Word: niles
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...varsity crew will journey to Egypt for the Nile River Festival Regatta, which begins tomorrow and continues through December...
...life. In 1974's Broadway revival, Fred Gwynne brought out his cruel, vindictive side. With a flawless Southern accent that testifies to his lifelong perfection of craft, Olivier plays Big Daddy as the feudal lord of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the Valley Nile," a man born with the habit of imperial command...
...childhood in Minnesota, her first two marriages and her decade and a half of journalistic exploits. In an "I-was-somebody-too" tone she relates how Lord Beaverbrook gave her a dry kiss on the forehead and tried to persuade her to accompany him on a trip up the Nile; how she talked her way into Neville Chamberlain's suite in Munich (the toilet paper was pink, the wallpaper was blue...
...dams would also have destroyed a national treasure-geologists believe that the river was formed at least 100 million years ago and is perhaps older than the Nile. Certainly the New was already flowing when the movement of the continental plates thrust up the Appalachian Mountains, which are no youngsters as mountains go. While most Eastern rivers flow south and east and empty into the Atlantic, the New meanders north, cuts through the mountains and empties into the Ohio and Mississippi drainages. For centuries, in fact, it served as a highway for early Americans seeking to travel from East...
Where the Zulus came from no one really knows. Their ancestors are believed to have entered Africa from the Mesopotamian valley more than 10,000 years ago, following their cattle into new grazing lands up the Nile valley and finally to the southern part of the continent and what is now Rhodesia and the South African provinces of Natal and the Transvaal...