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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former island in the Nile River of southeast Egypt. Site of many ancient temples and monuments, it was particularly noted for its temple dedicated to Isis. The construction of the first dam at Aswan (1899–1934) caused the island to be seasonally inundated, and in the 1970s its structures were moved to another nearby island.
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If all goes well, it will wake up in January 2014 and then send down a refrigerator-sized lab called Philae, which will anchor onto the comet's icy crust and carry out tests of its surface.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The probe will go into orbit around the 4km-wide ball of ice and dust and even place a small lander called Philae on its surface.
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The probe will go into orbit around the 4km-wide ball of ice and dust and place a small lander called Philae on its surface.
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The probe will go into orbit around the 4km-wide ball of ice and dust and place a small lander called Philae on its surface.
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The probe will go into orbit around the 4km-wide ball of ice and dust and place a small lander called Philae on its surface.
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Visited a temple called Philae it had to be moved about 20 years ago as it kept being flodded because of the the Dam, the Egyptian history is absolutely amazing no wonder people study it and become obsessed by it all, note to self will learn more at a later date about it.
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Though their competition was usually limited to dirty tricks and subterfuge, the shenanigans occasionally flared into something more pointed, as when pistols were drawn over sacking rights to an obelisk from the island of Philae.
A Pre-Digital Tomb Raider Gerard Helferich 2011
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Using maps drawn by one of Napoleon's artist engineers, she's also working on an accurate recreation of temples and buildings on the island of Philae.
Ancient Egyptian grain-based pregnancy test found to be 70% accurate by archaeologists 2009
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The first Aswan Dam was constructed between 1896 and 1897, and the Nile threatened to cover the island of Philae, the mythical birthplace of the god Osris, and its Isis temple.
Cemeteries 2009
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Also designed by John Russell Pope, this tomb is based on a small Egyptian temple dedicated to the goddess Isis that stood on the island of Philae in southern Egypt.
Cemeteries 2009
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