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Aswan High Dam
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Aswan High Dam

Dam across the Nile River, north of Aswan, Egypt. Built 4 mi (6 km) upstream from the earlier Aswan Dam (1902), it is 364 ft (111 m) high and 12,562 ft (3,830 m) long. Differences with Gamal Abdel Nasser led the U.S. and Britain to withdraw their financial support of the project in 1956, whereupon Nasser turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. The dam, completed in 1970, impounds the reservoir Lake Nasser and controls the annual Nile flood, releasing floodwaters when needed for irrigation; it also enables the production of great amounts of electric power. Its construction necessitated the relocation of the ancient Abu Simbel ruins.
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The Nubian samples were taken before the flooding caused by the Aswan Dam from 2 early Christian burial sites at Kulubnarti, between the second and third cataracts of the Nile River in northern Sudan.
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degree in structural dynamics from the University of Southern California and has served as an earthquake specialist on the Aswan Dam in Egypt and in Kobe, Japan.
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Deteriorating relations within the Middle East reached a culminating point in 1956 with the announcement of the nationalization of the Suez Canal by the Egyptian government following the withdrawal by the United States of funding for the Aswan Dam project.
Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force: 1956-1967 by Boyer, Robert L. / The Canadian Army Journal
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