* The Suez Canal appears in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, where it marks the end of T. E. Lawrence's march across the Sinai Peninsula to report to his superiors in Cairo.

The film, which has broken every Egyptian box-office record, centered on Nasser during the 1956 Suez Crisis.

Tyrone Power played de Lesseps in the movie Suez ( 1938 ), a film over which de Lesseps ' family sued for libel, claiming it was too highly fictionalized.

In the film Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 film ), Phileas Fogg tells the steward on the RMS Mongolia from Suez to India that his Thursday mid-day meal " has always been, and will always be, hot soup, fried sole, roast beef and Yorkshire Pudding, baked potato, suet pudding and treacle ".

After waking up from a coma in a Nairobi hospital, she finished writing the script there, but was soon thoroughly thwarted by uncooperative locals, the Suez Canal crisis, and bad weather ( only test shots were ever made ).

In addition to his normal duties, he surveyed the Isthmus of Suez and made plans for the Suez Canal.

In recent years, the shrinking Arctic sea ice has also made the Northern Sea Route viable for commercial cargo ships plying between Europe and East Asia during a six-to-eight week window in the summer months, shaving off thousands of miles from the voyage compared to the Suez Canal.

At a meeting of the 1922 committee on 22 November, Rab Butler made a speech appealing for party unity in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.

The imposed ending to the Suez Crisis made him a hero throughout the Arab world.

In the global political context, the Doctrine was made in response to the possibility of a generalized war, threatened as a result of the Soviet Union's attempt to use the Suez War as a pretext to enter Egypt.

Proceeding to Suez, from where Niebuhr made a visit to Mount Sinai, in October 1762 the expedition sailed to Jeddah, and then journeyed overland to Mocha.

Their return journey was made in the company of their father and took them through Hong Kong, Colombo, Suez, Naples and Algiers.

In the global political context, the Doctrine was made in response to the possibility of a generalized war, threatened as a result of the Soviet Union's attempt to use the Suez War as a pretext to enter Egypt.

In 1855 he was invited by Ferdinand de Lesseps to the International Commission for the piercing of the isthmus of Suez ( Commission Internationale pour le percement de l ' isthme des Suez ) consisting of thirteen experts from seven countries who were to examine the plans already made by Linant de Bellefonds and to advise on the feasibility of and on the best route for the canal.

The problem was not, contrary to widespread belief, that Suez distracted US attention from Hungary, but that it made the condemnation of Soviet actions very difficult.

On 1 July, Rommel's forces made a major attack, hoping to dislodge the Allies from the area, take Alexandria, and open the way to Cairo and the Suez Canal.

The rise of the Cold War, the 1956 French / English / Israeli intervention in the Suez and the Soviet intervention in Hungary had made this group skeptic of both the Eastern bloc and Western bloc.

Royal Sovereign, coming from Suez, escaped the Italian ambush and made it safely to Aden.

In 1962, Egypt made its final payments for the canal to the Universal Suez Ship Canal Company and took full control of the Suez Canal.

The opening of Suez Canal in 1869, provided the shortest ocean link from Britain to Far East and vice-versa and made a journey around the volatile Cape of Good Hope unnecessary.

In April 1957, in the new conditions made obvious by the Suez debacle, the British government accepted that bases in Cyprus were an acceptable alternative to Cyprus as a base.

He went to Gaza without an escort ; made his way safely through the desert to Suez, an exploit of singular boldness ; and was highly successful in his negotiations with the Bedouin.

These were made in Yugoslavia for delivery to Egypt prior to the Suez crisis of 1956.

Šafářová made her first final of the year at the 2010 Open GDF Suez in Paris by defeating Flavia Pennetta in the semifinals, 4 – 6, 6 – 3, 6 – 4.

He later wrote or co-wrote many popular films, including the Shirley Temple vehicles Heidi and Wee Willie Winkie ( both 1937 ), Suez ( 1938 ) and Stanley and Livingstone ( 1939 ).

* Suez ( 1938 )

* Suez ( 1938 )

Failing in finding her appropriate roles, the studio allowed her to go on an eight-week vacation to France, and following her return in June 1937, she was assigned to Suez ( 1938 ), but the project was shelved and she was eventually replaced.

In August 1938 Hankey retired from government and became a British Government Director of the Suez Canal Company, a post he would hold for only one year.

In 1938, Benito Mussolini demanded that Italy have a sphere of influence in the Suez Canal, specifically demanding that an Italian representative be placed on the company's board of directors.

In these years, he starred in romantic comedies such as Thin Ice and Day-Time Wife ; in dramas such as Suez, Blood and Sand, Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, The Rains Came, and In Old Chicago ; in the musicals, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Second Fiddle, and Rose of Washington Square ; in the westerns, Jesse James ( 1939 ) and Brigham Young ; in the war films, A Yank in the R. A. F.

They met on the 20th Century-Fox lot, around the time they starred together in the movie Suez.

The British defence guarantee ended following Britain's decision in 1967 to withdraw its forces east of Suez, and was replaced in 1971 with the Five Power Defence Arrangements ( FPDA ) by which Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore agreed to co-operate in the area of defence, and to " consult " in the event of external aggression or the threat of attack on Malaysia or Singapore.

National Power split into a UK business, Innogy-now known as ' RWE npower ' owned by the German utility company RWE ; and an international business, ' International Power ' - now fully owned by the French company GDF Suez.

Innogy is now known as ' RWE npower ' owned by the German utility company RWE ; and International Power is fully owned by the French company GDF Suez.

In 1869, Abdülaziz received visits from Eugénie de Montijo, Empress consort of Napoleon III of France and other foreign monarchs on their way to the opening of the Suez Canal.

In spite of the objections of his own cabinet and without Parliament's consent, he obtained a short-term loan from Lionel de Rothschild in order to purchase 44 % of the shares of the Suez Canal Company.

He was already working independently on the construction of two railway stations, at Toulouse and Agen, and in 1866 he was given a contract to oversee the construction of 33 locomotives for the Egyptian government, a profitable but undemanding job in the course of which he visited Egypt, where he visited the Suez Canal which was being constructed by Ferdinand de Lesseps.

The Suez Canal, having been built by the French government, belonged to the French Republic and was operated by the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez.

* 1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer ( d. 1894 )

From 1880 to 1889, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had successfully built the Suez Canal, attempted to construct a sea-level canal in the same general area as the present Panama Canal.

In 1846, Prosper Enfantin's Société d ' Études du Canal de Suez invited a number of experts, among them Robert Stephenson, Negrelli and Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue to study the feasibility of the Suez Canal ( with the assistance of Linant de Bellefonds ).

As stipulated in the concessions, de Lesseps convened the International Commission for the piercing of the isthmus of Suez ( Commission Internationale pour le percement de l ' isthme des Suez ) consisting of thirteen experts from seven countries, among them McClean, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in London, and again Negrelli, to examine the plans of Linant de Bellefonds and to advise on the feasibility of and on the best route for the canal.

The Suez Canal Company ( Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez ) came into being on 15 December 1858 and work started on the shore of the future Port Said on 25 April 1859.

* 15 December 1858 — Lesseps establishes the " Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez ", with Said Pasha acquiring 22 % of the Suez Canal Company ; the majority is still controlled by French private holders.

* Oster, Uwe ( 2006 ) Le fabuleux destin des inventions: le canal de Suez, TV documentary produced by ZDF and directed by Axel Engstfeld ( Germany )

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