Rosemary Mahoney Quotes
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
Mahoney, Rosemary. Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff. Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
After the Confederate defeat at Vicksburg, VA, Lincoln wrote:
When the dam was under construction, it was referred to as the “Boulder Canyon Project”. However, the Great Depression was raging and President Hoover had to run for a second term the following year with a terrible economy. Hoover’s Secretary of the Interior, named it “Hoover Dam” and on February 14, 1931, Congress made the name "Hoover Dam" official. Hoover lost to FDR, and the Interior Secretary—a Republican—sent this memo calling the dam, “Boulder Dam” for the first time. At the time Hoover was one of the least popular names in the United States. The Stock Market crash and the Depression occurred on "Hoover's watch." Hoover was blamed not only for the economic crisis, but with being hard-hearted by not using the power of the Government to help the suffering families. Ickes thought it was essential that the public overcome their fear and hopelessness. Hoover was just the image that most people wanted to forget, and this in large part motivated the name change.
Leading English politicians were warning of the cost of occupying Iraq. The political and military effort did not go well either. See {585253}. The development costs were even more massive in the ill-fated George W. Bush, invasion and occupation of Iraq in the early 21st century. The English policy makers like the Bush administration were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
Under the WWI Peace Treaty the high court of Egypt was an International Court. President Wilson nominated Crabites to this court and he served there for 3 decades during which he became a world class expert in Middle Eastern affairs.
The Rio Grande River flows through New Mexico on its way to Texas. However, for many reasons the river flow is diminishing and only a little water makes it to Texas. Some Texas politicians wanted the New Mexican farmers, who were miles from the river and have paid to drill wells which they use to pump water for their irrigation, to limit their water pumping. They argued that the pumping was diminishing the water in the underground aquifer, and this was causing some of the water flowing down the river to flow into the New Mexico aquifer thereby diminishing the river flow. The New Mexican farmers argue that they paid a great deal for that land because it came with water rights under the ground and the water is theirs. This was one of the many intractable problems of agricultural water allocation in the West where farmers plant many crops that would not normally survive in that part of the country without artificial irrigation.
Rosemary Mahoney is an American writer. She has published six books of narrative non-fiction and numerous magazine articles. For the American Spectator, Christopher Caldwell wrote, "Mahoney has an effortlessly pretty prose style and an uncanny eye . . . . a literary talent that amounts to brilliance."
