We take a slow pony ride along the calm western banks of the Nile.
Ethiopia claims to be the source of about 85% of the total water in the Nile.
Right now, at least six new bridges are being built over the Nile Rivers.
Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, is determined to dam his bit of the Nile.
Ghana long ago dammed the River Volta, Egypt the Nile, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique the Zambezi.
They also torched a Brotherhood office in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla, a security official said.
Britain's victory over the French fleet on the Nile in 1798 ended Napoleon's plan to invade India.
Pioneer of the Nile's trainer, Bob Baffert, on the other hand, is going for his fourth Derby victory.
But of course everything else about the Nile is different, like a scene from the Babar children's books.
Those who settled in the Nile Valley were forced to abandon nomadic pastoralism for lack of summer rains.
Miletus also had a trading station at Naucratis, the Greek emporium on the Nile delta founded circa 650 B.
Mubarak was born May 4, 1928 in the Nile Delta village of Menufiyah.
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Egypt, for instance, seems to be stuck with the catastrophic Aswan dam, which is holding back the Nile's silt.
Strel, the Slovenian who has also swum the Yangtze, Mississippi and Danube, says the Nile is on his to-do list.
But the ancient rite, common in the Nile Valley and other parts of Africa, has remained particularly prevalent in Egypt.
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If seaplanes could land on the Thames, McClean reasoned, then why not on the Nile and other rivers in Africa?
The Nile-side luxury hotel, the Semiramis InterContinental, has been closed after masked men looted it early on Tuesday, terrifying guests.
As the story goes, the businessman was so enraged that he took the crayfish and dumped them in the Nile.
In the Nile city of Beni Suef, farmer Ashour Darwish attended a crowded Muslim Brotherhood rally, eager to hear Morsi speak.
Protesters overnight waged a standoff outside the Nile TV offices, with some tossing Molotov cocktails and police responding with tear gas.
He was an Italian army captain, drowned in the Nile in the first world war, who spoke 74 languages, including Latin.
To the east of Old Cairo, a limestone ridge marks the edge of the Nile valley and the beginning of the desert.
The price of wheat fluctuated wildly, too, when the Nile ran low.
The Nile crocodile was demoted to Appendix II in 1981, a measure that allowed farmed populations to meet the demand for skins.
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Ain Shams University researchers say the crayfish infestation of burrows is causing segments of the Nile Delta's water canal network to collapse.
But interrupting the natural flow of the Nile was not without problems.
In Cairo, the protesters ransacked one Brotherhood office, while in Mahalla in the Nile Delta the Islamist movement's headquarters was set on fire.
The Nile's warm waters and abundant food supply helped the crayfish evolve, Khalil says, to reproduce at twice the rate of other species.
Transfixed by Uganda's economic success in the south, outsiders neither knew nor cared about a bush war the other side of the Nile.
Though Egyptian agriculture was (and still is) based on irrigation, the flow of the Nile is controlled ultimately by rainfall patterns at its headwaters.
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