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	Bitter Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bitter Lake is the name of a lake in the state of New Mexico, near Roswell
		Bitter Lake is the name of a lake in the U.S. State of South Dakota, near the town of Waubay
		Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal in Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bitter_Lake (155 words)

	Suez Canal - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The canal consists of two parts, north and south of the Great Bitter Lake.
		The first ship to pass through the canal did so on 17 February 1867 and it was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony on 17 November 1869 (the proceedings had begun the day before); Giuseppe Verdi wrote the famous opera Aida for this ceremony.
		South of the Great Bitter Lake is the Ahmed Hamdi tunnel, built in 1983.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Suez_Canal (575 words)

	Genesis Files
		This journey to the western banks of Bitter Lake is about 12 miles which could be obtained in a day's journey from Etham.
		The Bitter Lake is to their east and to their west is the Nile River.
		Based on the assumptions that the locations of Rameses and Succoth are correct, Great Bitter Lake seems to be the most likely place that the miraculous parting of the Red Sea occurred.
	www.genesisfiles.com /Exodus_RedSea.htm (2115 words)

	Encyclopedia: Suez Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The canal comprises two parts, north and south of the Great Bitter Lake, linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea.
		The Darius Inscriptions read: Seal of Darius I, showing the king hunting on his chariot, and the symbol of Ahuramazda Darius the Great (Old Persian DÄrayawuÅ¡: He Who Holds Firm the Good), was the son of Hystaspes and Persian Emperor from 521 BC to 485 BC.
		A United Nations force (UNEF) was established to maintain the neutrality of the canal and the Sinai Peninsula.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Suez-Canal (3081 words)

	The House of Saud's Eternal Dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Descendants of former US president Franklin D Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's first king, Ibn Saud, celebrated this month in Miami the 60th anniversary of the first Saudi-US summit at the Suez Canal's Great Bitter Lake, where the foundations were laid for a "special relationship" between the two countries based on an oil-for-security alliance.
		Unlike the town councilors, the education minister wields a great deal of influence, not least over the minds of the next generation of Saudis already steeped in a school curriculum that oozes anti-Semitism and the celebration of jihad.
		Only one thing can be said for certain: 60 years after that historic meeting at Bitter Lake, the al-Saud will continue to try and square the circle of appeasing the anti-Western Wahhabis at home while pacifying those infidel allies abroad.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=17221 (1541 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There is the palpable smell of the bitter dust that comes up from the alkali flats at the end of the dry seasons, and the smell of rain from the wide-mouthed canons.
		This valley is a narrow one, a mere trough between hills, a draught for storms, hardly a crow's flight from the sharp Sierras of the Snows to the curled, red and ochre, uncomforted, bare ribs of Waban.
		Since no lake can be at the highest point, it is possible to find plant life higher than the water borders; grasses perhaps the highest, gilias, royal blue trusses of polymonium, rosy plats of Sierra primroses.
	www.webroots.org /library/usanativ/tlolr003.html (9086 words)

	Suez Canal - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Before the construction of the canal, also some transport was conducted by offloading ships and carrying the goods overland between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
		The first ship to pass through the canal did so on 17 February 1867 and it was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony on 17 November 1869; Giuseppe Verdi wrote the famous opera Aida for this ceremony.
		Because of leakage problems, in the period 1992-1995 a new water-tight tunnel was built inside the old one.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /s/su/suez_canal.html (507 words)

	Article 84
		This difference (which reaches its maximum of about 0.20 meter in September), beside the great evaporation at the Bitter Lakes, causes the predominance of the Southward current in duration and velocity.
		(2) The Bitter Lakes with a surface of about 250 Km² reduce the vertical movement of the tide to a minimum between Km.
		(2) The tidal volume of the Bitter Lakes is very large compared to the tidal volume of the Southern section.
	www.muslimtents.com /abdelazeem/CanalandLakes/CL084.htm (659 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Seattle Neighborhoods: Broadview & Bitter Lake -- Thumbnail History
		The Broadview/Bitter Lake area was a timbered land of Douglas fir and cedar, often eight feet in diameter, inhabited by Native American lake people who gathered and fished from abundant resources.
		Bitter Lake is neither owned nor controlled by the City of Seattle.
		The lake is within walking distance of the new library and retirement homes and is backyard to the elementary school and community center.
	www.historylink.org /output.cfm?file_id=3287 (1571 words)

	[No title]
		Lake Powell is at the center of the image.
		The result of the 110 m high dam was the formation of Lake Nasser.
		STS111-E-5472LU09R9Suez Canal north of Great Bitter Lake near Qantara, EgyptPH12LHayman Fire south of Denver, nadir is very close to Denver and the terrain looks similar to that in the ISS005 ESCs that were positively identified as Hayman.
	earth.jsc.nasa.gov /debrief/STS111/S111.xls (563 words)

	Pheasant Country \| Walleyes like Bitter Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At its deepest, the lake is 27 feet.
		Because the lake is so large, it can be confusing when it's time to head back to the ramp.
		The lake is dishpan shaped, except for the west and southwest sides.
	www.pheasantcountry.com /news/Story.cfm?ID=216 (712 words)

	Rachel Bronson on President Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz - The Meeting at Great Bitter Lake - Council on Foreign ...
		For a week in early February, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the shape of post-war Europe.
		The summit ended on February 11, 1945 and FDR departed for a rendezvous at the Great Bitter Lake, a waypoint along the Suez Canal in Egypt, with Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al-Saud.
		In this conversation she provided the historical context of the meeting and perspective on the relationship that resulted from FDR's and Ibn Saud's rendezvous at Great Bitter Lake.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=8144 (480 words)

	Into the Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 6 mile width works out to give the Israelites enough time to cross before they could be overtaken by Pharaoh's army (leaving the Israelites on the land and Pharaoh's army in the middle of the lake).
		Notice the anomaly of dark lines on the ground to the left near the middle of the lake.
		Legends say this lake may have once been connected to the Red Sea.
	www.genesisfiles.com /RedSeaCrossing.htm (203 words)

	The Waters of Babylon
		There has never been a great Tom, except the genius Hardy, whom I once longed to emulate, and the warrior Thumb, with whom all I share is physical size, and perhaps, ambition.
		It was not hot by summer desert standards, but warm enough (Brighton on a June day), and some few of his fellows, men who had not previously left their native land, had crept up to the deck to sleep, snuggled beneath blankets, to escape their dank, overcrowded cabins.
		It could not be, they were, technically, at sea, actually at anchor in the Great Bitter Lake, halfway point of the Suez Canal, waiting for dawn and the pilot to guide them farther south.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/stevens-waters.html (2315 words)

	Did Israel Cross the Red Sea
		There is, in fact, one wide, shallow lake which meets these requirements, as well as a few smaller such lakes, on the route of the Exodus.
		The largest, by far, is Great Bitter Lake; it is about forty kilometers long, north-to-south, and about ten kilometers wide at the widest place.
		A number of printed commentaries (in English) include maps showing a hypothetical route across Great Bitter Lake (apparently correct), yet state in the text that the pertinent water body was the Red Sea.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1998/PSCF9-98Tanner.html (2809 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There is promise there of great wealth in ores and earths, which is no wealth by reason of being so far removed from water and workable conditions, but men are bewitched by it and tempted to try the impossible.
		On rare nights, in the places where no grass grows between the shrubs, and the sand silvers whitely to the moon, one sees them whisking to and fro on innumerable errands of seed gathering, but the chief witnesses of their presence near the spring are the elf owls.
		Jimville does not know a great deal about the crust of the earth, it prefers a "hunch." That is an intimation from the gods that if you go over a brown back of the hills, by a dripping spring, up Coso way, you will find what is worth while.
	www.infomotions.com /etexts/literature/american/1900-/austin-land-781.txt (23956 words)

	Maritime Topics On Stamps, Great Bitter Lake Locals
		The canal was officially closed and the ships had to anchor in the Great Bitter Lake.
		Within three days it became clear that the canal was going to be blockaded for an indefinite amont of time due to the deliberate sinking of vessels.
		In October of 1967, all 14 captains and crews got together aboard the British ‘Melampus’ and founded the 'Great Bitter Lakes Association'.
	www.shipsonstamps.org /Topics/html/gbla.htm (1083 words)

	Murphy
		Upon arrival at Great Bitter Lake, Murphy was detached and ordered to Jidda, Arabia, to transport King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and his party to the Conference.
		The destroyer got underway immediately with her valuable supercargo settled in a tent on her forecastle and arrived Great Bitter Lake on the 15th.
		With her passengers disembarked, the warship then sailed for New York for a minor yard period, Joined an antisubmarine "killer" group on duty off New England and Nova Scotia, and then in May escorted one of the last convoys to Oran, Algeria, and back.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Base/1250/murphy.html (749 words)

	Business Wire: Grandsons of Former President Roosevelt and Kin... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		February 14, 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the historic meeting between then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz on board the U.S.S. Quincy in Egypt's Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal.
		In addition, veterans who served on the U.S.S. Quincy, as well as the U.S.S. Murphy which transported King Abdulaziz to Great Bitter Lake, will be honored.
		In addition to the historical significance, the event's emphasis will be on the development of personal contact between Americans and Saudis, including promoting and expanding small and medium size business.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:128253953&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (823 words)

	Saudi-US Relations - Interview: Rachel Bronson - FDR Ibn Saud Meeting
		Two weeks before he went to Great Bitter Lake he sent a memo to the king saying he would like to talk about oil; although oil is not the main part of the conversation as far as I can tell.
		Churchill met with King Abdulaziz after the Great Bitter Lake meeting with FDR but it just didn't go as well.
		There were statements that FDR was a great man and it was confirmed by the meeting.
	www.saudi-us-relations.org /newsletter2005/saudi-relations-interest-03-17.html (2612 words)

	AMEU Printer Friendly version of 'The Day FDR Met Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On a deck covered with colorful carpets and shaded by an enormous tent of brown canvas, a large fl-bearded man in Arab robes, his headdress bound with golden cords, was seated on a gilded throne.
		An American team led by the engineer Karl Twitchell had identified areas of the country where irrigation was feasible, and a team dispatched by Aramco was growing useful crops on the royal experimental farm in al-Kharj, where its pumps were pulling up large quantities of water from underground.
		Great Britain had supported and subsidized me for twenty years, and had made possible the stability of my reign by fending off potential enemies on my frontiers.
	www.ameu.org /printer.asp?iid=261&aid=507 (6303 words)

	2002 VOC Duyfken Voyagie: Captain's Log (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The approaches to the high main span appeared to be about a kilometre long.
		We passed through Lake Timsah, then more canal, till at midday we anchored in Great Bitter Lake in dead calm water.
		We then slowly made our way through the lake heading for Little Bitter Lake then the remainder of the lake to Suez.
	www.duyfken.com /voyagie/log/default.asp-id=1551.htm (202 words)

	Hood Park - Mcnary Lock and Dam Lake Wallul, Washington camping
		Hood Park - Mcnary Lock and Dam Lake Wallul is in one of the more scenic areas of Washington, Hood Park - Mcnary Lock and Dam Lake Wallul is a good place to enjoy the outdoors.
		Lakes are great, Bitter Lake Reservoir is a lake that's close to Hood Park - Mcnary Lock and Dam Lake Wallul.
		This is a good area for people who like lakes, Bitter Lake is a lake around here and since you might be in a lake visiting mood you can always check out nearby Echo Lake.
	www.hikercentral.com /campgrounds/112803.html (496 words)

	Modern Wonders: The Suez Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Red Sea Canal, consisted of two parts: the first linking the Gulf of Suez to the Great Bitter Lake, and the second connecting the Lake to one of the Nile branches in the Delta.
		The announcement triggered a swift reaction by Great Britain, France, and Israel, who all invaded Egypt less than two months later.
		Today, approximately 50 ships cross the canal daily, and, with the threat of war long gone, the cities and beaches along the Bitter Lakes and the Canal serve as a summer resort for tourists.
	ce.eng.usf.edu /pharos/wonders/Modern/suezcanal.html (622 words)

	Suez Canal Article, SuezCanal Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was built between 25 April 1859 and 1869 by a French company (Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez —Universal Company of the Suez Ship Canal) led by Ferdinand deLesseps while the plan for the project was created by AloisNegrelli, an Austrian engineer, thecanal was owned by the Egyptian government and France.
		The previous bridgewas destroyed in 1967 during the Arab-Israeli conflict.
		Because of leakage problems, in the period1992–1995 a new water-tight tunnel was built inside the old one.
	www.anoca.org /el/bridge/suez_canal.html (557 words)

	suez
		The north-bound and south-bound pass in the middle, the Great Bitter Lake, where we halted for a spectacular barbecue lunch.
		A stamp buff on board told me that after the 1973 war and subsequent closing of the canal, a number of ships were trapped in the Lake for years.
		Beyond the Bitter Lakes we passed more, rather newer cities, such as Ismailia, with monuments, bridge projects and such.
	chnm.gmu.edu /courses/butler/sas/suez.htm (1238 words)

	Tanner on the Red
		Tanner misses this point and so erroneously sees a tension between the main text and footnotes of the NASB (1st and 2d ed.) and NIV (although these translations also leave open the possibility of the Israelites crossing elsewhere in the Red Sea).
		To do so would be to anachronistically give the idea that the Hebrews of Moses' day conceptualized these two bodies of water as in some way disunited due to their geographical separateness, when-if the Bitter Lakes model is correct-they actually thought of them as in some way united due to their geographical proximity.
		If so (and possibly this is not how God did it), then admittedly such Bitter Lakes' "walls" would have been more modest than Cecil B. De Mille's ones.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1999/PSCF6-99McGrath2.html (1037 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Red Sea
		Formerly its commerce was great, and it has much increased since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
		Their disagreement is chiefly due to the difficulty of ascertaining the exact extent of this western arm of the Red Sea at the time of the Exodus.
		On the supposition that at that time the Gulf of Suez estended northward through the large Bitter Lake to the Timsah Lake, many writers maintain that the crossing was effected at a point between these two lakes then joined only by a shallow connexion.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12688a.htm (723 words)

	Egypt information facts and data
		The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations.
		The completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1971 and the resultant Lake Nasser have altered the time-honored place of the Nile River in the agriculture and ecology of Egypt.
		A rapidly growing population (the largest in the Arab world), limited arable land, and dependence on the Nile all continue to overtax resources and stress society.
	www.ciaworldfactbook.info /egypt.html (366 words)

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