The Duke of York in his role as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, 2008.

Investment capital was raised to bring back gold and other riches and seek the Northwest Passage to the Middle East and India.

In addition to this work in Asia, KPF has completed projects in the Middle East including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Headquarters ( 2007 ) and the Marina Towers ( 2008 ), and has worked in South America, Africa and Australia.

He is also a joint venture partner with Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary in the Gulf International Investment Group ( GIIG ) for a range of projects in Asia and the Middle East.

In 2012, Global Finance honored the bank with seven awards including Best Trade Finance Provider in the Middle East, Jordan and Yemen, Best Emerging Market Bank in Jordan and Yemen and Best Foreign Exchange Provider and Best Investment Bank in Jordan.

* Silverado Middle School 8th Grade Leadership Class Launches Nationwide Who Named America?

Joseph F. Tuttle, after whom Tuttle Grade School in Crawfordsville was named in 1906 and Tuttle Middle School in 1960, became President of Wabash College in 1862 and served for 30 years.

Saint Michael's School, located in downtown Cranford, is a major Roman Catholic parochial school which offers Nursery through Grade 8 and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

They are Kyrock Elementary ( in the Kyrock community in northern Edmonson County ), South Edmonson Elementary ( near the Chalybeate community in southern Edmonson County ), the Edmonson County Fifth / Sixth Grade Center and Edmonson County Middle / High School ( both in Brownsville ).

Cullman Primary School ( Pre-K-First Grade ), East Elementary ( Second Grade-Sixth Grade ), West Elementary ( Second Grade-Sixth Grade ), John G. Cullman Middle School ( Seventh and Eighth Grades ), and Cullman High School ( Ninth Grade-Twelfth Grade ).

Saint Bernard Preparatory School, a Benedictine boarding and day school ( Ninth Grade-Twelfth Grade ), Saint Bernard Middle School ( Seventh and Eighth Grade ), Sacred Heart Elementary School ( Pre-K-Sixth Grade ), Saint Paul's Lutheran School ( Pre-K-Sixth Grade ), and Cullman Christian School ( Pre-K-Twelfth Grade ).

Primary education in Weed is conducted at Weed Elementary School ( K-5th Grade ) and Weed Middle School ( Grades 6-8 ) which comprise the Weed Union Elementary School District.

" Currently, public education in Preston is administered by Preston Public Schools, which operates the Preston Veterans ' Memorial School ( Pre-K to Grade 5 ) and the Preston Plains Middle School ( Grades 6-8 ).

By 1914, the community needed a large central school to house all of the area's students, so the Brandon Grade School ( now McLane Middle School ) was built on Knights Avenue to house grades 1 through 12.

Grade school students attend Home Elementary School in neighboring Stickney, and George Washington Middle School in Lyons and then J.

Burlington is home to Central High School, Central Middle School, and Howard B. Thomas Grade School, all of which serve School District 301.

In 1862, Joseph F. Tuttle, after whom Tuttle Grade School was named in 1906 and Tuttle Junior High School ( now Tuttle Middle School ) was named in 1960, became President of Wabash College and served for 30 years.

Benton is home to Benton Grade School and Circle Middle School.

Circle Middle School used to be a combination of Benton Grade School and Towanda Grade School, which, at the time, were both K-8 schools.

* Adair County Middle School ( 7th, & 8th Grade Students )

* Gerisch Middle School ( 6th Grade-7th Grade )

* Davidson Middle School ( 8th Grade-9th Grade )

Among all Christians, 37. 5 % live in the Americas, 25. 7 % live in Europe, 22. 5 % live in Africa, 13. 1 % live in Asia, 1. 2 % live in Oceania and 0. 9 % live in the Middle East.

Approximately 1, 100 mappae mundi are known to have survived from the Middle Ages.

A fourth island shown on some maps, Anniversary Island one km ( 1, 100 yards ) southwest of Middle Island, appears as just a sand bar on satellite images.

Eleanor of Aquitaine () ( 1122 or 1124 – 1 April 1204 ) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.

For 2006, $ 9. 6 billion of revenue came from the Americas ( Canada, Latin America, and the United States ); $ 8 billion from Europe, Middle East, and Africa ; $ 1. 5 billion from Asia-Pacific ; Services ' revenue was: Infrastructure $ 12 billion, Applications Software $ 5. 9 billion, Business Process Outsourcing $ 3 billion and all other $ 421 million.

A nation with a population of less than one million, it maintains nearly 1, 000 soldiers overseas in UN peacekeeping missions, mainly in the Middle East.

Isidore's T and O map, which was seen as representing a small part of a spherical Earth, was essentially unchanged from its predecessors of 1, 200 years previously, continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors, e. g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere ( Aristotle's northern temperate clime ) with a wheel.

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It became fragmented, with various parts ruled by numerous Middle kingdoms for the next 1, 500 years.

* 1969 " Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata at Megiddo ", Levant 1 ( 1969 ), pp. 25 – 60.

Mandates in the Middle East and Africa, which included: 1.

The Middle East's expected economic growth rate is at about 4. 1 % for 2010 and 5. 1 % in 2011.

During the Middle Ages several other days were variously taken as the beginning of the calendar year ( 1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, 25 December ).

In Europe, Middle East and Asia, offshore powerboat racing is led by the UIM regulated Class 1 and Powerboat GPS ( formerly known as Powerboat P1 ).

International links include: landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable systems (* AMK ) that provide links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe ; 3 Intelsat satellite earth stations ( 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean ); 3 operational international gateway exchanges ( 2 at Karachi and 1 at Islamabad ); and microwave radio relay to neighboring countries.

It has been estimated that around 1, 000 tons of pepper and 1, 000 tons of the other common spices were imported into Western Europe each year during the Late Middle Ages.

In 1988, however, overseas construction contracts totaled only US $ 2. 6 billion ( orders from the Middle East were US $ 1. 2 billion ), a 1 percent increase over the previous year, while new orders for domestic construction projects totaled US $ 13. 8 billion, an 8. 8 percent increase over 1987.

It described the Shriners as " among secret lodges the No. 1 in prestige, wealth and show ", and stated that " n the typical city, especially in the Middle West, the Shriners will include most of the prominent citizens.

More recent scholarship, such as that of Yaakov Elman, concludes that since the Tosefta, as we know it, must be dated linguistically as an example of Middle Hebrew 1, it was most likely compiled in early Amoraic times from oral transmission of baraitot., Professor Shamma Friedman, has found that the Tosefta draws on relatively early Tannaitic source material and that parts of the Tosefta predate the Mishnah.