In the early 1990s, after the Soviet withdraw from Afghanistan, control of Mazar was contested by the Hazara milita Hezbe Wahdat, led by Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq, the Tajik militia Jamiat-e Islami, led by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, and the Uzbek militia Jumbesh-e Melli led by Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Under Dostum's 5 year rule from the early 1990s to early 1997, Mazar was an oasis of peace.

This peace was shattered in May 1997, when he was betrayed by one of his generals, Abdul Malik Pahlawan, forcing him to flee from Mazar as the Taliban were getting ready to take the city.

It was this capture of Mazar, the last major city in Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban, that prompted Pakistan's recognition of the Taliban regime.

Following 9 / 11, Mazar Sharif was the first Afghan city to fall to the Northern Alliance ( United Front ).

On November 9, 2001 the city was officially captured by the Afghan Northern Alliance forces after the Battle of Mazar e Sharif with help from the United States Special Operations Forces and bombing by U. S. Air Force aircraft.

Mazara was founded by the Phoenicians in the 9th century BC, with the name of Mazar ( the Rock ).

According to Mazar, "" It's the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel ," and " It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction.

Mazar was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the daughter of Nancy and Harry Mazar.

The family divides their time between their home in Los Angeles and a 14th-century house outside of Florence, Italy, that was given to them as a wedding present by Mazar ’ s in-laws.

* Taliban officials met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Najmuddin ShaikhThe subject discussed as during Mr. Shaikh's meeting with Dostum and Dr. Abdullah in Mazar Sharif a day earlier was the working out of ceasefire arrangements between the contending factions in Afghanistan and suggesting talks with the Northern Alliance for the formation of a coalition government

At the beginning of July, it was estimated there were at least 28, 000 Ottoman troops in the Gaza – Beersheba area of southern Palestine, and that just before the battle began at Romani, there were 3, 000 troops at Oghratina, not far from Katia, another 6, 000 at the forward base of Bir el Abd, east of Oghratina, 2, 000 to 3, 000 at Bir Bayud to the south-east, and another 2, 000 at Bir el Mazar, some to the east, not far from El Arish.

The nearest Ottoman garrison of 2, 000 men was at Bir el Mazar east of Romani, and on 9 July, a patrol found Bir Salmana unoccupied.

But from Salmana to Bir el Mazar, ( from Kantara ) there was little water, and beyond the Mazar area there was no water, till El Arish was reached on the coast from Kantara.

Bir el Mazar was about half way between Kantara on the Suez Canal and the Egyptian-Ottoman territorial border.

For the rest of the campaign, which ended with the Vichy French surrender on 11 July, the division was engaged with the support of Australian units in attempts to force the Damascus to Beirut road through the Anti-Lebanon mountains the entrance to which was dominated by the high Jebel Mazar.

Other archaeologists in Israel, including Amnon Ben-Tor, Amihai Mazar, William Dever and Lawrence Stager, reject this theory, claiming that it is contradicted by scientific understandings of strata formulation and the general development of the region, and that the theory relies overmuch on pottery seriation, a technique for dating sites using ceramic remains, which is a relative dating technique rather than a reliable technique such as carbon dating.

637 – 56 in “ I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times ” ( Ps 78: 2b ): Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, A. M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji, eds.

258 – 79 in Up to the Gates of Ekron: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin, S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds.

“ The boundaries of Taghdumbash, Khunjerab and Raskam, as claimed by the Kanjuts, are the following: the northern watershed of the Taghdumbash Pamir from the Wakhjir Pass through the Baiyik peak to Dafdar, thence across the river to the Zankan nullah ; thence through Mazar and over the range to Urok, a point on the Yarkand river between Sibjaida and Itakturuk.

Deborah " Debi " Mazar ( or ; born August 13, 1964 ) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her Jersey Girl-type roles ; as sharp-tongued women in independent films ; and for her recurring role as press agent Shauna Roberts on the HBO series Entourage.

Mazar appeared on a Friends episode in its eighth season (" The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part One ").

Mazar and Corcos hosted an internet show focused on Tuscan cuisine, Under The Tuscan Gun.

* Mullins, Robert A., “ A Corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian-Style Pottery from Tel Beth-Shean ”, in Maeir, A. M. and Miroschedji, P. de ( eds ), “ I Will Speak the Riddle of Ancient Times ”— Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, Volume 1, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006, pp. 247 – 262.

Ishan Imlo, according to the source, he died in 1162 AH ( 1748-1749 ), the mausoleum ( Mazar ) is a saint in Bukhara on the same cemetery.

British infantry marching on the wire road across the desert between Bir el Mazar and Bardawil in February 1917

Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, ( c. 1871, Syria-April 5, 1937, Chicago, Illinois ), also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the " Street in Cairo " exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893.

In the eighth and final season, the characters of Denise Ianello ( Debi Mazar ) and Eli Levinson ( Alan Rosenberg ) were transplanted from the canceled Bochco legal series Civil Wars, which had run on ABC from 1991 – 93.

The basis of this work began with the first visit by Martin to Jerusalem in 1961 when he first met Benjamin Mazar and later his son Ory Mazar, who informed him of his belief that the Temples of Solomon and Zerubbabel were located on the Ophel mound to the north of the original Mount Zion on the southeast ridge.

Mazar was trained as an Assyriologist and was an expert on biblical history, authoring more than 100 publications on the subject.

In the 1390s Timur ( Tamerlane ) erected a magnificent domed Mazar or tomb over his grave, which remains the most significant architectural monument in the Republic of Kazakhstan, was pictured on the back of the banknotes of the national currency until 2006.

Although later rebuilt, Mazar stood in the shadow of its neighbor Balkh.

Between May and July 1997, the Taliban unsuccessfully attempted to take Mazar, leading to approximately 3, 000 Taliban soldiers being executed or massacred by Abdul Malik and his Shia followers.

The Taliban's defeat in Mazar quickly turned into a rout from the rest of the north and west of Afghanistan.

After some pressure, an office of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission opened an office in Mazar in April 2003.

Charles ' son, Jack, appeared on the show on several occasions, and was a contestant on " Team Nemesis " during series 4.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

In a similar vein, CBS-backed iWon. com gave away $ 10 million to a lucky contestant on an April 15, 2000 half-hour primetime special that was broadcast on CBS.

The show was responsible for the phrases " Say the secret woid and divide $ 100 " ( that is, each contestant would get $ 50 ); and " Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

Olson's 28-year-old daughter, Sophia Shorai, was a contestant in the 2011 season of the talent quest American Idol.

Ferrigno was a contestant on season five of the NBC reality television series The Celebrity Apprentice, which premiered in February 2012.

Beauty pageant coach Victor Melling ( Michael Caine ), whose reputation was ruined after his last contestant criticized his methods, teaches the tomboyish Hart how to dress, walk, and act like a contestant.

The contest itself usually continued uninterrupted until one of the combatants submitted, which was often signalled by the submitting contestant raising his index finger.

Then Poisson was elected to the Academy, thus becoming a judge instead of a contestant, and leaving Germain as the only entrant to the competition.

In 1956, Olive Hodgkinson, a cave guide whose husband's family owned the caves for over 500 years, was a contestant on What's My Line?

* Jonbenet Ramsey ( 6 August 1990 – 25 December 1996 ) was a child beauty pageant contestant who was missing and found dead in her Boulder, Colorado home.

The Contender, a boxing show, unfortunately became the first American reality show in which a contestant committed suicide after being eliminated from the show ; the show's winner was promised a shot at a boxing world championship.

Tiffany Pollard, originally a contestant on Flavor of Love, was eventually given four additional reality series of her own on VH1: I Love New York, I Love New York 2, New York Goes to Hollywood and New York Goes to Work.

* " The Prize of Peril " ( 1958 ), another Robert Sheckley story, was about a television show in which a contestant volunteers to be hunted for a week by trained killers, with a large cash prize if he survives.

* The Running Man ( 1982 ) was a book by Stephen King depicting a game show in which a contestant flees around the world from " hunters " trying to chase him down and kill him ; it has been speculated that the book was inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

" In another sketch on ISIRTA a lady contestant in a television quiz show was awarded Wolstenholme as a prize.

She was a contestant on season five of the US reality show, Dancing with the Stars ; she finished in sixth place, along with her partner, Tony Dovolani.

Also, the rules of the Individual Immunity Necklace were changed so that a contestant who won the necklace in a challenge was able to give it to another contestant.

As this was the former method of determining if a contestant was eliminated in case of a tie, a new tiebreaker format was developed.