As early as the days of Saladin, and while the Ma ' ans were still in complete control over southern Lebanon, the Shihab tribe, originally Hijaz Arabs but later settled in Ḥawran, advanced from Ḥawran, in 1172, and settled in Wadi al-Taym at the foot of mount Hermon.

A few days later, while Saladin was resting in one of his captain's tents, an assassin rushed forward at him and struck at his head with a knife.

Before he crossed the Euphrates, Saladin besieged Aleppo for three days, signaling that the truce was over.

By late April, after three days of " actual fighting " according to Saladin, the Ayyubids had captured Amid.

On July 21, 1188, Saladin arrived before the walls of Latakia and forced the capitulation of the Crusaders two days later.

Four days after the battle, Saladin invited al-Adil to join him in the reconquest of Palestine.

After a battle that lasts three days, Saladin offers terms: Balian surrenders Jerusalem when Saladin offers the inhabitants safe passage to Christian lands.

Deluged by ten days of heavy rains and suffering the loss of roughly ninety percent of his army, including his personal bodyguard of Mamluks, Saladin fled back to Egypt, harassed by Bedouins along the way.

Having, by a bold speech, revived the drooping hopes of his brother Crusaders, and reproved the queen and his kinswoman for tampering with the Scot, Richard received him, disguised as a Nubian slave, as a present from Saladin, with whom he had been induced to spend several days.

With that, the Nets employed all three Albert brothers during the franchise's history ; Al started his broadcast career with the Nets during their ABA days, while Steve called Nets games during the late 1970s and 1980s.

In the days before the game, most sports writers were speculating over whether, if the Raiders won, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle would present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the team's owner Al Davis.

At age 20, Cobb became the youngest player to win a batting championship and held this record until 1955 when fellow Detroit Tiger Al Kaline won the batting title when he was twelve days younger than Cobb had been.

Three days previously, Brian's father had bought him an electric bass and amplifier ; Brian had learned to play the instrument in that short period of time, with Al Jardine moving to rhythm guitar.

Only a few days later, discouraged about the band's financial prospects, and objecting to adding some Chubby Checker songs to The Beach Boys live setlist, Al Jardine abruptly left the group, but rejoined shortly thereafter.

From its earliest days the operation of the airline in keeping with Jewish tradition has been a source of friction ; when the Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion was forming his first coalition, the religious parties would not join unless Ben-Gurion promised that El Al would serve only kosher food on its flights and would not fly on the Jewish Sabbath.

The hijacking ended after 40 days and is considered to be the only successful hijacking involving an El Al jet.

The funeral, presided by Reverend Al Sharpton, took place in Gardena, California eight days after her death.

Nine days later ( October 1 ), Al Jackson, the man Cropper would remember as “ the greatest drummer to ever walk the earth ”, was murdered in his home.

Just 10 days after Al Jolson returned from entertaining troops in Korea, he agreed with RKO producers to star in a new movie, Stars and Stripes for Ever, about a U. S. O.

He went directly to St. Mary's Church ( Al Mu ' allaqah, or " Hanging Church "), sent for bishops and priests and exhorted them to fast and pray for the duration of those three days.

Both paragraphs are prefaced by the same opening line, " We thank You for the miraculous deeds ( Al HaNissim ) and for the redemption and for the mighty deeds and the saving acts wrought by You, as well as for the wars which You waged for our ancestors in ancient days at this season.

It was partly inspired by his apprenticeship days working for Al Capp and his brother Elliot Caplin at Toby Press, which published Shmoo Comics in the late 1940s.

Talking about those days Hines later said: ... Al came in there one night and called the whole band and show together and said, “ Now we want to let you know our position.

Initially, this was Pat Summerall ( Madden's partner during his days at CBS and Fox during the early 1980s on through the early 2000s ) until Summerall retired ; the role was then filled by Al Michaels, John's broadcast partner on ABC Monday Night Football ( 2002 – 2005 ) and NBC Sunday Night Football ( 2006 – 2008 ).

Two days later, Tommy Carroll was cornered by two detectives and opened fire, killing Detective H. C. Perrin and wounding Detective Al Hartman.

The party's newspaper Al-Wafd was suspended for thirteen days from January 27 until February 8, 2006 after Gomaa asked Al Ahram publishing house to stop printing the paper and fired its editor and some journalists, complaining of their allegiance to Abaza's group.

Democrat Al Gore was still Vice President giving the Democrats a slim majority for the 17 days between the January 3 swearing-in of the new Congress and the January 20 inauguration of Republican Vice President Dick Cheney.

It redounds to the credit of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah that he left behind the greatest number of pupils in the world of Islam, including Qadi Abu Yusuf, Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani, Abdur Razzaq, Abdullal Bin Al Mubarak, Abu Naeem Faza, and Abu Asim who acquired great fame in their days.

In conversation with Donald Frankos he would sadly reminisce about the violent and turbulent days in the 1920s and 1930s while he was most active in robbing banks and would always tell fellow convicts that in his opinion, during the days of Al Capone and Charles Lucania, better known as Lucky Luciano, the criminal underworld was the bloodiest.

The term " money laundering " dates back to the days of Al Capone ; Money laundering has since been used to describe any scheme by which the true origin of funds is hidden or concealed.

On 11 March 2004, three days before the 2004 general elections were to take place, Madrid was struck by terrorist attacks, which were initially blamed on the armed Basque separatist organisation, ETA, and later on Al &# 8209 ; Qaeda.

Indians manager Al Lopez went again with Lemon in Game Four, who was coming off only two days ' rest.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

Many Japanese manufacturers and firms give their employees three to five days off around the 15th of August.

The city of Jericho was taken with no more than a shout after the Ark of the Covenant was paraded for seven days around its wall by seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams ' horns ( Josh.

Within 4 – 5 days the inflammation and the concomitant dead brain tissue are surrounded with a capsule, which gives the lesion the famous ring-enhancing lesion appearance on CT examination with contrast ( since intravenously applied contrast material can not pass through the capsule, it is collected around the lesion and looks as a ring surrounding the relatively dark lesion ).

The incubation stage lasts around 30 days.

The residents of the nationalist Bogside erected barricades around the area to resist police incursions, and, after three days of rioting when the RUC had proved unable to restore order, the government of Northern Ireland requested the deployment of the British Army.

Constantinople was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine I on the site of an already-existing city, Byzantium, settled in the early days of Greek colonial expansion, probably around 671 – 662 BC.

The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.

For several days around the time of ovulation, " fertile " types of mucus are produced ; they have a higher water content, and are less acidic and higher in electrolytes.

* Y CVn ( La Superba ) is a semiregular variable star that varies between magnitudes 5. 0 and 6. 5 over a period of around 158 days.

Depending on geographic location, spermatogenesis in males takes around 54 days, and occurs between January and February.

Two days later, police set up barricades around the city and detained two more men who had escaped the raid.

Ferris in his 1989 biography includes Thomas ' heavy drinking, but is more critical of those around him in his final days and does not draw the conclusion that he drank himself to death.

The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.

In those days, the emperor's chief task was priestly ( or godly ), containing so many repetitive rituals that it was deemed that after a service of around ten years, the incumbent deserved pampered retirement as an honored former emperor.

Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.

While not a direct cause of El Niño, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, or MJO, propagates rainfall anomalies eastward around the global tropics in a cycle of 30 – 60 days, and may influence the speed of development and intensity of El Niño and La Niña in several ways.

Although most years of the modern calendar have 365 days, a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours.

A better approximation, derived from the Alfonsine tables, is that the Earth makes a complete revolution around the sun in 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds.

This custom still has some effect around the world ; for example, with respect to name days in Hungary.

The Republican calendar year began at the Southward equinox and had twelve months of 30 days each, which were given new names based on nature, principally having to do with the prevailing weather in and around Paris.

Much of the villages ' communal life centered around church services and holy days.