Cairo
About Cairo
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate. It is home to more than 9.8 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world by population with over 22 million people. Areas of what would become Cairo were inhabited from pre-dynastic and early-dynastic ancient Egypt c. 6000 years ago, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are today within the city.
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When he got to Cairo, he had a bilious complaint and decided to treat it with sulfuric acid and took so much that he immediately died.
from No Such Thing As A Molten Lava Football Pitch, 2016-07-22 at 00:16:15 · read transcript
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When I was a kid, so in Hong Kong they used to tell us that it would be vertical burials of space. Have you guys heard of that? I have heard of that, yeah. A lot of people live in cemeteries in Cairo. As in they live in cemeteries. Because there's such a housing problem that thousands upon thousands of people and the city has these enormous cemeteries. That always blows like when we found out there's this thing about 30 million people in China live in caves.
48: No Such Thing As A Pokemon-Playing Goldfish, 2015-02-21 · listen
They do, I mean, it is a really important island because they do discover stuff. We haven't just done monkeys there and sort of forgotten about it. I think it's sort of like a right of passage if you're a monkey researcher, I reckon if you said to your monkey researcher mates, hey, I'm doing a Cairo Santiago research project. You'd be the coolest kid in town. Some stuff they've discovered recently is that after any kind of trauma, scientists now think that we probably age by apparently up to eight years.
No Such Thing As Robinson Two-Soe, 2022-07-08 · listen
Lots of other British people were coming there. Exactly. Serial. cafe. That was exactly her problem. She wrote a letter back from Cairo saying, it's growing dreadfully cockney here. I must go to Timbuktu instead. That was the first reference of, you know, got to escape to a more distant place than this. Yeah. The idea that Timbuktu, the name, meaning the sticky outy belly button, I started looking into what places, how their names were derived.
No Such Thing As A Molten Lava Football Pitch, 2016-07-22 · listen
Waitrose there. Precisely. A cereal cafe. That was exactly her problem. She wrote a letter back from Cairo saying, it's growing dreadfully cockney here. I must go to Timbuktu instead. That was the first reference of, you know, got to escape to a more distant place than this. Yeah. The idea that Timbuktu, the name, meaning the sticky-outy belly button, I started looking into what places, how their names were derived.
123: No Such Thing As A Molten Lava Football Pitch, 2016-07-22 · listen
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Coordinates: 30.0444, 31.2358