Word: nile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute was engendered when the J. G. White Corporation of Manhattan announced that it had obtained a contract from Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (otherwise known as Ethiopia) for Empress Waizeru Zauditu, to build a $20,000,000 dam across the Blue Nile at Lake Tsana...
...British contention is that the dam, if built, would jeopardize the whole water supply of the Sudan and Egypt, the life blood of those regions; for the Blue Nile, whose confluence with the White Nile at Khartum forms the Nile, is the most important tributary of the main river...
...Paris, we find, has its lures, but the call to "go somewhere," has also and the lures of the latter are apparently greater for we find ourselves wandering with the author through wild desert and dried-up-river beds that teem with game, especially buffalo. Pictures of the upper Nile, of strange places such as Makwar, of the valley of the Dinder, of Rosaries flit before us with amazing rapidity. We are able to feel the heat of the sun and enthuse over the coloring of the sunsets with the author, despite the fact that his descriptions lack the length...
...gaucherie. Before the reader has sipped at "Cleopatra's Diary" he has recalled the merits and defects of "Galahad" and adopted a standard of critical comparison which the latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile, is as distinctive because of her wickedness as Galahad is because of his virture. Erskine shoved Galahad from his pedestral and shook the temple of his shrine to its very foundation. Thomas knocked Cleopatra from an equal height and a sickening thud is the result. Erskine maintains the integrity...
News dispatches yesterday from Cairo, Bucharest, and Belgrade contain enlightening sidelights upon this undiminished war of empires. England, rather free with promises, about Egyptian independence during the war, is once more closing fast her grip on the country of the Nile. She claims special interest, and intends to enforce it, in the Egyptian army and frontiers. Egypt's hesitation about acceding to this demand will avail her nothing. More logically than ever Egypt is an essential link in Britain's Empire. Not only the Suez and the sea passage to India, but the protectorates in Traz and Palestine, the virtual...