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Negotiations are going on between the Indian government and the amir tending to the appointment of a joint commission for determining the last of Indo-Afghan frontier yet unsettled, from Landi Kotal in the Khyber to Nawar Kotal on the Kunar River.
In August 1903 he was promoted to Major, and served with the Landi Kotal Expedition ( 1908 ).
The battalion relocated to Landi Kotal, Khyber Pass, in 1937.
A major portion of the tribe is between Landi Kotal ( Pakistan ) and Jalalabad ( Afghanistan ), as well as in Parwan province of Afghanistan where they are concentrated in Shinwari, Ghorband, and Jabalussaraj districts.
A major portion of the tribe is between Landi Kotal ( Pakistan ) and Jalalabad ( Afghanistan ), as well as in Parwan province of Afghanistan where they are concentrated in Shinwari, Ghorband, and Jabalussaraj districts.
From the Pakistan border the Grand Trunk Road ( part of the N-5 ) continues north through Lahore, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Attock District, Nowshera, Peshawar and Landi Kotal.
Bagh was strategically important to the British and Indians as it provided water to Landi Kotal, which was at the time garrisoned by just two companies of troops from the Indian Army.
It was decided next that the two companies of Sikhs and Gurkhas that had been sent to Landi Kotal needed to be reinforced, however, the mobilisation process had only just begun and at that stage there was only one battalion available for this so on 7 May the 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry were brought up clandestinely through the Khyber Pass aboard a convoy of 37 lorries.
By this stage more reinforcements were available and the garrison at Landi Kotal grew to brigade-size, with the arrival of the rest of the 1st Infantry Brigade under Brigadier G. D. Crocker.
The following day Handley Page bombers attacked Kabul, however, it did little to stem the tide and the supply situation in Landi Kotal grew worse.
During this lengthy period of overseas service the 2nd Battalion was stationed at Ambala ( 1922 – 1927 ), Landi Kotal ( 1927 – 1929 ), Nowshera ( 1929 – 1931 ), Nasirabad ( 1931 – 1933 ), and Bombay ( 1933 – 1935 ).
Landi Kotal is a tourist destination which is accessible by train ( called the Khyber train safari ) or road from elsewhere in Pakistan, or by road from the Afghanistan border just five kilometres to the west.
Landi Kotal is the main shopping centre for both the Shinwari and Afridi tribes.
Landi Kotal was the westernmost part of the Khyber held by the British during their rule of the subcontinent.
In 1897 the Afridis attacked Landi Kotal and other posts in the Khyber Pass.
Although the Khyber Rifles put up a stiff defence, Landi Kotal was overrun, as the Rifles lacked water.
In 1925 the heavily engineered Khyber Pass Railway was opened linking Jamrud to Landi Kotal.
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It is close to the Khyber Agency which leads to Khyber Pass, a prominent route through the Hindu Kush mountains to Landi Kotal, the highest point of the pass, and the Afghan border.

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* Adonis is portrayed in the 1984 film Gangster Wars by James Percell, the 1991 film Bugsy by Lewis Van Bergen and in the 1999 television movie Lansky both by Casey McFadden and Sal Landi.
He is known to have been dead by 1552, when writer Ortenzo Landi mentioned him as being deceased.
He is buried at Warsak Road Cemetery, Shagi Landi Kyan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan.
Landi Swanepoel ( born 8 October 1979 in Cape Town ) is a South African model.
The Doria, Pamphilj, Landi and Aldobrandini families have become united through marriage and descent under the simplified surname Doria Pamphilj ( which is now extinct since the death of Princess Orietta Doria Pamphlij in 2000 ).

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In addition, there were various companies in the construction industry ( Herren Frères & Cie., Beati Frères SA ), Transport, Civil engineering ( 1896 Landi, 1920 Cand, merged in 1974 into Cand-Landi SA ) and construction materials ( Les Sables La Poissine Graviers & SA ) in town.

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* 1587 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer ( d. 1639 )
* 1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver ( b. 1907 )
These fiefs evolved into truly independent states: the Landi governed the higher Taro's valley from 1257 to 1682.
At the end of the 17th century, after the defeat of Pallavicini ( 1588 ) and Landi ( 1682 ) the Farnese duke could finally hold with firm hand all Parmense territories.
* October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress ( b. 1904 )
* October 28 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer ( b. 1587 )
* February 26 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer ( d. 1639 )
Zwinger studied at universities in Basel, Lyon, and Paris before taking a doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua with Bassiano Landi, the successor of Johannes Baptista Montanus.
The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and also featured Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshall, and Penny Singleton.
In 1932, Cecil B. DeMille produced and directed a highly successful film version of The Sign of the Cross, starring Fredric March as centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, Charles Laughton as Nero, and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus falls in love.
It stars Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser, Milton Holmes, Linda Landi, and Fritz Feld.
* Landi, Marcello, Un contributo allo studio della scienza nel Medio Evo.
In the 18th century, several edifices which belonged to noble families such as Scotti, Landi and Fogliani were built in Piacenza.
* Palazzo Landi, built in the Middle Ages but renovated in the late 15th century.
* Palazzo Landi, built in the Middle Ages but rebuilt in the current form in the 15th century by Lombard craftsmen.
* M. Landi, Uno dei contributi della Scolastica alla scienza economica contemporanea: la questione del giusto prezzo, o del valore delle merci, in Divus Thomas, anno 113 °-2010-maggio / agosto, pp. 126 – 143.
) and after a course of about 75 km — the second longest of the province — flows into the Po River 10 km east of Piacenza, in the vicinity of Roncarolo, a frazione of the commune of Caorso, on the border with the Lombard commune of Caselle Landi.
Later in his life he was the master of Francesco di Giorgio and Neroccio de ’ Landi.

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