During the Middle Bronze Age, scarabs were used as seals and amulets, as Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum, says in the IAA statement.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
The scarab was either used as a seal or amulet, according to Dr. Daphna Ben-Tor.
That reputation foreshadows the series’ fetish for both-sidesism and centrist consensus, at one point explicitly equating the right’s embrace of blatant untruths with the left’s enthusiasm for pronouns.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
If that fetish somehow didn’t already exist, Cronenberg likely created it with Crash.
Each is decorated with nostalgic references, like Beanie Babies, Barbie and Hot Wheels, Hello Kitty and Peanuts, a combination of Shrek, Jurassic Park and Minions, McDonald’s characters and Coca-Cola mascots.
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Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
22 May 2025
The Tennessee softball team already has discussed the ceremonial first pitch — someone suggested a pickoff throw — and rehearsed how record-breaking ace Karlyn Pickens can avoid an awkward hug with the Knoxville Smokies’ mascot.
The real Hong-rang climbed a hanok wall in an attempt to remove the talisman, but slipped and fell.
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Kayti Burt,
Time,
16 May 2025
Initials and the brand’s Eye of the Tiger motif—a design with roots in Ottoman Empire and Eastern philosophy is a modern talisman for strength and vitality—motif can also be added to bags.
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