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Antrim
Town (pop., 1981: 22,000) and district (pop., 1995 est.: 49,000), Northern Ireland. The town borders Lough Neagh. In 1798 it was the scene of a battle in which several thousand nationalist insurgents led by Henry J. McCracken were defeated by the British. A busy market center, Antrim town was formerly an important locale for the linen industry. Also the name of a former Northern Ireland county, the area it covered has evidence of human inhabitation dating to c.6000 BC. Anglo-Norman adventurers arrived in the 12th cent. AD, and the area became part of the earldom of Ulster. The invasion by Edward Bruce from Scotland in 1315 caused the decline of British power. In Northern Ireland's 1973 administrative reorganization, the county was divided into several districts.


Anubis
Ancient Egyptian god of the dead, represented as a jackal or as a man with the head of a jackal. In the Early Dynastic period and the Old Kingdom he was preeminent as lord of the dead, but he was later overshadowed by Osiris. Anubis was associated with the care of the dead and was credited with the invention of embalming, an art he first practiced on the corpse of Osiris. Later assigned the role of conducting souls into the underworld, he was sometimes identified in the Greco-Roman world with Hermes.


Sanusi
N. African Muslim theologian. He received his religious training in Fè s, Morocco, which was under strong French influence at the time. He became convinced that the Islamic community needed to revitalize itself in order to shake off foreign domination. Using tactics he had developed among Bedouins in the Hejaz, he organized tribes in Cyrenaica to resist Italian domination, founding a militant mystical movement, the Sanusiya (1837), that helped Libya win its independence in the 20th cent. Idris I was his grandson.

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