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Virgin Megastores International portal. Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded in early 1976 by Richard Branson as a record shop on London 's Oxford Street . In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. [ 1]
This is a list of ancient Egyptian sites, throughout Egypt and Nubia. Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern name, and ...
There are seven World Heritage Sites in Egypt, and a further 34 sites on the tentative list. [3] The first sites in Egypt were listed in 1979, when five properties were inscribed. Since then, two more sites have been listed, Saint Catherine Area in 2002 and Wadi al Hitan in 2005. The latter is the only natural site in Egypt, the other sites ...
Saint Catherine's Monastery ( Arabic: دير القدّيسة كاترين Dayr al-Qiddīsa Katrīn; Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης ), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
The Church of al-Adhra ( Church of the Virgin) at the monastery was built over an ancient cave. It is claimed that Mary and Jesus spent six months and ten days here on their flight into Egypt from King Herod. [6] The altar stone is dated 747 CE. The monastery served as a host for Ethiopian monks in 17th century.
Monastery of Saint Pishoy. / 30.31917°N 30.36000°E / 30.31917; 30.36000. The Monastery of Saint Pishoy (also spelled Bishoy, Pshoi, or Bishoi [1]) in Wadi El Natrun, Beheira Governorate, Egypt, is the most famous monastery of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria named after Pishoy. It is the easternmost of the four current ...
Virgin Group. Virgin Group[ 1] is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in February 1970. Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding company; however, Virgin's business and trading activities date back to the 1970s.
El Matareya, Cairo. Coordinates: 30°7′46.08″N 31°18′26.94″E. Mataria, with the Masalla Obelisk of Senusret I. El Matareya ( Arabic: المطرية [el.mɑ.tˤɑ.ˈɾej.jɑ]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, [ 1] Egypt. The district is unrelated to the coastal town in the Dakahlia Governorate, that is also named El Matareya.