Word: khartoum
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...when an eclipse was due at Khartoum in the Sudan last winter, Dr. van Biesbroeck laid plans to do the job for good & all. He took to Khartoum a special telescope, 20 ft. long, and set it up in a fenced and guarded patch of desert belonging to the Sudanese Geodetic Service...
Greatest threat to his enterprise was a "maboob" (sandstorm) which blasted Khartoum three days before the eclipse. But the maboob subsided well before E-day, and Dr. van Biesbroeck got two good pictures of the starfield beyond the blacked-out sun. Then he wrapped his telescope in tarpaulin and flew back to Wisconsin. His precious plates, 17 inches square, never left his side for a moment...
...famed Mahdi whose forces seized Khartoum in 1885, and were finally routed by Kitchener...
Childhood. Naguib is a good man with a soldier's virtues. He is descended from fighters. His maternal grandfather, a lieutenant colonel, fought and died alongside Britain's famed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon, in the siege of Khartoum*; his father, Captain Youssef Naguib, marched with Lord Kitchener and a young British war correspondent named Winston Churchill to reconquer the Sudan from the Mahdi. Captain Naguib married a black-eyed Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village...
Last week Pepsi was set to take another big gulp out of Coke's Mideastern market. With plants under construction in Basra and Khartoum, Pepsi has issued franchises for other plants, costing about $400,000 each, in Bahrein and Amman...