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 "Capital (Annapolis)")
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Academy entry wins Newport-to-Bermuda
; ...to the finish, the Naval Academy entry Mameluke captured line honors for the Newport-to-Bermuda Race. Mameluke, a Nelson-Marek 49 skippered by Tom Bock...light to no winds on Monday. That allowed Mameluke, which was sailing a more westerly course...
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Stones of the Nile: the photographic discovery of Egypt.
; ...the village of Imbaba. The army stood waiting to engage the Mameluke force drawn up before them. Gesturing toward the heavy forms...centuries look down upon you. The Army of the Nile overwhelmed the Mamelukes, Cairo fell to the French, and Egypt was conquered. Sixty...
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The antidote on the Nile
; ...constructed in slavish imitation either of the Mameluke past or of the latest international style...superlatives as elaborate as the arabesques on a Mameluke dome, he describes some of the city's...its course `like a restless snake'; the Mameluke `cities of the dead' with tombs so spacious...
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Monks cling to lost pages of history
; ...and Questions of Philosophical Logic survived the last century of the Crusades. It escaped the fratricide of the Fatimid and Mameluke empires, the Christian- Druze war of 1860, the collapse of the Ottomans and the shellfire of Lebanon's civil war. But when...
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Battle of Bloomsbury
; ...hoplites of Alexander the Great and the phalanxes of the Ptolemies; by Roman legions, Byzantine cataphracts, Ottoman janissaries, Mameluke slave- soldiers. They have survived bombardment by Napoleon's artillery. But nothing has prepared them for the depredations...
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Obituary: Professor David Ayalon
; ...Jerusalem. His PhD thesis was on the Mameluke institution in medieval Egypt. It was...history of armies and warfare, and of the Mameluke institution by which so much of the military...forward, into the functioning of the Mameluke institution in Ottoman Egypt. David Ayalon...
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 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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Your questions answered?(Features)
; ...around 1360. The history of the different suits demonstrates an interplay between words, shapes and concepts. The suits of the Mameluke Empire of Egypt which introduced Europe to playing cards, were goblets, gold coins, swords and polo sticks. As polo was at...
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PROFESSOR P. M. HOLT ; Historian of the Middle East
; ...Egypt during the Crusades and in the Mameluke era which began in 1250. Born in 1918...texts with commentary of treaties between Mameluke and European rulers). Towards the end...best biography (by Peter Thorau) of the Mameluke sultan Baybars ( The Lion of Egypt, 1992...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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In ancient footsteps; Recently freed from a Zimbabwean jail for alleged visa violations, intrepid journalist Toby Harnden enjoys the vibrant humanity he discovers behind the closed doors of another of the world's pariah states, Syria.
; ...prices while the mournful voice of the muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. Little has changed since the early Ottoman or even Mameluke period. Men in keffiyehs and dishdashas clamour for freshly squeezed pomegranate juice. Determined women negotiate crowds with...
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Members of Assad's sect face uncertain future
; ...built his own monumental mausoleum of marble. Its massive, squat dome rests on thick walls in the shape of the eight- pointed Mameluke star. Inside, a few mourners stand in the thick fog of incense, their hands outstretched as they mumble the Fatiha, the opening...
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