Word: khartoum
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...woman who had bought her eleven-year-old daughter a war bond two years before, sent the Treasury a snapshot of the girl, demanded the money that was promised on maturity, explained : "You can see that she is very mature." Enough. In Khartoum, Africa, Heir Alia announced he was tired of living, stopped eating, died...
...with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed his name. Up & down the Nile banks, in Khartoum and smaller Sudan towns, priests married many more...
...Britain and France almost came to blows over possession of Fashoda, key to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Kitchener of Khartoum won the day for England...
They span the South Atlantic from the "hump" to Africa's west coast, shuttle across equatorial Africa and follow the Nile from Khartoum to Cairo, thence to Saudi Arabia and Karachi. From Cairo they fan out into Trans-Jordan and on to Teheran. From Karachi they reach across India, climb over the Himalayas and thunder across the roof of the world into China...
...Some of these regiments fought at La Coruña, Alma, Khartoum, Lucknow, Ypres and the Marne. They were in the Crimean War. They embarked for the St. Lawrence, they landed on the beaches of Gallipoli. They fought with France and the U.S., and against them...