The 2, 000 Year Search for the Source of the Nile River
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Date: 2024-01-04
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-MESSiAM1
What chance is there of a source being on the other side of the globe and rather pressure fed through ancient lava tubes?
It sounds crazy but I found some things of huge interest about the deepest volcanic lake in the world and it-s potential historic connection to a crater under the Indian Ocean between africa and Australia. I could go on and on but I-m curious as to parallels between searches for Nile source and Osiris.
I already tracked a native legend of Greece and of Pacific Northwest native that spoke of a tunnel once clear to go from mount Ida to literally a park in Idaho.
Not joking.
So this makes me curious after spending this week in awe of parallels between Operoh and Osiris- operoh is Macedonian for Oregon. The volcanic lake hardly changes its shore line even through snows all winter. Huge snows.
Sure it could be draining into local soils but is the tip of the underground silty ash mud water from ages of volcanic activity shooting up into the Nile or the -Aur-?
Aur and our
Ar and or
Gon and gong
Gong and khan
Khan and king
And when far away it-s maybe -phar-khan- or -phar-again-
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After researching the history of the many eruptions over centuries, one could see a people returning and leaving in cyclical fashion.
Their names of things are joyful at home and when forced to leave they are always sorrowful.
Why the Assyrians come and go in history and why the indigenous names for the volcanos here are all related to Sumerian, Akkadian and modern Azerbaijani.
The fire gods homes are these volcanic ranges in the pacific rim.
I think Yellowstone is king of such.
Yellow stone and gold ore.
Aragon and Origin.
Assyrian and Osireion.
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What chance is there of a source being on the other side of the globe and rather pressure fed through ancient lava tubes?
It sounds crazy but I found some things of huge interest about the deepest volcanic lake in the world and it-s potential historic connection to a crater under the Indian Ocean between africa and Australia. I could go on and on but I-m curious as to parallels between searches for Nile source and Osiris.
I already tracked a native legend of Greece and of Pacific Northwest native that spoke of a tunnel once clear to go from mount Ida to literally a park in Idaho.
Not joking.
So this makes me curious after spending this week in awe of parallels between Operoh and Osiris- operoh is Macedonian for Oregon. The volcanic lake hardly changes its shore line even through snows all winter. Huge snows.
Sure it could be draining into local soils but is the tip of the underground silty ash mud water from ages of volcanic activity shooting up into the Nile or the -Aur-?
Aur and our
Ar and or
Gon and gong
Gong and khan
Khan and king
And when far away it-s maybe -phar-khan- or -phar-again-
.
After researching the history of the many eruptions over centuries, one could see a people returning and leaving in cyclical fashion.
Their names of things are joyful at home and when forced to leave they are always sorrowful.
Why the Assyrians come and go in history and why the indigenous names for the volcanos here are all related to Sumerian, Akkadian and modern Azerbaijani.
The fire gods homes are these volcanic ranges in the pacific rim.
I think Yellowstone is king of such.
Yellow stone and gold ore.
Aragon and Origin.
Assyrian and Osireion.
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fun-facts
There is notvone source how can you expect a tricle it is everywhere from libya to red sea all around nile is a trough very deep water just seeps into it from central Africa 1million years ago all of North Africa was a jungle like Amazon no desert the red sea was part of it the Medi was a small lake and people could migrate to France italy on foot but the rest of Europe was ice sheet there is so much water under the desert that was made by man the ecuater and all lands were not the same Africa was cold with ice siberia was a hot antartica was like Africa at one time all you have leraned about geological history is not true all the eras all made up by people wanting to get funding 90 percent of history is not true the big bang never happened the universe has always been and will always be humans think in their own time get up eat breakfast work go to sleep and so they think God does the same That is why there is so much chaos because of humans millions of year will never evolve they make AI and robots and eventually eradicate them selves and celebrate their achievement robots will clean history of human and in a million years a robot will not have any data to its making they will ask where did you come from all human evidnce will be wiped clean animals will be supreme robots will migrate to a far place and leave earth a garden without humans
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There is notvone source how can you expect a tricle it is everywhere from libya to red sea all around nile is a trough very deep water just seeps into it from central Africa 1million years ago all of North Africa was a jungle like Amazon no desert the red sea was part of it the Medi was a small lake and people could migrate to France italy on foot but the rest of Europe was ice sheet there is so much water under the desert that was made by man the ecuater and all lands were not the same Africa was cold with ice siberia was a hot antartica was like Africa at one time all you have leraned about geological history is not true all the eras all made up by people wanting to get funding 90 percent of history is not true the big bang never happened the universe has always been and will always be humans think in their own time get up eat breakfast work go to sleep and so they think God does the same That is why there is so much chaos because of humans millions of year will never evolve they make AI and robots and eventually eradicate them selves and celebrate their achievement robots will clean history of human and in a million years a robot will not have any data to its making they will ask where did you come from all human evidnce will be wiped clean animals will be supreme robots will migrate to a far place and leave earth a garden without humans
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-davidprocter3578
It is really only since the face of Africa has been photographed from on high that the true extent of the blue and white Nile have been correctly appreciated and mapped and lets face it the source of the white Nile is still hotly debated. I think it would be fair to say that all expeditions to discover the true sources of the Nile have to that extent been unsuccessful. You omitted one of the most famous attempts by Baker who in the process rescued a young European woman from slavers and married her. Attempts were made in the sixties to run up the blue Nile in hovercraft and high powered motor boats, all were defeated by the rapids and currents along its length. Even with modern tec it could be another hundred years before any definitive answer is verified. Of course by then it maybe that the Nile will no longer reach the sea as corrupt politicians up stream hog the water to line their own pockets. Sadly I can see barriers being built across the delta of the Nile to prevent salt water intrusion and the Nile between the delta and Aswan being reduced to a stinking slimy stagnant puddle with no flow or wild life.
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It is really only since the face of Africa has been photographed from on high that the true extent of the blue and white Nile have been correctly appreciated and mapped and lets face it the source of the white Nile is still hotly debated. I think it would be fair to say that all expeditions to discover the true sources of the Nile have to that extent been unsuccessful. You omitted one of the most famous attempts by Baker who in the process rescued a young European woman from slavers and married her. Attempts were made in the sixties to run up the blue Nile in hovercraft and high powered motor boats, all were defeated by the rapids and currents along its length. Even with modern tec it could be another hundred years before any definitive answer is verified. Of course by then it maybe that the Nile will no longer reach the sea as corrupt politicians up stream hog the water to line their own pockets. Sadly I can see barriers being built across the delta of the Nile to prevent salt water intrusion and the Nile between the delta and Aswan being reduced to a stinking slimy stagnant puddle with no flow or wild life.
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-ucheehQ
I was on holiday in Egypt at 9 or 10 years old, and there's two visual memories that stand out to me to this day. One is our train ride from Luxor to Cairo, where a minor sand storm partially obscured the pyramids from view - I vividly remember seeing a massive darker shape looming up through the sand and dust, gradually taking shape until it was unmistakably triangular.
The other was, as we drove up from Hurghada to Luxor, the entire stretches of land surrounding the Nile, a vibrant green landscape with crops and orchards and greenery, and its sudden and complete change into desolate sand and rock.
Awe-inspiring.
Without exaggeration, those two sights have shaped so much in my life; it would have been completely different had I never been to Egypt.
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I was on holiday in Egypt at 9 or 10 years old, and there's two visual memories that stand out to me to this day. One is our train ride from Luxor to Cairo, where a minor sand storm partially obscured the pyramids from view - I vividly remember seeing a massive darker shape looming up through the sand and dust, gradually taking shape until it was unmistakably triangular.
The other was, as we drove up from Hurghada to Luxor, the entire stretches of land surrounding the Nile, a vibrant green landscape with crops and orchards and greenery, and its sudden and complete change into desolate sand and rock.
Awe-inspiring.
Without exaggeration, those two sights have shaped so much in my life; it would have been completely different had I never been to Egypt.
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-pdruiz2005
At 9: 13. The Romans also highly prized Egypt because it produced the most taxes, by far and away, of any of their provinces. The taxes not only came from those bumper crops of wheat produced by the Nile. Taxes also came from the intensive trade Egyptian merchants had with India and the rest of Asia through the Red Sea routes that led to the Indian Ocean trade network. It's estimated that Egypt at times represented 25% to 30% of the annual tax amounts taken in by the whole of the Roman Empire from around 0 AD to 250 AD. Egypt was that important to the budgetary viability of the Roman Empire.
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At 9: 13. The Romans also highly prized Egypt because it produced the most taxes, by far and away, of any of their provinces. The taxes not only came from those bumper crops of wheat produced by the Nile. Taxes also came from the intensive trade Egyptian merchants had with India and the rest of Asia through the Red Sea routes that led to the Indian Ocean trade network. It's estimated that Egypt at times represented 25% to 30% of the annual tax amounts taken in by the whole of the Roman Empire from around 0 AD to 250 AD. Egypt was that important to the budgetary viability of the Roman Empire.
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-abiytaye2233
I don't know where you get your facts about the source of Nile or Abay in Ethiopian local language. What Victoria lake implies to the river is, it makes the point that it is the longest river in the world where as the contribution of water to the down stream country mostly Egypt and Sudan is Blue Nile which starts from leak Tane from Ethiopia. Do you and your audience know that Ethiopian contribute the 86. 4% of the water flow to the river? So ask your self what does one conclude a river starting point reference. the volume of water or length? full of misinform
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I don't know where you get your facts about the source of Nile or Abay in Ethiopian local language. What Victoria lake implies to the river is, it makes the point that it is the longest river in the world where as the contribution of water to the down stream country mostly Egypt and Sudan is Blue Nile which starts from leak Tane from Ethiopia. Do you and your audience know that Ethiopian contribute the 86. 4% of the water flow to the river? So ask your self what does one conclude a river starting point reference. the volume of water or length? full of misinform
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-biniyamzewde3450
You should conclude the source of Nile is Ethiopia since it provided about 90% of the water and you gave much emphasis to the white Nile which contributes only 10% of Nile River which is not fair. You should also mention about the expedition by James Bruce and his travel account of his journey to the source of Blue Nile. It seems you are trying to distance Nile from Ethiopia and secretly supporting the Egyptian cause! whatever you are doing Ethiopia is the rightful source of Nile and It had a natural right to use it for its development efforts!
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You should conclude the source of Nile is Ethiopia since it provided about 90% of the water and you gave much emphasis to the white Nile which contributes only 10% of Nile River which is not fair. You should also mention about the expedition by James Bruce and his travel account of his journey to the source of Blue Nile. It seems you are trying to distance Nile from Ethiopia and secretly supporting the Egyptian cause! whatever you are doing Ethiopia is the rightful source of Nile and It had a natural right to use it for its development efforts!
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fun-facts
Blue Nile in Ethiopia contribute 70% of the water and may be 90% of the sediment ftom the vegetative high land of Amhara, Wollo Zone, Western Oromia, and Low lands of Beni-Shangul Gumuz (with potential gold resources. Is there any knowledge of placer gold mining along Nile Delta?
More over the Geopolitics of Nile had subjugated the DEVT OF ETHIOPIA IN GRNERAL AND THESE LOCALITIES IN PARTICULAR, eg, Irrigation banning etc. So, EGYPT SHALL REWARD the country and these localities for the past ATROCITIES
RATHER THAN CHALLENGING. Thank you
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Blue Nile in Ethiopia contribute 70% of the water and may be 90% of the sediment ftom the vegetative high land of Amhara, Wollo Zone, Western Oromia, and Low lands of Beni-Shangul Gumuz (with potential gold resources. Is there any knowledge of placer gold mining along Nile Delta?
More over the Geopolitics of Nile had subjugated the DEVT OF ETHIOPIA IN GRNERAL AND THESE LOCALITIES IN PARTICULAR, eg, Irrigation banning etc. So, EGYPT SHALL REWARD the country and these localities for the past ATROCITIES
RATHER THAN CHALLENGING. Thank you
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-zigzag4273
At the dawn of recorded history, I was there.
Without me your great civilisation would have been but a lifeless desert.
I have witnessed the rise and fall of your kingdoms and the rich sediments I have provided went on to feed an empire.
I am both Blue and White, sluggish and rapid.
And yet despite my importance.
You did not know from whence I came.
My journey is not just across half a continent, but a journey through centuries of time.
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At the dawn of recorded history, I was there.
Without me your great civilisation would have been but a lifeless desert.
I have witnessed the rise and fall of your kingdoms and the rich sediments I have provided went on to feed an empire.
I am both Blue and White, sluggish and rapid.
And yet despite my importance.
You did not know from whence I came.
My journey is not just across half a continent, but a journey through centuries of time.
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-fentawalemu8017
It has been more than a decade since Ethiopia started the Renaissance Dam, thats the biggest Mega project in Africa. Abay, Nile has been useless for thousands of years and now it's going to useful. Egypt has nothing wth Nie, its the property of Ethiopia and Ethiopians and only Ethiopians have the right to do anything on the source.
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It has been more than a decade since Ethiopia started the Renaissance Dam, thats the biggest Mega project in Africa. Abay, Nile has been useless for thousands of years and now it's going to useful. Egypt has nothing wth Nie, its the property of Ethiopia and Ethiopians and only Ethiopians have the right to do anything on the source.
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-user-gv6mg8ih5j
well since by weight the river more than 80% comes from Ethiopia, but its a lie when they say they Egyptians never knew where it come from. through out 2000 years Egypt invaded Ethiopia more than 330 times to control upper Abay/ Nile valley but failed all the times. so if they succeeded you anyone else wouldnt have said that
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well since by weight the river more than 80% comes from Ethiopia, but its a lie when they say they Egyptians never knew where it come from. through out 2000 years Egypt invaded Ethiopia more than 330 times to control upper Abay/ Nile valley but failed all the times. so if they succeeded you anyone else wouldnt have said that
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-donniebrown8311
Ethopia is the sorce of the Nile!
You are thT racist that you can't say that the nile sorce is Ethopia.
You have to say 2000 years in search for the nile socrce you people are sick!
That why y'all trying to steal Sudan today for it history because it is link to egypt and Ethopia
Your lie can't. stand.
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Ethopia is the sorce of the Nile!
You are thT racist that you can't say that the nile sorce is Ethopia.
You have to say 2000 years in search for the nile socrce you people are sick!
That why y'all trying to steal Sudan today for it history because it is link to egypt and Ethopia
Your lie can't. stand.
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-Geodiode
What are your experiences of the world's (possibly) longest, and most storied river? Have you travelled along it? Most likely in Egypt. Or perhaps Lake Victoria or the rapids near there? Or even the Blue Nile in Ethiopia? Or perhaps you just dream of going to see these fabled waters. Either way, let us know your thoughts!
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What are your experiences of the world's (possibly) longest, and most storied river? Have you travelled along it? Most likely in Egypt. Or perhaps Lake Victoria or the rapids near there? Or even the Blue Nile in Ethiopia? Or perhaps you just dream of going to see these fabled waters. Either way, let us know your thoughts!
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-zewduAsifaw-yf4uy
We don't know and we don't want to know what Nile means, but we know what Abay is for us.
Absolutely Abay --- is the great, the grand, the grace!
Abay --- is the name of Ethiopian beloved river.
We Care about Abay not the Nile.
When they care about Abay --- then we will care about the Nile.
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We don't know and we don't want to know what Nile means, but we know what Abay is for us.
Absolutely Abay --- is the great, the grand, the grace!
Abay --- is the name of Ethiopian beloved river.
We Care about Abay not the Nile.
When they care about Abay --- then we will care about the Nile.
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-11361va
I come from Homa bay kenya. And when we were kids we were told stories of river nile beginning from Mbita ( kenya near rusinga island) from where it flows deep under lake Victoria such that if a vessel capsized near the place the remnants are to be found in Uganda where the river flows to the surface
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I come from Homa bay kenya. And when we were kids we were told stories of river nile beginning from Mbita ( kenya near rusinga island) from where it flows deep under lake Victoria such that if a vessel capsized near the place the remnants are to be found in Uganda where the river flows to the surface
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fun-facts
John Hanning Speke stated that the true source of the Nile is just upstream from the Dam at JINJA where lies an engraved stone tablet on the side of the river, I visited this site and looking into the river the water spews wildly! Churning crazily! I believe this as the source of the Nile!
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John Hanning Speke stated that the true source of the Nile is just upstream from the Dam at JINJA where lies an engraved stone tablet on the side of the river, I visited this site and looking into the river the water spews wildly! Churning crazily! I believe this as the source of the Nile!
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-janakjodhan7982
Noone discovers rivers. They have always been there, soon after vegetation and marine life. You do not name a lake in Africa after awoman in Europe who never sailed or swom in it.
Much of Africa and Latin America histories need to be recertified.
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Noone discovers rivers. They have always been there, soon after vegetation and marine life. You do not name a lake in Africa after awoman in Europe who never sailed or swom in it.
Much of Africa and Latin America histories need to be recertified.
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-Inflorescensse
I went on the whitewater at the head of the Nile in Jinja, Uganda. It was absolutely the least safe and most fun I've ever had!
Boat flipped half a dozen times, was often in free fall.
A few days after we left several New Zealanders died.
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I went on the whitewater at the head of the Nile in Jinja, Uganda. It was absolutely the least safe and most fun I've ever had!
Boat flipped half a dozen times, was often in free fall.
A few days after we left several New Zealanders died.
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-donniebrown8311
Well their no evidence for this so- called lie about Moses being in a basket floating down the Nile!
That is like the 3 wise men rode 15000 miles in 3 day on camel backs whor younthink you fooling lieing -
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Well their no evidence for this so- called lie about Moses being in a basket floating down the Nile!
That is like the 3 wise men rode 15000 miles in 3 day on camel backs whor younthink you fooling lieing -
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fun-facts
A third contender for the world's longest river, besides the Amazon and the Nile is the Mississippi - Missouri in the US. If the Missouri and Lower Mississippi are regarded a single river they rival the other two.
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A third contender for the world's longest river, besides the Amazon and the Nile is the Mississippi - Missouri in the US. If the Missouri and Lower Mississippi are regarded a single river they rival the other two.
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-Siloguy
I don't think Burton ever saw Lake Victoria, Speke made that side expedition on his own. Burton also didn't think Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile but that it had many feeder sources.
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I don't think Burton ever saw Lake Victoria, Speke made that side expedition on his own. Burton also didn't think Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile but that it had many feeder sources.
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-melakumehari6631
deliberately little is mentioned about the Blue Nile since the Blue Nile contribution is huge more than 85 % of the water Nile and fertile soil started from an Ethiopian highlands
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deliberately little is mentioned about the Blue Nile since the Blue Nile contribution is huge more than 85 % of the water Nile and fertile soil started from an Ethiopian highlands
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fun-facts
A very strange image at 9: 24. What secret information did Jean-Andres Rixens know about the pre-Christian grooming habits of Egyptians in the late 1800's that modern people now emulate?
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A very strange image at 9: 24. What secret information did Jean-Andres Rixens know about the pre-Christian grooming habits of Egyptians in the late 1800's that modern people now emulate?
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fun-facts
I remember doing my mass communication course from 1991 to early 1992 and learning that the source of the Nile was in two countries i. e. Ethiopia and Sudan. The blue and white Nile
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I remember doing my mass communication course from 1991 to early 1992 and learning that the source of the Nile was in two countries i. e. Ethiopia and Sudan. The blue and white Nile
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-klubmusix3848
a wide area? then follow it basin height radius for water following it natrural lowest n easiest floiw backinto it 360 perimeter rolling into it central storing table
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a wide area? then follow it basin height radius for water following it natrural lowest n easiest floiw backinto it 360 perimeter rolling into it central storing table
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-LIZZIE-lizzie
What were the names on the Lakes and Falls before the British seized up it?
That's quite interesting. They should bring them back to their original names.
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What were the names on the Lakes and Falls before the British seized up it?
That's quite interesting. They should bring them back to their original names.
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fun-facts
The Hindu holy scriptures did mention the source as a big swamp near the mountains of the moon. Obviously the ancient Hindus did trade with the East Africans
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The Hindu holy scriptures did mention the source as a big swamp near the mountains of the moon. Obviously the ancient Hindus did trade with the East Africans
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-louwsaviour6475
The Nile originates in Central Africa, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi.
This is undisputable.
The original Egyptians came from there as well.
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The Nile originates in Central Africa, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi.
This is undisputable.
The original Egyptians came from there as well.
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fun-facts
Still Egypt try to deceive Ethiopia which is wrong let's use this water together. In all unrest in Ethiopia we think Egypt is/was behind it.
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Still Egypt try to deceive Ethiopia which is wrong let's use this water together. In all unrest in Ethiopia we think Egypt is/was behind it.
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-hurricane7950
Used to live in Nairobi (Kenya) and often stayed overnight on the banks of lake Victoria.
Thanks for the extensive information.
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Used to live in Nairobi (Kenya) and often stayed overnight on the banks of lake Victoria.
Thanks for the extensive information.
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-ripvanwinkle2002
pointless twaddle
the source of the Nile was discovered by James May and two other blokes.
its established fact.
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pointless twaddle
the source of the Nile was discovered by James May and two other blokes.
its established fact.
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-goorgert1364
If you REALLY want to know where the source of the Nile is, just ask Jeremy Clarkson, whose genius knows no bounds.
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If you REALLY want to know where the source of the Nile is, just ask Jeremy Clarkson, whose genius knows no bounds.
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fun-facts
2023/ 09/13 the sole source of the Nile is River Kuja of Kisii Kenya, which empties its water into the Lake Victoria
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2023/ 09/13 the sole source of the Nile is River Kuja of Kisii Kenya, which empties its water into the Lake Victoria
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fun-facts
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