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Перевод: Nile

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Нил [геогр.]

Тезаурус:

1. But you don't feel as insulated from Egyptian life as were those within the plate glass of the big cruisers with names like Nile Smile, Flash and Lady Diana.
2. Incidental, but significant for environmental change, is the effect that the Aswan Dam has had on the fertility of the land situated in the lower reaches of the Nile.
3. The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line, only sixty miles to the west of the Nile.
4. When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection, John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself.
5. The economy and culture of Egypt since before the pharoahs was built upon the annual flooding of the Nile; upon the rains that fall in Ethiopia between August and November, and then flow north, through the Sahara, for 2400 km to the Mediterranean.
6. The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt, the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile.
7. For the present, it has brought income: the Kenyans now export Nile perch, even to Europe.
8. Originally excavated by Pendlebury of the Egypt Exploration Society in 1936 at the Chapel of the King's Statue at el-Amarna in the Nile valley, the papyrus was probably connected with the official cult of King Akhenaton, the heretic pharaoh (1352-;1336 BC).
9. NILE BOATS AT LUXOR
10. The warning from the Nile
11. Amelia Edwards, travelling independently up the Nile in 1873, recorded: "the people in dahabeeyahs hired boats despise Cook's tourists."
12. Cook was appointed agent for Nile passenger traffic by the Khedive of Egypt in 1870 and eventually had a fleet of seventeen large vessels and about thirty-three smaller dahabeeyahs and pinnaces.
13. After the Nile had receded the land eventually appeared to die, but on the reappearance of the waters it revived again.