An event mentioned in this article is a July 21 selected anniversary
What about the geopolitical/geostrategic implications of the dam? If the dam were destroyed (for example by an Israeli nuclear strike), the resulting flood would effectively destroy Egypt completely. It has been suggested that this realization was the main reason for the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. GCarty, 18 Nov 2003 09:52 UTC
Useful Aswan High Dam picture
I retrieved this picture from NASA's 'Earth from Space' website. It definitely should be used in the article, but I don't have the time right now to find a nice place, so I'm parking it here for anyone to insert. — mark ✎ 20:55, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
References
This article is overall well-written and informative, but lacks references. Does anyone know where exactly the information comes from? — mark ✎ 00:14, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
not really _that_ useful high dam pictures...
i, on the other hand, have two pics that are quite loosely related to the high dam... i.e. they depict the lotus flower tower (soviet-egyptian friendship monument) itself... i'm not sure they fit this article, nor i am truly convinced that there should be a separate article concerning the tower... i seek advice... regards, Blueshade 18:11, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
and here are the pics...
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ps: the second one is, imho, nice since it contains some text in russian and arabic commemorating the completion of the dam...
- ok... since, noone answered my question, i decided to just put the images in the article and see how it works out... regards, Blueshade 13:49, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
just one tiny remark about Hajor's pics rearrangement...
it now breaks miserably on larger-resolution screens... - Blueshade
- Really? I'm running 1280x1024 (but maybe that's not considered large any more, at least in your town). Is it a browser issue with the "< div >" command? It looks ok here in Opera 7 and IE 6, with 2 different skins. Would you like to try placing them individually at different points of the article instead of stacking them, see if that works? –Hajor 13:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- uh... i'm running at 1280x960 under Opera 7.54... and this is indeed considered a rather large resolution here... but to the point - just to clarify what i mean, i uploaded the screenshot (on the right), so you know what i'm talking about... anyway, i already had no idea how to arrange the pics so they could render correctly enough in most situations and that's why i had put them all aligned to the right at the beginning of the article (they aligned themselves nicely along the right edge - i know that's not too interesting a way to put the images into an article but i know no better as for now)... - Blueshade 12:21, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- OK, our setups aren't that dissimilar, then -- except from what I can see, you can get by with a much smaller default font! I'll put 'em all in a single stack, see if that resolves the overlap. (Are there any guidelines anywhere on how to include a large number of pics in an article without causing display problems?) BTW, when you say, they "aligned themselves nicely along the right edge," do you mean vertically or horizontally? It sounds like you mean vertically, but what I was seeing was horizontal: looked pretty rough, that's why I changed it. –Hajor 01:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
–Hajor 01:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)