Rameses the Great

Congragulations Pantagathus! But I still find it weird how close you and GO are close outside the forum.

As Egypt was warring Muhammad Ali Pasha, the appointed wali of Egypt from the Ottoman Empire, tried to take control of the nation. As the British were defeated in the first Anglo-Egyptian War Muhammad Ali Pasha tried to move quickly to eliminate any opposition to his throne in Egypt. He killed off the Mamelukes of Egypt and took full control fo the country. Muhammad Ali was of Albanian descent, but considered Egypt as one of the more prized and more free vassals of the Ottoman Empire so he took control. As he took over he modernized agriculture and technology as long as modernize the army along western lines, namely French. Anyways, he served a huge role in helping the Ottomans momentarily retake Greece after the Greeks had inflicted upon the Ottomans critical defeat. The Battle of Navarino is also a battle that is remembered as the joint Egyptian and Ottoman fleet were destroyed by a European coalition to end Ottoman dominance in Greece. There was still a stipulation if Muhammad Ali helped the sultan, he would then receive Syria. When the sultan refused Muhammad Ali took his modernized army and defeated the Turks at the Battle of Ridnayeh and again at the Battle of Nizib two decisive battles that left Istanbul virtually unguarded. Fortunately for the Turks they were save by none other than their traditional enemy, the Russians. A European delegation met with the sultan and pasha. The treaty called for Muhammad Ali not to attack and take Istanbul and return the sultan was to grant Egypt's independence and control over Syria. It was clear the Great Powers preferred a weak Ottoman Empire rather than an up and coming vigorous upstart that was Egypt. Still today he is considered a hero in Egypt. He made other nations recognize Egypt as a power once more. Although his successors debts crippled the nation and led to internal strifes leading to the colonization by Britain in the late 1800's, he was able to make Egypt an independent and considerable power. Does anyone really know this?

I'd love to see how the Steelers react when they go up to New England. We usually play better when no one gives us a chance and if there's team that can take more motivation out of being disrespected then the Patriots, it's the Steelers. With the Colts, Pats, and Steelers looking like powerhoused it'll be a very interesting playoff in the AFC this year the NFC well...

It is now reported that Mushy's Army has taken control of the nation Musharraf delclares a state of emergency. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21609019/ I expect America's foreign policy to now be pro-Indin rather than pro-Pakistan. This nation is now flipped on it's head there is chaos everywhere. A Pakistani on another forum is reporting all television shows are banned including BBC and they're now rewriting marshal law. As Jewehrul Nehru once said, "There is darkness everywhere..."

If you weren't such a delinquent, you'd be on here more often and know what is going on! Have you assassinated AoS, you...you... ragamuffin? I banished him and sent him to a remote and uninhabitable land called 'Swissconsin' haven't heard of him since.

I can help with Arabic but to note, the Semitic language began in Ethiopia so I'm not sure if the Middle East would've had specific Semitic language groups considering before then it would've been part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family.

Just a quick note, did not Sparta receive heavy support from Persia to build a navy?

FVC, Kurds were literally going into the Southeastern portions of Turkey and killed civilians running back into Iraq. So why is America's situation in Iraq any different? A case of the pot calling the kettle black perhaps? And oh yeah, the Turkish military is nothing to sneeze at.

Steelers for the Superbowl baby!

Darn it, I missed another birthday! Happy Birthday Moonlapse.

Classic GO. You can't take the American army you silly Eyetalian!

You know the harp is an Egyptian invention? Haha, just had to add that in there. I haven't posted in a while also, I'm busy with school, work, and a bunch of other stuff now I have to take SAT's soon. So stressed. Do you have any pics of your harp? Love to see 'em.

Pitt got dismantled by UCONN.

You should know, you're no 'Eyetalian' your a Roman!

Oh no, it appears in the midst of my absence I missed the guy's birthday who answers all my questions! Happy belated birthday Pantagathus!

Indeed very ineresting thank you very much ASCLEPIADES!

That's so nice you must be so proud! I hope he joins us soon. He's living my dream of studying history unfortunately when born into an Egyptian family you have no choice but to either be in medicine or engineering. It's like the first, 'You know you're Egyptian when...' Congragulations to your son!

Of course. They say she is an honors student who is expected to take accelerated courses in college. It's not like they throw her into the fire and give her a random question to respond to, they rehearse and prepare. If you go into an interview for a job you applied for, don't you know what to say before you say it? If the employer asks you a real life situation do you respond or just break? Apparently she broke. It goes from locating America on the map to 'the Iraq' and South Africa in order to educate our children and help out the Asians. To bad she was part of the 1/5 of America that doesen't know where it's located on the map. Some kids at school here think Indians and Arabs are the same thing.

It seemed to be a normal pageant of Miss. Teen USA, not much to talk about then enter

I didn't like the movie as it was completely different from the series. I loved the ones where he doesen't talk and always does everything the hard way. Like when he wanted a phone and saw that the only phone that was working was the one on display. He opened all the boxes and when he saw it had no pulse he decided to take the one on display instead.

Is anyone going to see it? All I know is as soon as it comes out I'm in brother's car to go and see it, I grew up watching Mr. Bean greatest comedy sitcom ever created.

She looks like that 6 year old in England's Got Talent! Very cute. Who won, did she get her chocolate?

Same. All I've heard is that they set up the colony but all the men went back to England for provisions saying they'll come back in 6 months but were delayed by 3 years due to the Spanish armada. Sir Walter Raleigh said if there is any trouble carve a cross into a tree. They found the word Croatoan the name of a tribe. Here's the interesting part, the word was not completed as if someone interrupted the writer. People will say then obvioulsy it was a Native American tribe but it was the friendliest tribe in the area and when asked by the colonists, they didn't hear about what had happened.

That's so amazing, I'm proud of you to! Now that's quality!