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Macro of a small decorative coffee cup in green and gold, with decorative Egyptian theme.
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Egyptian ruins or Chino Hills, California? Replica of the Egyptian Abu Simbel Temple. #SoCal #LosAngeles #InlandEmpire
An Egyptian goose in the low autumn sunshine.
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Ramses III’s magnificent memorial temple of Medinat Habu, fronted by sleepy Kom Lolah village and backed by the Theban mountains, is one of the west bank's most underrated sites. This was one of the first places in Thebes closely associated with the local god Amun.
At its height, Medinat Habu contained temples, storage rooms, workshops, administrative buildings, a royal palace and accommodation for priests and officials. It was the centre of the economic life of Thebes for centuries.
see large for the details on the walls
The Egyptian Goose is a loud and rather striking goose, most familiar to birdwatchers in East Anglia and the south-east of England.
This 17th century introduction to England has only relatively recently shown significant expansion in its numbers and distribution. In 1991 the population was estimated at c.900 individuals, 91% of which were in Norfolk. Since then, the species has colonised the rest of East Anglia, much of London and parts of the Home Counties.
This is another of the statues at the former palace that is now the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
The palace was commissioned by the Egyptian ruler, the Khedive Ismail, and was designed by architect Karl von Diebitsch to host French Emperor Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress Eugénie, during the celebration of the inauguration of the Suez Canal in 1869. At the Khedive's request, the architect designed it to resemble the Versailles Palace.
In 1880, the palace was seized by Ismail's creditors and was eventually leased to the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels, which turned it into "The Ghezireh Palace Hotel" in October 1894.
During World War I, the hotel served as a second Australian hospital to cope with the large number of casualties from the Battle of Gallipoli.
In 1919, The Ghezireh Palace Hotel was sold to Syrian businessman Habib Lotfallah, who converted it into a private residence.
The palace was nationalized in 1952 and eventually converted back to a hotel, reopening in 1962 as the Omar Khayyam Hotel.
In the late 1970s, two large towers were added and the entire hotel was completely rebuilt. President Hosni Mubarak presided over the grand reopening in 1982 as the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
I lived across the street from the hotel for many years as a child, and often played with my friends in its extensive gardens. Later, it became a favorite place to take my dates for dinner.
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Egyptian Geese showed up today at the regional park where I've been working part time. This was the first time I've seen them there. They are, of course, non-natives of African descent. Who knows how these 4 got here, where they came from and where they're going, but there are pockets of them breeding in Southern California. It's not uncommon to see them at some of the regional and local parks.
L’Égypte a commencé, début avril, la construction d’un cours d’eau artificiel de 174 kilomètres de long, dans le désert. Son objectif : irriguer les 2,2 millions de feddans*, soit 924 000 ha, c’est-à-dire le quart des terres agricoles égyptiennes. Le gouvernement égyptien a également construit 30 stations de relevage d'eau et un mégaprojet de traitement tertiaire des eaux usées afin de garantir une source d'eau durable. L'usine peut traiter 7,5 millions de mètres cubes d'eaux usées agricoles par jour, ce qui, « est le plus grand projet de drainage agricole au monde », a indiqué le ministre des Ressources en eau et de l'irrigation, Hani Sewilam, interrogé par le site Ahramonline. Ces infrastructures visent « à renforcer la sécurité alimentaire, à réduire le déficit d'importation de produits stratégiques, à soutenir les activités liées à l'agriculture telles que le bétail et la volaille et la transformation des produits agricoles », a complété le ministre de l'agriculture, Al-Sayed Al-Qusseir. Ce dernier s'attend à ce que la production égyptienne de céréales stratégiques augmente de 10 à 15 % du produit agricole brut actuel, en particulier le blé et le maïs, ainsi que les légumes, les fruits et les cultures industrielles. Le coût global de ce projet s’élève à 250 milliards de livres égyptiennes (environ 7,42 milliards d’euros- Md€) dont environ 1,7 Md€ pour les infrastructures en eau.
www.agri44.fr/egypte-un-fleuve-artificiel-de-174-km-pour-...
La suite de cet article de Christophe Soulard, intitulée "Bataille de l'eau", montre combien l'eau est l'objet de tensions dans tout l'est africain.
En Égypte même, visant à créer une vallée artificielle en plein désert au sud du pays, le projet de Tochka était censé régler les problèmes agricoles et démographiques de l’Égypte. Vivement contesté désormais car très coûteux et risquant de compromettre le produit des terres agricoles existant déjà en aval, ce projet a pris un retard considérable.