The idea of Central Asia as a distinct region of the world was introduced in 1843 by the geographer Alexander von Humboldt.

Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 BC-87 BC ) went to war with the Dayuan for this reason, since the Dayuan were hording a massive amount of tall, strong, Central Asian bred horses in the Hellenized – Greek region of Fergana ( established slightly earlier by Alexander the Great ).

During the 11th Party Congress Alexander Shliapnikov, the leader of the Workers ' Opposition, claimed that certain individuals from the Central Committee had threatened him.

Alexander was the host of the Comedy Central Roast of actor William Shatner on August 13, 2006 ( first airdate: August 20, 2006 ).

First Secretary of the regional Communist Party of Slovakia, Alexander Dubček, and economist Ota Šik challenged him at a meeting of the Central Committee.

* November 27 – Alexander Dubcek, Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( died 1992 )

Alexander of the Army Corps of Engineers had written in his surveys of the Central Valley's hydrology and irrigation systems of a great network of pumps and canals that would take water from the water-rich Sacramento River basin into drought-prone South and Central California, especially the San Joaquin Valley.

* Alexander Borodin — In the Steppes of Central Asia ; " Polovetsian Dances " from Prince Igor.

In October 1967, a number of reformers, most notably Ota Šik and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretary Antonín Novotný at a Central Committee meeting.

He was elected to the RSDLP's Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and Alexander Bogdanov's followers.

The first major step in opening the Silk Road between the East and the West came with the expansion of Alexander the Great's empire into Central Asia.

* Alexander Central School District

Because of conquests by Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.

In the East, Alexander the Great's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Central Asian and Indian cultures, resulting in Greco-Buddhist art, with ramifications as far as Japan.

Statue of Alexander von Humboldt located in the Mexico City Alameda Central | Alameda Central ( central park ) of Mexico City.

* Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia ( 1880 )

Shortly thereafter, Kyle Rayner, having imbued with the vast power of Ion after his battle with Oblivion and Alexander Nero funneled the remaining energy left in the sun that was once the immortal Guardians back into the Central Power Battery.

The schools include: Irving School, Central School, Lyle School, Belle Alexander School, and Kewanee High School.

The Lake Station Community Schools district consists of three elementary schools, Virgil I. Bailey, Carl J. Polk, Alexander and Hamilton, a preschool and 6th grade school combined named Central, and one combined junior and senior high school Thomas A. Edison Junior-Senior High School.

Points of interest in area: Central State Hospital, founded on site of Isaac Hite's home, and Oxmoor Farm, home of Alexander Scott Bullitt who helped draft first Kentucky State Constitution.

* Alexander Central High School

Macdonald calls Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia " powerful orchestral pictures, each unique in its composer's output ".

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.

In 1982 the Canadian Central Bank ’ s lending rates ran up to 14 % which drove chartered bank lending rates as high as 19 %.

Central areas of Eritrea and most tribes in today's northern Ethiopia share a common background and cultural heritage in the Kingdom of Aksum ( and its successor dynasties ) of the first millennium ( as well as the first millennium BC kingdom of D ’ mt ), and in its Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church ( today, with an autocephalous Eritrean branch ), as well as in its Ge ' ez language.

Rachel ’ s first job is as a waitress at the coffeehouse Central Perk, but she later becomes an assistant buyer at Bloomingdale's in season three, and a buyer at Ralph Lauren in season five.

Rachel arrives at Central Perk after running away from her wedding to her fiancé Barry and moves into her best friend from high school's ( Monica ’ s ) apartment with her.

Yet, seven years after the Allies ’ Potsdam Agreement to a unified Germany, the USSR via the Stalin Note ( 10 March 1952 ) proposed German reunification and superpower disengagement from Central Europe, which the three Western Allies ( US, France, UK ) rejected.

With the authorisation of the Central People ’ s Government of the PRC, Hong Kong also concluded 12 bilateral agreements with foreign states on air services, investment promotion and protection, mutual legal assistance and visa abolition during the year.

One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.

The American Hospital Association ’ s “ Advisory Committee to the Central Office on ICDA ” developed the needed adaptation proposals, resulting in the publication of the International Classification of Diseases, Adapted ( ICDA ).

In Singapore, it is helping to create the city ’ s new Central Business District with an expanding joint venture portfolio of new developments.

Influenced by Lenin, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party stated that the development of the socialist workers ’ culture should not be ‘ hamstrung from above ’, and opposed the Proletkult ( 1917 – 25 ) organisational control of the national culture.

Within the wide, flat Central Plateau is the majority of Namibia ’ s population and economic activity.

Central to this doctrine, NOI theology asserts that black people ’ s experience of slavery was the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and therefore, black people are the seed of Abraham referred to in the Bible, in Genesis 15: 13 – 14:

OSS: The Secret History of America ’ s First Central Intelligence Agency ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 ; Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005 )

The Office of Strategic Services: America ’ s First Intelligence Agency ( Washington, D. C .: Central Intelligence Agency, 2001 )

On September 28, 1954, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party re-established the Central Military Commission as the leader of the PLA and the people ’ s armed forces.

In December 1982, the fifth National People ’ s Congress revised the State Constitution to provide that the State Central Military Commission leads all the armed forces of the state.

Current records at the Australian Museum show that Beazley ’ s wig, described as “ a cap composed of human hair from the headwaters of the U – at River, Central Mountains, Mandated Territory of NG ”, was lodged on 31 January 1930, presumably on his quick visit to Sydney after the first expedition.

Paraguay ’ s Central Bank exists to stabilize the financial sector, making sure that another run on banks, such as the one that occurred in 1995, does not recur.

OMA Beijing: In Asia, Koolhaas is working with his team on the office ’ s largest project to date, the 575, 000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters ( CCTV ) and Television Cultural Center ( TVCC ), currently under construction in Beijing and due for completion in 2008.

One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.

VU introduced research SEED funding program to support collaborative research in applied economics, accounting, tourism, sports management, information technology and logistics at China ’ s Central University of Finance and Economics, and the Beijing Jiaotong University.