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Should not all magnitudes be expressed in the International System of Units? ( Brunotaut ( talk) 02:29, 18 July 2012 (UTC))
According to what I've seen in the Web, the depth of Bab el Mandeb is about 170m and not fathoms. Can somebody verify the correct depth? Thanks -- Noon 17:34, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) can I add a picture from a geotextbook Uchenna K 3-3-06
Wasn't the name "Gate of Tears" given to that strait due to the fact, that Arab slave traders used to carry their "cargo" across it on ship in doing so many slaves died or drowned?
".... according to an Arab legend, from the numbers who were drowned by the earthquake which separated Asia and Africa." Can anyone provide a reference for this interesting information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ntsukunyane Mphanya ( talk • contribs) 06:34, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
This version of the name is not mentioned. But it is elsewhere in Wiki. Myrvin ( talk) 16:42, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
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In section Movement out of Africa crossing the Bab-el-Mandeb straits is a matter of speculation. Or heavenly intervention? Anyway, "cn" to remove or support speculation. Kortoso ( talk) 20:09, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
The WP:Commonname for this strait is by far the "Bab el-Mandeb". "Mandeb Strait" is not anywhere near as common [1]. Middayexpress ( talk) 18:29, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
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Not a historical term (maybe used informally at the time). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.222.153.46 ( talk) 01:49, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
I added "In "Bab-el-Mandeb", "Bab" refers to "gate" while "Mandeb" refers to "lamentation"." to the "Name" section, because I spent quite a bit of time searching around before I found cofirmation from Google Translate that "Bab" means/refers to "gate" and "Mandeb" refers to "lamentation" and not vice versa. The intro contains "lit" which when moused over causes a pop up of "literal translation" (it was only after I paid extremely close attention, while I was editing, that I noticed I *could* mouse over the word "lit." (the dotted line under it is easy to miss, and it was only when I noticed that "lit." was not in the editing window that I was able to figure out eventually that I could mouse over the "lit." in the article)) but it wasn't clear to me that this implied that he word order is the same. Ideally, the pop-up would be made 1. easier to notice as an option, and 2. specify that "literal translation" means "same word meanings and order". But I probably wouldn't have permission to do that even if I knew how, which I don't. Polar Apposite ( talk) 19:52, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
The first map in the article seems to show a huge lake in northern Ethiopia that extends across the border into Eritrea (which in reality does not exist. Should a better map be found? Polar Apposite ( talk) 20:10, 16 October 2022 (UTC)