In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.

Her agent Al Levy convinced her to attend a party at the home of composer Jule Styne.

She became first lady after her husband defeated Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 election.

Hoping to save their village from further attacks, the young men and Egwene flee the village accompanied by an Aes Sedai named Moiraine Damodred, her Warder Al ' Lan Mandragoran and a Gleeman Thom Merrilin.

In the episode's epilogue, Sam is shown to have returned to Beth, appearing to her as himself, assuring her that Al is safe and will return to her ; this results in Al and Beth remaining happily married in the future, while Sam never returns to the future.

It became identified with her, and soon worked its way back to New York where Al Jolson also began to perform it.

Al informs Vargas that Susie has been arrested for murder ; at the lockup Vargas finds her barely conscious.

Her nephew, George Clooney, was a pallbearer at her funeral, which was attended by numerous stars, including Al Pacino.

Her first album, entitled Al Ahavot Shelanu ( Our Love ), was released in 1980 and yielded a string of popular radio hits, including Hageshem ( The Rain ), Shir Ahava La ' chayal ( Love Song For The Soldier ), Kmo Tzipor ( Like A Bird ) and what ultimately became her signature song in Israel, Shir Ha ' frecha ( The Bimbo Song ).

In June 2006, Bahrain was elected head of the United Nations General Assembly, and used the honour to appoint Haya bint Rashid Al Khalifa as the Assembly's president, making her the first Middle East woman and only the third woman in history to take over the post.

In Mecca Uthman married Umm Saeed Fatima bint Al Walid b Abd Shams, a Qurayshi lady, and returned to Medina with her.

Biegler, who is losing the case, tries to persuade her that Al Paquette ( Murray Hamilton ), a bartender who witnessed the murder, knows that Quill raped Laura but is covering this up, either out of love for Mary or loyalty to his late friend.

Nomi reluctantly performs the lap dance after Cristal offers to pay $ 500 for it within earshot of Nomi's boss, Al Torres, who pressures her to perform.

A pregnant Irishwoman named Anne-Marie Murphy was about to board an El Al flight at London's Heathrow airport when her bag was found to contain three pounds of plastic explosives.

In addition to her starring role, Louis-Dreyfus also serves as a producer of the series .< small >< ref >" HBO Begins Filming of ' VEEP ' in Maryland <" October 05, 2011, Afro. com </ ref ></ small > In preparation for her role, Louis-Dreyfus spoke with several former vice presidents, including Al Gore.

In 2009, Arrarás published her latest book Make Your Life Prime Time: How to Have It All Without Losing Your Soul, published in Spanish as Vive Tu Vida Al Rojo Vivo: Secretos Para Triunfar En Todo.

At this hangout of the wealthy elite, George Gershwin often played impromptu piano for wealthy guests such as Reggie Vanderbilt, Harry Payne Whitney, or Walter Chrysler, and celebrities such as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Pola Negri, Al Jolson, Jeanne Eagels, Gloria Swanson, John Gilbert, Clara Bow, Hope Hampton, Irving Berlin, John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Leatrice Joy and Rudolph Valentino, as well as socialites such as Gloria Morgan and her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness.

It is love at first sight for Al, and only a few hours after meeting her, he proposes to her.

Other speakers for the fund-raising dinner include Reps. Edith Green and Al Ullman, Labor Commissioner Norman Nilsen and Mayor Terry Schrunk, all Democrats.

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.

Al has added some sidemen to the act which makes for a smoother operation but it's substantially the same format heard last spring.

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

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.

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.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

" Walt would say to Al, ' Of course, Al, this is really how you should draw Daisy Mae, I'm only showing you this for your own good.

* Capp, Al, Saturday Review of Literature ( March 20, 1948 ) " The Case for the Comics "

* AGA, the IATA airport code for Al Massira Airport, Agadir, Morocco

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

This is, a. o., particularly important for solubility studies of readily hydrolysed species such as Al, Eu, Am, Cm, ... or organic matter complexing these species.

The world record for the largest continuously poured concrete raft was achieved in August 2007 in Abu Dhabi by contracting firm Al Habtoor-CCC Joint Venture and the concrete supplier is Unibeton Ready Mix

Mn-Cr isotope ratios reinforce the evidence from < sup > 26 </ sup > Al and < sup > 107 </ sup > Pd for the early history of the solar system.

Various pastors and other religious figures and activists such as Rick Warren, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson campaigned for various social and political causes have achieved celebrity status in mainstream media as well.

Decades of mediocrity followed for the White Sox until the 1950s, when perennially competitive teams were blocked from the playoffs by the dynastic New York Yankees, with the exception of the 1959 pennant winners led by Early Wynn, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, and manager Al Lopez.

On September 2, 2004, Cantor filed a civil lawsuit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for allegedly providing money to the hijackers and Al Qaeda, one of a number of organizations to do so.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

* To Al Jorden, a trombonist whom she first met when he was in Barney Rapp's Band, from March 1941 to 1943.

In an email to the Detroit Free Press, NHL spokesman Frank Brown justified the ban because " matter flies off the octopus and gets on the ice " when Al Sobotka does it .< ref >

Minnie's brother was Al Schoenberg, who shortened his name to Al Shean when he went into show business as half of Gallagher and Shean, a noted vaudeville act of the early 20th century.

The game finally ended in the 24th inning when Aspromonte hit a shot toward Mets shortstop Al Weis.

Larger negative ions are more easily polarized, but the effect is usually only important when positive ions with charges of 3 + ( e. g., Al < sup > 3 +</ sup >) are involved.

* 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

The slope of the isochron has no age significance, but indicates the initial < sup > 26 </ sup > Al /< sup > 27 </ sup > Al ratio in the sample at the time when the systems were separated from a common reservoir.

The Alaouites entered Morocco at the end of the 13th century when Al Hassan Addakhil, who lived then in the town of Yanbu in the Hejaz, was brought to Morocco by the inhabitants of Tafilalet to be their imām.

* 1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.

The position of Sultan of Muscat would remain in the possession of the Al Said clan even when the imamate of Oman remained out of reach.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

In 1867, when a large Bahraini force sacked and looted Doha and Al Wakrah.

One of the first instances when it was used by militants was on 13 January 1975 at the Orly airport in France, when Carlos the Jackal, together with another member from the PFLP, used two Soviet RPG-7 grenades to attack an Israeli El Al airliner.

Known as " King Carl " and " The Meal Ticket ", Hubbell gained fame during the 1934 All-Star Game, when he struck out five future Hall of Famers in a row: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin.