Sixteen African nations boycotted the tournament in protest of a 1964 FIFA ruling that required the three second-round winners from the African zone to enter a play-off round against the winners of the Asian zone in order to win a place at the finals.

Sixteen countries, including the 10 Test-playing nations and six associate members of the International Cricket Council participated in the tournament.

Second, unlike during the Han Dynasty, when most heqin marriages were aimed at establishing peace with foreign nations, heqin marriages during the Sixteen Kingdoms period were made primarily to settle rivalries and maintain a balance of power between the various states in China at the time.

Sixteen years later, on December 16, 1991, the General Assembly would adopt another resolution revoking the 1975 measure, with 111 nations approving the recission.

Sixteen nations competed ; all teams from the 2002 competition returned, joined by debutants China, India, Sweden, Finland and the Peres Peace Team ( Israel-Palestine ).

Sixteen nations were represented and several European, World, and Olympic Champions competed.

Sixteen teams entered the competition, including seven of the nine then Test-playing nations: West Indies did not enter as mentioned above, while England declined to send a team at all, on the grounds that the September date chosen clashed with other fixtures such as the end of the County Championship.

Sixteen years after his death, his remains were moved to the Panthéon in Paris in 1794, where they are located directly across from those of his contemporary, Voltaire.

Sixteen other parades take place at cities throughout France in: Angers, Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Rouen, Strassbourg, Toulouse and Tours.

Meanwhile, the solidly Catholic people of Paris, under the influence of the Committee of Sixteen were becoming dissatisfied with Henry III and his failure to defeat the Calvinists.

The extreme section of the party, represented by the radical " Paris Sixteen ", urged him to proceed to the election of a Catholic king and to accept the help and the claims of their Spanish Habsburg allies.

He maintained the ancient forms of the constitution against the revolutionary policy of the Sixteen, who during his absence from Paris took the law into their own hands and in November 1591 executed one of the leaders of the more moderate party, Barnabé Brisson, president of the parlement.

Sixteen days later a Hustler flew from New York City to Paris, France in 3 hours, 19 minutes, and 41 seconds.

* In the South Park episode " Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset ," Butters sings a variation of " Sixteen Tons " while mining for coal to avoid being sold to Paris Hilton.

During the invasion of northern nomads during the Sixteen Kingdoms period ( 304-439 ), several regimes including Later Zhao, Former Yan, Former Qin, and Later Yan continuously controlled what is now Shanxi.

** Sixteen Americans were missing ; five of them were shown on Iraqi state TV as POWs and at least four were shown dead in what appeared to be a hospital room.

They reminisce happily about the early days of their act, and play a riotous chorus of " You're Sixteen ", knowing now that their connection is unbreakable, no matter what happens.

However, what concerned the Song even more was the continued Liao possession of the strategic Sixteen Prefectures, which included present-day Beijing.

* 1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.

** Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.

Sixteen, thirty-two, or more generations would be worked out in advance to form a generation poem.

Sixteen figurines and six celts form a strange tableau.

Holes 12, 13 and 14 all use Sixteen Mile Creek as a hazard of one form or another.

Sixteen ribbed sections form the sphere of the dome and can be seen inside the prayer hall.

* The " Page Sixteen Girl ", a photo on said page of a sexually appealing female character in action figure form, a parody of the Page Three Girl, a feature originating in the Rupert Murdoch-owned United Kingdom tabloid The Sun.

* Long Duk Dong or " the Donger ," a character in the 1984 American movie Sixteen Candles

Burnette gained prominence in 1973 both for the inclusion of " You ’ re Sixteen " on the American Graffiti soundtrack and for Ringo Starr's version of the same song.

Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall.

* Sweet Sixteen ( Parks and Recreation ), an episode of the American comedy television series Parks and Recreation

When they finally admitted that the leaders had been arrested ( on 5 May ), the American envoy of Harry S. Truman, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, was told by Joseph Stalin that “ there is no point in linking the case of the Trial of the Sixteen with the support for the Soviet-backed government of Poland because the sentences will not be high .” Both British and American governments shared this view.

Sixteen wooden toys were brought to the 1931 American International Toy Fair in New York City before later being introduced to the public through Macy's Department store.

* Sixteen American Civil War generals, including Union brigadier general Jefferson C. Davis

She appeared in such feature films as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles, Grandview, U. S. A., American Gigolo and Summer Lovers.

" Sixteen Tons " is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis and released on his box set album Folk Songs of the Hills the following year.

The band would also use " Wild Sex ( In the Working Class )" for the classic teen comedy Sixteen Candles during a dance scene by Farmer Ted, a. k. a. " The Geek " ( portrayed by Anthony Michael Hall ).

Sixteen years later, the novel would become a bestseller in France.

Sixteen years later in 1996, based on precedent that would be established in Ontario ( 1989 ), required recitation of the Lord ’ s Prayer as outlined in the Public Schools Act would be held to violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The decade began positively with The Sixteen Men of Tain in 2000, but it would turn out to be Holdsworth's last album recorded at The Brewery.

( A month earlier, Li Xiong had declared himself independent of Jin as well, as the Prince of Chengdu, establishing Cheng Han ; these two states would be the first two of the Sixteen Kingdoms.

" The gullible oaf Dufo would take any dares and fall for his gang's pranks time after time, and Cox would recount the awful consequences: " Sixteen stitches.

Sixteen years later, the two would reunite for the Manhattan Theatre Club production of It's Only a Play.

When asked why he had built the castle, Leedskalnin would vaguely answer it was for his " Sweet Sixteen.

The popular song " Sixteen Tons " dramatizes this scenario, with the narrator telling Saint Peter ( who would welcome him to Heaven upon his death ) " I can't go ; I owe my soul to the company store ".

Sixteen cars finished although Fabre had not completed enough laps to be classified and 14th placed Brundle would be disqualified for a bodywork infringement on the spare Zakspeed 871 pressed into service after the startline collisions.

Cadillac claimed that the 1938, 1939, and 1940 Series 90 Sixteen had the best performance of any production car in the world at the time and would accelerate 10-60 in high gear only in 16 seconds.

The 11th Plenum, which was meeting in August, had ratified the ' Sixteen Articles ', a document that stated the aims of the Cultural Revolution and highlighted the role students would be asked to play in the movement.

When the emperors would visit the imperial princes ' residences, known as the Sixteen Mansions, they would, as a game, try to get Li Yi to speak, and they referred to him as " Uncle Guang.

A win would have put Williams in the Sweet Sixteen for the 9th time in his coaching career.

Sixteen government bureaux would be consolidated into 11, and bureau heads not appointed as ministers would be retitled ' Permanent Secretaries.

On the Sixteen, it would seamlessly shut down twelve cylinders in light driving, eight during strenuous driving, and only awaken the entire engine under full acceleration.