Red Nile: The Biography of the World’s Greatest River (74 page)

flood, summer,
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and accumulation of salt,
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and Aswan dam,
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effect of,
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failures,
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flood basins,
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as flood of tears,
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holiday after,
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and malaria,
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mythological stories,
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floods

caused by dams,
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god of the flood,
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food haute cuisine in Fashoda,
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Theodore of Ethiopia,
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football, and the Acholi,
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Fourès, Lieutenant Jean-Noël,
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Fourès, Pauline (née Pauline Bellisle),
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and Napoleon,
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France/French

aim to control Africa,
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invasion plan of Britain,
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French Nile expeditions,
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Napoleon’s campaign,
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vs. British,
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see also
Fashoda incident

French
savants
, with Napoleon,
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French troops

Baiburs’ trap,
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saved from execution by Zuleyha Hanem,
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see also
Marchand

funerals,
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ancient Nile,
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‘fuzzy-wuzzies’
see
Beja nomads

Galton, Francis,
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managing ‘savages’,
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medical advice to explorers,
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da Gama, Cristóvão,
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Gelawdewos, King,
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gender equality

ancient Egypt,
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hunter-gatherer women,
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and Florence Nightingale,
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Genesis (Bible),
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gift giving,
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and trade,
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Gish Abay (sacred spring),
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glass, in chest pendant,
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gold

dowsing for,
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Egyptian, Roman wish for,
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golden statue of Cleopatra,
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as wealth of Africa,
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Gordon, General,
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death,
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effect of Cromer’s interference,
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Gordon relief expedition,
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and Kitchener,
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scientific map-making,
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Gran, Ahmed,
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and da Gama,
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Grant, Major James,
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as Speke’s companion,
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grape crop, destruction,
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Green, Matthew,
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Grogan, Ewart,
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encounter with cannibals,
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guns

Maxim gun,
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Shrapnel shell,
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used by British,
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Hakim, Caliph of Egypt,
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plan to dam the Nile,
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Hassan al-Sabah,
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Herod, King,
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Herodotus

on breezes on the Nile,
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on crocodiles,
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on Egypt,
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on Ethiopia,
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on source of the Nile,
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and Suez Canal,
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hieroglyphics,
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2007 discovery,
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replacement by Coptic script,
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when needed,
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and Young,
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see also
Rosetta stone

hippos,
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hippo-hide whips (
kourbash
),
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Hitler, Adolf

army in Egypt,
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and Baiburs,
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Hitler as popular Egyptian name,
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and Napoleon,
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homosexual love, on ancient Nile,
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horses,
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tail hairs and Mamluk assassins,
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Hôtel du Nil, Cairo,
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Hutu tribe,
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and Tutsi,
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Hutu/Tutsi massacres (1971 and 1994),
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Hypatia,
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reputation,
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hypnosis

and Assassins,
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Burton,
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Ibn al-Nafis (physician), work on circulation of the blood,
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Ibn al-Haytham,
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and damming of the Nile,
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invention of camera obscura,
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pretends to be mad,
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Sorkhab as student,
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Ibn Wahshiya

and Champollion,
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deciphering of hieroglyphics,
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Ibrahim Bey,
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Ibrahim Pasha (son of Muhammad Ali),
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Idi Amin, and Kabarega,
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illness
see
disease

illustrations listed,
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incest, in ancient Egypt,
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intercourse
see
sex

Iroquois Indians on the Red Nile,
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Islam

funerals, and Christian traditions,
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the insane and Islamic law,
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Islamic renaissance under attack,
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Ismailis as Assassins,
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jihadists,
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murder of tourists in 1997,
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Marchand and,
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Muslims dominating the Nile,
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Muslims and Mamluks,
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Sudan,
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see also
Druze; Muslim funerals

Islambouli, Khaled (leader of assassins of Sadat),
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assassination of Sadat,
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at the Parade,
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death,
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preparation for mission to kill Sadat,
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Islambouli, Muhammad,
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Islambouli, Umm Khaled,
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island of elephants
see
Elephantine island

Ismaili Shia sect,
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Israel

border with Lebanon, and Kitchener,
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first mention,
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Israelites,
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and Egyptians,
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exodus from Egypt,
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,
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in Goshen,
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see also
Moses; plagues

ivory

trade,
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as wealth of Africa,
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Jackson, Louis (half Caughnawaga Indian),
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Jameson, James S.,
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Jesus Christ,
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jetboat, in high-speed journey down the Nile,
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jewels, Egyptian, Roman wish for,
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Jews, under Muslim rule,
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jihadists

Crusaders as,
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dervishes as,
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see also
Islam

Jonglei Canal,
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Joseph, husband of Mary, mother of Jesus,
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Joseph (son of Jacob),
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well of Joseph,
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Joséphine de Beauharnais (wife of Napoleon; Empress of France),
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Julius Caesar

and Cleopatra,
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and source of the Nile,
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successor named,
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as warrior,
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Junot, General,
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Kabarega,
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and Idi Amin,
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Kabarega Falls
see
Murchison Falls

Kabba Rega, and Baker,
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Kagera river,
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bodies from Tutsi/Hutu massacre in,
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bridge,
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cannibals in area round,
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as source of the Nile,
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Kamrasi (Bunyoro king)

and Baker,
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death,
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funeral,
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Karakush (builder of citadel in Cairo),
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Kasensero landing place,
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Khaled (assassin of Sadat)
see
Islambouli, Khaled

Khalifa (Mahdi’s successor),
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Khaneferre, Pharaoh (pharaoh possibly at time of Moses),
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Khartoum,
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and Gordon,
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and Kitchener,
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slave trade,
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see also
Sudan Kipchaks,
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Kitchener, General Horatio, Lord Kitchener,
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Kitchener’s island,
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and Mahdi’s bones,
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and Maxim gun,
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and the Nilometer,
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in River War,
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Kléber, General (Napoleon’s successor in Egypt),
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kohl-lined eye,
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Kony, Joseph,
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see also
Acholi tribe

kourbash
,
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,
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Kuchuk Hanem,
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,
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and Louise Colet,
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and Flaubert,
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,
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,
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Lancers, in battle of Omdurman,
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Lebanon, border with Israel, and Kitchener,
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Lee-Metford rifle,
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lesbianism,
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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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,
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lightbulb, invention of,
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Linant Bey (Louis Linant),
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Livingstone, David

Burton’s influence,
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and crocodile bird,
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education,
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on Lualaba,
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looting

2011 revolution,
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,
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after Theodore’s death,
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Louis IX of France,
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Lugard, Frederick,
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Luqman, and Aesop,
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Luta Nzige

meaning,
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see also
Lake Albert

Maadi (Cairo suburb),
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,
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‘Maadi man’,
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Maadi (suburb of Cairo),
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‘the Mahdi’,
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,
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bodily remains,
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and Gordon,
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,
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,
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Maimoides,
On Sexual Intercourse
,
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malaria, on the Nile,
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Mallowan, Max,
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,
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Mamluks,
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,
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assassins and Abbas,
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choice of sultan,
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defeat by Napoleon,
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