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Chapter 7&8
Egyptians walked that way
Jem's assumptions as to how Egyptians would have walked is probably based on pictures of Egyptian art.
http://www.timegun.org/egypt1.html
Appomattox
a former village in central Virginia. On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E.Lee sureendered to Union General Ulysses S.at theAppomattox Court House, ending the Civil War.
http://www.nps.gov/apco/
Bellingraths
Miss Maudie is referring to Walter and Bessie Bellingrath who, in 1932, opened their large, beautiful gardens to the public. The Bellingrath Gardens are located in Mobile, Alabama.
http://www.botany.org/bsa/psb/2003/psb49-2.html
Lane Cake
cake is a quintessential Southern dessert. This cake has been around at least since the late 1800s, when Emma Rylander Lane, of Clayton, Alabama, won first prize with it at the Alabama State Fair. The Lane cake appeared in her cookbook in 1898, when it was called “Prize Cake.” However, the origins of the Lane cake are probably older than Mrs. Lane’s recipe.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-lane-cake.htm
Rosetta stone
The Rosetta stone is dated to March 196 BC, in the 9th year of Ptolemy V. The background to the setting up of the stela was the confirmation of the control of the Ptolemaic kings over Egypt. The Ptolemies were Greeks who had been ruling Egypt since the fragmentation of the Empire of Alexander the Great, and while they built temples in the Egyptian style, their lifestyle and language remained exclusively Greek. Egypt had by now become a multi-cultural society, a mixture of Greek and Egyptian, although in many parts of the country the two rarely met.
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