Word: nile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suddenly 10 natives appeared in the middle of camp, shooting a homemade pistol," Albright's father, Dr. Nile L. Albright '61, says. "They hacked the tents open with a machete...
...official at the Nile Company, from which he rented the office, told the Chronicle that he owed "thousands" and that Nile, too, was considering suing...
...rather sober meditation on life's tendency to disappoint. "I had hoped to die young," says Lili (Jeanne Moreau), "but now it's too late." Scarves aflutter, jewelry ajangle, her hair aflame with henna, she has just breezed in from Egypt and a past everyone once shared along the Nile. She copes by constant movement, outrageous talk and copious quantities of alcohol and tobacco. Monica (Julie Walters), the divorced mother of the bride, is all domestic bustle, dark thoughts held at bay by her many tasks -- remaking her awful old wedding dress for her daughter, considering the canapes...
EGYPT. Tired of Tut and Ramses II? Two new pharaonic sites have opened to the public for the first time in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile, across from the city of Luxor in Upper Egypt. The tomb of King Tuthmosis IV (reigned 1413-1405 B.C.), discovered in 1903, is one of the largest of the 18th dynasty. The tomb of Prince Ramses Montu-Hir Khobsh-Ef (1137-1117 B.C.), the son of King Ramses IX, was unearthed...
...grimy streets of Cairo's Imbaba neighborhood, Islamic fundamentalists have taken charge, running protection rackets and intimidating the police. Gun battles have disrupted the southern city of Asyut as heavily armed police raid the havens of militants. Terrorists have set off bombs in the cities along the Nile, where tourists, foreign residents and Egyptian Christians are usually the targets. The violence ignited by extremists and police retaliation has killed 116 people in the past year, 29 in the past month. In a brutal campaign to put down the militants, the government has rounded up thousands of suspects and ordered almost...