Word: nile
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...Augustus) defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. A marble relief, part of a frieze replete with symbols of Egypt and the Mediterranean, depicts a couple engaging in sexual intercourse aboard a boat. And a terracotta oil lamp shows a female figure, amid a Nile-like landscape, squatting on a phallus atop a crocodile. To the poet Lucan, she was a "wanton daughter" of Macedonian kings...
...views access to the river as a matter of simple rights as well as a symbol of sovereignty. Other current disputes involve Turkey, Syria and Iraq (the Euphrates); Israel and Syria (the Sea of Galilee); Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (the Jordan); Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and others (the Nile); Senegal and Mauritania (the Senegal); and Iran and Afghanistan (the Helmand). ? In some places, water that is shared by nations has been poisoned - sometimes accidentally, as in last year's Romanian cyanide spill in the Tisza and Danube Rivers, and sometimes naturally, as in arsenic poisoning of groundwater in India...
...more pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas and rainfall scarcer on agricultural land. But if the rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 88 cm, enormous areas of densely populated land - coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh - would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 3 ft., enormous areas of densely populated land--coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh--would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 1 m, enormous areas of densely populated land?coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh?would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...