The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing from southern to northern Africa. It would have been the largest...
CapeCairo is a peninsula in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on eastern Ellef Ringnes Island. Atlas of Canada Biological memoirs. International...
Cape to Cairo may refer to: Cape to Cairo Railway Cape to Cairo Red Line, the 19th century concept of a British-dominated Africa, promoted by Cecil Rhodes...
Cairo (/ˈkaɪroʊ/ KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة, romanized: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the city-state Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest...
canoe or a barge towed across with a steel cable. Rhodes' vision of a Cape-Cairo railway drove plans for the first bridge across the Zambezi. He insisted...
detected. If you are in Cairo, then there are no elephants in Africa (other than the one you placed there). Elephant test The Cape of Good Hope has been...
British colonial minister in South Africa, Rhodes advocated such a "Cape to Cairo" empire, linking the Suez Canal to the mineral-rich South Africa by...
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made the journey impossible. In recent years however, the Cape to Cairo and Cairo to Cape Town route has again become possible and increasingly popular...
in Cairo (AUC; Arabic: الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, romanized: al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in New Cairo, Egypt...
continent holding a telegraphic line, a reference to his desire to build a "Cape to Cairo" rail and telegraph line and connect most of the British colonies in...
Western Cape. The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The city is known for its harbour, its natural setting in the Cape Floristic...
original intention was for a railway extending across Africa as a great Cape-Cairo railway linking all the British territories of Africa. However, Rhodes...
him in 1895. He also devoted much effort to realising his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory. Rhodes set up the Rhodes Scholarship...
Cairo University (Arabic: جامعة القاهرة, romanized: Jāmiʿa al-Qāhira) is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across...
transcontinental railway had been proposed by Cecil Rhodes, who termed it the Cape-Cairo railway. This system would act as a direct route from the northernmost...
The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant) also known as the First Cairo Conference, one of the 14 summit meetings during World War II, took place on November...
first person in recorded history to walk the length of Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo. Ewart Grogan was educated at Winchester College and Jesus College...
(2002) is a written account of a trip taken by author Paul Theroux from Cairo to Cape Town via trains, buses, cars, and armed convoy. Theroux had lived in...
– linking Zimbabwe to Zambia, built in 1905 as part of the projected Cape-Cairo railway. King Fahd Causeway Jamuna Bridge Rupsha Bridge Karnafuli Bridge...
067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge Cape gauge ZR network was built during British colonial rule as part of the vision of the Cape-Cairo railway but the economic...
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