Nile
About Nile
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeast Africa which empties into the Mediterranean Sea. At 7,088 kilometers (4,404 mi) long, it is the longest river in the world, although the volume of water it carries is much smaller than other major rivers such as the Amazon or the Congo. The Nile has played a central role in the environmental, economic, and cultural history of Africa for millennia.
On the show — 28 mentions total
They would go down to the Nile and they would wash all their clothes. One of the hazards of being a laundry man back in ancient Egypt was that it was likely that you were going to be eaten by a crocodile because they hung around on the bank so much. They must have been delighted when kettles were invented.
from 121: No Such Thing As The Sword In The Carbon Fibre, 2016-07-08 at 00:26:28 · read transcript
Other times Nile came up
That's where Thresher Sharks get their name actually. Oh really? They're serving. This is is how hardcore he is with his swimming. He hasn't swum the Nile yet, and he's been asked, why have you not swam the Nile? He said that it's neither long or challenging enough. It is like the second longest river in the world. I know. He said, it's just like a small creek.
No Such Thing As Mould Juice, 2015-08-28 · listen
That's because the Mekong River has so much water flowing down it that when it reaches the sea, it can't get the water into the sea quick enough, so it backs up and fills up a lake. I think in the wet season that lake is 10% of the size of Cambodia. The Nile was really important, of course, for the Egyptians, so much so that the new year began at the flooding. Whenever the flooding was, that was when the new year was.
32: No Such Thing As A Good Gift For Gordon Brown, 2014-10-25 · listen
Did they wait? Because, you know, you don't wake up one night and go, oh my God, there's 20 kilometres of silk where there was a river. They must have waited and just gone to and from the Nile until gradually it was just that bit too far. Then one day, they thought it's gone just a centimetre too far for me now. Let's go 20 kilometres up that direction.
No Such Thing As A Good Gift For Gordon Brown, 2014-10-24 · listen
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Coordinates: 30.0444, 31.2357