One account by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921 claims that Norse warriors were sometimes buried with enslaved women with the belief that these women would become their wives in Valhalla.

One of his first acts was to release 21 detainees held under the Internal Security Act, including journalist Samad Ismail and a former deputy minister in Hussein's government, Abdullah Ahmad, who had been suspected of being an underground communist.

The day before, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had met Ecclestone to discuss an extension of the Formula One contract beyond 2010.

One trader, Ahmad bin Ibrahim, introduced Buganda's kabaka to the advantages of foreign trade: the acquisition of imported cloth and, more important, guns and gunpowder.

* Iain Adamson: Ahmad, The Guided One, Islam International Publications, 2000

One of the public institutes in Kuantan is Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Polytechnic ( POLISAS ).

One intellectual Sayyid Ahmad Khan advocated discontinuing the " jihad " against the Dutch since the term was used to define military warfare against religious oppression.

One of the traditions which strengthens this second view is the Hadith which Muslim, Tirmidhi, Nasa ' i and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal have related on the authority of Hadrat ' Uqbah bin ' Amir.

One of Foda's killer Abd al-Shafi Ahmad Ramadhan was sentenced to death on 30 December 1993 and executed on 26 February 1994.

Complete set of four volumes are sequentially titled as, Book One: Pre-Muslim Period by Ahmad Hasan Dani ; Book Two: Muslim Rule under the Sultans by M. Kabir ; Book Three: The Mughul Empire by Sh.

In an interview with ARY One World in 2007, Ahmad said he would be working with Madonna and Bono.

* One on One with Ahmad Rashād

One cell trained by Wilson's operatives was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLF-GC ) under the command of Ahmad Jibril.

I swear by the One who has my soul in His Hand, the third prophecy will also be fulfilled, since Allah ’ s Messenger has said so !” ( Collection from Hadith in Books of Muslim and Ahmad )

Throughout most of the medieval and early-modern period it was known as Yasi or Shavgar and after the 16th-17th centuries as Turkistan or Hazrat, both of which names derive from the title ' Hazrat-i Turkistan ', which literally means " the Saint ( or Blessed One ) of Turkistan " and refers to Khoja Ahmad Yasavi, the Sufi Shaikh of Turkistan, who lived here during the 11th century CE and is buried in the town.

* One bowl of blood from his fondest and only son, Sultan Ahmad.

One of the first tariqas to be established in the West was the ' Alawiya branch of the Darqawiyya, which was named after Ahmad ibn Mustafa al -' Alawi al-Mustaghanimi, popularly known as Shaykh al-Alawi.

One of these marriages was to Hassa bint Ahmad Al Sudairi, a member of the Al Sudairis, a powerful clan in Nejd.

One was of the death of my father, and the other, of the death of Maulana Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi.

One can find the translation of Asbab al-Nuzul ( i. e. the contexts and occasions of the Revelation of the Qur ' an ) into English by ' Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wāhidī ( d. 468 / 1075 ), who is considered to be the earliest scholar of the branch of the Qur ' anic sciences known as Asbāb al-Nuzūl.

One of Ahmad Shah's first acts as Emir was to adopt the title padshah durr-i durran (' King, " pearl of the age ").

One wing of Dashi's force had made an early attempt at capturing the Eastern Karakhanid city of Kashgar in 1128, but was repulsed by the Karakhanid ruler there, Ahmad b. Hasan.

One of Akbar Shah's queens, Mumtaz Begum, had been pressuring him to declare her son Mirza Jahangir as his successor.

The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.

One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.

One finds, for example, that a terse and stereotyped verbal expression, seeming at first to be a mere hollow convention, reveals itself over the months of therapy as the vehicle for expressing the most varied and intense feelings, and the most unconventional of meanings.

One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

One of the vexatious problems to first confront President Kennedy was the property lying just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.

One of the first things he would do, he said, would be to organize classes in first aid.

One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.

One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).

One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.

One of the first to discuss the possibility of an absolute minimal temperature was Robert Boyle.

* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

One of the first actors is believed to be an ancient Greek called Thespis of Icaria.

One of his most celebrated achievements is the discovery of the first arithmetic Weil cohomology theory: the ℓ-adic étale cohomology.

AA's name derived from its first book, informally called " The Big Book ", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.