Egypt
The Egyptian Army uses a rank which translates as "colonel general". They equate it with a 4-star rank ("full" general); it is junior to the rank they translate as field marshal.
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Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every mans and every beings face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Hieratic, slim and fair,
the tracery written here,
proclaims whats left unsaid
in Egypt of her dead.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)