The scarab (Scarabeus) is a genus of dung beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. They were held as sacred by the ancient Egyptians, and reproduced by them as amulets which were worn as protection against the evil eye and placed on the breast of the dead.
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Nefertiti (or Nofretete) was a Queen of Egypt and wife of the pharaoh Akhenaton. She disappeared from the records about 12 years after the marriage, and her name was defaced on monuments at some later date. A small gold scarab bearing her name, inscribed within the royal cartouche that marks the name of a pharaoh, was recovered in 1986 from an ancient wreck and suggests that she briefly ruled in her own right.
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An amulet is an object employed to protect the wearer, from harmful influences or to attract good fortune, money and the like. Scientific knowledge would suggest that amulets are superstitious nonsense with no basis in fact. However, psychology may indicate that amulets do indeed function, though not quite by 'magic'. Psychologists have long established that that attitude and belief can affect a person. Salesmen chant mantras of success, and believe in their ability. This belief makes them confident and more effective at selling. Former cancer patients who believe they are free from the disease following operations are significantly less likely to redevelop the disease compared to those who believe the disease may come back. There is then a scientific basis for the functionality of amulets. If the wearer of an amulet believes in the power of the amulet, this belief will affect their behaviour, albeit unconsciously, and in turn will improve the immune system to protect against illness, or increase confidence to help attract a mate, or increase confidence and make perception
more positive to allow the wearer to realise 'good luck'. Classic amulets include the Utchat, or 'Eye of Horus'; Ankh; Scarab; The Tau; The Tet; Swastika; Crescent and Hand.
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The Scarab was an Egyptian amulet associated with Khepera.
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The SS-21 (Scarab) is a Soviet intertially guided missile carried on the ZIL-5937 6x8 TEL vehicle. The SS-21 was introduced in 1976 as a replacement for the FROG series of unguided battlefield missiles, and offers considerable accuracy to a range of 200 km. The SS-21 can be fitted with a 10-, 100-kiloton nuclear warhead or a conventional high explosive or chemical warhead.
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The Fairchild UC-61 Forwarder (known to the British as the Argus) was an American four-seater utility-cargo aircraft of the Second World War. The
Fairchild UC-61 was a high-wing braced monoplane powered by a Warner R-500-7 super-Scarab or Ranger L-440-7 6-cylinder in-line inverted air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 198 kmh and a range of 745 km.
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The Robinson Mere Merit was an American, amateur-built, two-seater tandem light sporting biplane built by Cleo Robinson and his son Howard Robinson and as a two-thirds scale version of a 1929 Ken Royce-Rearwin aircraft. The Robinson Mere Merit was a braced biplane first flown in late 1964 and powered by a Warner Scarab 50 seven-cylinder radial air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 257 kmh and a range of 965 km.
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HMS Scarab was a British River Gunboat of 625 tons displacement designed by the Yarrow company during the Great War and launched in 1915. HMS Scarab was powered by Yarrow boilers providing a top speed of 14 knots. She carried a complement of between 54 and 65 and was armed with two 6 inch guns; one 3 inch anti-aircraft gun and ten smaller guns.
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