"The average Egyptian is extremely disappointed, seeing this as another chapter in the history of the collapse of Egypt's police forces, " said Mazen Hassan, a political-science professor at Cairo University.

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It was Germany under Hitler that changed the course of history for Egypt and the Middle East.

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Mr. ElBaradei, 68 years old, is a Cairo native with a history of standing up to Egypt's previous strongman governments even before the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.

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Any in-depth study of Jewish history in Egypt makes that plain enough.

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But rather part and parcel of Islamic history, especially in Egypt.

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Many of the ancient hierarchical world empires (Egypt, Babylon, etc.) have fat chapters in history of mathematics texts.

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Morsy became the first democratically elected president in Egypt's history in June, the candidate of the Freedom and Justice party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing.

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Mr. Knecht breaks up the story of Lucky Linda's construction by salting in some rather fun history of yachting though the ages, beginning with Pharaoh Ptolemy IV, who ruled Egypt 200 years before Christ and built a 400-foot vessel powered by several hundred oarsmen.

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"This is the first time in Egypt's political history that an elected civilian politician overrules the decisions of the heads of the military establishment, " said Omar Ashour, a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center.

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