His mother was ʻĀtikah bint Murrah ibn Hilāl ibn Fālij ibn Dhakwān.

He married several wives of influential tribes, including ' Ātikah bint Murrah ibn Hilāl ibn Fālij ibn Dhakwān of Bani Qays Aylan, Hilal of the Banu Hawāzin, Raytah of Ta ' if, and Waqida bint Amr.

The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.

If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.

It is, however, apparent that by the time of the Romans, coins featuring a star or crescent in some combination were not at all rare.

For example, a solid cube is convex, but anything that is hollow or has a dent in it, for example, a crescent shape, is not convex.

During the time of the Ottomans the crescent began to be associated with Islam and this is reflected on the flags of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan and of Tunisia.

The earliest clear written record of iron horseshoes is a reference to " crescent figured irons and their nails " in AD 910.

Although originally the new lunar crescent had to be observed and certified by witnesses, the moment of the new moon is now approximated arithmetically.

This supreme abode is above a crescent like boundary.

The crescent kick, also referred to as a ' swing ' kick, has some similarities to a hook kick, and is sometimes practised as an off-target front snap kick.

When training for crescent kicks, it is common to keep the knee extended to increase the difficulty.

Chios island is approximately crescent or kidney shaped, long from north to south, at its widest, and covers an area of.

After that is complete, the maker will use a crescent shaped knife, called lunarium or lunellum, to clean any surviving hairs.

* See when the next new crescent moon is visible for any location.

One can see, for example, that the full moon will always rise at sunset and that the waning crescent moon is high overhead around 9: 00 am local time.

A last quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member.

* The Islamic calendar has retained an observational definition of the new moon, marking the new month when the first crescent moon is actually seen, and making it impossible to be certain in advance of when a specific month will begin ( in particular, the exact date on which Ramadan will begin is not known in advance ).

This first day of the following month is declared after another crescent new moon has been sighted or the completion of 30 days of fasting if no visual sighting is possible due to weather conditions.

" The crescent moon pendant is arguably the most iconic of all Nicks's jewelry – the original was bought while she was in England on tour with Fleetwood Mac during the Tusk era.

* Mukhali is back in Genghis Khan's camp in Mongolia and receives the hereditary title of prince, a golden seal, and a white standard with 9 tails and a black crescent in the middle.

In the United States and Canada, the adjustable spanner ( adjustable wrench ) is colloquially referred to as a " crescent wrench " due to the widespread Crescent brand of adjustable wrenches.

The loutish Abner typically had no visible means of support, but sometimes earned his livelihood as a " crescent cutter " for the Little Wonder privy company, ( later changed to " mattress tester " for the Stunned Ox mattress company.

Bas-relief in Persepolis — a symbol Zoroastrism | Zoroastrian Nowruz — in day of a spring equinox power of eternally fighting bull ( personifying the moon ), and a lion ( personifying the Sun, the bulls crescent horn resembling the moon, the lions mane, representing the sun.

* Civilizations develop in the Mesopotamia / Fertile crescent region ( around the location of modern day Iraq ).

Another significant flag, not pictured here is the " South Carolina Seccession Flag ", the day after South Carolina seceded a red flag, with two tails, a large white star and an upside down crescent moon at the top by the flag staff was raised over the Charleston Custom House.

He associated the star and crescent with the god Men and saw them as representations of night and day ( the star may be considered the sun here ).

Another story, as told by an Elder, is that one day the crescent moon and the evening star passed very close to each other.

The new moon is marked by the day and hour that the new crescent is observed.

A common culinary myth claims that when Christian forces freed Buda from Ottoman occupation in 1686 the bakers of the town celebrated the victory the next day by selling freshly baked bread rolls made into a crescent shape.

Moreover, this disposition – concave in relation to the Allied army – gave Marlborough the opportunity to form a more compact line, drawn up in a shorter front between the ‘ horns ’ of the French crescent ; when the Allied blow came it would be more concentrated and carry more weight.

This carries most significance in establishing the creation of the Universe and the arms as ' kal ' or time, a calendar that is seen to be more advanced than the lunar calendar ( symbolized by the lunar crescent common to Islam ) where the seasons drift from calendar year to calendar year.

It is a small crescent shaped range, with a high point some 750 m above sea level, running roughly north south with steep cliffs on the eastern side sloping more gradually down to the plane in the west.

She has a lunar crescent at her feet, " a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place " similar to the crown of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, but with the horns having a shape more like half-crescents, and a large cross on her breast.

They wanted a more romantic sounding name for the town to attract settlers and came up with " La Crescent ", after the bend or " crescent " shape of the Mississippi River around the town.

But other than Shiva, the major Indian Goddesses like Durga and Kali ( the latter more often ), is depicted with the crescent.

The islet, which sits within the rough crescent formed by the main island, is 6 square kilometres ( 1, 500 acres ) and extremely flat, rising no more than two meters above the sea.

Silver coin of Chandragupta II the Great, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ".< ref >" Evidence of the conquest of Saurashtra ( region ) | Saurastra during the reign of Chandragupta II is to be seen in his rare silver coins which are more directly imitated from those of the Western Satraps ... they retain some traces of the old inscriptions in Greek characters, while on the reverse, they substitute the Gupta type ( a peacock ) for the chaitya with crescent and star.

It was green with a yellow crescent and star, but had more curvature to a typical Islamic crescent moon symbol.

An alternative hypothesis is that the crescent may be derived from the crescent on the coat of arms of the Bull family, which was prominent in the early days of the colony and produced one of Charleston's more illustrious Royal Governors.

The cities of the Randstad more or less form a crescent or chain.

This date seems to be more likely, because the Turkish crescent in the picture is probably the one which Kalākaua received from William I as a gift ( cf.

In representing the star and crescent on their coins the Parthians thus adopted traditional symbols used in Mesopotamia and Elam more than two millennia before their own arrival in those parts.

" Other scholars have suggested that the star and crescent are more directly related to the cult of the god Mithra.

The eastern half of the floor is much more smooth and level than the hummocky west, and this section forms a crescent shape about the central peak.

The current three-storey mosque is much more traditional in appearance with a golden dome and crescent on top, It opened in 2008 during Liverpool's tenure as European Capital of Culture.

It is a striking complex of more than one square mile, where six earthwork crescent ridges were built in concentric arrangement, interrupted by radial aisles.

Located in a once quiet, middle-class residential area, San Beda College is now part of Manila's bustling University Belt, an irregular crescent curving for about six kilometers through six districts of Manila, containing more than thirty colleges and universities.

* Danwoldo: This is an even larger crescent blade that is actually more of a sword than a polearm.

The Dutch recaptured the crescent fortification soon afterwards, and when the Duke of Monmouth rallied his troops to a second assault, they were driven back once more, and Comte d ' Artagnan was killed.