I was ready to jump but when Ma said she'd get the whisky it surprised him like it surprised me, and he ran down.

The Huitong Canal, built by an engineer called Ma Zhizhen, ran across sharply sloping ground and the high concentration of locks gave it the nicknames chahe or zhahe, i. e. ' the river of locks '.

In the presidential election in May 2008, KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou ran on a platform supporting friendlier relations with mainland China and economic reforms, and defeated DPP candidate Frank Hsieh with 58. 48 % of the vote.

In the mid 20th century the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (" Ma and Pa ") ran through town, but the tracks were dismantled in 1958.

Together, Su and Hsieh ran against Ma and Siew.

Nevertheless, interference struck, when Ferguson, whom the law prohibited from holding office, ran his wife, Miriam " Ma " Ferguson, as his surrogate.

Three members of the group ran in the 2003 District Council election in the Chai Wan area in the Eastern District, and Leung herself ran in a constituency in Ma On Shan of the Sha Tin District.

Other elves were Fryer Tuck ( who promoted " Munch-ems "), Zoot and J. J. ( known for Pizzarias ), Ernie's mother Ma Keebler, young Elmer Keebler, Buckets ( who threw fudge on the cookies ), Fast Eddie ( who wrapped the products ), Sam ( the peanut butter baker ), Roger ( the jeweler ), Doc ( the doctor and cookie maker ), Zack ( the fudge shoppe supervisor ), Flo ( the accountant ), Leonardo ( the artist ), Elwood ( who ran through the dough ), Professor, Edison, Larry and Art.

After her husband's impeachment and conviction, Ma Ferguson ran herself as a Democrat for the office.

After Baxter died in 1960, his widow, Clarice Howard " Ma " Baxter, ran the company until her death in 1972.

I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.

Tsing Ma Bridge and Kap Shui Mun Bridge in Hong Kong have six lanes on their upper decks, and on their lower decks there are two lanes and a pair of tracks for MTR metro trains.

Reports of cannibalism were also recorded during the First Crusade, as Crusaders were alleged to have fed on the bodies of their dead opponents following the Siege of Ma ' arrat al-Numan.

In 1942 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek personally went on tour in Northwestern China in Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Qinghai, where he met both Muslim Generals Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang.

Chiang also ordered Ma Bufang to put his Muslim soldiers on alert for an invasion of Tibet in 1942.

The Ma ' alot massacre of 1974, an attack on Israeli school in which 27 people were killed, was the group's largest attack.

The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.

The Egyptian conception of the universe centered on Ma ' at, a word that encompasses several concepts in English, including " truth ," " justice ," and " order.

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

Traditionally, Jews recite prayers three times daily, Shacharit, Mincha, and Ma ' ariv with a fourth prayer, Mussaf added on Shabbat and holidays.

The Muslim General Ma Bufang also put Kuomintang party symbols on his mansion, the Ma Bufang Mansion along with a portrait of party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen arranged with the Kuomintang Party flag and the Republic of China flag.

In 1939 Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent on a mission by the Kuomintang to the Middle eastern countries such as Egypt, Turkey, and Syria to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, they also visited Afghanistan in 1940 and contacted Muhammad Amin Bughra, they asked him to come to Chongqing, the capital of the Kuomintang regime.

The Kuomintang Muslim General Ma Bufang waged war on the invading Tibetans during the Sino-Tibetan War with his Muslim army, and he repeatedly crushed Tibetan revolts during bloody battles in Qinghai provinces.

Ma Bufang was fully supported by the Kuomintang President of China Chiang Kaishek, who ordered him to prepare his Muslim army to invade Tibet several times and threatened aerial bombardment on the Tibetans.

Many historians believe it was based on a Chinese card game called Mǎdiào ( 馬吊 ) ( also known as Ma Tiae, hanging horse ; or Yèzí, leaf ) in the early Ming dynasty.

Nauru is a raised coral atoll positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid oceanic ridge at 132 Ma.

Abu Ma ' shar recorded a belief that a different member of this royal line " composed the book on astrology and attributed it to Ptolemy ".

We can evidence historical confusion on this point from Abu Ma ' shar's subsequent remark “ It is sometimes said that the very learned man who wrote the book of astrology also wrote the book of the Almagest.

There is little evidence on the subject of Ptolemy's ancestry, apart from what can be drawn from the details of his name ( see above ); however modern scholars refer to Abu Ma ’ shar ’ s account as erroneous, and it is no longer doubted that the astronomer who wrote the Almagest also wrote the Tetrabiblos as its astrological counterpart.

The formal structure of the Qing government centered on the Emperor as the absolute ruler, who presided over six Boards ( Ministries ) (), each headed by two presidents (; Ma: 40px Aliha amban ) and assisted by four vice presidents (; Ma: 40px Ashan i amban ).

With this, passengers on the Tsuen Wan line may use this station to cross the platform to the Kwun Tong Line going back to Yau Ma Tei although this isn't mentioned on the public address system as the Tsuen Wan Line already passed Yau Ma Tei and is only two stations away from Prince Edward.

Platform 1 is for northbound trains to border crossing stations at Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau and platform 4 is for southbound trains to Kowloon while platforms 2 and 3 use the same track and is reserved for peak hour traffic.

These sandy mudflats gave way about 550 Ma to a carbonate platform which lasted for the next 300 million years of Paleozoic time.

The pattern featured on the platform pillar and glass barrier is a shot of nature representing the Ma On Shan Country Park.

The print featured on the platform pillars and glass barrier is of farmland which used to exist in the Ma On Shan area.

The pattern featured on the platform pillar and glass barrier symbolizes the abandoned iron mine that used to be in Ma On Shan ( peak ).

The agency was again damaged after supporting Governor Ross Sterling in his re-election campaign-but after his opponent Miriam Amanda " Ma " Ferguson won, she proceeded to discharge all serving Rangers in 1933.

Ma and Pa Kettle first appeared in supporting roles as neighbors in The Egg and I, starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert as a refined city couple who move to a rural chicken farm.

Since the election of President Ma Ying-jeou ( KMT ) in 2008, significant warming of relations has resumed between Taipei and Beijing with high level exchanges between the ruling parties of both states such as the Chen-Chiang summit series.

President Ma, throughout his election campaign, maintained that he would accept the 1992 consensus and promote better relations with the PRC.

President Ma also interprets the cross-strait relations as " special ", " but not that between two nations ".

With the January and March 2008 elections in Taiwan, and the election of Ma Ying-jeou as the President of the ROC, who was inaugurated on May 20, a new era of better relations between both sides of the Taiwan Strait was established.

In 1999, Lee proposed a Special state-to-state relations for mainland China-Taiwan relations which was received angrily by Beijing, which ended semi-official dialogue until June 2008, when ARATS and SEF met, and in which President Ma Ying-jeou reiterated the 1992 Consensus and the different interpretation on " One China ".

Ma was deputy secretary-general of the KMT from 1984 to 1988, also serving for a period as deputy of the Mainland Affairs Council ( MAC ), a cabinet-level body in charge of cross-straits relations.

* " Bad diplomatic relations between Zhou and Zheng ; Emperor Gaozu of Han requesting for a bowl of broth ; Kui Xiao giving away his son ; Ma Chao betraying his father ; ( these are ) examples of extreme cruelty.

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While most Transjordanian towns had uneasy relationships with the nomadic tribes to whom they paid regular compensation ( khuwa ), Ma ' an's residents and the Bedouin enjoyed positive relations.

Ma Ying-jeou, the current ROC President, has advocated that cross-strait relations should shift from " mutual non-recognition " to " mutual non-denial ".