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PART 20
The Twentieth Century Pharaoh
Throughout the entirety of human history, nation states have risen and fallen like species on the food chain. Those nations with insufficient positive characteristics die off like the unfit specimens that truly are, while nations with the will to survive and the characteristics to evolve can rise from the ashes like a phoenix and achieve long sustaining racial and political success- Albert Speer
Human history has always been one enamored with colorful figures, many of whom found a myriad of ways to achieve lofty and previously thought to be unachievable goals. Men like Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler forged empires out of entire continents, men like George Washington and Giuseppe Garibaldi fought for the freedom and unity of their homelands; while other men fought for more deceitvul and treacherous goals. Many of these men, especially those known better to modern contemporaries still shine as engima's of personality and question to this day. One of these men in particular was perhaps the greatest curiosity to historians, was a certain individual born in the city of Alexandria, Egypt; a man who rose through the ranks of the Egyptian Army and soon into the hearts of hundreds of millions loyal. That man was of course Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Figure 1: Nasser speaks to a jubilant crowd in downtown Cairo as he announces the ascension of Syria into the Republic, circa. 1957
