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Hind and claimed
Charles Talmage, using ephemerides provided by John Russell Hind, claimed to have briefly observed a nebulous object in approximately the right position in November 1865.
At the time of the hunt, four teenage girls, Maxine Buckley, Catherine Burke, Debbie Brown and Pamela Hind, claimed that Kiszko had indecently exposed himself to them the day before the murder.

Hind and name
A Pelican and a Golden Hind support the shield and reflect both the original and later, better known, name of Sir Francis Drake ’ s ship.
* February 7 – U. S. Air Force F-15C Eagles use AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles to shoot down three Iraqi Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s ( NATO reporting name " Fitter ") flying to Iran, as well as an Iraqi Mil Mi-24 ( NATO reporting name " Hind ") helicopter in northern Iraq ; a U. S. Navy F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron 1 uses an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile to down an Iraqi Mil Mi-8 ( NATO reporting name " Hip ") helicopter ; and a U. S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II of the 926th Tactical Fighter Group uses 30-mm cannon fire to shoot down an Iraqi Bo 105 helicopter.
Old Persian commonly changed the initial " s " in a foreign word into an " h ," most famously, in its rendition of the name the river and the people Sindh / Sindhi into Hind / Hindi, which was then Hellenized into Indus, whence India.
The name Hind () is derived from the Iranian equivalent of Indo-Aryan Sindh.
Today, Hindustān is no longer in use as the official name for India, although some countries in Middle East ( Gulf ) still refer to it with one of the old names of India, i. e. Hind or al-Hind.
*" Pope John Paul " is also the name of a song by the Montreal-based band The Lovely Feathers on their album Hind Hind Legs.
Her real name was Hind and she was among those hounded and persecuted by the Quraysh.
* Pelican, the former name of Sir Francis Drake's ship Golden Hind
Shortly thereafter, Drake changed the name of his flagship from The Pelican to The Golden Hind purportedly to honor Christopher Hatton, whose crest was the hind, perhaps as an attempt to smooth over the Doughty incident.

Hind and was
Following at the Battle of Uhud in 625, it is said that after killing Hamzah ibn Abdu l-Muṭṭalib, his liver was consumed by Hind bint ‘ Utbah ( the wife of Abû Sufyan ibn Harb one of the commanders of the Qurayš army ) who later reportedly converted to Islam and became the mother of Muawiyah I founder of the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate.
The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.
While there, Golden Hind became caught on a reef and was almost lost.
According to Táríkhu-l Hind by Al-Biruni, Kabul was governed by princes of Turkic lineage whose rule lasted for 60 generations.
It was named for John Russell Hind.
Exploration of Western Canada and Rupert's Land with a view to annexation and settlement was a priority of Canada West politicians in the 1850s leading to the Palliser Expedition and the Red River Exploring Expedition of Henry Youle Hind.
The Indische Freiwilligen Infanterie Regiment 950 ( also known at various stages as the Indische Freiwilligen-Legion der Waffen-SS, the Legion Freies Indien, and Azad Hind Fauj ) was created in August 1942, chiefly from disaffected Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army, captured by the Axis in North Africa.
Togodumnus was killed ( although John Hind argues that Dio was mistaken in reporting Togodumnus ' death, that he was defeated but survived, and was later appointed by the Romans as a friendly king over a nummber of territories, becoming the loyal king referred to by Tacitus as Cogidubnus or Togidubnus ) and the Catuvellauni's territories were conquered.
After the battle, Abu Sufyan's wife Hind, who was also the daughter of Utba ibn Rabi ' ah is reported to have cut open the corpse of Hamza, taking out his liver which she then attempted to eat.
As Pindar conceived the myth-element in his third Olympian Ode, " the doe with the golden horns, which once Taygete had inscribed as a sacred dedication to Artemis Orthosia ", (" right-minded " Artemis ) was the very Cerynian Hind that Heracles later pursued.
In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian Hind ( Greek: ἡ Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος ), also called Cerynitis, was an enormous hind ( deer ), who lived in Keryneia, Greece.
The third task did not involve killing a beast, as it had already been established that Heracles could overcome even the most fearsome opponents, so Eurystheus decided to make him capture the Ceryneian Hind, as it was so fast it could outrun an arrow.
Artemis ( to whom the Ceryneian Hind was said to have been sacred, causing her to draw an arrow at Hercules, just like the constellation Sagittarius appears to be doing ), is a key player in the myth discussing the origin of Scorpio and death of Orion, and so has an association with this area of sky.
Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.
In a politically charged environment, Lala Jagat Narain, the Hindu owner of the Hind Samachar group of newspapers, was assassinated by the Sikh militants in September 1981.
The Indian National Army ( INA ) or Azad Hind Fauj ( ; ) was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.
Initially formed in 1942 immediately after the fall of Singapore under Mohan Singh, the first INA collapsed in December that year before it was revived under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943 and proclaimed the army of Bose's Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( The Provisional Government of Free India ).
In 1989, Factory Classical was launched with five albums by composer Steve Martland, the Kreisler String Orchestra, the Duke String Quartet ( which included Durutti Column viola player John Metcalfe ), oboe player Robin Williams and pianist Rolf Hind.
He had hoped that this work would leverage him into the vacant post as superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office but John Russell Hind was preferred, Adams lacking the necessary ability as an organiser and administrator.
Traditionally, most say it was Jack O ' Neill who invented the wetsuit and started using neoprene, a closed-cell foam which was shown to him by his bodysurfing friend, Harry Hind, who knew of it as an insulating material in his laboratory work.

Hind and Queen
Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.
Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake on board the Golden Hind in Deptford Creek on Drake's return from his circumnavigation of the globe in 1580.
* 1579: British Navigator Sir Francis Drake ( c. 1540-96 ) on a voyage around the world in the Golden Hind, claims California for Queen Elizabeth I.

Hind and mythological
The naming of the ship, the " Golden Hind ", of Sir Francis Drake is sometimes given a mythological origin, though Drake actually renamed his flagship, in mid-voyage, 1577, as a gesture to flatter his patron Sir Christopher Hatton, whose armorial bearings included the crest " a hind Or.

Hind and .
The islands were nominally put under the authority of the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( Provisional Government of Free India ) headed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Al Biruni, writing in Tarikh al Hind, also alludes to the Pashtun tribes of Pakhtunkhwa as Hindus.
In late 2005, the FABF acquired two Mil Mi-35 ' Hind ' attack helicopters from Russia in apparent response by moves by neighbouring Côte d ' Ivoire to bolster its own air attack capabilities during the Ivorian Civil War.
The army uses its artillery systems and tanks, but well-equipped insurgents have probably managed to destroy over 20 of Chad's 60 tanks, and probably shot down a Mi-24 Hind gunship, which has bombed enemy positions near the border with Sudan.
Eurystheus ' third task did not involve killing a beast, but to capture the Cerynian Hind, a golden-horned stag sacred to Artemis.
The Golden Hind sailed north along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports and rifling towns.
On 26 September, Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth with Drake and 59 remaining crew aboard, along with a rich cargo of spices and captured Spanish treasures.
# Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis.
# Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis.
It's also called Hind Mahasagar in Hindi and other Indian languages.
* 1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
* Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England.
* November 4: Hind Nidal Jamil Qauider, 23 days old, of Hebron, killed by IDF gas.
He also edited the first two volumes of Higden's Polychronicon ( 1858 ) and Bishop Pecock's Represser of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy ( 1860 ); Introductory Lecture on Archaeology ( 1865 ); Roman Antiquities found at Rougham ( 1872 ); Catalogue of Birds of Suffolk ( 1884 – 1886 ); Flora of Suffolk ( with W. M. Hind, 1889 ), etc.

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