is there really a place called timbucktoo?

Answer 1

Was a centre of learning commerce and culture now situtated in Mali. It's influence wained after being sacked by Moroccan marauders and it's importance as a trade route diminished by the establishment of Portunguese shipping routes from Central Africa to Europe.

Answer 2

Generally speaking, the rule of thumb is that the risk of life-threatening infection to the mother from a ruptured amniotic sac is very very high just 24 hours after rupture. So if hers has been ruptured a week or longer, I'd say it doesn't look too good for her or the baby if she doesn't act. Be careful about dismissing the risk to her life about doing nothing. You don't want her to die, too. I'd also venture to say that your situation was very unusual in that most amniotic sac ruptures don't heal themselves. I think the best thing to do in this case is to get more opinions from more specialists, even if that means she calls in a specialist from another hospital. She needs a doctor who wants to find a way to save the mother and the baby at the same time. But she also needs to accept that if every doctor tells her this is not possible, then its not possible. I know you want to help her. And its a heartbreaking story. But be careful about what you say to her, though, because I don't think you or any non-medical professional should give medical advice, unless you are an OB or perinatologist or whatever..... , but its a good idea for her to have a list of questions ready written out and to ask the doctors to explain everything to her satisfaction. There are risks and benefits to any course of treatment, and if a bunch of doctors and specialists are telling her that she could die by not taking action then she needs to take this seriously.

Answer 3

Timbucktoo, or Timbuktu is a city in the West Nation of Mali. On the Southern edge of the Sahara Desert, about 8 miles North of the Niger river

Answer 4

Yes.

Timbuktu (Archaic English: Timbuctoo; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; French: Tombouctou) is a city in Tombouctou Region, Mali. It is home to the prestigious Sankore University and other madrasas, and was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya, recall Timbuktu's golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification.

Timbuktu is populated by Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Mandé people, and is about 15 km north of the River Niger. It is also at the intersection of an east–west and a north–south Trans-Saharan trade across the Sahara to Araouane. It was important historically (and still is today) as an entrepot for rock-salt from Taoudenni.

Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby African populations and nomadic Berber and Arab peoples from the north. Its long history as a trading outpost that linked west Africa with Berber, Arab, and Jewish traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, has given it a fabled status, and in the West it was for long a metaphor for exotic, distant lands: "from here to Timbuktu."

Timbuktu's long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization is scholarship. By the fourteenth century, important books were written and copied in Timbuktu, establishing the city as the centre of a significant written tradition in Africa.

Answer 5

Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali. It is historically important as a post on the trans-Saharan caravan route. It is located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 mi (13 km) north of the Niger River

Answer 6

You're talking about the TIMBUCTOO near SACRAMENTO, that's why you posted the question in the Sacramento section.
TIMBUCTOO is located about 45 mi. north (as the crow flies) from Sacramento. It is located on State Route 20 between Marysville and Grass Valley, in Yuba County. It looks, from my atlas, that it is in the geographical zone where the Central Valley meets the Sierra foothills.

Answer 7

Yes, in Mali, Central Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu

Answer 8

As a kid, we visited Timbuctoo (pardon the spelling) or the remains of that town. It was a small mining town in the Sierras and is now represented by just a couple of crumbling buildings.

Answer 9

No but there is a place in West Africa called Timbuktu. If it's in Scotland now they must have moved it LOL

Answer 10

Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali