The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately 1,450 km (900 mi) through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the...
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The Blue Nile were a Scottish band which originated in Glasgow. The group's early music was built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation...
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and fishing. The Nile has two major tributaries: the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile is traditionally considered to be the headwaters stream...
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The Blue Nile is a river in Ethiopia and Sudan. Blue Nile may also refer to: Blue Nile (state), a state in Sudan that is part of the Blue Nile region The...
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Blue Nile State (Arabic: ولاية النيل الأزرق Wilāyat an-Nīl al-ʾAzraq) is one of the eighteen states of the Republic of the Sudan. It was established by...
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larger being the Blue Nile. The name "White" comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale color. In the strict meaning...
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The Blue Nile Falls is a waterfall on the Blue Nile river in West Gojjam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. It is known as Tis Abay in Amharic, meaning 'great...
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subsidiary of Bain Capital. In 2022, Blue Nile was acquired by Signet Jewelers. The company that became Blue Nile began in 1995 when Doug Williams of Williams...
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Nile blue (or Nile blue A) is a stain used in biology and histology. It may be used with live or fixed cells, and imparts a blue colour to cell nuclei...
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out between the Hausa people and Funj and Berta peoples over land disputes in the Blue Nile state in southeastern Sudan, particularly the contentious...
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The Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile was an armed conflict in the Sudanese states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile between the Sudanese...
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Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (redirect from Republic of the Blue Nile)
organisation in the Republic of the Sudan, based in the states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan. The group's armed forces are formally known as the Sudan People's...
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Paul Buchanan (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
co-founder of the Blue Nile and for his solo material. Buchanan was the writer of the Blue Nile's album Hats, which was identified by The Herald newspaper...
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Blue Nile States, with Sudanese media reporting that he had been killed in an SAF airstrike. On 3 August, the RSF launched its first attack on Blue Nile...
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taken by the Blue Nile and by the Atbarah River into the Nile, while a less important amount flows through the Sobat and the White Nile into the Nile. During...
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The Blue Nile rift is a major geological structure in the Sudan, a rift with a NW trend that terminates on the Central African Shear Zone. It was formed...
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High is the fourth and final studio album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 30 August 2004 on Sanctuary Records. A single, "I Would Never", was...
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Sudan (redirect from Republic of the Sudan)
BC. The Kingdom of Kush was an ancient Nubian state centred on the confluences of the Blue Nile and White Nile, and the Atbarah River and the Nile River...
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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (redirect from Nile Dam)
gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. The dam is in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia, about 14 km (9 mi) east of the border with Sudan...
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has the largest size (1,900,000 km2 (730,000 sq mi)) whereas, of the four major tributaries to the Nile, three originate from Ethiopia – the Blue Nile, Sobat...
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Peace at Last is the third studio album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 10 June 1996 via Warner Bros. Records. Following the reissue of their...
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James Bruce (redirect from Bruce of the Nile)
confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first European to trace the origins...
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adjacent cities in the eastern Sudan near the Blue Nile. It may also refer to: Sennar (state), Sudan Funj Sultanate (1504–1821), also called the Kingdom of Sennar...
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Kordofan and Blue Nile (2011–2020) Blue Nile clashes (2022–2023) Mahdist War (1881–1899) Heglig Crisis (2012) South Sudanese wars of independence, the civil...
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Geography of Egypt (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the World Factbook)
three central African sources – the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara – totals some 1,600 km. The White Nile, which begins at Lake Victoria in...
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Hats (album) (category The Blue Nile albums)
Hats is the second studio album by Scottish band the Blue Nile, originally released on 16 October 1989 on Linn Records and A&M Records. After a prolonged...
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The Blue Nile patas monkey (Erythrocebus poliophaeus) or Heuglin's patas monkey is a species of Old World monkey found in Africa along the Blue Nile river...
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The Blue Nile Basin is a major geological structure in the northwestern Ethiopian Plateau formed in the Mesozoic Era during a period of crustal extension...
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"The Downtown Lights" is a song by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released in 1989 as the lead single from their second studio album Hats. It was written...
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Lake Tana (category Blue Nile)
Tsana) is the largest lake in Ethiopia and a source of the Blue Nile. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately...
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