Between 1379 ( Walchwil ) and 1477 ( Cham ), Zug had acquired various districts in its own neighborhood, principally to the north and the west, which were ruled till 1798 by the town alone as subject lands.

This T and O map, which abstracts that society's known world to a cross inscribed within an orb, remakes geography in the service of Christian iconography and identifies the three known continents as populated by descendants of Shem ( Sem ), Ham ( Cham ) and Japheth ( Iafeth )

Similarly, the unrelated Khmer ( Mon – Khmer ), Cham ( Austronesian ) and Lao ( Kadai ) languages have almost identical vowel systems.

* Adongo Agada Cham ( 1959 – 2011 ), king of the Anuak people of southeastern Sudan and western Ethiopia

* Patrick Cham ( born 1959 ), French basketball player

* Cham Prasidh ( born 1951 ), Cambodian Minister of Trade

* Cham ( singer ) ( born 1977 ), Jamaica reggae artist known for the single " Ghetto Story "

* Cham ( film ), a 1931 Polish-language film directed by Charles Méré and Jan Nowina-Przybylski

* Cham ( district ), Germany

Cham Albanians, or Chams (, Tsámidhes ), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the coastal region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria.

Inrasara ( aka Phú Trạm ), a researcher specializing in Champa, suggests Đà Nẵng is a variation of the Cham word daknan ( lit.

Neighboring districts are ( from the east clockwise ) Cham, Regensburg, Neumarkt, Amberg-Sulzbach, Neustadt ( Waldnaab ), and the Czech Plzeň Region.

* Grafenried ( Cham ), Cham

Other groups, such as the Cham and ethnic Chinese ( Hoa ), are also found in An Giang.

File :' Gaja Laksmi ' ( Lakshmi ), late 9th-early 10th century, sandstone, Museum of Cham Sculptur. JPG | Cham sandstone sculpture ( late 9th-early 10th centuries ) of Lakshmi flanked by two elephants like the figure of plate B.

Reed River ), the name of the now Cai River as referred to by the Cham people.

In 1065 Leopold married Ida, countess of Cham ( 1060 – 1101 ), in Cham, Oberpfalz, Bavaria.

The inscriptions also provide us with important information such as the name of the country ( typically Campadesa in the Sanskrit inscriptions, nagara Campa in the Cham inscriptions ), and the names of some of its most important cities: Simhapura (" Lion City "), Virapura (" Knight City "), Rajapura (" King City "), Vijaya (" District ").

It shows the continents as domains of the sons of Noah: Sem ( Shem ), Iafeth ( Japheth ) and Cham ( Ham, son of Noah | Ham ).

Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (" Jan Wellem " in Low German, English: " John William "; 19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716 ) was Elector Palatine ( 1690 – 1716 ), Duke Palatine of Neuburg / Danube ( 1690 – 1716 ), Duke of Jülich and Berg ( 1679 – 1716 ), and Duke of Upper Palatinate and Cham ( 1707 – 1714 ).

The Khmer language has influenced, and also been influenced by, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Cham, all of which, due to geographical proximity and long-term cultural contact, form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia.

A Cham story tells of the time that the two countries settled an armed conflict by means of a tower-building contest proposed by the Cham King Po Klaung Garai.

Greece's ethnic homogeneity was increased by the postwar expulsion of 25, 000 Albanians from Epirus ( see Cham Albanians ).

The Khmer Rouge explicitly targeted the Chinese, Vietnamese, and even their partially Khmer offspring for extinction ; although the Cham Muslims received disfavorable treatment, they were by contrast encouraged to " mix flesh and blood ", or intermarry and assimilate.

The river is heavily silted and is navigable by seagoing craft of shallow draft as far as Kompong Cham in Cambodia.

" This lithograph by Amédée de Noé | Amédée de Noé a. k. a. Cham conveys the wild popularity of the Steinway piano, the musicality of which had just been demonstrated by famed pianist Désiré Magnus at the Exposition Universelle ( 1867 ) | 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

Champa was made into a tributary state of Vietnam in 1312, but ten years later regained independence and Champa troops led by king Chế Bồng Nga ( Cham: Po Binasuor or Che Bonguar ) killed king Trần Duệ Tông in battle and even laid siege to Đại Việt's capital Thăng Long in 1377 AD and again in 1383 AD.

However, despite becoming greatly outnumbered by Kinh ( Việt ) settlers and the integration of formerly Cham territory into the Vietnamese nation, the majority of Cham people nevertheless remained in Vietnam and they are now considered one of the key minorities in modern Vietnam.

Meanwhile, the Nguyễn Lords continued the southward expansion by the conquest of the remaining Cham land.

Albania is since the 1940s demanding that Greece grant a Right of Return to the Muslim Cham Albanians, who were expelled from the Greek region of Epirus between 1944 and 1945, at the end of World War II-a demand firmly rejected by the Greeks ( see Cham issue ).

* Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / " An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, & c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff ; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby " ( 1673 )

The Cham Muslim community in Cambodia runs religious schools and is headed by a Mufti.

Hindu temples are known as Bimong in Cham language, but are commonly referred to as " Tháp " ( Temple tower in Vietnamese ) by the Cham.

Panduranga was the last of the Cham territories to be annexed by the Vietnamese.

The story of Kaundinya is also set forth briefly in the Sanskrit inscription C. 96 of the Cham king Prakasadharma found at Mỹ Sơn.

After the Vietnamese completed the conquest of Cham, sacking Vijaya, the capital of Champa, a Cham Prince and some 1, 000 Cham moved to Hainan, where the Ming dynasty allowed them to set up an exile kingdom.

Although many statues have been removed to France or to historical museums in Vietnam, such as the Museum of Cham Sculpture in Da Nang, others can be viewed in a temporary museum that has been set up on site in two of the temples, with the funding of benefactors from Germany and Poland.

* Cham, a colloquial name for the French mountain town of Chamonix Mont Blanc

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd ( EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton ), based on Christie's 1962 novel.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

* Abduction ( novel ), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

The novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

*" Antwerp " ( novel ), by Roberto Bolaño