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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Khyber Pass (863 words) |
 | To the north of the Khyber Pass lies the country of the Mullagori Afridis. |
| Khyber Pass is Cockney rhyming slang for "arse" eg "Taking her up the Khyber Pass!". |
| Khyber Pass is referenced in the song "Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane. |
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Khyber Pass - LoveToKnow 1911 (1124 words) |
| To reach the Kabul River within Afghan territory it is necessary to pass over this water-divide; and the Khyber stream, flowing down from the pass at Landi Kotal to a point in the plains opposite Jamrud, 9 m. |
| It was at Ali Masjid that Sir Neville Chamberlain's friendly mission to the amir Shere Ali was stopped in 1878, thus causing the second Afghan War; and on the outbreak of that war Ali Masjid was captured by Sir Samuel Browne. |
| The Khyber Rifles, deserted by their officers, made a halfhearted resistance to their fellow-tribesmen, and the pass fell into the hands of the Afridis, and remained in their possession for some months. |
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