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 ).

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.

Bryan is the birthplace of 2006 Indianapolis 500 champion — and current NASCAR driver -- Sam Hornish, Jr., Bob Hartman, founder of the Christian rock pioneer group " Petra ", and of Mark Winegardner, chosen to be the author of the novel The Godfather Returns.

:* The Undang of Sungai Ujong is chosen among the Waris Hulu and Waris Hilir families, and inherits the title Dato ' Kelana Petra Seri Jaya.

" Boudica has also been the primary subject of songs by Irish singer / songwriter Enya, Dutch soprano Petra Berger, Scottish singer / songwriter Steve McDonald, English metal band Bal-Sagoth, Faith and the Muse and Dreams in the Witching House.

What is known is that by 107, Roman legions were stationed in the area around Petra and Bostra, as is shown by a papyrus found in Egypt.

Internal divisions arose between members who saw electoral politics as ultimately corrupting and supported the notion of an " anti-party party " formed by Petra Kelly and other leaders of Die Grünen in Germany, vs. those who saw electoral strategies as a crucial engine of social change ( organized as The Green Politics Network in 1990 and The National Association of Statewide Green Parties by 1994 ).

Chico is fascinated by Petra, one of the village's young women, while Bernardo begins to bond with three of the village's little boys.

* Petra rejoins the province of Palestine, and is converted to Christianity by the Syrian monk Barsauma.

Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf.

The ruins of Petra were an object of curiosity in the Middle Ages and were visited by Sultan Baibars of Egypt towards the end of the 13th century.

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* Petra, capital of the Nabataeans, is damaged by an earthquake.

Indiana travels to Venice, takes the Orient Express to Istanbul, and continues by train to Petra, where he meets Sallah and reunites with his father.

In 1923 he first worked as an illustrator, on In Petra by Gill and H. Pepler.

" The caravan of all ages, from the interior of Arabia and from the Persian Gulf, from Hadhramaut on the ocean, and even from Sabea ( Sheba ) or Yemen, appear to have pointed to Petra as a common centre ; and from Petra the tide seems again to have branched out in every direction, to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jerusalem, and Damascus, and by other routes, terminating at the Mediterranean Sea.

* Kelly, Petra K. Nonviolence Speaks to Power, online book, almost complete text ( also, out of print, published by Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1992, ISBN 1-880309-05-X )

* In Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Hegemon, Briseis is the code name for Petra Arkanian while she was being held prisoner by Achilles de Flandres.

A good example is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant ( Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, 1972 ) which was adapted by Fassbinder from his plays.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant has been cited by some feminist and gay critics as both homophobic and sexist.

Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence, by Petra Kelly

He has received the Gerald Lampert Award, gold medals for fiction and for poetry in the National Magazine Awards, the Air Canada Award, and the 2002 Petra Kenney Prize.

" Not of This World continues Petra ’ s winning streak of great records that minister the Good News with good music ," CCM Magazine wrote in praising the album.

" Musically, the band embraced a hard rock sound reminiscent of Def Leppard, as described by CCM Magazine: " Petra has certainly moved more and more toward a big, arena rock sound in the past few years ( the most obvious fruit of their association with the Elefantes ), and Beyond Belief is, if not completely Kansas-inspired, certainly on par with some of the best arena rock music around.