Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

Fluoride " loses " a pair of valence electrons because the electrons shared in the B — F bond are located in the region of space between the two atomic nuclei and are therefore more distant from the fluoride nucleus than they are in the lone fluoride ion.

* How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs — Biblical Archaeology Review

Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series ( from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive ) must have 15 members — no fewer and no more — which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

* History of Aluminium — from the website of the International Aluminium Institute

While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

The Chacoan structures altogether required the wood of 200, 000 coniferous trees, mostly hauled — on foot — from mountain ranges up to away.

Cash remittances sent back home from Armenians working abroad — mostly in Russia and the United States — are growing and contribute significantly to Armenia's Gross Domestic Product ( between 15 to 30 percent ).

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

Fleeing Iran, he arrived in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1841 — a town that had been occupied by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839 in the First Anglo-Afghan War.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.

It is a major district town — a Große Kreisstadt — of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km ( less than eleven miles ) north-west of Munich.

Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.

The naming of a region and its principal town after the main river is a common feature in this part of the world — compare the adjoining districts / rivers / towns of Arachosia and Bactria.

The city's total area nearly doubled between 2003 and 2005 as a result of five towns — the towns of Kōriyama and Matsumoto, both from Hioki District, the town of Kiire, from Ibusuki District, and the towns of Sakurajima and Yoshida, both from Kagoshima District — merging into Kagoshima on November 1, 2004.

In 1992 the town of Echo Bay, Ontario, home of loonie designer Robert-Ralph Carmichael, erected a large loonie monument in his honour along the highway — similar to Sudbury's ' Big Nickel '.

To feed the populaces of town and country, Lenin instituted War Communism ( 1918 – 21 ) as a necessary condition — adequate supplies of food and weapons — for fighting the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ).

By analyzing the type of granite, geologists were able to discover that glaciers carried Bubble Rock to its present location from the town of Lucerne, Maine — away.

* Forcados ( coastal town in the Niger Delta ) — 4, 870mm

He picked up a masters degree from Yale for giving an oral dissertation to the Yale graduating class, and later that year opened a small, private school in western Connecticut that was an instant success, though he quickly closed it and left town — likely due to a failed romance.

In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.

In late February 1919, civil unrest — including strikes and clashes between communist and anti-communist groups — took place in Heydrich's home town of Halle.

King responded later that day, saying, " That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt ... I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don ’ t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career — military or otherwise.

In the summer of 1181, Saladin's former palace administrator Qara-Qush led a force to arrest Majd al-Din — a former deputy of Turan-Shah in the Yemeni town of Zabid — while he was entertaining Imad ad-Din at his estate in Cairo.

What I found was a country town full of charm and even beauty — a somewhat smallish but nevertheless very attractive Westminster or Balair.

In 1873, however, the completion of the Üsküb — Selanik ( now Skopje — Thessaloniki ) railway brought many more travelers and traders to the town, so that by the turn of the century Üsküb had regained its former numbers of around 30, 000.

To this effect it instituted a number of rights and responsibilities for the Muslim, Jewish, and pagan communities of Medina bringing them within the fold of one community — the Ummah.

* 622: Year one of the Islamic calendar begins, during which the Hijra occurs — Muhammad and his followers emigrate from Mecca to Medina in September.

A second bridge, named for the sake of Albert D Rosellini, between Seattle and Medina, Governor Albert D Rosellini Bridge — Evergreen Point, longest floating bridge on Earth, was built and opened during 1963.

According to ʻAbd al-Ḥakam, Ṭāriq was marching from Cartagena to Córdoba — after defeating a Gothic army that tried to stop him — when he met Roderic in battle near Shedunya, probably modern Medina Sidonia.

In addition, the term is commonly used to refer to certain other holy sites, such as the Haram ash-Sharif in Jerusalem — though over the protests of some, such as Ibn Taymiya, who declared that the only places which could be legitimately called "" were Mecca, Medina, and probably also the valley of Wajj in Ta ' if ( but definitely not either Jerusalem or Hebron ).

* Gerardo — Hugo Medina

The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge — Evergreen Point ( formerly the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, and commonly called the SR 520 Bridge or 520 Bridge ) is the longest floating bridge on Earth at ( floating section ) and carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Medina.

To this effect it instituted a number of rights and responsibilities for the Muslim, Jewish, Christian and pagan communities of Medina bringing them within the fold of one community — the Ummah.

* 622: Hijra — migration to Medina.

Reitman later became seriously involved with Medina Oliver, and the couple had four daughters — Mecca, Medina, Victoria, and Olive.

They had come from throughout the state — General James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo, J. P. Beekman of Kinderhook, John Arnot of Elmira, John Magee and Constant Cook of Bath, William R. Gwinn of Medina, and George Palmer and James M. Ganson of Buffalo.

Since Saudi Arabia houses the holiest sites in Islam — Mecca ( where the prophet Muhammed was born ) and Medina ( where he is buried ) — many Muslims were upset at the U. S. presence.

* Suzanne McConnell, Vickie Orr, Teresa Weatherspoon, Tammy Jackson, Carolyn Jones-Young, Katrina McClain, Clarissa Davis, Medina Dixon, Teresa Edwards, Vicky Bullett, Daedra Charles, and Cynthia Cooper — Basketball, Women's Team Competition

Muñoz owes a tremendous lot to its early leaders — Tranquilino Delos Santos, and other homesteaders Luis Ramos, Ambrosio Medina, Cayetano Caisip, Victorino Pornuevo, and Precy Hill Delos Santos.

* August 13 – 15: Wizard World Chicago ( Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont, Illinois ) — guest of honor: Joss Whedon ; special guests: Kelly Hu and Amber Benson ; other guests: Brian Michael Bendis, Josh Blaylock, J. Scott Campbell, John Cassaday, Jim Cheung, Marie Croall, Tony Daniel, Lou Ferrigno, Gene Ha, Greg Horn, Geoff Johns, Dan Jolley, Jim Lee, Jeph Loeb, Sean McKeever, Angel Medina, Mark Millar, Mike Norton, Joe Quesada, Alex Ross, Alex Saviuk, Marc Silvestri, Kevin Smith, Michael Turner, Brian K. Vaughn, and Skottie Young

* September 18 – 19: National Comic Book, Art, and Sci-Fi Expo III ( Penn Plaza Pavilion, New York City ) — guests include Jim Steranko, Sal Buscema, Glen Fabry, Los Bros Hernandez, and Angel Medina

** Cingana of Naples — Gabriel de Medina