Muscle Shoals
Muscle Shoals town (1990 pop. 9,611), Colbert co., NW Ala., on the Tennessee River opposite Florence; inc. 1923. Chemicals, truck trailers, and nuts, screws, and bolts are manufactured. The river formerly descended in a series of unnavigable rapids called Muscle Shoals (c.35 mi/56 km long with a drop of more than 130 ft/40 m). The river became the site of a canal built by the state in the 1830s, but later it silted up and was abandoned; in 1890 a successful canal was constructed by U.S. army engineers. The area was bought (1933) by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which planned to develop hydroelectric power and navigation. The building of Wilson Dam (1925) and of Wheeler Dam (1936) resulted in the submersion of the Muscle Shoals rapids by about 10 ft (3 m) of water. The TVA's Environmental Research Center, the Public Power Institute, and the International Fertilizer Development Center are in Muscle Shoals.
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The lure of Lake Nasser
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 6/12/1999; 700+ words
; ...to the water. This was the highlight of a wonderful week's fishing safari in Egypt's Lake Nasser. Lake Nasser is the world's largest man-made lake, created in the 1960s by the damning of the River Nile at Aswan, and it's about 300 miles...
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EGYPT: LAKE NASSER WATER LEVEL DROPS.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 2/19/2001; 367 words
; ...Fahmi Tadhareus, Chairman of the Aswan Lake Authority. He reported that the water level of Lake Nasser had dropped by 3 centimetres to 177.2 meters, and that the volume of water in the lake totalled 132.12 billion cubic meters.
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Toshka gets ready to flow. (Power & Water).(Pumping station on Lake Nasser)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest; 12/28/2001; 700 words
; ...contract to build a pumping station on Lake Nasser to lift water into the Toshka irrigation...digging the feeder canal linking Lake Nasser with the Mubarak pump station...metres of water a second from the lake - equivalent to 29 million cubic metres...
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Six pump suppliers selected for Lake Nasser project.(Egypt)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest; 3/21/1997; 700+ words
; ...contract to build a pumping station that will lift water out of Lake Nasser into an ambitious new desert irrigation system. The pump makers...Knudsen Corporation of the US * Besix of Belgium, with Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of the US * Campenon Bernard and...
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PA discusses High Dam and Lake Nasser preservation.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 2/23/2009; 586 words
; ...the preservation of the High Dam and Lake Nasser, especially since the security of...in Aswan such as the High Dam and Lake Nasser. Gado stressed that problems...to protect] this area, he said. Lake Nasser is some 550 km long and 35...
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Lake Nasser's monster perch. (Outpost).(fishing)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sports Afield; 1/1/2002; ; 698 words
; ...the giant Nile perch in Egypt's Lake Nasser. These perch are nothing like their...displays in between reel-smoking runs. Lake Nasser, a 300-mile-long reservoir...only) sportfishing operation on the lake. Guests head out each morning in...
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LAKE NASSER RECEIVES 1.62 B CUBIC METERS OF WATER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS YEAR'S FLOOD
Newspaper article from: Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 8/22/2007; 256 words
; "Lake Nasser received 1.62 billion cubic metres of...Mahmoud Abu Zeid. The Nile water level in Lake Nasser recorded 175.16 metres Monday...of Sunday. The Nile Water level in the lake on the same day last year stood at 170...
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EGYPT: LAKE NASSER RECEIVES 1.62 B CUBIC METERS OF WATER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS YEAR'S FLOOD.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 8/22/2007; 332 words
; Lake Nasser received 1.62 billion cubic metres of the...Mahmoud Abu Zeid. The Nile water level in Lake Nasser recorded 175.16 metres Monday...level of Sunday. The Nile Water level in the lake on the same day last year stood at 170...
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Nasser's Open hopes fade
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/29/1990; ; 693 words
; ...equally gloomy for Hersey's Jennifer Nasser. Nasser, the runner-up in the state tournament...N.Y. As of Tuesday, however, Nasser was the sixth alternate in the 64...honors with 43s to lead New Trier past Lake Forest 183-236. Four-time state...
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Nasser Keys Hersey Victory
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/25/1992; ; 635 words
; ...Hersey baseliner Katherine Nasser beat Barrington serve-and...Arlington Heights. Joining Nasser in the victory column were first...Allison Femal and Susie Min. Nasser consistently hit passing shots...flawless." No. 9 Crystal Lake South (11-1, 6-0) rolled...
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Lake Nasser
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lake Nasser c.1,550 sq mi (4,010 sq km), on...more southern second and third cataracts. Lake Nasser averages c.6 mi (10 km) in width...600 ft (1,000 km) deep in places. The lake's rising waters forced more than 80,000...
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Nasser, Lake
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
NASSER, LAKE a reservoir of the nile located in southern...the limited waters of the river. The lake is named for Egypt's president who...the building of the dam, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The rising lake displaced over 100,000 Nubian inhabitants...
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Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Nasser, Gamal Abdel (1918–...x2013;84) as its President. Nasser deposed Neguib in 1954, declaring...the High Dam at Aswan. The lake created in 1960 after the building of the Aswan Dam is called Lake Nasser . It is 500 km (300...
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Aswan High Dam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...nearly 3,300 feet wide at its base. Lake Nasser, impounded behind the High Dam...reservoir formed by the dam created Lake Nasser, forcing the relocation of...statuary was raised to overlook the lake. The dam's completion permitted...
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Aswan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...11,811 ft (3,600 m) long. Lake Nasser (c.2,000 sq mi/5,180 sq...the world's largest artificial lakes, has a storage capacity of c...through evaporation. The creation of Lake Nasser required the relocation of 90...
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