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unusual facts about Pharaoh's Island


Pharaoh's Island

By the time of the 13th century, when the pilgrim Thietmar passed the island in 1217, the entire place was inhabited by a fishing village and populated by Muslims and captive Franks.


Ahmose

Amasis II (or Ahmose II), (reigned c. 570 BC - c. 526 BC), pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt

Akhenaten Suite

Akhenaten Suite is the seventh album by American jazz trumpeter Roy Campbell, an extended work inspired by Amenhotep IV, Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt.

Akoris

Hakor, (or Akoris), a Pharaoh of Egypt from 393 BC to 380 BC.

Ashayet

Ashayet or Ashait was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, a lower ranking wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II of the 11th dynasty.

Battle of Pelusium

Battle of Pelusium (343 BC), second battle fought between Achaemenid forces under Artaxerxes III (the Ochus) of Persia and pharaoh Nectanebo II, leading to defeat of Egyptian forces and the start of second Persian period in Egypt

Battus III of Cyrene

During his reign, Battus realised that Cyrenaica had become an unstable state, from the unstable relations with the Libyans, Egyptian Pharaoh Amasis II and the attempted overthrow of his late father and himself from Learchus.

Bouck's Island

Congressman Joseph Bouck was born on Bouck's Island and Wisconsin Congressman Gabriel Bouck once lived there.

Chronology of the ancient Near East

There is also a record of messages from the pharaoh to Kadashman-Enlil I of Babylon in the Amarna Letter (EA1-5).

Colaba

Gerald Aungier, second Governor of Bombay (1672), and the president of the English settlement of Surat, took possession of Colaba and Old Woman's Island on behalf of the Company in 1675.

Dick at Nite

# "Gilligan's Island Theme" (a.k.a. The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle) – 1:54

Gwendolyn MacEwen

Her two novels – Julian the Magician, dealing with the ambiguous relationship between the hermetic philosophies of the early Renaissance and Christianity; and King of Egypt, King of Dreams, which imaginatively reconstructed the life and religious reformation of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton – blend fantasy and history.

Hyksos

BC from the tomb of a 12th dynasty official Khnumhotep under pharaoh Senusret II at Beni Hasan.

In Search for Khnum

The novel In Search for Khnum is, for the writer and Egyptologist Hussein Bassir, the first book with a Pharaonic setting among contemporary Egyptian literature in the style of ‘90s generation’.

Iynefer II

Iynefer II ("the beautiful one has come"; the name is also spelled as Iy-nefer) was an ancient Egyptian Prince, son of Pharaoh Khufu.

Jean-Yves Verd'hurt

In September 2004, he claimed, along with his colleague Gilles Dormion, to have discovered a corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza which he believes could lead directly to the burial chamber of Pharaoh Khufu.

Jim Lefebvre

Lefebvre had roles on several television shows including Gilligan's Island and Batman.

Kentucky Military Institute

Jim Backus, actor; credits included Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island

Kilcoole

Cassidy's claim to fame was in her appearance in the film The Others and also starring as the lead in the television show Harper's Island.

King of Devil's Island

The film is a fictionalized retelling of a rebellion among the youth at the Bastøy Reform School during the winter of 1915.

KV18

Tomb KV18, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was intended for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses X of the Twentieth Dynasty; however, because it was apparently abandoned while still incomplete and since no funerary equipment has ever found there, it is uncertain whether it was actually used for his burial.

KV19

Tomb KV19, located in a side branch of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended as the burial place of Prince Ramesses Sethherkhepshef, better known as Pharaoh Ramesses VIII, but was later used for the burial of Prince Mentuherkhepshef instead, the son of Ramesses IX, who predeceased his father.

La Reine Soleil

In defiance of danger the two teenagers travel down the Nile to the burning-hot desert dunes, courageously facing the mercenary Zannanza and priests of Amun Ra, who are conspiring to overthrow the pharaoh because of his rejection of their god.

Lake Wawasee

Known geographic place names around Wawasee: Black's Point, Black Stump Point, Jones Landing, Willow Grove, Pickwick Park, Kale Island, Oakwood, Lakeview-South Park, Ogden's Island, Sand Point, Johnson's Bay, Buttermilk Bay, Vawter Park, Ideal Beach, Waveland Beach, Conkling Hill, Morrison's Island, and Nattie Crow Beach.

Lion hunting

Commemorative artwork has been found telling of how during a single hunt, pharaoh Amenhotep III killed more than 100 lions.

Nefertnesu

She was a daughter of Pharaoh Sneferu and one of his wives and she was a half-sister to Pharaoh Khufu.

North Berwick Law

John Henry Devereux South Carolina architect who used whale jaw bones to adorn the largest mansion on Sullivan's Island

Pasta primavera

In 1975, New York chef Sirio Maccioni flew to the Canadian summer home of Italian baron Carlo Amato, called Shangri-La Ranch located on Robert's Island, Nova Scotia.

Pepi

Pepi I Meryre, the third pharaoh of the Sixth dynasty of Egypt (2332-2282 BC)

Publius Clodius Pulcher

Out of personal hatred for the Lagid king Ptolemy of Cyprus, younger brother of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes, he passed a bill terminating his kingship and annexing Cyprus to the Empire.

Quebec Expedition

The fleet arrived in Boston on 24 June, and the troops were disembarked onto Noddle's Island (the present-day location of Logan International Airport).

Return to Nim's Island

Return to Nim's Island is a 2013 Australian adventure-fantasy film directed by Brendan Maher and starring Bindi Irwin, Matthew Lillard, Toby Wallace and John Waters.

Roberto Gerardi

After having accompanied Giuseppe Rotunno as an additional cinematographer in The Great War (1959), in the early sixties he worked in art films such as Damiano Damiani's Arturo's Island and The Empty Canvas, but also to international co-productions such as Madame Sans-Gene by Christian-Jaque and The Condemned of Altona by Vittorio De Sica.

Rogatchover Gaon

The remainder of his surviving writings appeared in the United States and Israel many years after his death; all are titled Tzofnath Paneach "decipherer of secrets", (a title given to the Biblical Joseph by Pharaoh (Genesis 41:45)).

S. S. Minnow

The S.S. Minnow II was a successor boat purchased by the Skipper from insurance money for the first in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Rescue from Gilligan's Island.

Salter Street Films

Its first major feature film was Def-Con 4 (1985) which eventually became profitable, but other pictures such as George's Island (1989), Buried on Sunday (1992) and Paint Cans (1994), though critically acclaimed, were money-losers.

Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep

Based on his name Amenemhat Sobekhotep, it has been suggested that Sobekhotep was a son of the penultimate pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty, king Amenemhat IV.

Sesostris

In Herodotus' Histories there appears a story told by Egyptian priests about a Pharaoh Sesostris, who once led an army northward overland to Asia Minor, then fought his way westward until he crossed into Europe, where he defeated the Scythians and Thracians (possibly in modern Romania and Bulgaria).

Setnakhte

Userkhaure-setepenre Setnakhte (or Setnakht) was the first Pharaoh (1189 BC1186 BC) of the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt and the father of Ramesses III.

Somers Isles Company

A ninth subdivision, now the eastern-most parish, was Saint George's, comprising Saint George's Island, Saint David's Island, part of the Main Island, and various smaller islands and islets around Castle Harbour (then known as Southampton Harbour) and Saint George's Harbour.

Swan's Island, Maine

It is named after Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland, who purchased this island and some surrounding areas and organized their colonization in the 18th century.

The New Adventures of Gilligan

It was based on the 1964–1967 CBS television series Gilligan's Island and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise, who was determined to distance herself from the role of Ginger Grant (the animated Ginger became a platinum blonde in case Louise objected to Filmation using her image), and Dawn Wells, who was on the road in a play and was unavailable (Jane Webb voiced both Ginger and Mary Ann; she was credited as Jane Edwards for the latter).

The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea

The film explores the legend that a large number of ships were built by Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, capable of trade with the Land of Punt.

Tiaa, wife of Sety II

Tiaa or Tiya or Tiy was the third wife of Pharaoh Seti II, after Takhat II and Twosret.

Triathlon at the 2013 Island Games

Triathlon, for the 2013 Island Games, were held at Clearwater Beach on St. David's Island, Bermuda.

Tzadik

While the Patriarchs lived righteously as shepherds, Joseph remained holy in Egypt, surrounded by impurity, tested by Potiphar's wife, captive in prison, and then active as viceroy to Pharaoh.

United States Army Bermuda Garrison

US Army field artillery batteries were put in long term emplacements around Bermuda, from St. George's Island to Southampton, where field artillery was placed outside Scaur Hill Fort.

Universitetskaya Embankment

A quay in front of the Academy of Arts building, adorned with two authentic sphinxes of Pharaoh Amenhotep III brought in 1832 from Thebes, Egypt, was designed by Konstantin Thon and built in 1832-1834.

Woman's Island

Upernavik Island, Greenland, formerly also known as Women's or Woman's Island

Worms Forts: Under Siege

Egyptian: The Egyptian story focuses on a worm called Seth who tries to raise an army of the dead to battle the Pharaoh.

Zedekiah

Despite the strong remonstrances of Jeremiah, Baruch ben Neriah and his other family and advisors, as well as the example of Jehoiakim, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh Hophra of Egypt.


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