But constant patrolling and reconnaissance were carried out from Romani to Ogratina, to Bir el Abd and on 16 May to Bir Bayud, south-east of Romani, on 31 May to Bir Salmana east north-east of Romani by the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, when they covered in 36 hours.

Here water was freely available in a large area of oases which extends from Dueidar, from Kantara on the Suez Canal, along the Darb es Sultani ( the old caravan route ), to Salmana away.

Sinai Peninsula from the Suez Canal to El Arish shows the positions of Dueidar, Kantara, Salmana, Bir el Mazar and El Arish as well as Romani, Katia, Bir el Abd, Maghara Hills and Nekhl

The area of oases which extended from Dueidar, from Kantara along the Darb es Sultani, along the old caravan route, and on to Salmana from Kantara could sustain life.

Çevik Bir retired from the army on August 30, 1999.

54 effectives of ' L ' Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade ( largely drawn from the disbanded Layforce ) mounted a night parachute insertion onto two drop zones in Bir Temrad, North Africa on the night of November 16 / 17 1941 in preparation for a stealthy attack on the forward airfields of Gambut and Tmimi in order to destroy the Axis fighter force on the ground before the start of Operation Crusader, a major offensive by the British Eighth Army.

The PFLP's armed wing, in the West Bank and Gaza, the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades, draws much of its support from student organizations in universities like Al-Quds University ( eastern Jerusalem ), Bir Zeit University ( Ramallah area ), An-Najah National University ( Nablus ), and the Arab American University-Jenin.

The first box, held by British 150th Infantry Brigade was roughly from the next position north ( held by 69th Infantry Brigade ) while the gap to the southernmost box at Bir Hakeim ( 1st Free French Brigade ) was further south.

However, on 8 August 1940, in an aerial duel between comparable rivals, 16 Fiat CR. 42s from 9 ° and 10 ° Gruppi of 4 ° Stormo were " bounced " by 14 Gladiators of 80 Squadron over Gabr Saleh ( about 65 kilometres southeast of El Adem and 35 kilometres east of Bir El Gobi ).

King Tribhuhvan Bir Bikram Shah ( त ् र ि भ ु वन व ी र व ि क ् रम श ा ह ), King of Nepal ( June 23, 1906 – March 13, 1955 ) was King of Nepal from 11 December 1911 until his death ( not considering his exile from 7 November 1950 to 18 February 1951 ).

A highly decorated and accomplished military officer, he became a Bir Uttom, the highest gallantry award for a living officer for his wartime services, and retired from the Bangladesh Army as a Lieutenant General.

Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal ( 11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972 ) was King of Nepal from 1955 to 1972.

Previous Crown Prince: Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah, from 1906 to 1911.

Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev ( 27 June 1971 – 4 June 2001 ) was a member of the Nepalese Royal Family, who briefly reigned in a coma as King of Nepal from the 1 to 4 June 2001.

After graduating from high school in 1985, he entered Bir Zeit University in 1987.

The Battle of Bir Hakeim was fought between the Afrika Korps and the Free French Brigade, with support from the British 7th Armoured Division.

At the beginning of July, it was estimated there were at least 28, 000 Ottoman troops in the Gaza – Beersheba area of southern Palestine, and that just before the battle began at Romani, there were 3, 000 troops at Oghratina, not far from Katia, another 6, 000 at the forward base of Bir el Abd, east of Oghratina, 2, 000 to 3, 000 at Bir Bayud to the south-east, and another 2, 000 at Bir el Mazar, some to the east, not far from El Arish.

But they could not stop British aircraft from continuing to reconnoitre the country to the east, and on 19 July, a British aircraft, with Brigadier General E. W. C. Chaytor ( commander of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade ) acting as observer, discovered an Ottoman force of about 2, 500 at Bir Bayud.

* 3rd Light Horse Brigade to move towards Bir el Nuss and attack Hod el Enna from the south keeping in close touch with the Anzac Mounted Division.

Meanwhile the German, Austrian and Ottoman force was now spread from Hill 110 almost to Bir en Nuss, but with their left flank unprotected.

While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".

Their name derives from the Spanish el lagarto, which means " the lizard ".

Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.

Alfonso III ( 1265, Valencia – 18 June 1291 AD ), called the Liberal ( el Liberal ) or the Free ( also " the Frank ," from el Franc ), was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfons II ) from 1285.

At various times in the past, and as late as the 1870s, the Bahr el Ghazal Depression, which extends from the northeastern part of the lake to the Djourab, acted as an overflow canal ; since independence, climatic conditions have made overflows impossible.

Ezekiel (;, Y ' ḥez ' qel, ), Arabic :< font size = 2 > حزقيال </ font > Hazqiyal, ' God will strengthen ' ( from, ḥazaq,, literally ' to fasten upon ,' figuratively ' strong ,' and, el,, literally ' God ', and so figuratively ' The Almighty ') is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.

The name El Cid () comes from the article el ( which means " the " in both Spanish and Arabic ), and the dialectal Arabic word سيد sîdi or sayyid, which means " Lord " or " The Master ".

The Bab el Qattara box — some from the coast and southwest of the Ruweisat Ridge — had been dug but had not been wired or mined, while at the Naq Abu Dweis box ( on the edge of the Qattara Depression ), from the coast, very little work had been done.

It was broad daylight by the time they circled round the back of Deir el Abyad where they found the feature to the east of it occupied by 18th Indian Infantry Brigade which, after a hasty journey from Iraq, had occupied the exposed position just west of Ruweisat Ridge and east of Deir el Abyad at Deir el Shein late on 28 June to create one of Norrie's additional defensive boxes.

At first light on 11 July, the Australian 2 / 24th Battalion supported by tanks from 44th Royal Tank Regiment attacked the western end of Tel el Eisa hill ( Point 24 ).

Auchinleck ’ s plan was for Indian Infantry 161st Brigade to attack along Ruweisat ridge to take Deir el Shein, while the New Zealand 6th Brigade attacked from south of the ridge to the El Mreir depression.

* 1940 – World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne.

called י ִ ש ְׂ ר ָ א ֵ ל, Israel ( Yisra ` el, meaning " one that struggled with the divine angel " ( Josephus ), " one who has prevailed with God " ( Rashi ), " a man seeing God " ( Whiston ), " he will rule as God " ( Strong ), or " a prince with God " ( Morris ), from, " prevail ", " have power as a prince ").

Michael (), also occasionally Micheal, is a given name that comes from the ( Mikha ' el ), derived from the question מי כאל ( mi k ' ʔel ) meaning " Who is like God?

The departure of mankind from Africa to colonise the rest of the world involved them crossing the Straits of Bab el Mandab in the southern Red Sea and moving along the green coastlines around Arabia and thence to the rest of Eurasia.

The name is derived from a maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of the original Peruvian Communist Party in the 1920s: " El Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la revolución " (" Marxism – Leninism will open the shining path to revolution ").

The first suggests that it is the shortened form of a sentence used in worship, " he causes to be " or " he creates ", from el du yahwi seba ' ot, " el who creates the hosts ", meaning the heavenly army accompanying the god El as he marched out beside the earthly armies of Israel ..

In the early 1990s, after the Soviet withdraw from Afghanistan, control of Mazar was contested by the Hazara milita Hezbe Wahdat, led by Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq, the Tajik militia Jamiat-e Islami, led by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, and the Uzbek militia Jumbesh-e Melli led by Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Under Dostum's 5 year rule from the early 1990s to early 1997, Mazar was an oasis of peace.

This peace was shattered in May 1997, when he was betrayed by one of his generals, Abdul Malik Pahlawan, forcing him to flee from Mazar as the Taliban were getting ready to take the city.

The Taliban's defeat in Mazar quickly turned into a rout from the rest of the north and west of Afghanistan.

On November 9, 2001 the city was officially captured by the Afghan Northern Alliance forces after the Battle of Mazar e Sharif with help from the United States Special Operations Forces and bombing by U. S. Air Force aircraft.

According to Mazar, "" It's the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel ," and " It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction.

“ The boundaries of Taghdumbash, Khunjerab and Raskam, as claimed by the Kanjuts, are the following: the northern watershed of the Taghdumbash Pamir from the Wakhjir Pass through the Baiyik peak to Dafdar, thence across the river to the Zankan nullah ; thence through Mazar and over the range to Urok, a point on the Yarkand river between Sibjaida and Itakturuk.

Reubens has since credited Mazar with ending his depression resulting from his infamous 1991 arrest.

Thirty intact hives, made of straw and unbaked clay, were discovered by archaeologist Amihai Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ruins of the city, dating from about 900 BC.

* Mullins, Robert A., “ A Corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian-Style Pottery from Tel Beth-Shean ”, in Maeir, A. M. and Miroschedji, P. de ( eds ), “ I Will Speak the Riddle of Ancient Times ”— Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, Volume 1, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006, pp. 247 – 262.

By mid-September 1916 the Anzac Mounted Division had pursued the retreating Ottoman and German forces from Bir el Abd along the northern route across the Sinai Peninsula to the outpost at Bir el Mazar.

< center > Map of the Sinai from the Suez Canal zone to Rafa when the railway reached Bir el Mazar </ center >

In the eighth and final season, the characters of Denise Ianello ( Debi Mazar ) and Eli Levinson ( Alan Rosenberg ) were transplanted from the canceled Bochco legal series Civil Wars, which had run on ABC from 1991 – 93.

His tomb lies in the Shah Jalal Dargah Mazar Sharif in the north, which is still as used as a place of pilgrimage, M. A. G. Osmani was the commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War, and Abdus Samad Azad, was the first politician from Sylhet to be a member of the cabinet in the government.

At the start of their collaboration they scored a few short films and started directing indie pieces of their own featuring Clifton Collins from Traffic, NYC " It Girl " Debi Mazar and Italian starlet Claudia Gerini.