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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of northeast Egypt in the Nile Delta. It was a religious center for the worship of the cat-headed god Bast.
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Egyptian, the owner shaved his eyebrows as a mark of grief, embalmed the defunct animal in a consecrated house, and carried it to be interred in a considerable city of Lower Egypt, called 'Bubastis' -- an
Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856
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Lower Egypt, called Bubastis, in which Isis was greatly venerated.] [Footnote 68: _Apis.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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Can you imagine the howling if they left Bubastis out?
We watched Watchmen | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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Maybe a Bubastis videogame where you roam the cavernous halls of Karnak waiting for Adrian to come home would be more appropriate.
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The only two things in Watchmen beside the squid that really bend reality are Dr. Manhattan and Bubastis, so i think the squid might ruin the movie for some viewers.
New Watchmen Trailer Will Premiere Online on Thursday Night | /Film 2008
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Except your acute hearing detects the quiet footfall of Bubastis, the Cat god.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Fortunately, Goode has had a chance to see the "genetically engineered polar leopard kind of thing" named "Bubastis" that accompanies him around his base and appears in one of the promotional posters for the film.
Matthew Goode On Ozymandias’ Sexuality And CGI Creatures 2008
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The rare representations that have been kept of bas reliefs in Thebes and in Soleb for Amenhetep III, another series in Bubastis for Osorkon III, grant an important place to the Grand royal wife.
Exhibit of Egyptian Queens Jan 2008
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The rare representations that have been kept of bas reliefs in Thebes and in Soleb for Amenhetep III, another series in Bubastis for Osorkon III, grant an important place to the Grand royal wife.
Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008
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Zakázik (pronounced Zigázig) gave a name to the flourishing town which has succeeded to old Bubastis and of which I have treated in
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