Word: nile
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...Cambridge City Council labored through its first meeting of its fall term Monday, tackling a range of issues from the West Nile virus to citywide rezoning to town-gown relations...
During the public comment period, a few residents raised concerns about the city's recent insecticide spraying to combat the West Nile virus. The disease was found in seven birds in Cambridge during the summer, leading the city to spray for mosquitoes over wide areas including Harvard Square...
Twain placed Huck and Jim on the river because the river was time, motion, beauty, baptism and violence, but mainly because one could not see around the bend. Civilizations are formed by bends in the river--the Nile, Congo, Thames, Yangtze--a twist of the land, water and fate that, by making it impossible to see what comes next, raises hopes of the possibility of everything...
...scientific instruments, Goddio's 35-man team had already landed two prizes. Working with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, it located another lost city, Menouthis, and the wreckage of Napoleon's flagship, L'Orient, destroyed by Britain's Admiral Nelson two centuries ago in the Battle of the Nile...
Then, about four miles offshore, Goddio's magnetometers pinpointed large structures covered by sediment 30 ft. below the surface. Nearby, they also discovered what was once the mouth of the now submerged Canopic branch of the Nile, where ancient writings had indeed placed Herakleion, a prosperous, commercial gateway to Egypt...