Red Nile: The Biography of the World’s Greatest River (75 page)

massacres,
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,
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and Muhammad Ali,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and Saladin,
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see also
Baiburs

map-making, Gordon,
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maps,
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Ptolemy’s map of the Nile,
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,
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,
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Marchand, Jean-Baptiste,
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and the British,
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Marchand expedition,
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,
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Mark Antony,
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burial with Cleopatra,
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children by Cleopatra,
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,
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,
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and Cleopatra,
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,
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,
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death,
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and Herod,
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marriage, ancient Nile,
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Mary (mother of Jesus),
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,
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visions of the Virgin Mary,
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Masindi, battle of,
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Maspero, Gaston, on Seqenenre’s mummy,
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,
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mausoleum, Cleopatra’s,
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Maxim gun,
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,
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Maxim, Hiram,
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measurement, Nile,
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Mediterranean,
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evaporation,
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and rising sea levels,
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and the Sahara Desert,
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as Tethys Sea,
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Memphis,
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abandoned by Bedouin,
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disappearance,
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,
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,
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Menes (first ruler of First Dynasty),
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as builder of Memphis,
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milk, human, benefits, ancient Egypt,
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Milnes, Richard Monckton,
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,
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and Burton,
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mimicry, elephants,
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Mitterand, François,
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,
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,
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Moeris, Lake
see
Qarun, Lake

Monbuttoo, cannibalism,
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Mongols

and Baiburs,
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,
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and Mamluks,
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Morsi, Muhammad,
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Moses,
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,
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,
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exodus from Egypt,
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origin of name,
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see also
plagues

Mougel Bey (Charles Mougel),
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,
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,
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Mountains of the Moon
see
Ruwenzori

Mubarak, Hosny,
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,
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assassination attempts,
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at Sadat’s assassination,
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,
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,
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mugging,
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,
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Muhammad Ali (originally Albanian tax collector; subsequently governor of Egypt),
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,
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building of Nile barrage,
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,
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death in 1849,
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influence of French,
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massacre of the Mamluks,
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,
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and modernity,
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and Napoleon,
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plan to destroy the Pyramids,
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and sex tourism,
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story,
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Muhammad the marksman
see
Farag, Muhammad

mummification,
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Pharaohs,
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,
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,
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and Pyramids,
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Munkidh, bridge of,
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Murchison Falls,
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Murchison, Sir Roderick,
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Murray, Henry, as Baker’s patron,
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Muslim Brotherhood,
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,
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,
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Muslim law, and children of slaves,
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Muslims

Jesus and,
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and Portuguese,
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rule by, preferred by Jews,
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visions of Virgin Mary,
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see also
Islam

mutilation, to avoid military service,
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Napoleon Bonaparte,
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,
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,
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,
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and battles of the Nile,
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book reading,
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,
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as conqueror of Egypt,
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,
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,
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defeat of Mamluks,
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,
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fear of poisoning,
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in France,
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and Josephine’s unfaithfulness,
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and Muhammad Ali,
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and Pauline Fourès,
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,
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search for mistress,
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,
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and the Suez Canal,
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wish to join Royal Navy,
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Nasser, Gamel Abdul,
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and Aswan dam,
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,
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visions of the Virgin,
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see also
Lake Nasser

Nasser, Lake,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Nelson, Admiral Horatio

at Battle of the Nile,
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at second battle of the Nile,
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Niam Niam, cannibalism,
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,
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Nightingale, Florence,
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,
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,
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Nile delta
see
Delta

Nile river

author’s journeys,
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,
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character,
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as clean river,
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and control of Africa,
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controlling,
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,
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Marchand’s expedition to upper Nile,
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,
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measurement,
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see also
Blue Nile; change and the Nile; sources of the Nile; White Nile

Nilometer,
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nursing

disapproval of,
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Florence Nightingale,
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Octavian
see
Caesar Augustus

Octavian (later Caesar Augustus),
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,
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,
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,
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and Antony and Cleopatra’s children,
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and Cleopatra,
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as emperor,
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Old Cairo,
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Omdurman, battle of,
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,
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,
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,
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oral traditions
see
tradition(s)

Osiris’ penis,
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Oswell, William (big-game hunter),
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Owen Falls

dam,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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opening,
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Oxyrhynchus,
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Páez, Pedro,
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,
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papyrus rafts,
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,
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,
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penis

Herod’s,
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Osiris’,
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Peter the Bigot/Magistrate,
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Peter Canoe, Lieutenant,
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,
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Petherick, John,
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,
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and cannibalism,
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exploration,
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in gum-arabic business,
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as ivory trade,
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and slavery,
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threatened execution,
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as trader,
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,
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and Werne,
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pharaoh, identity, and Israelites’ exodus,
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,
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photographs

of Flaubert,
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,
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,
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of monuments of the Nile,
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of visions of Virgin Mary,
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plagues, ten plagues of Egypt,
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,
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Plowden, Walter,
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poisons/poisoning,
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,
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alcohol as poison,
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antidotes,
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Baker’s,
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Cleopatra’s poisons,
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,
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,
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Defterdar,
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Mamluk poison tasters,
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poison tasters,
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Pompey,
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Portuguese explorers

16th century,
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scurvy,
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Van der Post, Laurens,
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,
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Prester John,
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,
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,
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and Ethiopia,
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Prompt, Victor,
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Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemeus)

Almagest,
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map of the Nile,
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,
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,
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pygmies (Twa tribe),
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,
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Pyramid of Cheops,
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Pyramids,
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,
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building of,
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,
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,
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,
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and mummification,
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threat of demolition,
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,
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,
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pyramids of Memphis,
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,
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pyramids of Meroe,
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Qarun, Lake
see
Lake Qarun

Qarun, Lake (Lake Moeris),
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,
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crocs in,
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salination problems,
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Qasr el-Sagha, and Schweinfurth,
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rafting

beach raft,
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,
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Bujagali falls,
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and
damnosum
fly,
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and hippos,
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on the Nile,
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,
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see also
papyrus rafts

railways

Kitchener’s to conquer Sudan,
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,
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Stephenson’s in 1853,
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wooden, French,
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Ranchoup, Henry de,
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Rashid
see
Rosetta

Rassam, Hormuzd,
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,
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and Theodore of Ethiopia,
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Red Nile,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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birth,
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and Egypt,
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history makers,
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reason for name,
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,
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source,
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swimming,
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Red Sea,
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,
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,
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,
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canals linking Nile to,
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,
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as Reed Sea,
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Rehab (Egyptian girl),
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religions,
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Revolution of 1952,
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,
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Revolution of 2011,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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in 2013,
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Rift Valley,
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,
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Ripon Falls,
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,
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River War (1898),
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,
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Rizh, Wagih (photographer),
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Roland (artist and author’s friend),
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,
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,
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Rommel, Field Marshall Erwin,
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,
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spies in Cairo,
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Rosetta (Rashid),
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dam,
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Nile’s entrance to sea,
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Rosetta Stone,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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discovered by French,
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and Nelson,
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taken by British,
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and Thomas Young,
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Ruwenzori (Mountains of the Moon),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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on map,
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as source of Albert Nile,
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,
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Sabla Wangel, Queen,
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Sadat, Anwar (né el-Sadaty),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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assassination,
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as assassin’s pimp,
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and Israel,
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Sadat canal,
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Said, Muhammad,
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Saladin, Yusuf (Joseph),
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,
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,
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,
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Salafis,
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,
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salination/salt

Lake Albert,
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Lake Qarun,
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,
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lakes in the desert,
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Nile,
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,
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Samuel Baker School, Gulu, Uganda,
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,
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