With a band intact, touring continuing and writing begun for a new record, Petra found itself at a crossroads: Its Christian lyrics limited the number of non-Christians attending its concerts, while its hard edge likewise limited its Christian audience.

This was suggested in circumstantial research by Petra Rees in her book The Shrieves House.

Lars von Trier's initiative spearheaded a European wave of female-friendly porn films from directors such as Anna Span, Erika Lust and Petra Joy, while von Trier's company Zentropa was forced to abandon the experiment due to pressure from English business partners.

In the 2002 election, the party's vote sank back to 4. 0 %, and was able to seat only two back-benchers elected directly from their districts, Petra Pau and Gesine Lötzsch.

Five months later, the Left Party's Petra Pau was elected vice president.

The furthest south the Romans occupied was Hegra, over 300 km south-west of Petra.

' One of their descendants was one of the first converts to the Pentecostal movement in 1916, Petra Astacio, of Montellano ( Ponce, Puerto Rico ).

Petra was chosen by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the " 28 Places to See Before You Die.

287, 94 ) assert that Rekem was the native name and Rekem appears in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a prominent Edom site most closely describing Petra and associated with Mount Seir.

94 – 97 ) which describes the expeditions which Antigonus sent against the Nabataeans in 312 BC is understood to throw some light upon the history of Petra, but the " petra " referred to as a natural fortress and place of refuge cannot be a proper name and the description implies that the town was not yet in existence.

Few inscriptions of any length have been found at Petra, perhaps because they have perished with the stucco or cement which was used upon many of the buildings.

The theatre was probably excavated at that time, and Petra must have assumed the aspect of a Hellenistic city.

In 106 AD, when Cornelius Palma was governor of Syria, that part of Arabia under the rule of Petra was absorbed into the Roman Empire as part of Arabia Petraea, becoming capital.

It was around this time that the Petra Roman Road was built.

During the First Crusade Petra was occupied by Baldwin I of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and formed the second fief of the barony of Al Karak ( in the lordship of Oultrejordain ) with the title Château de la Valée de Moyse or Sela.

In an attempt to reduce the impact of these threats, Petra National Trust ( PNT ) was established in 1989.

On December 6, 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site.

Petra was the main topic in John William Burgon's Poem Petra.

Petra was featured in episode 3 of the 2010 series An Idiot Abroad.

Later antiquity saw the rise of the Nabatean kingdom with its capital at Petra, which was a border, client state of the Roman Empire absorbed into the Empire in 103 CE, and the ancient city of Saltus.

This was partly due to their charismatic leader Petra Kelly, a German who was of interest to the American media because she had an American step-father.

Serra was born Miquel Josep Serra in Petra, Majorca, Spain.

* Former Newsboys lead singer Peter Furler — who founded Inpop Records, used the label to give Petra a home at the end of its career and produced the band's final studio album — and his band opened for Petra early in its career, and guitarist Jody Davis listed his first Petra concert as a major influence on his decision to move into live Christian music.

The second is on the summit of el-Habis in the heart of Petra and can be accessed via a flight of steps that begins near the tomb complex known as " the Monastery ".

After the failure of her second marriage, Petra falls hopelessly and obsessively in love with Karin, a cunning working-class young woman who wants a career in modeling.

3 Petra Kvitová in the second round, her first Top 3 victory since defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova in 2009.

Seven More Minutes, the second album by The Rentals, was released on April 13, 1999 and features numerous guests such as: Petra Haden ( of that dog.

One paper claimed he spent the night after his second presidential inauguration ( 7 March 2008 ) with 25-year-old Petra Bednářová.

According to his theory, at the conclusion of that second 19-year time cycle the members of the church were expected to flee to a place of refuge, which leading ministers had speculated could be the ancient city of Petra, carved into rock in Jordan.

There, she won her first round match against Petra Martić before losing to World No. 63 Jill Craybas in the second round.

The week later, she played at the $ 100, 000 ITF event at Biella where she is seeded fourth, but lost to Petra Martić in the second round.

Going into the 2005 Australian Open, Sania defeated Cindy Watson and Petra Mandula in the first and second rounds, respectively, to reach the third round where she was beaten in straight sets by eventual champion Serena Williams.

Zvonareva's next tournament was the Internazionali BNL d ' Italia, where, as 15th seed, she lost to Petra Kvitová, 4 – 6, 0 – 6, in the second round.

She was the second seed at the 2011 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, where she beat Patty Schnyder and Elena Vesnina, before being upset by 16th seed and eventual champion Petra Kvitová in the third round.

Zvonareva began her Asian hard-court swing at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, where she was the fourth seed and received a bye into the second round, then defeating Tsvetana Pironkova, Iveta Benešová, Maria Kirilenko, and Petra Kvitová — all in straight sets to progress to the final for the first time, where she lost to ninth seed Agnieszka Radwańska, 6 – 3, 6 – 2.

Her first husband, Pierre, was a great love, who died in a car accident while Petra was pregnant ; the second began the same way, but ended in disgust.

The rarity of being a Christian rock band led to larger concerts and greater popularity, and Myrrh asked Petra to record a second album aimed principally at non-Christians, reflecting the evangelistic nature of the band's shows.

By Hartman's admission, his vocal style did not match well with the band's genre, and Petra brought in a number of guest vocalists for the second record, among them former e vocalist Greg X. Volz ( that band's name being a lower-case abbreviation of " Emmanuel ").

" Petra ultimately played to more than 500, 000 people in the yearlong world tour, which ranked second in all of Christian music only to Amy Grant's.

Competing at the AEGON International in Eastbourne, Hantuchová defeated second seed Li Na and Venus Williams, before retiring to fifth seed Petra Kvitová in the semifinals.

In Sydney, Hantuchová upset Francesca Schiavone in the second round, before falling to second seed Petra Kvitova in the quarterfinals.

Her best result was the third round of the Roland Garros, where she defeated 21st-seeded American Lisa Raymond in the second round before losing to Hungary's Petra Mandula.

She managed to exact some revenge by beating Petra Martić in round one however she lost to Petra Kvitová in the second round.

She did however have a better run at Wimbledon making the second round but lost to last years Wimbledon champions Petra Kvitova in straight sets 0 – 6, 4 – 6.