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alexandria

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Alexandria is a serif font typeface created by Hank Gillete. It corresponds to the neo-grotesque sub-classification. It is patterned after Susan Kare 's bitmap Athens .

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Alexandria \Alexandria\ n. a city on the Mediterranean Sea, the chief port of Egypt. Syn: El Iskandariyah

Usage examples of alexandria.

The aeolipile of Hero spun in the temple at Alexandria, hissing softly to itself and blowing jets of steam into the fire-lit dimness.

After she had several years enjoyed the admiration and affection of the Antiochians, she was taken with a desire to revisit Alexandria, and show her glory in that city in which, as a child, she had wandered in want and shame, hungry and lean as a grasshopper in the middle of a dusty road.

Kreiss nosed his rented Ford 150 van into the truck stop off the Van Dorn Street Beltway exit in Alexandria.

Alexandria, Bengasi, Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers, passed the Rock of Gibraltar and turned north up the coast of Portugal.

The distance from Tobruk to Benghazi by the coastal road is not much above 250 miles, compared with about 370 from Alexandria to Tobruk.

Even Benghazi is as far beyond the frontier as the frontier is from Alexandria.

Achilleus at Alexandria, and even the Blemmyes, renewed, or rather continued, their incursions into the Upper Egypt.

Her saving of the Library from the mob instigated by Cyril the Patriarch of Alexandria is the breakpoint between this universe and ours.

He sat now wondering if either of the two at Brindisi had followed him to Alexandria.

The ship we board in Brindisi takes us to Alexandria, and from there, we go by train down to Cairo.

Their overland journey would take them as far south as Brindisi, Italy, where they were to board a second ship, which would take them to Alexandria, where again they would pick up a train.

Via Veneto where the ladies might have time to enjoy long soaks in baths, and where they could sleep one good night before the rocking of the train and the motion of the ship on the journey to Brindisi and then to Alexandria.

Clemens of Alexandria says that the Cabiri taught the Tuscans to revere it.

Mariut and its mate Edku all but make an island of Alexandria, surrounding it on the south, whereas the sea encompasses the northern shore, and the Canopic Channel of the Nile is to the east.

Egypt than to Alexandria, isolated to the west of the Canopic Nilus, the westernmost arm of the Delta.