Egypt i/ˈiːdʒɪpt/ (Arabic: مصر, Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: [mɑsˤɾ] ; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Kīmi ; Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ, Kēme), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة (help·info), is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi), Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its over 81 million people live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
John Anthony West (born 1 January 1932 in New York, USA) is an American Egyptologist, author, lecturer, guide and a pioneer of Sphinx water erosion hypothesis in geology. Influenced by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, in 1993 his work with Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and associate professor of natural science at the College of General Studies at Boston University was presented by Charlton Heston in a NBC special called “The Mystery of the Sphinx” that won West an News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary. The documentary contends that the main type of weathering evident on the Great Sphinx (pictured) and surrounding enclosure walls could only have been caused by prolonged and extensive rainfall during the time period from 10,000 to 5000 BCE and was carved out of limestone bedrock by an ancient advanced culture (such as the Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture). This challenged the conventional dating of the carving of the statue circa 2500 BCE. West suggested that the Sphinx may be over twice as old as originally determined, whereas Schoch made a more conservative determination of between 5000 and 7000 BCE.
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SHAKEDOWN is a documentary about a Black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles' Crenshaw District. Operating for almost a decade, serving as a safe community space, alternative economy and a site for female-oriented creative and sexual experimentation. SHAKEDOWN captures a significant Black lesbian cultural moment by narrating eight years of events that unfold out of a scene created in the early 1970's. We move from the past to the present to better understand these women, their work, and the critical role work plays in the formation of identity. SHAKEDOWN is also a lens through which to reflect upon how communities are planned and built and evolve through generations.
Keywords: african-american, dancer, family-relationships, gay-interest, identity, lesbian, marginal-culture, money, strip-club, underground-gay-club
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Four teenagers experience the grown-up trials and tribulations from the unsteady environment of Kingston, Jamaica, where the affects of money (or lack their of) and upbringing impact the complex choices made in their daily lives. The series follows these teenagers as they make difficult and life altering decisions while pursuing their dreams.
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A comedy drama about three very different couples living in Los Angeles trying to make theirs lives complete. Finding love, relationships and struggling to survive in the crazy world of Angelino's. A funny look at how people in the city are and how things just get in the way.
Keywords: african-american, ampersand-in-title, california, digit-in-title, diversity, friend, gay, gay-african-american, gay-couple, gay-interest
What haven't you told your friends or lover lately
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A former professional dancer (Banderas) volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system. While his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer Pierre Dulane.
Keywords: african-american, attempted-rape, baby, ballroom, ballroom-dancing, based-on-true-story, basketball, bathroom, beating, bicycle
Never Follow.
Ramos: Dance to this.
Principal: For these kids life is a fight to stay alive, and a hustle to make ends meet.
[from trailer]::Pierre Dulaine: You can get what you want.::Rock: No, some people get what they want.::Pierre Dulaine: Those are the people who show up to get it.
[from trailer]::Pierre Dulaine: What I teach has value.::Ramos: Not where I live.
Principal Augustine James: You know who did that to my car, don't you?::Pierre Dulaine: He may have been black, or hispanic.::Principal Augustine James: ...Let me know if you remember...
Caitlin: I'd kill to dance like that. It's like sex on hardwood.
Rock: Doctor's note. I can't dance, I have a heart condition.::Pierre Dulaine: Interesting man, your doctor. Not many doctors write notes on three-hole paper.
Kurd: Why you gotta be such a ballroom weirdo?
Eddie: Check Mr Dulaine! He's just gettin' his flirt on.
Morgan: I've never seen anyone move like that before.::Sasha: I'm sure.
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Sarny, a 12-year-old slave girl in the ante-bellum South, faces a relatively hopeless life. Her chief duties at the plantation of Clel Waller are serving at table, spitting tobacco juice on roses to prevent bugs, and secretly conveying intimate messages between Waller's wife, Callie, and Dr. Chamberlaine. Then Nightjohn arrives. A former runaway slave who bears telltale scars on his back, he takes Sarny under his wing and, in exchange for a pinch of tobacco, secretly begins to teach her to read and write, a crime punishable by death. "Words," he says, "are freedom. Slavery is made of words: laws, deeds and passes." He starts by drawing letters in the dirt and cautions her that no one must know. At her baptism, Sarny steals a Bible that belongs to Waller's son, Jeffrey, and practices reading by lantern-light in the slave quarters. The same Bible serves another purpose when, on a blank page taken from it, Nightjohn forges a pass for Outlaw, a young slave, to use in escaping to freedom in the North with his beloved Egypt, a slave on another plantation. Waller finds the Bible and demands to know who stole it. Delie, who cared for Sarny as a child, fears for her now and accepts the blame. But Nightjohn forestalls the lashing Delie is to receive, saying he's the one, for he can read. He tries to run away but is caught, and his hand is tied to a chopping block. With an ax, Waller delivers the severing blow, exacting the brutal penalty for Nightjohn's literacy. As he is dragged off to be sold, he tells Sarny, "When they cut off one hand, the other hand grows stronger." That night Sarny writes a pass for Egypt that will let her join Outlaw on the flight to freedom. Two days later their escape is discovered and the false passes found. Waller knows Nightjohn wrote Outlaw's pass. But who wrote the second? He interrupts a church service to demand the answer, threatening to kill all his slaves if no one tells. Sarny confesses, but declares he'll kill no one, for the slaves represent his wealth. As Waller raises his rifle, Sarny implores Callie to speak up for her, hinting that she has read the messages to Dr. Chamberlaine. Callie refuses, but the doctor, fearful Sarny will reveal the relationship, says he's at fault. He tells of teaching Egypt some reading and writing, but now declares it was a mistake. Callie orders that Sarny be sold, and as the girl is joined to a line of other slaves, she asks if any of them have tobacco to trade. What has she to give in return? they want to know. And Sarny draws an A in the dirt.
Keywords: abuse, african-american, antebellum, based-on-novel, child-abuse, compassion, education, fight-the-system, illiteracy, learning
Words Are Freedom
Follow the Nile
Deep too much deeper
The Pyramids sound lonely tonight
The sands run red
In lands of the Pharaohs
Their symmetry gets right inside me
I cannot stop to comfort them
I'm busy chasing up my demon
I cannot stop to comfort them
I'm busy chasing up my demon
Oh, I'm in love with Egypt
My Pussy Queen
Knows all my secrets
I'll never fall in love again
I drift with dunes
I whisper of the tombs
They offer me Egyptian delights
You've got me with that feline guise
Got me in those desert eyes
You've got me with that feline guise
Got me in those desert eyes
Oh, I'm in love, oh, I'm in love
Egypt, Crypt of my soul
Drive me into your past
Once you were the culture of all
But now you drown in dust
A thousand years of memories
Flowing like tears for me
Oh Egypt, awake for me
The Gods recall you, somehow
Wake, wake
Reincarnate
Egypt, Crypt of my soul
Drive me into your past
Once you were the culture of all
But now you drown in dust
A thousand years of memories
Flowing like tears for me
Egypt, awake now
The Gods are coming
Egypt - I saw you
On the television
I saw your name
Written on a wa-a-all
I saw your picture
In a magazi-ine
Egypt - Can I ask you
To lend me your blue sky
And your dreamy
Virginal tenderness
I don't know you very well
But I really like you
Egypt - I'm a-gonna
A-see you soon
Said I'm a-gonna walk on
Your foreshore
Egypt - Won't you hold me-ee
Like I held a map of you
I learned your location
From a travel brochure
Egypt - I need your
Sophisticated silence
Egypt I'm a-gonna
See you soon
I'm a-gonna walk on
Egypt
[M: Patxa, Iván, Mikel, Jevo / L: Jevo]
In a land, close to the Nile
Surrounded by desert is Egypt.
Down below, under the sand
Lie the rest of ancient kings.
Ooh, relics and gold in their graves
Ooh, better not desecrate.
Many centuries ago
Egyptian kings
were protected by the Gods
For their Glory and Peace
In the land of pyramids
I found my doom
And the curse will follow me
For all eternity
Egypt, the legend, curse of the pharaohs
Horus, Osiris, wrath of the Gods
Suffering and Sorrow, the prophecy reveals
Egypt forgive me, the curse fulfills
Tales were told that I did ignore
About maledictions and curses
Now my soul, eternally damned
Until the End of all days
Ooh, shadows appear in my dreams
Ooh, grim visions, demons of greed
Hidden traps and labyrinths
Were not enough
And I entered the vault
To appease my greed
Hieroglyphics on the wall
Signs on the stone
Maledictions shall be cast
For whom profane the tombs
(Music & lyrics by King Diamond)
Ahh... Egypt... Ahh
Solo: Shermann
O Thou of countless names
Who are one and all things
O Thou of countless names
Without beginning, without end
Ahh... Egypt... Ahh
Osiris... Anubis... The underworld is yours
Osiris... Anubis... I put my soul in your hands
O Thou, God of the Dead
Lead my soul to the judgement hall
O Thou, Jackal Head
Weigh my soul, I await your call
Ahh... Egypt... Ahh
Ammit, Eater of the Dead
Is devouring my heart
Will I pass on to Aaru
Or will I be condemned?
Solo: Denner
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
I must be back on time
But still I want to know
I hope they let me go
I'm from another time
And I must reunite
My body and my soul
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
Osiris... Anubis... The underworld is yours
Osiris... Anubis... I put my soul in your hands
O Thou of countless names
Who are one and all things
O Thou of countless names
Without beginning, without end
Ahh... Egypt... Ahh
Egypt come back to me
Egypt come back to me
Egypt, without beginning or end
(Music & lyrics by King Diamond)
Ahh...Egypt...Ahh
Solo: Shermann
O Thou of countless names
Who are one and all things
O Thou of countless names
Without beginning, without end
Ahh...Egypt...Ahh
Osiris...Anubis...The underworld
is yours
Osiris...Anubis...I put my soul
in your hands
O Thou, God of the Dead
Lead my soul to the judgement hall
O Thou, Jackal Head
Weigh my soul, I await your call
Ahh...Egypt...Ahh
Ammit, Eater of the Dead
Is devouring my heart
Will I pass on to Aaru
Or will I be condemned?
Solo: Denner
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
I must be back on time
But still I want to know
I hope they let me go
I'm from another time
And I must reunite
My body and my soul
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
I'm burning inside to know
Osiris...Anubis...The underworld
is yours
Osiris...Anubis...I put my soul
in your hands
O Thou of countless names
Who are one and all things
O Thou of countless names
Without beginning, without end
Ahh...Egypt...Ahh
Egypt come back to me
Egypt come back to me
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Endless sands of Alnantees - etched in gold, a city lost in time and from the Sea - A Child speaks of things unseen, before the King - a teller of the Rhyme
Five align - hidden in the word a message locked in time find the Key - it draws the final line between what is and what should never be
Gaze in these eyes my child and see - here by my side, you're destined to be Fears in the night flee with the Sun - if we are One Kingdom of Gold I lay at your feet - Ruler of Time and Space you will be Rivers of Truth forever will run - if we are One
From the ruins of Atlantis, the Lord of Night rises from the sands He seeks the one - his serpent's tail and twisted tongue - a bringer of War - Destroyer of the land
Five align - hidden in the word a message locked in time find the Key - it draws the final line between what is and what should never be
"Rise my minions - from within the deep abyss my disciples - thunder this necropolis"
Gaze in these eyes my child and see - here by my side, you're destined to be Fears in the night chasin the Sun - now we are One Kingdom of Gold now lay at my feet - Ruler of Time and Space I will be Rivers of Lies forever will run - now we are One
Enough is never enough when the going gets tough
Too many things coming up for one dope to handle
Just foot in mouth lean on crutch
Wish I was with the Ancient Egyptians
With how many thousand Gods
Someone to turn to someone to pray to
Someone to listen to the silence of my tears
Enough is never enough when the going gets tough
A diet of instant time inspiration
Just foot in mouth lean on crutch
Firing blanks at critical moments
When the going gets tough
The tough goes shopping
To buy something a little nothing
To fill up the hole in his heart
To buy something a little nothing
When I get to Egypt
I will see you there
When I get to Egypt
I will see you there
Alone
Across the Earth
Alone
I feel like I'm lost
When I get to Egypt