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Underwater city may be ancient Egyptian port
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Some people collect postage stamps, beer cans or Beanie Babies.
Mohammed El-Sarji collects underwater cities.
So far, he has found two.
The latest, he believes, is Yarmuta, an ancient Egyptian port that
disappeared off the coast of today's Lebanon some 3,300 years ago.
Historians know it best from the Amarna Tablets, letters sent to the
Egyptian pharaohs Amenophis III and his son Akhenaten 3,400 years
ago. The letters, filled with disputes over the territory of modern-
day Lebano...
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September theater almanac.(Front and Center)(Openings, performances and news of American theaters from 100 to 10 years ago)
American Theatre
; 100 YEARS AGO (1903): The William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, in Berkeley, Calif., is dedicated with a staging of Aristophanes' The Birds, performed in the original Greek. Modeled on the stages in Pompeii, Epidaurus and other ancient sites, the venue is the first modern reproduction of an
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Time machine.(survey of articles from Popular Mechanics, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 years ago)
Popular Mechanics
; 100 Years Ago: July 1902 Make Mine Electric Electricity had driven the mule from streetcar duty and was also rapidly displacing it from the coal mines. Electric locomotives were able to haul 500 tons at a time--a real challenge for a mule team. PM had the inside story on how this plate of ice, 16
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Thirty years ago. (poem)
The American Poetry Review
; I passed this way thirty years ago. Four days and nights by train Now it's under sixty hours, eight by plane. Soon Tupolevs will make Moscow-Baku two hours and ten minutes Thirty years ago songs filled the train--songs like a handkerchief waved at a lover, like a flag leading us on. The same songs
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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web search; A MONTHLY LOOK AT ANNIVERSARIES; Churchill makes `curtain' call; Sixty years ago: U.K. leader gives a speech heard `round the world; 25 years ago: Hinckley shoots Reagan.(SOURCE)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ... signs off - March 6, 1981 - Walter Cronkite makes his last appearance as principal anchorman of The CBS Evening News. See www.npr.org/news/specials/cronkite/. 200 YEARS AGO: Browning born - March 6, 1806 - Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, famous for ...
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Rocks reflect existence of life 2.7 billion years ago Discovery pushes trail of complex life forms back as much as a billion years
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Australian scientists say they have found evidence that complex forms of life existed on the Earth 2.7 billion years ago, 500 million to 1 billion years earlier than previously thought. The life forms are single-celled creatures called eukaryotes, the first known cells to have nuclei and
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