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  BILBEIS, or BELBES - Online Information article about BILBEIS, or BELBES
Bilbeis was by the Moslems defended with strong fortifications.
Bilbeis was the first halting-place of the See also:
Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BILBEIS_or_BELBES.html   (328 words)

  
  Bilbeis - LoveToKnow 1911
BILBEIS, or Belbes, a town of lower Egypt, on the eastern arm of the Nile, 36 m.
Considered the bulwark of the kingdom on that side, Bilbeis was by the Moslems defended with strong fortifications.
Bilbeis was the first halting-place of the English cavalry in their march on Cairo after the fight at Tel-el-Kebir on the 13th of September 1882.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bilbeis   (157 words)

  
 CDC - Estimating the Incidence of Typhoid Fever and Other Febrile Illnesses in Developing Countries
Bilbeis District has a population of 664,000 and comprises a rural hinterland and centrally located Bilbeis City.
Microbiology laboratory technicians at the Bilbeis fever hospital were trained in blood culture technology and retrained in basic bacteriology.
A lower typhoid fever incidence may also be consistent with reductions of other enteric diseases reported in Egypt, resulting from improved management of diarrheal disease (10) and the large and growing proportion of persons living in both rural and urban areas who have access to safe water (11).
www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol9no5/02-0428.htm   (4195 words)

  
 Bilbeis - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Bilbeis (Coptic Phelbs; Arabic بلبيس) is an ancient fortress city on the eastern edge of the southern Nile delta in Egypt.
This atrocity angered the Coptic Egyptians, who had seen the Crusaders as deliverers but had suffered as much as the Muslim inhabitants of Bilbeis.
This page was last modified 19:04, 10 April 2006.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bilbeis   (110 words)

  
 Egyptian Gazette
The Holy Family then went to Bilbeis, where they sheltered under a tree known as the Tree of the Virgin Mary.
Bilbeis became a bishopric later on and the Holy Family also passed through the town on their return.
The Holy Family left Bilbeis and headed northwest, crossing the River Nile before arriving at the Delta city of Sammanud.
www.algomhuria.net.eg /gazette/5/3.asp   (1179 words)

  
 Document title: 0743488350 - Chapter 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She, after all, was present on Bilbeis IV and is the source of much of the critical data in the report."
The flap over Central's suppression of the report on Bilbeis IV had pushed the queen herself into the background, even in Magda's own mind, and Sabium was too remarkable for that.
Attuned as she was to the nuances of bureaucratic maneuvering, she read there the warning that he no longer felt as much need to conciliate her as he once had.
www.webscription.net /W200407/free/0743488350___9.htm   (7657 words)

  
 SF REVIEWS.NET: Noninterference / Harry Turtledove
But on the planet Bilbeis IV, Service observer David Ware takes pity upon a benevolent and progressive queen dying of cancer, and persuades his team to allow him to heal her.
Bilbeis IV has become infamous among the Federacy — Ware's superiors in the Service took a much dimmer view of his actions when he got back, and history now remembers him as practically a villian — but no one can imagine how effective Ware's healing really was.
Koch is panicked that, if word of the immortal queen on Bilbeis gets out, it will be the ultimate disaster that will destroy the Survey Service forever, so she spares nothing in trying to suppress it.
www.sfreviews.net /noninterference.html   (752 words)

  
 4. Bilbeis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In this city there is a tree that is called the Tree of St. Mary because it is said that the Holy Family sat in the shadow of this tree.
It has also been reported that when Napoleon's army passed by Bilbeis, the soldiers wanted to cut some branches from this tree to burn for fire.
In Bilbeis Jesus also raised the son of a widow from the dead.
www.mallawi-demet.com /eng/holyfamily/Bilbeis.htm   (116 words)

  
 - Chapter 5
It quoted at length from the Bilbeis IV report Hovannis had been so sure he'd squelched and then went on to scream cover-up.
The report on Bilbeis IV had gone in to Survey Service Central days ago, but none of the explosions Magda expected was going off yet.
She was saying, "The Survey Service regrets the delay in response to these allegations, but did not believe they could possibly be taken seriously by anyone aware of the Service's long and successful record of integrity both within the Federacy and in its dealings with people at a pre-Federacy stage of culture.
www.baen.com /chapters/W200407/0743488350___5.htm   (6199 words)

  
 Egypt: History - Ayyubid Period
He sent his general Shirkuh and Salah al-Din Yusif al-Ayyubi (Saladin), who was Shirkuh's nephew, to get rid of the crusaders.
This turned out to be not very difficult since they had become so unpopular after the massacre of Bilbeis.
Nur ed Din appointed Shirkuh as vizier of Egypt, but he did not live long enough to make any serious decisions.
www.touregypt.net /hayyubid.htm   (1315 words)

  
 Outremer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
King Amalric summoned a council in the summer and despite the King's reluctance, it was decided to invade Egypt.
Because of the delay at Bilbeis, Amalric was unable to take Cairo by surprise.
His army was too small to consider besieging the city, so he withdrew a few miles and made camp.
crusades.boisestate.edu /outremer/21.shtml   (347 words)

  
 Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The office of the governor of Sharkia province in the east of the Nile Delta denied reports of a third incident in the Sharkia town of Bilbeis.
Police sources had said a group of gunmen ambushed police in Bilbeis, leading to an exchange of fire.
An Interior Ministry statement gave slightly different versions of the two explosions in north Sinai and said one was by a Bedouin on a bicycle carrying a bomb.
www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_164723.php   (728 words)

  
 - Chapter 2
Bilbeis IV hung in the stereo tank: a blue globe, streaked with the white and gray of clouds.
Magda voraciously studied the incoming data: it gave her the basis for whatever fieldwork she would be able to do.
She saw to her relief that Bilbeis IV—or at least this little chunk of it—was not as male-dominated as most pretechnological cultures.
www.baen.com /chapters/W200407/0743488350___2.htm   (5288 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | An escape into Egypt
The town of Bilbeis in the eastern Delta is said to have been the first community in Egypt to have welcomed the Holy Family as honoured guests.
There was once a tree at Bilbeis known as the Virgin Mary's Tree.
Not far from Bilbeis, in the Ismailia Lake region, is Mustorod, known in ancient times as Timoni Sorat.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/411/su2.htm   (4110 words)

  
 Impact of breast-feeding on Giardia lamblia infections in Bilbeis, Egypt -- Mahmud et al. 65 (3): 257 -- American ...
Impact of breast-feeding on Giardia lamblia infections in Bilbeis, Egypt -- Mahmud et al.
Impact of breast-feeding on Giardia lamblia infections in Bilbeis, Egypt
A total of 152 infants were followed from birth to 1 year of age in a rural community of Egypt to document Giardia lamblia infection and to determine the effect of breast-feeding on enteric infections by this protozoan.
www.ajtmh.org /cgi/content/abstract/65/3/257   (186 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Noninterference: Books: Harry Turtledove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When I read this I kind of got a Foundation meets Star Trek TNG feel, although let it be known that this book was written a couple of years before the beginning of TNG.
I don't know if Turtledove was trying, ut he has made the best case against noninterference that I have ever seen.
Bilbeis 4 was advancing very quickly because of their progressive queen and was probably soon to join man among the stars.
www.amazon.ca /Noninterference-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0345343387   (274 words)

  
 Queen of Heaven: The Life and Times of Mary Magdalene
Such was the hospitality of the people of Bilbeis, of every faith and belief, Miri remembered their kindness when she decided she would flee the tribulations in Alexandria.
Yusef escorted her to Bilbeis and helped secure a small farm, and despite the danger, he returned to Alexandria for he had partnerships in many enterprises there, and was concerned that he would lose his investment if he were absent from them.
Bilbeis was removed from the world and both Miri and Martha settled contentedly into their new life.
www.marymagdalene.ca /03_0390.htm   (6679 words)

  
 The Timing of Breastfeeding Initiation and its Correlates in a Cohort of Rural Egyptian Infants -- Hossain et al. 41 ...
Epidemiology Study Center Bilbeis Sharqiya, Egypt, and Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Texas, Medical School and School of Public Health Houston, Texas, USA
Bilbeis, we recruited apparently healthy, single neonates and
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues.
tropej.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/41/6/354   (330 words)

  
 The Age of Chivalry - Knight Hospitaller 1136-1309   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Hospitaller Master Gilbert d'Assailly wanted to invade and would provide 500 knights and 500 Turcopoles in return for the town of Bilbeis (a fortress-city located on the eastern edge of the southern Nile delta.) It wasn't long before the proposed invasion took place and Bilbeis was taken.
After Bilbeis the Hospitallers were almost bankrupt as they had staked everything on a successful outcome.
Gilbert d'Assaily was so traumatised that he retired to a cave to live as a hermit in 1170.
www.taoc.co.uk /content/view/94/47   (5345 words)

  
 Delta
Benha is located 48 km north of Cairo and is the capital of the Qalyubiya governate.
Bilbeis is an ancient city that lies on the eastern edge of the southern Delta in the governate of Sharqiya.
A church there marks a traditional stopping place on the Holy Family’s journey through Egypt.
www.4egypt.info /delta.htm   (1120 words)

  
 Bibliography: The Report on Bilbeis IV (Part 2 of 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bibliography: The Report on Bilbeis IV (Part 2 of 3)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Title: The Report on Bilbeis IV (Part 2 of 3)
isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/title.cgi?112322   (71 words)

  
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Cover: Dell Harris for "The Report on Bilbeis IV"
The Report on Bilbeis IV (Part 1 of 3)
www.diversebooks.com /cgi-bin/pw.cgi?8be518   (28 words)

  
 Bilbeis, City of in Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bilbeis is an ancient city that lies on the eastern edge of the southern Delta It has always been a fortress city.
It was captured during the Islamic invasion of Egypt.
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touregypt.net /bilbeis.htm   (100 words)

  
 FantaFiction - Noninterference
When the Survey Service first came to Bilbeis IV, it found a planet inhabited by humanoid aliens on the verge of civilization.
Then compassion overcame common sense, and David Ware did the one thing the Service phrohibited-he interfered.
For the future of the Survey Service was at stake-and so was the future of Bilbeis IV.
www.fantafiction.com /authors/book.asp?id=2144   (163 words)

  
 Map of Bilbeis - Bilbeis Map Search Engine
Map of Bilbeis - Bilbeis Map Search Engine
Map of Bilbeis : Map of the World > Map of Africa > Map of Egypt > Map of Bilbeis
The best web resource for Map of Bilbeis.
www.worldmapfinder.com /En/Africa/Egypt/Bilbeis   (45 words)

  
 Harry Turtledove Collections
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