Akkad Victory Steele of Naram-Sin 75 40 Naram-Sin defeats soldiers and they fall beneath him as he climbs to join the gods, who are represented as suns at the top of the mountain. ... Babylonian Stele of Hammurabi 76 30/43 The sun god gives Hammurabi the right to rule and the code of laws. ... The sun god is depicted over the entrance. The sun enters through the center door on October 21st (Ramses' birthday), lighting up his statue deep in the interior. ... The sun god is shining down on the figures. ...

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Tapestry is one of the oldest forms of woven textiles. The word tapestry is defined as a thick textile fabric, in which colored weft threads are woven (originally by hand) into fixed warp threads to form pictures or designs. To give a brief description on how tapestries are woven, the weft threads do not weave between the warp threads all the way across the fabric, but are woven only as far as the particular color is required to produce the integral design. The detail is determined by the closeness o...

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If we are to study history, it must be to some purpose, and from this we can learn how the use of fear, aggression, terror, and mass public executions affected a government, a nation, as well as individual people involved in the ordeal that it became simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. ... It is September 6, 1793 and you are standing in the foyer of your estate watching the day slowly turn into night as the sun turns from a brilliant yellow to a bright orange to a dull red to a fading purple and blue and soon the sky is dark. As the last rays of the sun hit the sky...

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In total, 3,031 men, 5,802 women, and 4,051 children were rounded up in July of 1942. 6,000 of these innocent prisoners were herded into the Veldrome d' Hiver, an old stadium, kept with little food, water or shade from the hot sun, there were few latrines and almost no medical attention (Sarah's Key). ...

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