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one plan put forward was to build a dam around the temples to keep the water at the same level as the river.
it was thought that raising the temples would put them in danger of being eroded by the wind.
this plan was rejected.
good-night, beauty.
“i think as you do,” answered the marionette, laughing.
“still, you must know that when the fish finished eating my donkey coat, which covered me from head to foot, they naturally came to the bones or rather, in my case, to the wood, for as you know, i am made of very hard wood.
here, dear master, you have my story.
you know now why you found a marionette and not a dead donkey when you pulled me out of the water.”
fear nothing, sleep peacefully, and before long you shall see your father once more. ''
the moving of the temple began in 1964, with archaeologists, engineers and workers coming from all over the world as a unesco project.
it cost $40 million at the time.
between 1964 and 1968, the entire site was carefully cut into large blocks.
some blocks weighed up to 30 tons, with most around 20 tons.
these blocks were lifted and put back together on a new site 65 meters higher, and 200 meters further back from the river.
whatever the reason, i cannot allow you to pass.
stories in my time, but for once i am inclined to believe that the man
the spellbinders have discovered the power to create and manipulate static electricity.
they fly in gigantic copper-coloured machines that utilise large rotating orange crystals, presumably creating some form of magnetic levitation.
the spellbinders often use their power for good, but some abuse this power and use their discoveries for malevolence.
one such malevolent spellbinder is ashka, who often manages to hide her true nature.
common people are often "banished" for their misdeeds, and sometimes spellbinders are banished, also, if they are proven to have done wrong.
i guess it took,
“i laugh at your story!” cried the man angrily.
“i know that i spent four cents to get you and i want my money back.
do you know what i can do; i am going to take you to the market once more and sell you as dry firewood.”
nice baby.
this was one of the greatest challenges of archaeological engineering in history.
some parts had to be saved from under the waters of lake nasser.
today hundreds of visitors come to the temples every day.
buses and cars leave twice a day from aswan, the nearest city.
many visitors also come by plane, to an airfield that was specially built near the temples.
is speaking the truth.
i believe that he received no money, and was
“very well, sell me.
i am satisfied,” said pinocchio.
but as he spoke, he gave a quick leap and dived into the sea.
swimming away as fast as he could, he cried out, laughing:
- not really.
“good-by, master.
if you ever need a skin for your drum, remember me.”
there are two temples.
the larger one was built for the gods ra-harakhty, ptah and amun.
it has four large statues of ramesses ii on the facade.
the smaller temple was built for the goddess hathor, who is shown as nefertari, ramesses's favourite of his many wives.
the temple is open to the public.
so i guess the recording has started now.
the great temple.
i can't mind the dates.
he swam on and on.
after a while, he turned around again and called louder than before:
the great temple at abu simbel took about 20 years to build.
it was completed in the 24th year of the rule of ramesses the great (about 1265 bc).
it was built for the gods amun, ra-horakhty, and ptah, as well as for rameses himself, who was treated as a god.
it is one the grandest and most beautiful temples from the time of rameses ii, and one of the most beautiful in egypt.
but it'll
as soon as beauty was alone she hastened to fill the boxes with all the rare and precious things she saw about her, and only when she was tired of heaping things into them did they seem to be full.
was this the time you had your black edged writing paper and black edged envelopes and
there is tension from paul's forays into the land of the spellbinders and his attempts to return to his own universe, and also from conversations paul has with his friends across the barrier between the two universes.
paul and riana's escapes also add tension, as do the interactions between spellbinders.
that leaves out the nazis.
ah nice baby yeah.
the facade of the temple has four 20 meter tall statues of the pharaoh with the double atef crown of upper and lower egypt.
the facade is 35 meters wide.
across the top is a frieze with 22 baboons.
the baboons have their hands raised to welcome the rising sun at dawn.
these huge statues were carved into solid rock.
all statues show ramesses ii, seated on a throne and wearing the double crown of upper and lower egypt.
the statue on the left of the entrance was damaged in an earthquake soon after it was built.
the head and body are on the ground at the statue's feet.
are you patting the baby?
you mean that?
next to the legs of the large statue, there are others no higher than the knees of the pharaoh.
these show nefertari, ramesses's chief wife, and queen mother mut-tuy, his first two sons amun-her-khepeshef, ramesses, and his first six daughters bintanath, baketmut, nefertari, meritamen, nebettawy and isetnofret.
acting throughout in good faith."
paul is eventually able to travel back home, but he is forced to take riana with him in order to save her.
later, when paul is able to take riana back home, the spellbinder ashka follows paul as he later returns home.
ashka seeks the unwitting help of paul's father in making her a new high-tech 'flying suit' to replace her power suit in order to make her more powerful than the other spellbinders.
- got any mob connections?
then she went to bed, but could hardly sleep for joy.
no well i never that far but that was done and some would have the broad black
“good-by, master.
if you ever need a piece of good dry firewood, remember me.”
so, have you ever served on a jury?
i served,
above the entrance is a bas-relief with two images of the king praising the falcon-headed ra harakhti.
this god is holding the hieroglyph meaning "user" and a feather in his right hand, with ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice, in his left.
this is a really just a large puzzle with the answer being ramesses ii's throne name, user-maat-re.
a stele on the facade records the marriage of ramesses with a daughter of king hattusili iii, which sealed the peace between egypt and the hittites.
and when at last she did begin to dream of her beloved prince she was grieved to see him stretched upon a grassy bank, sad and weary, and hardly like himself.
however, paul manages to expose her scheme and defeat ashka, who is returned as an outcast to the spellbinder world, while riana becomes the new apprentice to correon.
in order to keep the spellbinder world safe from the more advanced people from "modern" world, the gateway between the two universes is closed permanently.
i was in the air force, and served on a court martial, uh, board a couple of times, which is very similar to a jury.
i'll be right back i'm just gonna get this stuff.
all that could be seen of him was a very small black dot moving swiftly on the blue surface of the water, a little black dot which now and then lifted a leg or an arm in the air.
one would have thought that pinocchio had turned into a porpoise playing in the sun.
a lot of the same rules apply.
"i am more and more puzzled.
what in the world can the circumstances
`` what is the matter? ''
after swimming for a long time, pinocchio saw a large rock in the middle of the sea, a rock as white as marble.