Red Nile: The Biography of the World’s Greatest River (73 page)

over the Kagera,
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over the Nile,
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British

acquisition of the Rosetta Stone,
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attempts to tame the Nile,
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as controlling power,
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as dam builders,
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Egyptian antipathy to,
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and Ethiopia,
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and French,
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gentry,
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and Grogan’s ambitions,
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loss of power,
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and navigability of the Sudd,
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Nile as British business,
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rivalry with US,
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and Suez Canal,
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treatment of indigenous people,
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and WW2,
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Bruce, James of Kinnaird (explorer),
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Bruey, Admiral,
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Bujagali Falls,
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dam,
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Bulugani, Luigi (artist),
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burials,
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burial alive,
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Cleopatra,
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Burton, Sir Richard Francis (Nile explorer),
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and Blunt,
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on disease,
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on slavery,
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and source of the Nile,
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and Speke,
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and Speke’s death,
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Caesar
see
Julius Caesar; Octavian

Caesarion (son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra),
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Cairo,
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crime in,
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crocodiles in,
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disease,
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Dr Ragab’s Pharaonic Village,
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hippos in,
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Jewish population,
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Memphis and,
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Napoleon’s army in,
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the Nile in,
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as pleasure town,
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revolution (2011),
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water,
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see also
Old Cairo

Cairo Tower,
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Cambyses, King,
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camera obscura, invention by Ibn al-Haytham,
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Cameron, Charles,
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du Camp, Maxime, and Flaubert,
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canals,
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Sudd swamp,
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see also
Jonglei Canal; Suez Canal

cannibalism,
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in Cairo,
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Crusaders,
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Monbuttoo,
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Niam Niam,
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pictured,
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Canoe, Peter, Lieutenant,
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canoes, Baker’s,
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canyon, ancient, at Cairo,
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Capitaine, Louis,
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Caughnawaga Indians,
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Cessna plane, in high–speed journey down the Nile,
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Champollion, Jean-François, and secret of hieroglyphics,
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change and the Nile,
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and Aswan high dam,
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the delta,
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and Suez Canal,
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changing language,
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Charles, Hippolyte,
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Charles, Prince of Wales,
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Cheesman, Major R.E.,
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childbirth, ancient Nile,
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children’s army,
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Christianity,
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in Egypt,
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in Ethiopia,
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funeral service compared to Muslim traditions,
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and Mithraism,
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and sexual abstinence,
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and visions of the Virgin Mary,
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Christie, Agatha,
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favourite Cairo hotel,
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travelling clothes,
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Churchill, Winston,
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and Aswan dam,
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and Owen Falls dam,
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The River War
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circumcision,
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class, and exploration,
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Cleopatra VII, Pharaoh,
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burial with Mark Antony,
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children,
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and Julius Caesar,
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Cleopatra’s bath,
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clothes and fashion,
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Agatha Christie,
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French influence,
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Coetzee, Hendri,
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Colet, Louise, and Kuchuk Hanem,
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constipation cure,
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Conté, Nicolas-Jacques,
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and balloon flight,
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and Rosetta stone,
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continental drift theory,
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contraception, ancient Egypt,
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Coptic Church,
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and visions of the Virgin Mary,
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Coptic language,
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replacing hieroglyphics,
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corvée,
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see also
slavery

crime

by British subjects in Egypt,
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increase during Revolution of 2011,
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worst in ancient Nile,
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crocodiles,
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ancient,
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in Cairo,
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and hippos,
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Cromer, Lord,
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and Gordon,
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measurement of the Nile,
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and Willcocks,
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crops,
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destruction of,
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slaves to cultivate,
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Curtis, William,
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da Gama, Cristóvão,
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dahabiya
(sailing houseboat),
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and Sadat,
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dams,
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and barrages,
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and bilharzia,
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effect of,
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and Willcocks,
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see also
Aswan dam

Daninos, Adrian,
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De Bono, Andrea,
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de Lesseps, Ferdinand,
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statue,
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and the Statue of Liberty,
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and the Suez Canal,
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death, and the Nile,
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Death on the Nile
(film),
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death stare of the Yezidis,
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see also
hypnosis

the Defterdar,
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Delta, Nile,
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and change,
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demotic language
see
hieroglyphics

‘dervish’,
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change of meaning to ‘Islamic fanatic’,
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Dervish army of the Mahdi,
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Kitchener’s army as conquerors,
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Digna, Osman,
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Dinka tribe,
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and Speke,
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disease(s),
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Baker’s,
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Burton on,
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and the Nile,
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see also
plague; sleeping sickness

divorce,
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in ancient Nile,
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dogs,
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in Famine Stele,
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as pets,
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donkeys, as preferred method of transport,
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dowsing,
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Druze,
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Anwar the Druze,
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du Camp, Maxime, and Flaubert,
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dugout canoes, used by Baker,
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Edison Film Company,
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Edison, Thomas, electrocution of elephant,
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Egypt

as black land,
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Herodotus on,
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Israelites’ exodus from,
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Napoleon as conqueror,
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ten plagues,
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tribes conquered by Muhammad Ali,
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veneration in ancient world,
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Egyptology,
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French,
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Eiffel, Gustav,
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elephant grass,
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elephant trails,
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elephant war 1868 in Ethiopia,
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Elephantine island,
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elephants,
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killing,
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North African flaccid elephant,
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words for elephant,
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Emin Pasha,
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Stanley’s relief expedition,
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Eppler, Johannes,
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Equatoria, rulers,
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Equatorial Egypt,
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Eratosthenes’ last will and testament,
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Ernst, Mensen,
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Ethiopia,
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and the British,
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Christianity in,
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control over water,
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elephant war 1868,
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longevity of Ethiopians and Fountain of Eternal Youth,
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as source of Blue Nile,
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and Sudan,
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and summer floods,
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see also
Abyssinia

eunuchs,
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evaporation

of the Mediterranean,
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of the Nile,
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and temperature changes,
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Exodus (Bible),
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exploration, nature of,
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Fabrice (ivory trader),
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Faidherbe
(French steamship),
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famine,
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Famine Stele,
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fanatics
see
Islam, jihadists

Farag Atiya,
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Farag, Muhammad (marksman; assassin of Sadat),
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fashion
see
clothes and fashion

fashion, French,
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Fashoda Incident,
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see also
Marchand, Jean-Baptiste

fire eaters,
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fish

and dams,
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Oxythynchus,
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Flaubert, Gustave,
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and Kuchuk Hanem,
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flies

and Petherick,
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simulium damnosum
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