The Master of Suspense was also a master of romance, as seen in all-time masterpieces like Rebecca, Notorious, and Vertigo.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

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