This haplogroup, rare in Europe, has its highest concentration in Ethiopia and in the Near East ( Jordan, Yemen ).

In recent decades, the Dead Sea has been rapidly shrinking because of diversion of incoming water from the Jordan River to the north.

If the 3 generations are then put in a 3x3 hermitian matrix with certain additions for the diagonal elements then these matrices form an exceptional ( grassman -) Jordan algebra, which has the symmetry group of one of the exceptional Lie groups ( F < sub > 4 </ sub >, E < sub > 6 </ sub >, E < sub > 7 </ sub > or E < sub > 8 </ sub >) depending on the details.

King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, a landmark step towards reducing Baghdad's isolation among its Sunni Arab neighbours.

The IAEA has established programs to help developing countries in planning to build systematically the capability to manage a nuclear power program, including the Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Group, which has carried out Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review missions in Indonesia, Jordan, Thailand and Vietnam.

In some Muslim-majority nations, such as Albania, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia or Mali, same-sex intercourse is not forbidden by law, and in Albania there has been discussions of legalizing same-sex marriage.

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 has a developed banking sector that attracts investors due to conservative bank policies that enabled the country to weather the global financial crisis of 2009.

Jordan has more free trade agreements than any other Arab country.

Jordan has FTA's with the United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, the European Union, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Algeria, Turkey and Syria.

Jordan has six special economic zones that attract significant amount of investment amounting in the billions: Aqaba, Mafraq, Ma ' an, Ajloun, the Dead Sea, and Irbid.

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

Jordan has a highly developed communications infrastructure.

With the exception of a railway system, Jordan has a developed public and private transportation system.

The foreign relations of Jordan have consistently followed a pro-Western foreign policy and traditionally Jordan has had close relations with the United States and the United Kingdom.

Since the end of the war, Jordan has largely restored its relations with Western countries through its participation in the Middle East peace process and enforcement of UN sanctions against Iraq.

The U. S. has participated with Jordan and Israel in trilateral development discussions during which key issues have been water-sharing and security ; cooperation on Jordan Rift Valley development ; infrastructure projects ; and trade, finance, and banking issues.

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

Jordan has an embassy in Rome.

The Holy See has maintained comparatively good relations with Jordan.

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

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Jordan is one of a small number of Arab countries to have named ambassadors to Iraq.

After one Mercedes-funded race for the Jordan Formula One team Schumacher signed as a driver for the Benetton Formula One team in 1991.

As one of the wealthiest and more populous provinces of the Roman Empire, it is estimated that the population of Roman Syria in the early Roman Empire was only exceeded in the mid-20th century, when it may have been as high as 7-8 million or more, if Palestine and Jordan are included, but not including the eastern section of modern day Syria beyond the Euphrates.

In September 2007, Microsoft closed FASA Studios and licensed the Shadowrun electronic entertainment rights to Smith & Tinker, a company owned by Jordan Weisman, one of the original creators of Shadowrun.

In 1085 the Normans entered Syracuse, one of the last Arab strongholds, after a summer-long siege by Roger I of Sicily and his son Jordan of Hauteville, who was given the city as count.

* American basketball player Michael Jordan bursts onto the scene in the NBA during the 1980s, bringing a surge in popularity for the sport and becoming one of the most beloved sports icons in the United States.

* November 1: two Israeli soldiers killed in a shooting incident near Bethlehem, and another one while guarding a town in Jordan Valley.

After his sponsors stopped paying him before the 2005 German Grand Prix, Patrick Friesacher was to be replaced by Dutch Jordan test driver Robert Doornbos to create the first all-Dutch driver line-up in Formula one since Carel Godin de Beaufort and Ben Pon drove together for the Ecurie Maarsbergen team at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

Generally considered one of the most influential ichthyologists, David Starr Jordan wrote 650 articles and books on the subject as well as serving as president of Indiana University and Stanford University.

On 24 April 1950 the Jordan House of Deputies and House of Notables formally annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem, declaring " complete unity between the two sides of the Jordan and their union in one state ... at whose head reigns King Abdullah Ibn al Hussain ".

Jordan had one of the freest and most liberal societies in the Middle East and in the Greater Arab World during the 1950s and early 1960s.

If the group is finite, then eventually one arrives at uniquely determined simple groups by the Jordan – Hölder theorem.

In 2007, Friends of the Earth Middle East ( FoEME ) named the Jordan River as one of the world's 100 most endangered ecological sites, due in part to lack of cooperation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.

The Jordan has a number of fords, and one of them is famous as the place where many Ephraimites were slain by Jephthah ( Judges ).

Elisha performed two other miracles at the Jordan: he healed Naaman by having him bathe in its waters, and he made the axe head of one of the " children of the prophets " float, by throwing a piece of wood into the water (; ).

If the dimensional matrix were not already reduced, one could perform Gauss – Jordan elimination on the dimensional matrix in order to more easily determine the kernel.

Were it not already reduced, one could perform Gauss – Jordan elimination on the dimensional matrix in order to more easily determine the kernel.

* The character Mull Pasha that is played by Dr. J. W. Müller is loosely based on the real life European military leader who served on one Middle country: John Bagot Glubb also known as " Glubb Pasha " who led the Arab Legion in Jordan.

One proof of the impossibility of finding a planar embedding of K < sub > 3, 3 </ sub > uses a case analysis involving the Jordan curve theorem, in which one examines different possibilities for the locations of the vertices with respect to the 4-cycles of the graph and shows that they are all inconsistent with a planar embedding.

At its height, the territory it occupied spanned the Jordan River, forming two " half-tribes ", one on each side ; the eastern half-tribe was almost entirely discontiguous with the western half-tribe, only slightly touching at one corner-the south west of the eastern half-tribe and north east of the western half-tribe.