 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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The smell of success isn't always sweet in this line of work
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KIRKHAM, England -- Two years ago, the City Museum of Stockholm
contacted Frank Knight with a strange request: Could he re-create the
smell of an Egyptian mummy?
Knight, who is in the smell business in a small way, had no
firsthand knowledge. So he consulted the Internet, identified
embalming fluids and perfumes likely to have been used by the
Egyptians, mixed them up, threw in a few other odors, and came up
with an essence that smelled really bad.
"It's a very eerie smell. It's one my wife doesn't like," says
Knight, owner of a little company here that comes up with unusual
aromas with ...
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Punic on the streets of Rome
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...the bastard sons of those who led the second: Hannibal and Scipio Africanus. But it was in fact Scipio's adopted grandson, Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus (Africanus Minor) Numantinus, who commanded the Roman army in the final war. One...
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SEEDS OF CONQUEST In `The Orange Tree,' Fuentes probes the clash of cultures
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...asks the narrator, Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, the Roman general...Wars, the distinctions between Scipio Africanus, the adoptive grandfather, and Africanus Minor can be confusing, for Scipio Aemilianus (the Younger) entered...
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MASHA LEON
Newspaper article from: Forward
; ...Prepare for War' -- a quote from Roman general Scipio" -- (236-183 B.C.E.; conqueror of Spain, Africa and Asia Minor; defeated Hannibal the Carthaginian and took the surname Africanus for the victory). Mr. Marks was one of 10...
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A BITTER END FOR TWO PATRIOTS.(Hannibal defeated, 202 B.C.)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Crete and then to Asia Minor (present-day Turkey...conqueror, Publius Cornelius Scipio, was destined to meet...the battle of Zama, Scipio returned to Rome a hero...him with a new name -- Africanus. Then, just as had...aroused. Like Hannibal, Scipio was a relative newcomer...
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