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Seven truths about Afghans ignored by U. S .: ( 1 ) only Pashtuns rule durably ( 47 ); ( 2 ) the U. S. backed Westernized Afghans, not the " Muslim tribal xenophobes " who matter ( 48-49 ); ( 3 ) Afghans can't be controlled by money ( 49-51 ); ( 4 ) strong central governments, like the one Karzai is seeking, cause war in Afghanistan ( 52 ); ( 5 ) Afghanistan is a cauldron of international tensions ( 53-54 ); ( 6 ) Pakistan's national security depends on an Islamist, Pashtun-dominated régime ( 54-56 ); ( 7 ) an Islamic régime in Kabul is inevitable ( 56-57 ).
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Just about to get their asses kicked into hut Seven.
Phillip joined the Royal Navy at about fifteen, and saw action at the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War in the Mediterranean at the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
Seven members of the university board ( of about a hundred ) also resigned in support of Graham, including Graham himself and two of his staff members.
According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.
The first was the Kurosawa epic Seven Samurai, about a band of hired samurai who protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of thieves.
A broad coalition called the Seven Party Alliance ( SPA ) was formed in opposition to the royal takeover, encompassing the seven parliamentary parties who held about 90 % of the seats in the old, dissolved parliament.
Seven transmembrane G-protein coupled receptors ( which represent about 5 % of the genes in humans ) mostly do not have an amino-terminal signal sequence.
Many of these stories have their backgrounds in movies, for example Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan Grillà ( 1961 ) is based upon Frank Capra's Lost Horizon ( 1937 ); not to talk about all the stories starring Snow White or the Seven Dwarfs, obviously based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ).
* There is a single mention of Trimalchio in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as his showy parties and background parallels that of Gatsby: Chapter Seven begins, " It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night-and, as obscurely as it began, his career as Trimalchio was over.
" According to Variety, " Until the women and children arrive on the scene about two-thirds of the way through, The Magnificent Seven is a rip-roaring rootin ' tootin ' western with lots of bite and tang and old-fashioned abandon.
* June 6 – Bihar train disaster: Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the River Kosi in Bihar, India ; about 800 die.
He, along with Philo of Byzantium, Strabo, Herodotus and Diodoros of Sicily, is attributed with the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which he described in a poem composed about 140 BC:
First broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1964, the Granada Television series Seven Up !, broadcast interviews with a dozen ordinary seven-year-olds from a broad cross section of society and inquired about their reactions to everyday life.
* June 18 – Battle of Seven Oaks: Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops, bringing about the collapse of the rebellion.
Seven drops of this preparation contain about 1 grain of opium.
Gardner again appeared with Lancaster, this time paired with Kirk Douglas, in Seven Days in May ( 1962 ), a taut thriller about a military takeover of the US government.
His book about the history of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ) was the basis for many reprints, as well as for school books.
On 23 June 1661, a marriage treaty was signed, Catherine's dowry securing to England Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( the latter having a major influence on the development of the British Empire in India ), together with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.
Everybody Talks about the Weather ... We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008 ( ISBN 978-1583228319 ).
Louis and his ministers were unhappy about Great Britain's victory in the Seven Years War and in the years following the Treaty of Paris they began drawing up a long-term plan that would involve construction of a larger navy, building an anti-British coalition of states that would lead to an eventual war of revenge and see France regain its former colonies from Britain.
When Gandalf first told Frodo Baggins about the Rings of Power in The Fellowship of the Ring, he said, " The Nine he had gathered to himself ; the Seven also, or else they are destroyed.
Next element to be introduced was the " Land of Seven Streams "; Tolkien was hesitant for some time about its relation to other places, writing at different times that it was located north or south of Black Mountains, within the Land of Ond or separate from it.
Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and fleet commander, wrote about a system of channels in Atria that was, " first made by the Tuscans, thus discharging the flow of the river across the marshes of the Atriani called the Seven Seas, with the famous harbor of the Tuscan town of Atria which formerly gave the name of Atriatic to the sea now called the Adriatic.
He was about to sell his life story just before being killed, and investigation into his and M ' rrgla's past with the Seven Sentinels reveals the dark secret behind the group: the Seven Sentinels are not a superhero group, but a pedophile ring, having faked all of their famous battles and used the Young Sentinels ( sidekicks ) as sexual slaves.
Seven and by
Now Britain has decided to seek admission to the European Economic Community and it seems certain that she will be joined by some of her partners in the loose Free Trade Area of the `` Outer Seven ''.
Seven of the eight companies that turn out full lines of farm machinery say sales by their dealers since the start of August have shown gains averaging nearly 10% above last year.
Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.
* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
* Melanchrus-he was overthrown sometime between 612 BC and 609 BC by a faction that, in addition to the brothers of Alcaeus, included Pittacus ( later renowned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece ); Alcaeus at that time was too young to be actively involved ;
Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.
He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.
Detail of Seven Sacraments Altarpiece | The Seven Sacraments ( 1445 ) by Roger van der Weyden showing the sacrament of Extreme Unction or Anointing of the Sick.
The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Dürer and his assistants c. 1500.
* " Bronx Backyard " by The Johnny Seven Band
Other significant state owned newspapers are the daily Respublika ( The Republic ), published by the Cabinet of Ministers, and the weeklies Sem ’ Dnei ( Seven Days ) and Narodnaya Gazeta ( The People ’ s Paper ).
In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.
Continuing Arab disquiet over Allied intentions also led during 1918 to the British Declaration to the Seven and the Anglo-French Declaration, the latter promising " the complete and final liberation of the peoples who have for so long been oppressed by the Turks, and the setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations.
Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).
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Seven faculty and alumni have received a Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, while 56 have been awarded the U. S. National Medal of Science, and 10 have received the National Medal of Technology.
* December 22 – The CBS afternoon anthology series Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U. S. television for the first time, although heavily abridged.
* April 9 – NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first U. S. astronauts ( later known as the Mercury Seven ).
* September 8 – Honda Point Disaster: Seven U. S. Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
Seven months later, the U. S. was drawn into World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Durie previously was the host of the Seven Network's The Outdoor Room and the U. S. PBS series The Victory Garden.
Seven years after the Dartmouth College opinion, the Supreme Court decided Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of Pawlet ( 1823 ), in which an English corporation dedicated to missionary work, with land in the U. S., sought to protect its rights to that land under colonial-era grants against an effort by the state of Vermont to revoke the grants.
Seven winning tickets were placed inside 3121 CD packages in the U. S., and other tickets were given away in various contests on the Internet and around the world.
Glenn was a combat aviator in the Marine Corps and one of the Mercury Seven, who were the elite U. S. military test pilots selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to operate the experimental Mercury spacecraft and become the first American astronauts.
Her first book, Seven Gothic Tales, was published in the U. S. in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen.
The earliest known instance of U. S. wartime aerial reconnaissance was carried out from Taylor's Tavern at Seven Corners by aeronaut Thaddeus S. C. Lowe of the Union Army Balloon Corps.
* Mahajan, Rahul Full Spectrum Dominance: U. S. Power in Iraq and Beyond New York: 2003 Seven Stories Press
* 2001 U. S. Attack on Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
Seven Lakes is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Moore County, North Carolina, about 10 – 15 minutes away from the Pinehurst # 2, where two different U. S. Open's have occurred, in 1999 and 2005 Pinehurst # 2 will also host the 2014 Men's U. S. Open's.
Although no physical traces of the street railway remain in Highland Springs, old brick streetcar barns are extant both in Richmond, in the Church Hill area, and in Sandston at Seven Pines, where an unusual street configuration is attributed to the turning path of the old trolley cars at today's U. S. Route 60.
Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s ; the " 22 Minutes " refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U. S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials.
Seven years later, the Australian band Pseudo Echo covered " Funky Town ," updating the tune to fit the mid-1980s Dance-rock scene and taking it back to the U. S. top ten.
Seven Devils is a town in Avery and Watauga counties in the U. S. state of North Carolina.
Seven Points is a city in Henderson and Kaufman Counties in the U. S. state of Texas.
The society's website includes listings of forthcoming performances of Bliss's works ; in March 2011 the following works were listed as scheduled for performance in the UK and U. S .: Ceremonial Prelude ; Clarinet Quartet ( 2 performances ); Four Songs for Voice, Violin and Piano ; Music for Strings ; Pastoral ( Lie strewn the white flocks ); Royal Fanfares ; Seven American Poems ; String Quartet No. 2 ( 5 performances ); Things to Come Suite ( 2 performances ); Things to Come March.
Seven sitting U. S. Senators graduated from the school.
Any fears that what had now become a revolving door of band members would affect the quality of their new album were laid to rest as Helloween's new studio album, titled Keeper of the Seven Keys-The Legacy, was released on October 28, 2005 in Germany, and November 8 in the U. S. A. to commercial and critical acclaim.
Pierre La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort St. Charles, to the south of present-day Kenora near the current Canada / U. S. border in 1732, and France maintained the post until 1763 when it lost the territory to the British in the Seven Years ' War — until then, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France.
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