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The sons’ interests allegedly also include forays into drug smuggling and illegal exports of archaeological treasures – Egypt’s cultural heritage – in partnership with Culture Minister Faruq Husni, who is supposed to safeguard them.
The Kakatiya kings installed it in a temple, which was raided by Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khilji, who took it back to his capital along with other plundered treasures.
From the secret of Being and salvation to the secret of matter, from treasures hidden on faraway continents to political values such as the dignity and liberty of the individual and equality of all citizens before the law -- these are areas in which Europe accomplished a remarkable work of discovery which it then spread, often to the world’s benefit, yet often, sadly, to the world's detriment.
This is desirable for many reasons, including the fact that those who destroy cultural sites, and enslave and kill innocent men, women, and children, acquire the resources they need in part from the sale of looted treasures.
It is really "cool", for example, to express oneself with just one-syllable words, selectively adopted from all the treasures of the English language.
The mine of Islamic jurisprudence is very rich, but the problem is in the way its treasures are used.
Icarosaurus was rescued from the auction block by a philanthropic and conservation-minded businessman repelled by the thought that such valuable treasures could be lost to science and education.
Cultural Vandalism in AmericaSTONY BROOK – Whenever I hear about Islamic State militants bulldozing archaeological treasures and smashing sculptures and statues, I think about the assault on the scientific process being carried out by US politicians.
In 1995, I traveled through the Swat valley to study the area’s Buddhist treasures.
It is time that the world community not only registers its outrage against such destruction of cultural treasures, but also joins those Pakistanis who are desperately trying to pressure their government to preserve – for their sake and ours – their pre-Islamic cultural heritage.
Some would argue that we have a moral responsibility to protect such natural treasures for their own sake, regardless of their contributions to people.
In the meantime, then, I was busy classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological treasures when that incident took place with the Scotia.
There are scientific treasures here, and I'll take advantage of them."
I dove into studying the conchological treasures amassed inside the glass cases.
Finally, at five o'clock in the afternoon, laden with all our treasures, we left the island beach and half an hour later pulled alongside the Nautilus.
Captain Nemo's treasures were enhanced by some valuable exhibits from the delphinula snail species, to which I joined some pointed star coral, a sort of parasitic polypary that often attaches itself to seashells.
Fishermen gather in the Gulf of Mannar only during the month of March, and for thirty days some 300 boats concentrate on the lucrative harvest of these treasures from the sea.
I stared at all its wealth, all its treasures, like a man on the eve of his eternal exile, a man departing to return no more.
But when he saw that the convoy's wealth was about to fall into enemy hands, he burned and scuttled the galleons, which went to the bottom with their immense treasures."
He was the direct, sole heir to these treasures wrested from the Incas and those peoples conquered by Hernando Cortez!"Did you know, professor," he asked me with a smile, "that the sea contained such wealth?"
I took one last look at the natural wonders and artistic treasures amassed in the museum, this unrivaled collection doomed to perish someday in the depths of the seas, together with its curator.
I stayed there an hour, basking in the aura of the ceiling lights, passing in review the treasures shining in their glass cases.
He had removed the whole of his treasures to the house of a young timber-merchant, a friend of his, by the name of Fouque, who lived on the side of the high mountain overlooking Verrieres.
Why, all our art treasures of to-day are only the dug-up commonplaces of three or four hundred years ago.
Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before?
Can you tell me why honestly gotten gold should be hidden in the bowels of the earth?""Grach!- I t'ink it must be to keep t'e Skinner from findin' him; if he know where he be, why don't he dig him up?""There may be reasons not comprehensible to you," said Katy, moving her chair so that her clothes covered the charmed stone, underneath which lay the secret treasures of the peddler, unable to refrain from speaking of what she would have been very unwilling to reveal; "but a rough outside often holds a smooth inside."
The spare arms and baggage of the corps had also been deposited here; and the united treasures were placed under the eye of the sentinel who paraded the shed as a guardian of the rear of the headquarters.
Before taking leave of Birch, the captain handed him his purse, which was tolerably well supplied for the times; the peddler received it, and, watching an opportunity, he conveyed it, unnoticed by the Skinner, to a part of his dress that was ingeniously contrived to hold such treasures.
And he also put into the hat certain schoolboy treasures of almost inestimable value--among them a lump of chalk, an India-rubber ball, three fishhooks, and one of that kind of marbles known as a "sure 'nough crystal."
They've hid treasures here somewhere.
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