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  • We have a high tolerance for politicians as private moral cripples cough cough Kenne cough cough.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » John Mark Reynolds on Sarah Palin 2009

  • The alluring couple enchanted throngs of Parisians — the crowd was estimated at half a million — who chanted “Vive Zhack-ee” and “Kenne-dee” along the flag-draped city streets.

    The Two First Ladies Davis, Margaret Leslie 2008

  • Kenne Dibner, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Organized clandestine Cairo production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues with 20 Egyptian actresses, raising around $1,200 to help start a shelter for battered women in Cairo.

    USATODAY.com - 2005 All-USA College Academic Third Team 2005

  • Thebes, as high as the cataracts, and generally those of all the people to the south of Kenne and Esne as far as Sennaar, undergo circumcision, or rather excision, at the age of from three to six years.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Rock salt is found also in every part of the eastern mountain from Kenne southward, and the peasants of Egypt and Nubia collect it; but it has a very disagreeable bitterish-sweet taste.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • The Birsim, or lucerne of Egypt, is unknown here, as well as in Upper Egypt, south of Kenne.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • A few Yembawy, or Arabians from Yembo, arrive occasionally by the Souakin caravans, and there are others of the same people, who accompany the Egyptian caravans, for there are considerable settlements of Yembawy at Kenne and

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Many of the Ababde have settled in Upper Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile from Kenne to Assouan, and from thence to Derr; but the greater part of them still live like Bedouins.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Europe, because with dollars camels can be immediately procured in any quantity; but this preference will last only as long as camels continue to be in great demand in Egypt, for the transport between Kenne and Kosseir, and for the supply of the Turkish army in the Hedjaz.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Dendera, Kenne, and Goft; and after four days stay at the different villages, situated within the precincts of Thebes, I arrived at

    Travels in Nubia 2004

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