July 23 – Revolution Day in Egypt

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• nIt’sn official name is the Arab Republic of Egypt. It used to be calledn Kemetn (Black Land), Deshretn (Red Land), and Hwt-ka-Ptahn (House of the Ka of the god Ptah). It was the Greeks who changed then latter to Aegyptus.

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• nInn addition to the official language of Arabic, many people speakn French and / or English.

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  nThen longest river in the world, the Nile River, famously flows throughn Egypt and floods nearby lands every year, making the strip of landn on either side of the river fertile. The rest of the country isn dominated by the Sahara and Libyan Deserts.

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  nCairo,n Egypt’s capital, had the first subway system in Africa. (Actually,n now that Algiers opened its metro system in 2011, there are only twon subway systems in all of Africa.)

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• nAlmostn a third of Africa’s bloggers are Egyptians.

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• nThen Sahara Desert, which today gets an average of less than one inch ofn precipitation (rain and snow) PER YEAR, used to be a lush greenn grassland. Global climate change around 8,000 B.C.E. changed it fromn a savannah perfect for large grazing mammals to barren desert.

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  nEgypt’sn pyramids are not only the oldest of the “Seven Wonders of then Ancient World,” they are the only ones still remaining.

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• nJulyn holidays

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