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Authors: Robert Twigger
Sandow, Eugen,
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Sandstede, Hans,
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‘Sarah’ (digger),
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Sass, Florenz (later Florence Baker q.v.),
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savants
, French, brought to Egypt with Napoleon,
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Scheherazade,
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schistosomiasis
see
bilharzia
Schweinfurth, Georg August,
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on cannibalism,
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Scott-Moncrieff, Colonel Colin,
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Scottish explorers,
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Seqenenre Tao II, Pharaoh,
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mummy,
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sex
abstinence,
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acts in public,
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almé
,
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in ancient Egypt,
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Egypt’s courtesan culture,
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Eppler’s fantasies,
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Maimonides on,
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Turin Erotic Papyrus,
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under Muhammad Ali’s rule,
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see also
gender equality; homosexual love
Shajarat al-Durr,
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choice of new husband,
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with dead husband,
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death,
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Shrapnel, Henry,
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silt,
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as antimalarial,
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and fertility of land,
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flood-borne, life-giving,
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Lake Nasser and siltation,
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Sitt al-Mulk (the Red Queen),
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slaves/slavery,
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Baker’s attempt to abolish slavery,
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and the British,
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Elephantine island,
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enslavement of Israelites by Egyptians,
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‘Ethiopians’ as slaves,
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Gordon’s attempt to abolish slavery,
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Mamluks as slaves,
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modern,
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slave-trader armies,
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Theodore’s attempt to abolish slavery,
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as wealth of Africa,
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white,
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on the White Nile,
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see also
corvée; Luqman; Mamluks
sleeping sickness,
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‘slim’
see
AIDS
smallpox,
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sources of the Nile,
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Alexander the Great’s search,
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ancient knowledge,
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and Baker,
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Bruce’s lies,
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debate between Burton and Speke,
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Duke of Abruzzi and,
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and Ethiopia,
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Jinja,
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Kagera,
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Muhammad Ali’s expedition,
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Pedro Páez’s discovery,
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Petherick’s discovery,
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pygmies at,
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and Sadat,
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and Stanley,
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stories,
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see also
Blue Nile; Nile River; White Nile
Speke, John ‘Jack’ Hanning,
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and Burton,
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with Burton from Zanzibar,
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deafness,
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and Dinka,
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expedition with Grant,
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lack of racism,
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and Lake Albert,
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measurement of fat ladies,
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meeting with Bakers,
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Nile as mountain stream,
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and Petherick,
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and source of the Nile,
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debate with Burton,
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Sphinx,
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Stanley, Henry Morton,
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‘discovery’ of pygmies,
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and Emin Pasha,
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as explorer,
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and Galton,
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In Darkest Africa
,
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life after exploration,
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and Marchand,
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and Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori),
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search for Livingstone,
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Statue of Liberty, New York,
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Stephenson, George,
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earliest Egyptian stories,
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hatred of stories and Asperger’s syndrome,
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modern revival of storytelling,
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and the Nile,
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Nile as river of stories,
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Sudan
army coup,
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and the British,
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Cameron and,
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civil war,
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damnosum
in,
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and Kitchener,
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and the Maxim gun,
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Nile in,
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evaporation,
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North vs. South,
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Petherick in,
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slaughter of Sudanese in River War,
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slavery,
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South Sudan, independence in 2011,
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Southern Sudan,
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tribes conquered by Muhammad Ali,
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see also
Khartoum; Sudd
Sudd swamp,
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canal,
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diseases,
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Petherick in,
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see also
Dinka
Suez Canal,
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aborted plans,
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British involvement,
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French involvement,
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as great engineering feat,
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in WW2,
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surfing the Nile,
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Surkhab (Ibn al-Haytham’s student),
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swords
Baggara,
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the Mahdi’s sword,
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Roman,
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Syene
see
Aswan
Tahrir Square,
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American involvement,
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Bruce at,
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Wingate and,
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Tanganyika, Lake,
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Emin Pasha and,
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as source of the Nile according to Burton,
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Speke and Burton’s investigation,
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Stanley’s circumnavigation,
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terrorism, number killed,
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Tethys Sea
see
Mediterranean
Theodore of Ethiopia,
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(passim)
Thesiger, Wilfred,
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Thoth, Book of,
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The Thousand and One Nights
,
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Tis Abay,
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tobacco,
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Toshka project,
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tradition(s)
and change,
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Egyptian Christianity,
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oral, geography of Africa and the Nile,
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Tschol (chief of Wadj Koing),
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Turin Erotic Papyrus,
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tusks
hippos,
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Tutsi tribe,
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as children of Ham,
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and Hutu,
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Tutsi/Hutu massacres (1971 and 1994),
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Twa tribe (pygmies),
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Twin Towers collapse,
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Umm Sabrine,
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United States
see
America (United States)
Van der Post, Laurens,
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Victoria, Lake,
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British plans,
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relative heights,
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and Owen Falls,
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perch in,
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and Ripon Falls,
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as source of the Nile,
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and Tutsi/Hutu massacre,
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see also
Kasensero landing place; Owen Falls; Ripon Falls
Virgin Mary
see
Mary (mother of Jesus)
visions of the Virgin Mary,
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war(s)
American Civil War as model of future warfare,
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armaments as proportion of injuries,
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effect of war,
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Franco-Prussian,
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religious perspective,
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religious war in Abyssinia,
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and technological improvements,
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war effects,
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world wars and the Nile,
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see also
battles; River War
Warasura tribe,
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water
weapons
battle of Omdurman,
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see also
guns
weather, cold or wet weather in Egypt,
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,
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Wegener, Alfred,
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Werne, Ferdinand, on source of the Nile,
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,
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White Nile,
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character,
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source, Stanley’s discovery,
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whitewater rafting
see
rafting
Willcocks, Sir William,
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,
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and Cromer, Lord,
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witchdoctors,
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Wolseley, General Lord
as leader of Gordon Relief Expedition,
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,
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request for Canadian boatmen,
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women
at the battle of the Nile,
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as breeding machines,
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disguised as men on ships,
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working sailboat on the Nile in 21st C,
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