The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

Hanging over the bar was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.

The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.

Qasr Al Abd was built by the governor of Ammon in 200 BC

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

Brenly was fired partway through the season and was replaced on an interim basis by third base coach Al Pedrique.

During the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, American authorities claim that immigration records show that a person named Abdulaziz al-Omari was visiting the country, although they say they are not sure that this was the same person.

* 1907 – Al Ahly was founded.

* In 2007, 66-year-old Al Hill amputated his leg below the knee using his pocketknife after the leg got stuck beneath a fallen tree he was cutting in California.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

This work was collected by Dark Horse Comics in a four-volume hardcover series entitled Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years.

In 1970, he was the subject of a provocative NBC documentary called This Is Al Capp.

His contentious public persona during this period was captured on a late sixties comedy LP called Al Capp On Campus.

The term Al Nesr Al Tair appeared in Al Achsasi Al Mouakket catalogue, which was translated into Latin as Vultur Volans.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

This form of rock consists mostly of the minerals gibbsite Al ( OH )< sub > 3 </ sub >, boehmite γ-AlO ( OH ), and diaspore α-AlO ( OH ), in a mixture with the two iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite, and small amounts of anatase TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Matt Underwood and former Indians Gold Glove winning CF Rick Manning form the announcing team, with Al Pawlowski as the pregame / postgame host and in-game update anchor, former Indians LHP Jason Stanford as pregame analyst, and Kaite Witham as field reporter ( home games ).

* 1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.

Carsten Niebuhr, in his Reisebeschreibung nach Arabian, says he visited Al Kifl in Iraq, midway between Najaf and Hilla and said Kifl was the Arabic form of Ezekiel.

Al Qaeda now has a presence in the country, in the form of several terrorist groups formerly led by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.

It is common for the Si < sup > 4 +</ sup > to be substituted by Al < sup > 3 +</ sup > because of similarity in ionic radius and charge ; in those case, the < sup > 5 -</ sup > tetrahedra form the same structures as do the unsubstituted tetrahedra, but their charge-balancing requirements are different.

Feldsapthoids are structurally similar to feldspar, but differ in that they form in Si-deficient conditions which allows for further substitution by Al < sup > 3 +</ sup >.

The Al Hajar Mountains, which form a belt between the coast and the desert from the Musandam Peninsula ( Ras Musandam ) to the city of Sur at Oman's easternmost point, formed another barrier.

The Al Hajar Mountains form two ranges: the Al Hajar al Gharbi Mountains and the Al Hajar ash Sharqi ( Eastern Al Hajar ) Mountains.

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

The Al ash-Sheikh are the descendants of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the 18th century founder of the Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam which is today dominant in Saudi Arabia.

Outside of the House of Al Saud, participation in the political process is limited to a relatively small segment of the population and takes the form of the royal family consulting with the ulema, tribal sheikhs and members of important commercial families on major decisions.

Williams would also go into a partnership with friend Al Cassidy to form the Ted Williams Baseball Camp in Lakeville, Massachusetts.

Ruby is α-alumina ( the most stable form of Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >) in which a small fraction of the aluminum < sup > 3 +</ sup > ions are replaced by chromium < sup > 3 +</ sup > ions.

However, this Dynasty became reborn in Cordoba ( Al Andalus, today's Portugal and Spain ) in the form of an Emirate and then a Caliphate, lasting until 1031 AD.

The band members from Al Rappas " Comets " went on to form the LocoMotion showband and continued touring the States without Al Rappa.

Leaching of aluminium salts from rocks and soil by acid rain is another example of dissolution with reaction: alumino-silicates are bases which react with the acid to form soluble species, such as Al < sup > 3 +</ sup >( aq ).

* August 5, 2006, Al-Qaeda's Al Zawahiri appeared on a recorded video announcing that JI and Al-Qaeda had joined forces and that the two groups will form " one line, facing its enemies.

At first he tried to imitate Al Jolson by smearing his face with black paint, but later separated himself to form his own identity as an impoverished slum dweller with baggy pants, a rope for a belt, and a distinctive mustache.

Al Christie then formed a partnership with his brother Charles to form Christie Film Company which lasted until 1933 when the company went into receivership.

He spent the next 5 seasons in St. Louis producing well as usual playing with the likes of Brett Hull, Chris Pronger, Al MacInnis and Grant Fuhr.

In " Route 666 " Marcy D ' Arcy said that when they thought Al had died, they all started dancing and singing " Ding Dong, the shoe man's dead " and called it a " cruel, cruel hoax " when they learned it was a false alarm — as usual, Al had survived his latest misadventure.

The music was written by Robert Allen ( whose songs were usually collaborations with Al Stillman ) and the lyrics by Richard Adler ( after the 1955 death of his usual partner Jerry Ross ).

In a press release on 4 July 2012, Suha Arafat, Arafat's widow, called for the exhumation of Arafat's body for further testing, in response to the Al Jazeera story about polonium.