Word: giza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rioting spread to the nearby towns of Tanta, Beni Suef and next day to Giza, across the Nile from Cairo. There Egyptian police, with British Major Lees at their head, met Egypt's young patriots at the great Abbas Bridge. Five times Major Lees shouted to them to go back, then a flying bottle knocked him down. The Briton rose to his knee, took out his pistol, killed one Egyptian, wounded three others. Street fighting then began in earnest. Dead at week's end were eight Egyptians; wounded were more than 200 Egyptians and police...
...Sphinx of Thebes is not to be confused with the male Sphinx of Giza, in Egypt. Assyria, the Grecian and pre-Grecian settlements in Asia Minor, the Mayans of Yucatan also had their sphinxes...