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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 12:33 Written by Administrator Monday, 30 August 2010 12:33
The Egyptian Federation for Motor Sports in collaboration with the Automobile and Touring Club of Egypt held the first annual Egypt Desert Challenge. This was a 3 day rally which was scheduled to be held from the 30th of April to the 2nd of May 2009. Some of the features were longer technically demanding stages, a modified car category and a standard car category, doctor cars on track, and lots and lots of dune crossings… Map Link: www.efms.com.eg Day 1: SS1 Day 2: SS2 – Bonus Stage Day 3: SS3 Results Link: www.efms.com.eg Results: Car # / Team / Car / Pilot / Nationality / Copilot / Nationality / Category / StageTime / Penalty Bonus / Overall Time / Time Diff. / Category Pos. / Overall Pos. 102 / RALLY RAID EGYPT / Land Cruiser / AHMED EL SIRGANY / EGYPTIAN / ALAIN BESONCON / EGYPTIAN / T1 / 3:01:21 / 0:00:00 / 0:00:00 / 3:01:21 / 0:00:00 / 1st T1 / 1st Overall 105 / EL KHAYAT / Cherokee / NADER EL KHAYYAT / EGYPTIAN / SHERIF EL ALLEM / EGYPTIAN / T2 / 3:04:00 / 0:02:00 / 0:03:30 / 3:02:30 / 0:01:09 / 1st / T2 / 2nd 110 / RALLY RAID EGYPT / Cherokee / KAREEM EL ZANATY / EGYPTIAN / KAREEM EL HAMAWAY / EGYPTIAN / T1 /3:13:43 / 0:01:00 / 0:04:12 / 3:10:31 / 0:09:10 / 2nd / T1 / 3rd 108 / ABU YOUSEEF / Land Cruiser / EL SAID ABU SEIF / EGYPTIAN / HUSSEIN ABU YOUSSOF / EGYPTIAN / T1 / 3:17:57 / 0:01:00 / 0:04:09 / 3:14:48 / 0:13:27 / 3rd / T1 / 4th 101 / ECURIE EGYPTE / Cherokee / AZZAM EL FAROUQY / EGYPTIAN / AHMED BADR / EGYPTIAN / T1 / 3:44:17 / 0:00:00 / 0:00:00 / 3:44 …
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 12:33 Written by Administrator Monday, 30 August 2010 12:33
An estimated 16 million landmines and unexploded munitions from World War II continue to maim thousands of local herders in the northern town of el-Alamein in Egypt. The landmines pose not only a humanitarian hazard, but remain a huge obstacle to the economic development of Egypt’s coast which is believed to be rich in oil and gas reserves and potentially lucrative tourism destinations. The Egyptian government says that de-mining the el-Alamein battlefields alone could cost billon. Al Jazeera’s Ayman Moyheldin reports. August 1, 2010
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 12:33 Written by Administrator Monday, 30 August 2010 12:33
Egypt may not be the first place you’d look for whales, but once upon a time the Wadi Hitan desert was underwater and teeming with the sea giants. Geologist Philip D. Gingerich announced his team had excavated the first known nearly complete skeleton of a Basilosaurus isis. The 50-foot-long (18-meter-long), 40-million-year-old fossil will now be shipped to Michigan, where experts will preserve it. Later they will return the fossil to Egypt along with a complete cast of the skeleton. The first of the truly gigantic whales, Basilosaurus had the serpentine shape of a sea monster and short, sharp teeth for hunting sharks and other prey. Unlike today’s whales, it had no blowhole—the ancient behemoth had to raise its head above water to breathe. What’s more, Basilosaurus still had the feet it inherited from its land-dwelling ancestors, according to Gingerich, who works for the University of Michigan and is a National Geographic Society grantee.
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