* Danishnama-i ' ala ' i ( The Book of Scientific Knowledge ), ed.

There they find that another Battle School comrade, Alai, is the unrivaled Caliph of a nearly unified Muslim world.

In the United States of America, jai alai enjoyed some popularity as a gambling alternative to horse racing, greyhound racing, and harness racing, and remains popular in Florida, where the game is used as a basis for parimutuel gambling at six frontons throughout the state: Dania Beach, Orlando, Miami, Reddick ( as " Ocala Poker and Jai Alai "), Fort Pierce, and Jasper ( as " Hamilton Jai Alai and Poker ").

Bean meets with Ambul, a former soldier under Bean in Battle School's Rabbit Army, and gives him the task of finding a way to meet with Alai, who has dropped out of sight but is assumed to be highly placed in the Muslim defense forces.

The two help Alai realize that he is little more than a glorified prisoner, and that others have been ruling Islam in his stead.

Their new " Hindu-Muslim ... thing ," to quote the Prime Minister of Armenia (" I call it a riot with scripture ," quips Jeesh member Vlad ) is fraught with tension and Alai discovers that, despite his wife's status as an infidel and a woman, the more hotheaded members of his empire actually prefer her aggressive and expansionist policies.

Virlomi then declares war on China, setting off all manner of plots: Muslim hardliners attempt to assassinate Alai ; Russia invades China and eastern Europe using " contingency " plans drawn up by a horrified Vlad ; and Fly Molo of the Philippines is instructed to invade Taiwan, his nation suicidally confident in their Jeesh member.

The Alai Darwaza is the main gateway from southern side of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque.

Alai ( pronounced ah-lie ) is a major character in Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card.

In Battle School, Alai is an exceptional student, adroit in the battle room, and is one of the first kids to befriend Ender, in one of the early battle room training sessions that they are both a part of.

Alai is considered to be almost as good strategically as Ender is.

Ender attempts to rekindle the friendship by proposing " salaam " again ; but Alai says it is not to be, and tells him of the meaning, which is " peace.

" Alai is also one of the final eleven commanders, Ender's Jeesh, that lead under Ender's command during the Third Invasion in which the Buggers are eliminated.

After peace is restored, Alai leaves Earth with the help of the International Fleet to colonize another world.

Operated as a gaming enterprise called Jai Alai, it is seen in parts of the U. S. such as Florida, Connecticut, Nevada, and Rhode Island.

The International Jai-Alai Players Association is a union defending the players of Jai Alai.

The Trans-Alay Range ( also Trans Alai ) is the northernmost range of the Pamir Mountains, where the Pamirs and the Tian Shan come together.

Gack is a commando in Fighting Cats: an elite army unit of Alai Duchy.

At first, he thinks that everything Yashmaa and other Earthlings tell him is a part of his psychological training as an officer of the Alai Army.

Even after Yashmaa proves to him that he is indeed on a different planet, Gack still thinks that he was sent to Earth with an unknown secret mission by the Alai military.

After a month since Gack's arrival on Earth, Yashmaa tells him that the war on Giganda was stopped by progressors and that Alai Duchy as well as the Empire is no more.

According to Martin Woesler trends were ' cult literature ' with Guo Jingming ( 郭敬明 ), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river, vagabond literature with Xu Zechen ( 徐则臣 ), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick, Liu Zhenyun ( 刘震云 ), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets, underground literature Mian Mian ( 棉棉 ), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex, ' longing for something ' literature, divided in historicizing literature with Yu Dan 于丹, 《 论语 》 心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian ( 易中天 ) and in Tibetan literature with Alai, literature of the mega cities, women's literature with Bi Shumin ( 毕淑敏 ), 女儿拳 Women ’ s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist, master narratives by narrators like Mo Yan 莫言 with 生死疲勞 Life and Death are Wearing me out.

The Basque Government promotes jai alai as " the fastest sport in the world because of the balls " and once held the world record for ball speed with a 125g – 140g ball covered with goatskin that traveled at, performed by José Ramón Areitio at the Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island, until it was broken by Canadian long drive champion Jason Zuback on an episode of Sport Science in July 2009 with a golf ball speed of.

The Tampa Jai Alai operated for many years before closing in the late 1990s.

In 1956, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously for his novel Alai Osai.

Near the town of Gulcha, the expedition met Kurmanjan Datka, the famed Muslim Queen of Alai and posed for a photograph with her.

In Shadow Puppets, Alai has become a caliph for the Muslim nations: their chief military, political and spiritual leader.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

To this end political authority is called upon to exercise its negative and coercive powers.

Even when he is called upon for impromptu remarks, he has notes written on the back of handy envelopes.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

Where then is the sound planning and cooperation between agencies within the community that you have called for in other editorials??

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

Here, then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of a beginning.

The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment, set at the 1954 level, which is called the `` base '' allotment, and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment, for each State.

And, given probable public attitudes -- about which reasonably good estimates can be made -- what action is called for to insure necessary support??

Cathy J. Hanover ( Tar Heel-Kaola Hanover ), formerly called Karet Hanover, has been rather a problem child, but is getting better all the while and can pace a twice around in about 2:31.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

This meeting was called to determine how these groups might cooperate to launch what is known as the Outdoor Education Project.

Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.