I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

But they refuse, as do the Arab states, to support the United Nations' expenses of maintaining the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East as a buffer between Egypt and Israel, and the U.N. troops in the Congo, which expenses are not covered by the regular budget of the United Nations, but by a special budget.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Syria and Egypt were, a short while ago, in the Western camp.

It is a main flavoring for halvah, the candy of the Middle East.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

The spirit served chiefly to lull the West while Moscow made inroads into the Middle East.

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

He wrote detailed comparative studies on the religions and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and especially South Asia.

Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Afroasiatic languages are today primarily spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

In the Middle East, a growing appetite for eating frog legs and the consequent gathering of them for food was linked to an increase in mosquitoes.

" What the West borrowed from the Middle East ", in Savory, R. M.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

The Arabic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet, and other abjads of the Middle East are developments of the Aramaic alphabet, but because these writing systems are largely consonant-based they are often not considered true alphabets.

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In the Middle East, Aramaic gave rise to the Hebrew and Nabataean abjads, which retained many of the Aramaic letter forms.

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The Aramaic alphabet is historically significant, since virtually all modern Middle Eastern writing systems use a script that can be traced back to it, as well as numerous non-Chinese writing systems of Central and East Asia.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

* Bashar Tarabieh: " Education, Control and Resistance in the Golan Heights "; Middle East Report, No. 194 / 195, Odds against Peace ( May – Aug., 1995 ), pp. 43 – 47.

Accreditations include the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, American Chemical Society and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs.

The school offers undergraduate degrees ( BA or BS depending on content area ) in Inclusive ( Adolescence ) Education ( Middle School Extension, Grades 5-6 ; Students with Disabilities, Grades 7-12 ), Childhood Education ( Grades 1-6 ) and Childhood Education / Special Education ( Grades 1-6 ).

‘ Muslim Education in the Medieval Times ’, The Middle East Institute, Washington D. C.

According to a study by Alternatives to Combat Child Labour Through Education and Sustainable Services in the Middle East and North Africa Region ( ACCESS-MENA ) 30 % of school children living in border villages of Yemen had been smuggled into Saudi Arabia.

* Lamar Collins ( 2008 ) A Model Middle School Sex Education Program.

Bodies that accredit institutions as a whole include the Council for Higher Education Accreditation ( CHEA ): Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ( MSA ), New England Association of Schools and Colleges ( NEASCSC ), Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools ( HLC ), Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities ( NWCCU ), Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ), and Western Association of Schools and Colleges ( WASC ).

PASSIA ’ s educational and training seminars are divided into two categories: In ­ ternational Affairs – including seminars on Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies and Security, the EU, Education on Democ ­ racy, The Foreign Policies of Arab States, Japan and the Middle East, and The United States and Canada: Political Systems, Policy-Making and the Middle East – and Civil Society Empowerment, with seminars held to date including those on Policy-Making, Strategic Planning & Media & Com ­ munication Skills.

It is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by several professional agencies.

Work began on Institute for Middle Education in 1843, with classes beginning during the 1853-54 academic year.

Chatham University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 ( 267 ) 284-5000.

Montgomery College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Thomas Middle School is now the Adult Education Center and a community center.

Irondale is served by Jefferson County Board of Education and is home to Shades Valley High School, Grantswood Community School, Irondale Community School, Irondale Middle School, Shades Valley Theatre Academy, Jefferson Christian Academy, and the Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School.

In 2009, the City of Leeds Board of Education authorized the construction — completed by the Wyatt Construction Company — of two new schools, Leeds Middle School and Leeds High School.

Fillmore Middle School is the first school in California to offer skateboarding in its Physical Education Program.

In 2005, Wendell Middle School was awarded the Idaho Education Award by the State of Idaho.

Special educators, with the help of the Locke administration and multiple fundraising efforts from the Billerica Parent Advisory Council for Special Education successfully opened the Locke Middle School ’ s first school store, “ Before School Starts the Store ,” this academic school year.

Education in the village of Mattawan is provided by the Mattawan Consolidated School District ( K-12 ), which consists of the Early Elementary School ( grades K-2 ), the Later Elementary School ( grades 3-5 ), the Middle School ( grades 6-8 ), and the High School ( grades 9-12 ).

Four public schools are located in New Brighton: Bel Air Elementary School, Sunnyside Elementary, Highview Middle School, and Irondale High School ; additionally, until 2005, when it was converted into a community education center, there was a fifth public school located in New Brighton: Pike Lake Elementary School, now known as Pike Lake Education Center.

These are: Annandale High School, Annandale Middle School, Bendix Elementary, Community Education Center.