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...French expedition under Major Marchand declined to obey Lord Kitchener's demand to withdraw from Fashoda on the River Nile. The two forces glared at each other for days, while a heated diplomatic duel was fought between Paris and London. Finally, French Minister Delcasse gave way; war was narrowly averted; France agreed to recognize that "the whole Nile really lies within the British sphere of influence...
Only The New York World let pass the opportunity to mongerize. Said the World: "The Mitchells toured the Continent about five months and made a trip down the Nile. They will return at once to Philadelphia...
...preached in Africa. The discovered 'Black Madonna' meant that He does not reject the negro race from His family and would be willing to have His Mother belong to that race. Here then is living contact to be made with the religious myths and dogmas of the Nile Valley in ancient days in the midst of a swarming Mahammadan and Christian city of our time...
...interior galleries is oriented toward the pole star. The pyramidal cubit (635.66 millimeters) is exactly one ten-millionth of the earth's polar radius. Cheops is oriented to within five minutes of arc to modern latitude and longitude. Its meridian divides the Delta of the Nile and the habitable continents into two equal parts...
...combined circulation of Cairo's newspapers is, however, probably not over 180,000 at maximum. No less than seven New York papers and four Chicago papers have each more circulation than the entire newspaper sales of the bejournalized city of the Nile...