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	Alexandria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexandria (Greek:, Coptic: ’, Arabic: ’, Egyptian Arabic: Iskindireyya), (population of 3.5 to 5 million), is the second-largest city in Egypt, and its largest seaport.
		One of the earliest well-known inhabitants of Alexandria during the Ptolemaic reign was the geometer and number-theorist Euclid.
		Alexandria consisted originally of little more than the island of Pharos, which was joined to the mainland by a mole nearly a mile long (1260 m) and called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia" — a stadium was a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m).
	www.globalguide.org /?lat=31.198&long=29.9192&zoom=5&name=Alexandria&wiki=0&title=Alexandria (3650 words)

	VICTORIA COLLEGE
		Victoria College was beneficiary of handsome donations from former students.
		Victoria College, long regarded a symbol of British cultural and political prestige in the Middle East was not loved by the nationalists.
		Victoria College Alexandria, with 500 students, was under the leadership Mr.
	www.egy.com /victoria/96-03-30.shtml (6913 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on Queen Victoria Essay
		Victoria was taught the grace of dance and the beauty of art in her childhood, and she learned to appreciate her future role as queen through her extensive study of British history.
		Queen Victoria aspired to be a fit and upright ruler of England, and iwth the assistance of the English government, Victoria was able to constitute order in all areas of her empire.
		Queen Victoria was the pride of England, and she was truly concerned for the well-being of her nation because everything she did was for the love, glory, and honor of her empire.
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	victoria college
		After the digging of the Mahmoudiya Canal in 1819, Alexandria was provided with a constant source of fresh water and eventually the construction of shipyards reactivated the port.
		According to Victoria College: A History Revealed -- most of the materials for which were provided by the current chairman of the Old Victorian Association Mohamed Awad -- the city grew from 6,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the 19th century to 100,000 by 1848.
		"Victoria College was unique, reflecting the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nature of a city that was like no other in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries.
	www.aaha.ch /photos/victoria.htm (1722 words)

	Hussein I - MSN Encarta
		Born in Amman, Hussein ibn Talal was a member of the Hashemite dynasty, an Arabian family that traces its roots to the prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam.
		Hussein was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt; the Harrow School in London, England; and the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England.
		At the age of 15, Hussein was introduced to the turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics when he witnessed the assassination of his grandfather and predecessor as king, Abdullah ibn Hussein, in Jerusalem in 1951.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578350/Hussein_I.html (976 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books Supplement \| 'The chain that is round us now...' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some three months later, on 15 April, the foundation stone of Victoria College was laid in the town of Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt." On this note, Victoria College: A History Revealed sets out to tell the tale of this famous school.
		Dubbed the Egyptian Eton, after Eton College in Berkshire, England, Victoria College was keen from the start to transplant the English public-school ethos, with its emphasis on games, houses, traditions, and above all on the fostering of a collective identity.
		The story of Victoria College is also that of Alexandria and of Egypt as a whole.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/617/bo5.htm (899 words)

	Victoria College, Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victoria College, Alexandria, was founded in 1902 under the impetus of the recently ennobled Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer of the Barings Bank, that was heavily invested in Egyptian stability.
		The new college was to raise the standard of Imperial education and free it from the influences of the madrassas and the ubiquitous Jesuits, both of whom made the British foreign office uneasy.
		The British Imperial-outpost phase of Victoria College ended abruptly in 1956, the year that began with the dissolution of Anglo-Egyptian cooperation and saw the Suez Crisis in October.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_College,_Alexandria (287 words)

	CBSL: Press Release
		That is one of the key findings of a new nationwide survey of college students conducted by KRC Research on behalf of The Coalition for Better Student Loans.
		The Coalition’s five-part proposal is designed to lower the cost of borrowing when students get to college, ensure funding adequate to meet educational expenses while enrolled, and make it easier to repay loans when they graduate from college.
		A college education should be accessible to any qualified student, and financial barriers should not be the reason a student does not attend our university.
	www.collegeparents.org /betterloans/newsPR20030917.html (1269 words)

	Archive Descriptions - University of Exeter Library and Information Service
		Victoria College opened in the Mazarita quarter of Alexandria in November 1902 as a British School following subscriptions from Alexandria's wealthier Judeo-British residents, including Sir Henry Edward Barker (he was Chairman of the Board of Governors 1912-1942).
		Victoria College celebrated its 50th jubilee in May 1953, and was now a school of 684 students of 28 nationalities.
		Victoria College became a state school in 1956, taking 6,000 pupils, and the English Girls College in Alexandria became the El Nasr Girls College in 1956, taking 4,000 pupils.
	www.library.ex.ac.uk /special/guides/archives/231-240/238_01.html (1211 words)

	Letters
		I was born in Alexandria in 1942 the son of British Parents.My father was the Assistant Bursar of the school in Alexandria from the early 40's until our family was expelled from Egypt at the end of 1956 following the Suez crisis.
		Although you mentioned Victoria College, I think that it would have been of interest to elaborate the role of VC during the war and its becoming the 64th General Hospital and the transfer of students to San Stefano.
		Upon graduation from Victoria College, Professor Asrat was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at the Prestigious Edinburgh University in Scotland.
	www.egy.com /victoria/VCletters.shtml (5220 words)

	Boys of Baghdad College Vie for Prime Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Now, with most of Saddam Hussein's interlopers locked up and the Iraqis preparing to select a full-term Parliament, the boys of Baghdad College, now men in their 60's back from exile, are ready to assume their place on top of the social hierarchy that they and their families once assumed would be theirs forever.
		Baghdad College, established in 1931, became the secondary school where the Iraqi capital's most prominent families sent their sons.
		Perhaps the most reliable guide to the pathways of the new Iraqi politics is the Baghdad College yearbooks from the 1950's and early 1960's, where old fl and white photographs show smartly dressed boys, their faces aglow with the anticipation of success.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news5/nyt53.htm (1156 words)

	Old school ties bind 3 key Iraqi candidates - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		Baghdad College, established in 1931, became the secondary school where the Iraqi capital's most prominent families sent their children to study.
		Before that, many such families sent to their children to Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt; Pachachi, a good deal older than the current three would-be candidates, graduated from there.
		Perhaps the most reliable guide to the pathways of the new Iraqi politics is the Baghdad College yearbooks from the 1950s and early 1960s, where old fl and white photographs show smartly dressed boys, their faces aglow with the anticipation of future success.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/12/11/news/family.php (1275 words)

	Victoria College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victoria College is or was the name of several institutions of secondary or higher education, including:
		Victoria College, British Columbia, forerunner of the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
		Victoria University at the University of Toronto, University of Toronto
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_College (196 words)

	Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexandria (Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ Rakotə, Arabic: الإسكندرية Al-ʼIskandariya, Egyptian Arabic: Iskindireyya), (population of 3.5 to 5 million), is the second-largest city in Egypt, and its largest seaport.
		Alexandria extends about 20 miles (32 km) along the coast of the Mediterranean sea in the northwest of Egypt.
		Alexandria consisted originally of little more than the island of Pharos, which was joined to the mainland by a mole nearly a mile long (1260 m) and called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia" — a stadium was a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexandria (3600 words)

	The Victoria College
		The Victoria College celebrates the end of the 30th Anniversary of the Lyceum Lecture Series with the second speaker of the 2004-2005 Series, Dr. William Kilpatrick, on November 4.
		Victoria College art students have displayed many extraordinary pieces of artwork in the Fine Arts Auditorium for the Fall Student Artshow, but you may not have seen the likes of these fine pieces of pottery or sculpture.
		On December 11, Victoria College women and children helped put some of the finishing touches, painting, and landscaping on a house that will be ready just in time for the Christmas holidays.
	www.victoriacollege.edu /events/Fall2004 (3254 words)

	Florence Nightingale (1820 -- 1910)
		In September 1856 Nightingale visited Queen Victoria at Balmoral and told the Queen and Prince Albert about everything that 'affects our present military hospital system and the reforms that are needed'.
		In 1858 a Commission was appointed to inquire into the sanitary condition of the army: it set a high value on her evidence.
		In 1859 an army medical college was opened at Chatham and the first military hospital was established in Woolwich in 1861.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/florrie.html (1752 words)

	albawaba.com: middle east news information
		For Chahine, his films were not simply a means of entertainment but a way to educate, inform and push the cultural boundaries.
		Born in 1926 in Alexandria, Egypt to a Syrian lawyer.
		Gabriel Youssef Chahine was educated at the prestigious Victoria College in Alexandria.
	www.albawabaforums.com /read.php3?f=6&t=9&a=1& (439 words)

	International Lawrence Durrell Society: The Alexandria Quartet
		Based around an archetypal framework for reading the novels, she uses lexical accounts and collocations to show unity among the volumes, as well as the importance of the lexical groups formed around the archetypally loaded images of the mirror, circle or mask, bubble and water.
		Townscape in The Alexandria Quartet." Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Quarterly 7.5 (1984): 51-68.
		"Durrell's Hermetic Puer and Senex in The Alexandria Quartet." Critique 26.2 (1985): 67-80.
	www.durrell-school-corfu.org /bibliog/bibalexandria-c.htm (10212 words)

	Louisiana College: Where Critical Thinking and Passionate Faith Connect
		Chorale, Louisiana College's largest choir, is scheduled to present their annual spring concert on April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
		When the "Heart of Spain" art exhibit was on display in Alexandria in 2003, Chorale performed a concert to go along with the theme.
		Lacey Baamonde of New Orleans, Kara Blanton of Shelby, N.C., Marsha Denny of Bentley, Robyn Ellis of Pineville, Ashleigh Galliano of Denham Springs, Anna Hutto of Minden, Meagan James of Natchitoches, Candace Ketchum of Shreveport, Victoria Mitchell of McDonough, Ga., and Kelly Relaford of Bastrop.
	www.lacollege.edu /news/2005/2005-04/05-04-04_arts_chorale.php (299 words)

	NAHSTE: Letter to Frederick Orpen Bower from William Fowler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He tells Bower that he received his dismissal from the International College 6 months after Turkey entered the war and that he had hoped to be home by now but there has been no transport available and he has not got the money to pay for his passage from Egypt.
		He has been teaching for 2 weeks in the Victoria College in Alexandria but he isn't sure whether there will be work for him after the vacation or whether the government would send him home.
		He describes Alexandria as a progressive city but tells Bower that he would prefer to be in Glasgow.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /cgi-bin/view_isad.pl?id=GB-0248-DC-002-14-201&view=basic (176 words)

	Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Arts & Museums, Exhibitions, Impressions of Alexandria, Overview
		The Exhibition is therefore a vivid documentation of the “city, half-imagined (yet wholly real)”, as Durrell describes it in The Alexandria Quartet.
		Educated at Victoria College, Alexandria, Dr. Mohamed Awad is a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering (Alexandria University), a practicing architect, historian and founder of the Alexandria Preservation Trust.
		Principal port of entry into Egypt, Alexandria’s fabled past attracted many European artists and explorers of the middle ages.
	www.bibalex.org /English/artsmuseums/exhibitions/impr/overview.htm (210 words)

	S - Personalities - Bio & Photos
		Graduated 1975 from the UNRWA Teachers College, Ramallah, specializing in Mathematics.
		From 1977 to 1991, he was an unaffiliated member of the PNC; key member of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East in the early 1980s; consultant to the UN for the International Conference on the Question of Palestine in 1983; one of two PNC members (with Prof.
		Member and president (1999) of the Modern Language Association; fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member of the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, of King's College, Cambridge, the Council on Foreign Relations, and an Honorary Fellow of the Middle East Studies Association.
	www.passia.org /palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_s.htm (1210 words)

	Ulysses Lappas (Grandi Tenori.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His father was a wealthy business man and owned a furniture factory in Alexandria with branches in other Egyptian towns.
		Due to his social position the boy attended the Averoff High School and the aristocratic Victoria College, in Alexandria.
		Gianni Galetti, the director of the International Conservatory in Alexandria persuaded Lappas father to let him take lessons in singing and enrolled him in the conservatory.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /tenors/lappas.php (1171 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Obituaries
		From his father's strong encouragement, education was important to John and therefore to the rest of the family.
		As he received his degree, he brought his sisters and brothers one by one to Alexandria to receive their college educations.
		Nana and Manal very quickly followed and were born in Alexandria in 1962 and 63.
	www.theeagle.com /stories/052006/obits_20060520073.php (587 words)

	Emet m'Tsiyon: George Antonius, the Arab Nationalist as British Imperialist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Moreover, he chose a British education for his child, sending him to Victoria College [which ran up to high school] in Alexandria.
		Victoria College seems to have been named after Queen Victoria, an imperialist if there ever was one.
		In 1920, he took a trip to the UK to raise funds for his alma mater, Victoria College.
	ziontruth.blogspot.com /2006/06/george-antonius-arab-nationalist-as.html (2273 words)

	ESC-OBOG: A History of The Cairo School English
		G. The populations of Cairo and Alexandria in the early 1900s were essentially conglomerates of diverse cultures and nationalities.
		Also worthy of note is that, at the time when The English School Cairo was going through the labour pains of its hesitant and uncertain beginnings in 1916, Victoria College in Alexandria was well established and had been in existence and operating for fourteen years.
		A measure of these successes is the fact that during the eight years the Triangular Sports Competitions with Victoria College and English Mission College were held, the English School won the Stuzzi shield outright on six occasions, tied once for top place, and lost only once.
	www.esc-obog.org /1916-1956.html (4316 words)

	Victoria Advocate - Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		VICTORIA - Atilano Lara, 78, of Victoria, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006.
		KATHERINE M. VICTORIA - Katherine Mary Whittington Wokaty, 82, of Victoria, died Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006.
		RONNIE L. VICTORIA - Ronnie L. Williams, 50, of Victoria, died Saturday, Nov. 25, 2006.
	www.thevictoriaadvocate.com /145/index.html (314 words)

	Benbrook Library District Trustees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He is employed by the Tarrant County College District as Director of Instructional Support Services.
		But it was only after her graduation from Smith College and post graduate work in England at Oxford University that she decided to make libraries her career.
		In 1963 he came to the USA for graduate studies in the University of Florida, Gainesville where he earned the Ph.D. degree in Physical and Nuclear Chemistry.
	www.benbrooklibrary.org /board.asp (549 words)

	International Lawrence Durrell Society: The Alexandria Quartet
		Notes: Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is discussed in contrast to Nabokov's Lolita and Lehmann's Echoing Grove.
		Hall, Tessa F. "Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet: Conflicting Metaphysics and the Escape From Alexandria." Diss.
		Stromberg, Robert L. "The Contribution of Relativity to the Inconsistency of Form in The Alexandria Quartet." Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Quarterly 5.SI 1 (1981): 246-56.
	www.durrell-school-corfu.org /bibliog/bibalexandria-a.htm (10124 words)

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