There are no recurring characters besides Ernie Pike, and in many cases even his presence is small: he appears in just two panels in " Kumba ", only one in " El amuleto ", and in some stories he is completely absent.

Kumba Ialá, also spelled Yalá ( born 15 March 1953 ), is a Guinea-Bissau politician who was President of Guinea-Bissau from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a bloodless military coup on 14 September 2003.

Kumba Iron Ore Ltd is the principal mine operator in Kathu.

Kumba Iron Ore, previously Kumba Resources, is now the principal operator of the iron ore mine.

Serge Betsen Tchoua ( born 25 March 1974 in Kumba, Cameroon ) is a French rugby union player who plays as a flanker for London Wasps at club level and formerly for internationally.

* Kumba, meaning roar in Swahili, is a steel sit-down roller coaster with seven inversions.

The Riddler's Revenge is one of only two Bolliger & Mabillard roller coasters to feature a vertical loop that wraps around the lift hill, with the other being Kumba at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.

Kumba is a Bolliger & Mabillard sit down roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, in Tampa, Florida.

Initially, it is said, Kumba was to be part of a two-coaster project for Busch Entertainment.

There is another roller coaster called " Kumba " at the ' Superland Park ' in Israel.

* Kumba is one of two Bolliger & Mabillard roller coasters to feature a vertical loop that wraps around the lift hill.

They could deliver one coaster for Busch Gardens Tampa, which became Kumba, but not for its Williamsburg sister park.

The company had contacted B & M to build two sit-down coasters at its Busch Gardens parks, one in Florida ( which became Kumba ), the other in Williamsburg, Virginia.

In the first round, Kumba Ialá placed first with 38. 81 % of the vote, followed by interim president and PAIGC candidate, Malam Bacai Sanhá, who won 23. 37 %.

The PRS presidential candidate, Kumba Ialá, placed first winning 38. 81 % of the vote.

The second half of Kumba begins as riders dive off the midcourse brake run and enter a pair of interlocking corkscrews ( another first for a Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster ).

After Màbba was defeated and killed at The Battle of Fandane-Thiouthioune fighting against Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof, his state crumbled but the Tijāniyya remained the predominant Sufi order in the region, and Abdoulaye Niass ( 1840 – 1922 ) became the most important representative of the order in the Saalum, having immigrated southward from the Jolof and, after exile in Gambia due to tensions with the French, returned to establish a zāwiya in the city of Kaolack.

Kumba had the most inversions of any coaster by B & M until the opening of Dragon Khan at PortAventura in 1995.

Refusing to do this, Njaru five days later found his house encircled by armed soldiers, and escaped to Kumba.

His appointment came following a 14 September military coup that deposed the elected government of President Kumba Ialá and subsequent talks between political officials, civil society leaders, and the Military Committee for the Restitution of Constitutional and Democratic Order, led by Veríssimo Correia Seabra.

Kumba Ialá's tenure as the country's head of state was characterized by sackings of ministers and other high officials, and poor financial management that led the World Bank / International Monetary Fund to suspend aid.

Irshad Khan, Toto Bissainthe, Chaba Djena, Les Têtes Brulées, Les Négresses Vertes, Princesse Mansia M ' Bila, Sido ft Tamba Kumba, Jemaa, Najma Akhtar, Ivo Papazov & His Bulgarian Wedding Orchestra and Mexe Com Tudo

One particular problem that Arrow faced was designing the vertical loop to wrap around the lift hill, an element used on Kumba and on Riddler's Revenge at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

An interim government turned over power in February 2000 when opposition leader Kumba Ialá took office following two rounds of transparent presidential elections.

Following the 1998-99 civil war, presidential and legislative elections were again held, bringing opposition leader Kumba Ialá and his Party for Social Renewal to power.

Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Fa Ndeb Joof.

Following the election of PRS leader Kumba Ialá as President, Sanhá was appointed as Minister of Internal Administration in the government named on 19 February 2000, under Prime Minister Caetano N ' Tchama.

The election had been repeatedly postponed due to political and financial chaos in the country, and due to the coup d ' état which overthrew President Kumba Ialá in September 2003.

Veríssimo Correia Seabra ( February 16, 1947 – October 6, 2004 ) was a Guinea-Bissau general, known for leading a coup that deposed Kumba Ialá on September 14, 2003.

Soon thereafter, he became chief of staff of the armed forces and was appointed Minister of Defense in the government named on February 19, 2000, under President Kumba Ialá.

Correia Seabra led the bloodless coup that ousted Kumba Ialá from power on September 14, 2003.

Vieira won the 1994 presidential election against opposition candidate Kumba Yala of the Party for Social Renewal ( PRS ), while the PAIGC won 62 out of 100 parliamentary seats, with 46 % of the vote.

He received 52. 02 % of the vote against 47. 98 % for Kumba Yalá, a former philosophy lecturer and candidate of the Social Renewal Party ( PRS ).

After President Kumba Yalá was overthrown in September 2003 military coup, Vieira returned to Bissau from Portugal on 7 April 2005.

Ekangaki was born in Nguti, Kumba Division.

and its leaders were forced to go into exile in Kumba in the British Southern Cameroons, then in Cairo, Conakry, Accra and Beijing.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.