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    The Mummy “Mission Impossible” with an Egyptian theme. The Mummy starts with Nick Morton, hot headed soldier played by no other than Tom Cruise, who with his friend and partner in unproven crimes of antique thefts, Chris Vail (Jake Johnson), by accident discover a hidden for centuries Egyptian tomb. On top of all this turmoil, a beautiful archeologist Dr. Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) shows up out of nowhere, claiming rights to the discovery and attempts to take charge of it. Thanks to Dr. Halsey

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    Saracenic in pattern, and with many perforations so contrived that there writhed in and out of them, as if endued with a serpent vitality, a continual succession of parti-colored fires…In each of the angles of the chamber stood on end a gigantic sarcophagus of black granite, from the tombs of the kings over against Luxor, with their aged lids full of immemorial sculpture. But in the draping of the apartment lay, alas! the chief phantasy of all. The lofty walls, gigantic in height --even unproportionably

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    the priests. Priests were not the only people who helped with the mummification process, there were artists who helped decorate the tombs and sarcophagus, and there were also craftsmen, workers, and embalmers; who helped prepare the bodies get ready for burial. Mummies were then placed in sarcophagus and were buried in underground tombs. The sarcophagus were mostly constructed out of stone, wood, or even constructed and shaped to look like the mummy itself and were embellished. The organs were

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    When people think about ancient Egypt, they think about the temples, mummies, pyramids, and hieroglyphs. One of the greatest discoveries of life in ancient Egypt is the Valley of the Kings where all of the Egyptian Pharaohs in a five-hundred-year period have been buried. Those Egyptian Pharaohs ruled from around 1539 B.C. to around 1075 B.C. in a time period that was known as the New Kingdom which covered the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Dynasties. Currently, about 62 tombs have been found.

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    The coffin and mummy of Djedmaatesankh are known as one of the few unopened coffins, retaining the original seal. Currently, it has been decided not to open the coffin in order to examine the mummy within due to the fact that it would severely damage the artwork and hieroglyphs that have been painted on the outside. The coffin is made of cartonnage, which is created with moulded linen and plaster and is painted on the outermost layer. These paintings describe the story of Djedmaatesankh’s life, as

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    The Chernobyl Disaster "After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price..." (Wladimir Klitschko). On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Power Station in Pripyat, Ukraine, was running low power tests when the reactor overheated leading to an explosion and radiation releasing into the atmosphere. Despite this being one of the most serious nuclear disasters in world history, causing great harm to the earth and life around it, we now

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    we leave the pack. We go downstairs and there’s a sign that says “DANGER ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.” Us being who we are, we enter because we don’t even listen to our parents. As we’re walking in the cold, dim room there’s sarcophagus’ everywhere. I walk over to one of the sarcophagus and as I begin to open it, all of a sudden the electricity shut off. I got scared and jumped back so fast. I yell Tommy’s name as I’m running blindly to the exit. I was running faster than Forrest Gump but Tommy somehow

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    The severity of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) accident on the 26th April 1986, led to the unforeseeable environmental and human health impacts over most of Europe. The extent of these impacts, predominantly over Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, were later recognised by the world as being the worst nuclear accident to occur of all time (Balonov and Bouville 2011; Alexakhin et al. 2006; Saenko et al. 2011). The reactor explosion of unit four ChNPP, Ukraine, a former member of the Soviet Union

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    The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster *Works Cited Not Included Chernobyl is a popular nuclear disaster it was a terrible technological disaster. Chernobyl is a small town in the Ukraine. The closest major city is Kiev. Kiev is the capital of the Ukraine. It is made up of 2.4 million people. In 1986 April 26 Chernobyl experienced an unforgettable nuclear disaster. At the time, the USSR was responsible for roughly 10% of the world's nuclear

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    including transportation. The Nile was used by the Egyptians for transportation. Sometimes boats would carry obelisks, harvest, and maybe a sarcophagus. An obelisk is a four sided column tapering and ending in a pyramid apex, so it was probably just things needed to build an obelisk. Harvest is the food farmers grow and trade for with many other things needed. A sarcophagus is a coffin

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