more important than any of the more audacious means of explorat...