In the myth, Sekhmet's blood-lust was not quelled at the end of battle and led to her destroying almost all of humanity, so Ra had tricked her by turning the Nile as red as blood ( the Nile turns red every year when filled with silt during inundation ) so that Sekhmet would drink it.

In the myth, Sekhmet's blood-lust was not quelled at the end of battle and led to her destroying almost all of humanity, so Ra had tricked her by turning the Nile as red as blood ( the Nile turns red every year when filled with silt during inundation ) so that Sekhmet would drink it.

Color, as well, had extended meaning — Blue and green represented the Nile and life ; yellow stood for the sun god ; and red represented power and vitality.

Cleopatra ’ s Needle is a 240-ton, 68 foot 10 inch, single shaft of red granite from the Assuân ( formerly Syene ) Quarries at the 1st Cataract of the Nile.

Nile red ( also known as Nile blue oxazone ) is formed by boiling Nile blue with sulfuric acid.

This produces a mix of Nile red and Nile blue.

Nile red is a lipophilic stain ; it will accumulate in lipid globules inside cells, staining them red.

Nile red can be used with living cells.

During autumn, parts of the Nile River are red with lotus flowers.

-Oxazine derivatives: Nile red, Nile blue, cresyl violet, oxazine 170 etc.

Nile red under visible and ultraviolet ( 366 nm ) light in different solvents From left to right: 1. water, 2. methanol, 3. ethanol, 4. acetonitrile, 5. dimethylformamide, 6. acetone, 7. ethyl acetate, 8. dichloromethane, 9. n-hexane, 10.

Nile red ( also known as Nile blue oxazone ) is a lipophilic stain.

Nile blue ( or Nile blue A ) stains nuclei blue.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

The eyes of the figure of the Nile are covered, perhaps either to symbolize the mystery of her source or to obscure from her sight the baroque facade of the Church of Sant' Agnese in Agone, the work of Bernini's rival, Borromini.

In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

: Death on the Nile takes place on a tour boat on the Nile.

In the Middle East he solved the cases of Death on the Nile, and Murder in Mesopotamia with ease and even survived An Appointment with Death.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

* 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

* 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile ( Battle of Aboukir Bay ) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.

The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt.

* The first day of Flooding of the Nile, or Wafaa El-Nil.

Mausoleum of Aga Khan, on the Nile.

He is buried in at the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, on the Nile in Aswan, Egypt.

Even so, the flat country and weather uncertainties made flooding much more unpredictable than in the case of the Nile ; serious deluges seem to have been a regular occurrence, requiring constant maintenance of irrigation ditches and drainage systems.

Amasis assigned the commercial colony of Naucratis on the Canopic branch of the Nile to the Greeks, and when the temple of Delphi was burnt, he contributed 1, 000 talents to the rebuilding.

The Nile is reported to be anywhere from.

A study by Brazilian scientists concluded that the Amazon is actually longer than the Nile.

Using the same techniques they calculated the length of the Nile as, which is longer than previous estimates but still shorter than the Amazon.

As of 2010 the length of both the Amazon and the Nile remains open to interpretation and continued debate.

That allows the endospore to show up as red, while the rest of the cell stains blue.

Another staining technique for endospores is the Schaeffer-Fulton stain, which stains endospores green and bacterial bodies red.

Scholars conjecture that the red stains on its flanks are not blood but rather the juice from pomegranates, which were a symbol of fertility.

The red dye stains the polyanionic venom proteins found inside the capsule of this partially discharged nematocyst.

Often the pigment is blown into the air where it stains the clouds, resulting in a red sunrise.

Eosin also stains red blood cells intensely red.

I was surprised to see that my trousers were red, had some stains like honey.

Vascular birthmarks ( also called red birthmarks ) are caused by increased blood vessels and include macular stains ( salmon patches ), hemangiomas, and Port-wine stains.

To this end, the filter had a printed red band around it to hide lipstick stains, calling it " Beauty Tips to Keep the Paper from Your Lips ".

The stains used are the red coloured Carbol fuchsin that stains the bacteria and a counter stain like Methylene blue or Malachite green.

Haematoxylin stains cell nuclei blue, while eosin stains cytoplasm, connective tissue and other extracellular substances pink or red.

Neutral red ( or toluylene red ) stains Nissl substance red.

The most similar mushroom may be the devil's bolete ( Boletus satanas ), which has a similar shape, but has a red stem and stains blue on bruising.

These stains allow for the detection of white blood cell, red blood cell, and platelet abnormalities.

The inner capsule of the organism stains red in this photomicrograph

It contains bile salts ( to inhibit most Gram-positive bacteria ), crystal violet dye ( which also inhibits certain Gram-positive bacteria ), neutral red dye ( which stains microbes fermenting lactose ), lactose and peptone.

McCrone, upon analyzing the samples he had, concluded that the red stains that had been pointed to as blood were actually pigment — specifically, red ochre and vermilion tempera paint.

To its discoverer and others, e. g., Robert Bednarik, the object had been created by natural geological processes giving it a general human-like shape that was then accentuated by carving it with a stone-wedge ; some artificial smudge stains are interpreted as remnants of red ochre pigments used by humans to further accentuate the human-like form.