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Just before 9 am, on September 6, 2008, a series of rockslides occurred after eight gigantic boulders each the size of a small house and weighing as much as 70 tons, [2] broke off from the side of a cliff of the Duweika Plateau (an extension of the limestone Muqattam formation), in the district of Manshiyat Nasser in Cairo, crashing down on the homes of the settlement of Ezbet Bekhit below.
The 2008 Egyptian general strike was a strike which occurred on 6 April 2008, by Egyptian workers, primarily in the state-run textile industry, in response to low wages and rising food costs. Strikes are illegal in Egypt and authorities have been given orders to break demonstrations forcefully in the past. [ 1 ]
An Egyptian soldier opened fire on Israeli vacationers, killing 3 adults and 4 children, as well as another Egyptian soldier. 1986 Egyptian conscripts riot: 25 February 1986 Cairo 107 A three-day riot begins in Cairo, when around 25,000 conscripts of the Central Security Forces (CSF), staged protests in and around the city. Three luxury hotels ...
Cairo (/ ˈ k ɛər oʊ / KAIR-oh) [4] is a village in Hall County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 785 at the 2010 census . It is part of the Grand Island, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area .
On 6 October 1981, Field Marshal Anwar Sadat, the 3rd President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. [1]
Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour (Arabic: رمضان عبدالرحيم منصور; c. 1980 [1] – December 16, 2010), also known as al-Tourbini (التوربيني; lit. ' express train '), was an Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 32 children and youth in the course of seven years, throughout several locations in Egypt including Cairo, Alexandria ...
Owner Ashlyn Sholar introduced Bad Manners as a pop-up coffee business, and this will be its first brick-and-mortar. The regular hours will be 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday and 8 a.m ...
The ancient burial process evolved over time as old customs were discarded and new ones adopted, but several important elements of the process persisted. Although specific details changed over time, the preparation of the body, the magic rituals, and grave goods were all essential parts of a proper Egyptian funeral.