He was also known by appellations al-Dakhil (" the Immigrant "), Saqr Quraish (" the Falcon of the Quraysh ") and the " Falcon of Andalus ".

But he was also known as Saqr Quraish (" The Falcon of the Quraish "), bestowed on him by one of his greatest enemies, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur.

Commented assembly language source code was made available for Centipede, Commando, Crossbow, Desert Falcon, Dig Dug, Food Fight, Galaga, Hat Trick, Joust, Ms. Pac-Man, Super Stunt Cycle, Robotron: 2084 and Xevious game titles.

As the only surviving member of the Falcon missile family, it was not adopted by any other nation ( besides Iran ), any other US armed service, or used on any other aircraft.

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

The Japanese torpedo boatKotaka ( Falcon ) of 1885 was " the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later ".

The EK of 1960 was Holden's response to the Ford Falcon ( Australia ) | Ford Falcon, with the availability of automatic transmission.

To Holden's advantage, the Falcon was not durable, particularly in the front suspension, making it ill-suited for Australian conditions.

In particular, it was narrower than its predecessor and its Falcon rival, making it less comfortable for three rear-seat passengers.

** Native storage engines ( MyISAM, Falcon, Merge, Memory ( heap ), Federated, Archive, CSV, Blackhole, Cluster, EXAMPLE, Maria, and InnoDB, which was made the default as of 5. 5 )

The 68030 was used in many models of the Apple Macintosh II and Commodore Amiga series of personal computers, NeXT Cube, Sun Microsystems Sun 3 / 80 desktop workstation ( a member of the " sun3x " architecture, where the earlier " sun3 " used a 68020 ), later Alpha Microsystems multiuser systems, and some descendants of the Atari ST line such as the Atari TT and the Atari Falcon.

It saw use in some late-model Amiga machines and Amiga accelerator cards as well as some Atari ST clones and a Falcon accelerator board ( CT060 ), and very late models of the Alpha Microsystems multiuser computers before their migration to x86, but Apple Inc. and the Unix world had moved onto various RISC platforms by the time the ' 060 was available.

Robert Falcon Scott, CVO ( 6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912 ) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901 – 04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910 – 13.

Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

* RRS Discovery, a Royal Geographical Society research vessel which, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, was the main ship of the 1901 – 1904 " Discovery Expedition " to Antarctica which is still preserved as a museum in Dundee, Scotland.

The Peregrine Falcon was reintroduced into Shenandoah National Park in the mid-1990s.

Following Raft's departure, the studio gave Bogart the role of Roy Earl in the 1941 film High Sierra, which helped establish him as one of the studio's top stars ; following High Sierra, Bogart was also given a role in John Huston's successful 1941 remake of the studio's 1931 failure, The Maltese Falcon.

In another much-publicized case, issues have been raised about the underlying motives that led to the balloon boy hoax, in which six-year-old Falcon Heene was reportedly coerced by his father to stage for a frantic, live-on-TV chase for an out-of-control helium balloon, in which he was suspected to be.

Although she was set to star in thirteen episodes of CBS's Falcon Crest in 1984 as Angela Channing's half-sister Francesca Gioberti, negotiations fell through at the last moment and the role went to Gina Lollobrigida instead.

Valentino's next film was a pet project titled The Hooded Falcon.

The opposition argued that Falcon changed the rules in 2010 after Clearly Contacts donated more than ten-thousand dollars to the BC Liberal Party.

An alien, coming into a colony also became, temporarily a subject of the Crown, and acquired rights both within and beyond the colony, and these latter rights could not be affected by the laws of that colony ( Routledge v Low ( 1868 ) LR 3 HL 100 ; 37 LJ Ch 454 ; 18 LT 874 ; 16 WR 1081, HL ; Reid v Maxwell ( 1886 ) 2 TLR 790 ; Falcon v Famous Players Film Co 2 KB 474 ).

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

* The Geocaching Handbook ( Falcon Guide ) by Layne Cameron and Dave Ulmer ( ISBN 978-076273044 )

Co-written by Truman Capote, the movie is a parody of The Maltese Falcon, and is a tale of an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure, in this instance uranium.

It is based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon ( 1725 ), Jean Baptiste Falcon ( 1728 ) and Jacques Vaucanson ( 1740 )

* The Book of Lyonne ( by Burgess Drake ) ( The Falcon Press, 1952 )

In this simpler plan, a crew of two would be sent to Mars by a single Falcon Heavy launch, the Dragon spacecraft acting as their interplanetary cruise habitat.

The largest brewing plant in Sweden ( Falcon ) is owned by Carlsberg, which is Danish, and is therefore not in the list.

He escapes the robot-controlled scow by repairing an old ship, the Aluminum Mallard ( a play on Howard Hughes ' " Spruce Goose " and Star Wars ' Millennium Falcon ).

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

Ford had intended developing the car with left hand drive export potential, and received federal and state government grants to assist, but in October 2007 it was announced by Ford Australia president Tom Gorman that the left-hand-drive Falcon project was to be abandoned and the export incentive grant money would be directed to construction of the Ford Focus small-car in Australia.

Named " Task Force Falcon ," the brigade's mission was to conduct aviation operations to destroy insurgents and anti-coalition militia in an effort to help build the Afghan National Security Force's capability and allow the Afghan government to increase its capabilities.

Soon after, he and his wife went on a cross-country lecture tour “ in a pilgrimage for world peace .” Their tour was bankrolled by the Falcon Lair Foundation, a nonprofit group interested in religion, philosophy and government whose headquarters were “ Falcon Lair ,” Beverly Hills, California.

The Falcon won the highly touted US Air Force Office Automation contract, initially estimated at $ 1. 7 billion, and the largest single computer contract the Federal government had awarded at that time.

The Falcon and the Snowman is based on the true story of former altar boy and former Catholic seminary student Christopher Boyce and fellow former altar boy turned drug dealer Andrew Daulton Lee, two young men from wealthy California families who sold classified government information to the Soviet Union during the mid 1970s.

US government superhero liaison Henry Peter Gyrich then recruits the Falcon, one of the few active African-American superheroes, to fill a mandated racial quota for the venerable team the Avengers.

Following Captain America's assassination by the machinations of the Red Skull, the Falcon registers with the government and is made responsible for Harlem, although he continues to maintain contact with the underground New Avengers.

Opportunities include two mainstage productions each year, instrumental music and choir performances, student government, and such organizations as the Multicultural Student Union, the Jewish Student Union, the Falcon ( student newspaper ), The Cauldron ( arts and literary journal ), Worship & Ministry, the Operation Smile Club, and the Mock Trial Team.

Nearby is Falcon College, a renowned secondary school for boys and Mzingwane High School, recently a well-performing government school.

on 5 April 2011, Elon Musk stated, " Falcon Heavy will arrive at our Vandenberg, California, launch complex by the end of next year ( 2012 ), with liftoff to follow soon thereafter ( 2013 ).

Falcon Heights and Lauderdale soon followed suit, and Rose Township ceased to exist.

Despite its reputation as merely being " Dallas with grapes ”, Falcon Crest soon found its own niche amongst the prime-time dramas of the 1980s, occupying the middle ground between the two extremes of the genre — being more glamorous than Dallas yet not quite as outrageous as Dynasty.

Hyundai and Kia have also been working with new FR based vehicles in the US, the Genesis Coupe and Sedan, the Equiss, and the new Kia Quoris Ford on the other hand seems to be moving away from FR based vehicles with the discontinuation of the Panther Platform, and soon the E-series the Mustang and Aussie Falcon are the only remaining FR vehicles in their lineup, at that the Falcons future is unclear.

The launch site is intended for use by the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, which is scheduled to be brought on site in 2012 with a test flight to follow soon after.

Ford Australia senior executives expected the Falcon wagon to be discontinued soon after the introduction of the Territory, surmising that Falcon wagon sales would substantially decline as fleet buyers migrated to the Territory.

Falcon soon finds himself on the run from O. N. I.

A zombified version of Beak appears in issue 1 of Marvel Zombies 3, assaulting Machine Man and Jocasta as soon as they arrive on Earth-2149 along with other wing-laden characters: Angel, Falcon and Vulture.

However, Vader ’ s ship arrives soon after the Falcon leaves and demands that Lando turn over the Rebels to him.

His assault is defeated when Chewbacca ignited his jet-pack ( in a replay of Fett's undoing in Return of the Jedi ), and the Falcon soon takes off again.

The Star Destroyer soon locks a tractor beam on the Millennium Falcon, catching the ship in its firm grip.

However, it was soon revealed that the true leader of HYDRA was the Nazi supervillain the Red Skull, and the Fisks had to team up with Captain America and the Falcon to stop the mad dictator.

The company's role soon expanded to producing Rolls-Royce Hawk and Falcon engines, as well as major parts of the famous Rolls-Royce Eagle.

Omelek will also soon host launches for the upgraded Falcon 1e rocket.