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like some pharaoh of a third-world country, more interested in building monuments to himself than in creating a future for his people
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Then the cool pharaohs would just make the base bigger.
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Origin and Etymology of pharaoh
Middle English pharao, from Old English, from Late Latin pharaon-, pharao, from Greek pharaō, from Hebrew parʽōh, from Egypt pr-ʽ˒ʾ
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: a ruler of ancient Egypt
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