The mystery cult of Isis in Roman Egypt was an attempt to harken back to the religion of the New Kingdom, which itself was trying to harken back to the religion of the Old Kingdom.

The following is what I have learnt by inquiry as to the qualtagh: all are agreed that he must not be a woman or girl, […] . An English lady living in the neighbourhood of Castletown told me that her son, […] called at a house in Castletown on the morning of New Year's Day, and he chanced to be the qualtagh.

File Under It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time ¶ Why take Kuwait? The main answer, of course, has to do with control of oil resources.

'Or maybe,' he went on, speaking from his boulder as from a pulpit, 'you need to beware of the post-pridesome fall.'