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Sudan has a native Coptic minority, although many Copts in Sudan are descended from more recent Egyptian immigrants. [7] Copts in Sudan live mostly in northern cities, including Al Obeid, Atbara, Dongola, Khartoum, Omdurman, Port Sudan, and Wad Medani. [7] Many Sudanese Copts have advanced educations. [7]
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest is a 1997 disaster television film based on Jon Krakauer's memoir Into Thin Air (1997). The film, directed by Robert Markowitz and written by Robert J. Avrech, tells the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. It was broadcast on ABC on November 9, 1997. [4]
It was like all of West Los Angeles had descended upon the hotel — it took 40 minutes just to pull into the driveway. We paid $560 for the night for a room with two beds, which doesn't seem ...
Air France Flight AF662 was flying over Iraq when the Iranian attack began at around 4:45 p.m. UTC (11.45 a.m. ET) and left Iraqi airspace “shortly before” 5 p.m. UTC (12 p.m. ET), the airline ...
In all cases, the body is assumed to start from rest, and air resistance is neglected. Generally, in Earth's atmosphere, all results below will therefore be quite inaccurate after only 5 seconds of fall (at which time an object's velocity will be a little less than the vacuum value of 49 m/s (9.8 m/s 2 × 5 s) due to air resistance).
The cooler, higher-latitudes leads to cooling of air parcels, which causes the poleward air to eventually descend. [26] When the movement of air is averaged annually, the descending branch of the Hadley cell is located roughly over the 25th parallel north and the 25th parallel south. [1]
The poem talks about merry sounds and images which accompany the children playing outdoors. Then, an old man happily remembers when he enjoyed playing with his friends during his own childhood. The last stanza depicts the little ones being weary when the sun has descended and going to their mother to rest after playing many games.