Ammon (; ), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation described in the Old Testament to be located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan .< ref >

* Abila ( Decapolis ), also called Seleucia, northeast of Irbid, Jordan

His government also presided over the decolonisation of a large part of the British Empire when India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon and Jordan were granted independence.

The Dead Sea (,,, " Sea of Salt ", also,, " The Sea of Death "), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.

Gauss – Jordan elimination, an extension of this algorithm, reduces the matrix further to diagonal form, which is also known as reduced row echelon form.

The term is also sometimes used to refer to modern events or states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea: Israel, Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Jordan is situated geographically in Southwest Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq northwest of Saudi Arabia and east of Israel and the West Bank ; politically, the area has also been referred to in the West as the Middle or Near East.

Jordan is a member of the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement, the Euro-Mediterranean free trade agreement, the Agadir Agreement, and also enjoys advanced status with the EU.

Jordan also has a plethora of industrial zones producing goods in the textile, aerospace, defense, ICT, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic sectors.

** CPCS is also advising the Government of Jordan in the privatization of the Aqaba Railway Corporation, running from Ma ' an to Aqaba.

Jordan also participates in the multilateral peace talks, and recently Jordan has signed a free trade agreement with the United States.

' Jordan is also a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and has thus forged close relations with India

:" And when Jesus came to the Jordan, and being supposed to be the son of Joseph the carpenter ..., the Holy Spirit, and for man's sake, as I said before, fluttered down upon Him, and a voice came at the time out of the heavens-which was spoken also by David, when he said, impersonating Christ, what the Father was going to say to Him-' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you '.

Critics have also questioned whether the England trio of Andy Carroll, Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing represented value for money at a combined cost of approximately £ 70m.

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern or contemporary events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria ( compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia ).

The Tigris and Euphrates River valleys form the northeastern portion of the Fertile Crescent, which also included the Jordan River valley and that of the Nile.

Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.

Perhaps with her also came the first Polish bishop, Jordan.

That meeting in 2001 also saw the successful accession to the WTO of China and Chinese Taipei, which along with Estonia, Jordan, Georgia, Albania, Oman, Croatia, Lithuania and Moldova joined during Mr Moore's term bringing in the majority of the world's population within the rules-based trading system.

Ibrahim Ahmad, a Jordanian-American traveling from his home in Oklahoma City to visit family in Jordan on April 19, 1995, was also arrested in what was described as an " initial dragnet.

Traffic police in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan also use a form of the Pickelhaube.

Under pressure from Prince Jordan I of Capua, to whom he had also rendered important service, he was elected on 24 May 1086, taking the throne name of Victor III, but his consecration did not take place until 9 May 1087 owing to the presence of the Antipope Clement III in Rome.

Although he admits that there is a possibility that Iris is so completely in love with Jordan that the plan will fail, Pyne thinks the scheme has a ninety-seven percent chance of success and he charges Wade two hundred guineas, payable in advance.

Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

On " Alone Again, Natura-Diddily ", a Christian rock singer named Rachel Jordan ( played by singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin ) sings that she " was drinking like a Dartmouth boy.

In her wedding procession, she arrived to Poland with Christian clergymen, among them possibly Jordan, the first Bishop of Poland ( since 968 ).

After the war, Raghad fled to Amman, Jordan where she received sanctuary from the royal family.

Now signed to the Decca label, she had several popular hits while recording with such artists as the Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and the Delta Rhythm Boys.

Maria Baños Jordan, the executive director of the Texas Latino Leadership Roundtable of Montgomery County, said that when she first moved to Montgomery County

As she moves though the litany of reasons why a woman should obey her husband, she faces the camera and winks toward Bianca ( Dorothea Jordan ), unseen by Petruchio.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

When Robert Jordan questions her true abilities, she replies, " Because thou art a miracle of deafness ....

When she started seeing young Jim Jordan, the Driscolls were far from approving of Jim and his ideas.

It was at this point she adopted the name " Mrs. Jordan " – a reference to her escape across the Irish Sea, likened to the River Jordan .< ref >

As of 2011, Duff has completed work on A Holiday Engagement in which she will be starring alongside Bonnie Somerville and Jordan Bridges.

She wrote in her autobiography Rage To Survive that she heard the song outlined by her friend Ellington " Fugi " Jordan when she visited him in prison.

According to her account, she wrote the rest of the song with Jordan, but for tax reasons gave her songwriting credit to her partner at the time, Billy Foster.

Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by Aldous Huxley, Arthur Miller, Philip Jordan and André Roussin.

Khouri was born in Jordan in 1970, and in 1973 she moved to Chicago in the United States with her parents.

Circa 2001, Khouri, Toliopoulos and their children moved to Australia, from where she published a supposedly non-fiction account of the honour killing of her best friend in Jordan.

She had not lived in Jordan since her early childhood, except for a three week stay during which she apparently researched the background for her book.

In 2005, she was featured in an ad campaign for Hanes with the slogan " Look who we've got our Hanes on now ", featuring various other celebrities including Michael Jordan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Damon Wayans, Matthew Perry and, on Spanish-language advertising, Aracely Arámbula and Pablo Montero.

" She had one sibling, about a decade younger than she, Jerry Jordan.

One of his granddaughters was Tomi Pierce ( 1953-2010 ), a writer and later producer of video games including Prince of Persia and The Last Express ( admired for its story-telling ), with Jordan Mechner ; she also worked with her husband Doug Carlston, founder of Brøderbund.

Jordan's motives for involvement in the case are unknown ; however, in his book, Cutler concludes that “ There is ample evidence that Mrs. Stanford was poisoned, that she was given good care, and that Jordan went over there to hush it up .” Mrs. Stanford had long had a difficult relationship with Jordan ; at the time of her death, she was president of the university's board of trustees and was reportedly planning to remove him from his position.