By Patrick Robinson
Armed with stolen U.S. army expertise, the chinese language are generating a daunting new breed of weaponry,led by means of the ICBM submarine Xia III -- a vessel that simply may be able to release a nuclear warhead around the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city.
National protection Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't enable that ensue, and he dispatches the main stealthy hunter-killer submarine within the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the darkish, forbidden waters of the South China Sea. yet then the unthinkable occurs: Seawolf, collides with a chinese language destroyer and falls into enemy palms. A crew of crafty military SEALs -- the largest exact Forces attack workforce assembled considering Vietnam -- is distributed in to loose the captive Seawolf, group and convey them domestic. the yank Eagle confronts the chinese language Dragon with the stability of worldwide energy at the line. Failure isn't really an option...
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Kings, by virtue of their many counsellors and the special trappings and rituals of kingship, were expected to be wise and sagacious. Many ancient Near Eastern collections of proverbial sayings purport to be the teachings of a king or other notable to his son or successor. The biblical Proverbs are the 'wisdom of King Solomon' addressed to his son, and the wise author of the book of Ecclesiastes introduces himself as 'the son of Da vid, king over Israel in Jerusalem'. Several such compositions survive from ancient Egypt, the best known perhaps being the 'Instructions of Amen-em-Opet'.
In comparison with those who had dug there before him, Smith brought home only a very small number of tablets - the 'DT' collection - from this, his first expedition, but there among them was indeed a fragment of the Flood, one that even filled an important gap in the narrative. This was a most impressive fulfilment of the Daily Telegraph's expectations, but the expedition was a victim of its own success. The desired fragment so exactly met the newspaper's requirements that the news of its discovery led to the expedition's early recall.
Small wonder, then, that mankind could be wayward. Uta-napishti tells his wife in Tablet XI, 'Man is deceitful, he will deceive you', and Gilgamesh duly confirms this unpalatable aspect of human nature by lying to him. The innately rebellious and unruly nature of man encapsulated in this myth of his creation also informs one tradition about early human history, first found in several Sumerian literary compositions, that in the beginning the human race roamed the land like the beasts of the field, naked but hairy, and for sustenance grazing on grass.