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** Literally: fall seven times and stand up eight
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** Abrogatee ( mansūkh ): Literally dozens of verses enjoining the umma's peacable conduct towards outside groups: Hibat Allāh and al-Nahhās cite 124 and 130 verses, respectively.
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** Earliest day on which Feast of the Holy Family can fall, celebrated on Sunday after Christmas or 30 if Christmas falls on a Sunday.
** Shahnameh ( Persian literature ; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the Sassanid Empire )
** Earliest day on which Day of the Finnish Flag can fall, while June 26 is the latest ; celebrated on Saturday of Midsummer's Day ( Finland )
** Earliest day on which Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary can fall, while July 3 is the latest ; celebrated 20 days after Pentecost.
** Earliest day on which Corpus Christi can fall, while June 24 is the latest ; held on Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
** The elevator evidently malfunctioned ( it was not intended to fall nor is that a proper function of a correctly functioning elevator ).
** The Vietnam War came to a close in 1975 with the fall of Saigon and the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975.
** The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.
** An avalanche in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania kills 26, including Vulcan Crucible Steel Co heir-apparent Samuel A. Stafford Sr., when two 100 ton boulders fall on a bus filled with wartime steel workers on their way home.
** Bank of Japan governors announce a major interest rate hike, eventually leading to the peak and fall of the bubble economy.
** Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey, Newstead Abbey, St Albans Abbey, St Mary's Abbey, York and Hartland Abbey ( the last ) fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England.
** In some broader types of Cockney, the neutralisation of before non-prevocalic may also involve, so that fall becomes homophonous with full and fool.
** Should any land within the Twelve-Mile Circle fall west of the North Line, it would remain part of Delaware.
** Danny Way clipped his shins on the lip of the quarterpipe after a 20 + foot freefall during the big air competition, which the commentators refer to as the " second worst fall ever at the X Games " ( the first being Jake Brown's the year before ).
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** The television industry is mostly an oligopoly of seven companies: The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, Hearst Corporation, Time Warner, and News Corporation.
** Ibn Khaldun ( 1332 – 1406 ) – in his Muqaddimah ( later translated as Prolegomena in Latin ), the introduction to a seven volume analysis of universal history, was the first to advance social philosophy and social science in formulating theories of social cohesion and social conflict.
** South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.
** In the U. S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time.
** A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashes in the Potomac River as it approached Marine Corps Base Quantico, killing all seven people on board.
** The first total solar eclipse to exceed seven minutes of totality in over 800 years, is visible in the Pacific and Peru.
** The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, returns to Kuwait after seven months of exile while his country was occupied by Iraq.
** A trial for the custody of young Gloria Vanderbilt begins ; it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise.
** Underage Gaelic football teams have also had considerable successes on the field at both provincial and national level-winning the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship seven times ( the most recent, also in 2010 ) and the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship four times.
** Sultan is the title of seven ( Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor and Terengganu ) of the nine rulers of the Malay states.
** All seven books are illustrated ( only those by Thomas and Dyer include colour illustrations ) -- Further reading: see the bibliographies in Thomas ( 1993 ) and Dyer ( 2005 ) above
** Federico Faggin, having finished the design of the 4004, became leader of the project from January 1971 until its successful completion in April 1972, after it had been suspended – for lack of progress – for about seven months.
** During the second All-Stars season, seven previous contestants were part of a tribe, while the other tribe was composed by famous French sportsmen.
** Goswina first met the Rowan when she, along with seven other young Talents, traveled to Altair for a course on Tower management and maintenance.
** At San Anton, every night about seven, everyone would be summoned for prayer ... Dobbie would stand ... and ... pray ... and .... ask the Almighty to bless the convoy ... but he never prayed to stop the bombing ... that was God's will ... God helps those that help themselves ...
** Cam Sinclair made what some call the greatest comeback in action sports history, winning his first X Games gold medal in best trick by pulling a double backflip, the trick that bit him hard in Red Bull X Fighters only 8 months befors, leaving him in a coma for seven days, and having him retrain his body, learning how to walk and, eventually, to ride again.
** The Corsair ( sells 10, 000 copies on publication day ( 1 February ) and over 25, 000 in the first month, going through seven editions )
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