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* 1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia ") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
From among the writings of others in the same period, there is the inscription and engraving of Darius the great, installed at junction of waters of Red Sea ( also called " Arabian Gulf " or " Ahmar Sea ") and the Nile river and the Rome river ( current Mediterranean ) which belongs to the 5th century BC where, Darius the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire has named the Persian Gulf Water Channel: Pars Sea ( Persian Sea ).
* Panchaea, ( In ' Sacred History ' (" Hiera Anagraphê ") of Euhemerus, around 3rd c BC ), described as a rational island paradise located just after the Red sea and around the Arabian Peninsula.
The term distinguishes these horses from both heavy draft horses (" cold bloods ") and refined light saddle horses such as the Thoroughbred and Arabian (" hot bloods ").
William G. Dever suggests it was located in the " northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea ( the " Hejaz ") " Some scholars believe it to be somewhere in or around Sudan as the Bible does not make direct mention of its location.
The conceit of Harad representing some African or Arabian equivalent ( being south of Middle-earth as " Europe ") is more explicit in these materials ; most of these original names have no relation to Tolkien's writings, and some, such as " hasharin ", are actually Arabic words.
Beni Ḥassān ( Arabic: بني حسان " sons of Ḥassān ") were a nomadic group of Arabian origin, one of the four sub-tribes of the Maqil Arabian tribes who emigrated in the 11 < sup > th </ sup > century to the Maghreb with the Bani Hilal and Banu Sulaym Arabs.
In 1861, Reyer composed an opéra-comique in three acts and six scenes, La statue (" The Statue "), whose plot was inspired by " One Thousand and One Nights " ( also knowns as: " Arabian Nights ") with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.
The Ghassanids ( Arabic: < big ></ big >) ( al-Ghasāsinah, also Banū Ghassān " Sons of Ghassān ") were a group of Hellenized and later Romanized South Arabian Christian tribes that emigrated in the early 3rd century from Yemen to Southern Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Holy Land where they eventually merged with Greek-speaking Early Christian communities.
Although the Lady Master Nada's home residence ( called in the Ascended Master Teachings her " retreat ") is underground on the etheric plane on the Arabian peninsula, according to the Ascended Master Teachings, she teleports to Shamballa every workday to her day job on the Karmic Board, hearing the cases of those souls who are on the third ray.
# Super Arabian ( as " ARABIAN ")
It is a Thoroughbred ( thus, the prefix " Anglo ") crossed with an Arabian.
Badroulbadour ( Arabic بدر البدور, badru l-budūr, " full moon of full moons ") is a princess from the far east whom Aladdin married in The Story of Aladdin ; or, the Wonderful Lamp ( the full moon as a metaphor for female beauty is common throughout the Arabian Nights ).
Jaludi ( also " Jaloudi " ( جالودي ), " El-Jaludi ," and " Al-Jawalda ") is a Bedouin tribe / clan from the Arabian Peninsula.
According to Eckhard Neubauer, there is another Persian system of seven advār (" cycles ") outside the Arabian reception of the Byzantine octoechos, which was possibly a cultural transfer from Sanskrit treatises.
The title of the comic is thus ; " Astérix chez Rahàzade " (" Asterix meets Rahàzade ") a pun on the famous storyteller Scheherazade who told the 1001 Arabian nights stories.
Simoom ( samūm ; from the root سم s-m-m, " to poison ") is a strong, dry, dust-laden local wind that blows in the Sahara, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the deserts of Arabian Peninsula.
He and his son GRMT ( possibly vocalized as " Girma ") are known through South Arabian inscriptions which mention Shamir, king of Dhu-Raydan and Himyar asking for his help against the Sabaean kings.
contains a large amount of fantasy elements ( derived from the " Arabian Nights ") is Vathek by
The Desert Lives ( pronounced like " life ") trail, diverts off of the Africa Trail before and after the lion and tiger exhibits, and features Big Horn Sheep and Arabian Oryx among the natural buttes.
In its first years, the zoo hosted a captive breeding program (" Operation Oryx ") with the specific goal of reintroducing the almost extinct Arabian Oryx to the wild.

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Although some prizes ( such as a remote-controlled toy car or legendary " TV with wired remote control ") were laughed at by the studio audience even then, smaller prizes were taken for granted at the time, and they seemed relatively lavish compared to those on offer in BBC game shows such as Blankety Blank.
In 1998, neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried, MD, PhD described a 16-year-old female patient ( referred to as " patient AK ") who laughed when her SFG was stimulated with electric current during treatment for epilepsy.
In one particular episode (" Cousin Maude's Visit ") Maude ( Beatrice Arthur ) mentioned that Archie Bunker ( Carroll O ' Connor ) always laughed out loud at Kabibble, who she thought was " as funny as a migraine.
When it was suggested that Oasis take legal action against pop band Hear ' Say for their first single's (" Pure and Simple ") uncanny similarity to " All Around the World ", Noel simply laughed at the hypocrisy of such an act from a man who was famous for " borrowing " from other artists.

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In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.
The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.
* Anatoly Ravikovich, Zagadka Endkhauza ( End House Mystery ) ( 1989 ; based on " Peril at End House ")
Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.
A few species of hummingbirds, notably some hillstars, can be seen at altitudes above, but far higher diversities can be found at lower altitudes, especially in the humid Andean forests (" cloud forests ") growing on slopes in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and far northwestern Argentina.
* a Morgen (" morning ") of land is usually set at of a Tagwerk (" day work ") of ploughing with an ox
Amalric died of dysentery ( allegedly brought on by " a surfeit of white mullet ") or even poisoned at Saint Jean d ' Acre on 1 April 1205, just after his son Amalric and four days before his wife, and was buried at Saint Sophia, Nicosia.
Pierre Cartier, a visiteur de longue durée (" long-term guest ") at the IHÉS, wrote a piece about Grothendieck for a special volume published on the occasion of the IHÉS's fortieth anniversary.
The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.
His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.
Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).
Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.
While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.
Bardot also brought into fashion the choucroute (" Sauerkraut ") hairstyle ( a sort of beehive hair style ) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.
Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.
") He was determined not to fight until he thought there had been sufficient preparation for a decisive victory, and put into action his beliefs with the gathering of resources, detailed planning, the training of troops — especially in clearing minefields and fighting at night — and in the use of 252 of the latest American-built Sherman tanks, 90 M7 Priest self-propelled howitzers, and making a personal visit to every unit involved in the offensive.
A spontaneous ritual of devotion to Big Brother (" BB ") is illustrated at the end of the " Two Minutes Hate ":
According to Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the term Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin means " first half ", which he links to the Gaulish word samonios ( which he suggests means " half a year ") as in the end of the " first half " of the year that begins at Samhain.
Traditionally, when a person died a woman would sing a lament ( in, or, " caoin " meaning " to weep, to wail ") at the funeral.
The shaped clay is then fired (" burned ") at 900-1000 ° C to achieve strength.
No texts survive from this area, though the written text Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") by Rimbert ( c. 865 ) describes the missionary work of Ansgar around 830 at Birka, and Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the archbishop Unni, who died at Birka in 936.

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