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The Whims And Moods Of The Nile
27 September 2019
Donkeys, automobile and camels patiently plod the roads and bridges of Cairo, amidst the mosques The contrast in the city begins with its architecture. London has its chimney pots, Paris its Mansard roofs, New York its water tanks to lend them an architectural unity. Cairo is too old, with some buildings hovels of bricks, others Arte Moderne. Three thousand years of building where it seems like a good idea at the moment, under two hundred different rulers means a random collection, beginning with the Pyramids and ending with modern mosques.

James A. Fitzpatrick shouts his random facts loud enough to wake a dozing theater audience, but I think he's trying to get the attention of the Sphinx. Meanwhile, the brown Nile river rolls along.
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