"Hijinx at the Sphinx".These 50 items did not exist in ancient Egypt: biplanes, sunglasses, stethoscope stethoscope (stĕth`əskōp') [Gr.,=chest viewer], instrument that enables the physican to hear the sounds made by the heart, the lungs, and various other organs. The earliest stethoscope, devised by the French physician R. T. H. , dune buggies, corn, billboards, B.C., headlights, life jackets, Jet Skis, Moses, modern-day fishermen, iPod, arches, pencil, water glasses, Garden of Eden Garden of Eden n. See Eden. Noun 1. Garden of Eden - a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were , sewing machine, horses, Taj Mahal, water taxis, telescope, George Washington, McDonald's, snow on pyramids, mountaineer, buses, camera, U.S. tourists, kangaroos, abacus abacus, in architecture abacus (ăb`əkəs), in architecture, flat slab forming the top member of a capital. In classical orders it varies from a square form having unmolded sides in the Greek Doric, to thinner proportions and , ice cream, money, dry cleaner, calendar, zero, tollbooth, tanning salon, modern instruments, tubers, thermometer, golfers, construction vehicles, jackhammer, U.S. flag, Italian ices, Sunfish sunfish, common name for members of the family Centrachidae, comprising numerous species of spiny-finned, freshwater fishes with deep, laterally flattened bodies found in temperate North America. sailboat, writing on sails, Whitestrips, dining or walking mummies. |
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