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Comment · Fri, September 14, 2012

U.S. Embassy calls out Muslim Brotherhood over contradiction between the Brotherhood’s Arabic and English Twitter postings. English feed: "hope US-Eg relations will sustain turbulence of Tuesday's events." Arabic feed: “Egyptians revolt for the Prophet’s victory in front of U.S. embassy.”

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At the pyramid entire, Egypt have two signs written in two languages. The first one says in Arabic "The cost of the ticket is 20 pound", the English one says "the cost of the ticket is 20 dollar".

20 Egyptian pounds = 3.2808 US dollars

edit: grammar

u/MisterYouAreSoDumb

I was just at the pyramids. All I saw were two washed out wooden signs that said tickets. There were no pricing signs, or any other signs for that matter. There were barely any officials or security there either. The people at the counter were only saying prices in pounds.

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