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With the advent of the Ottoman Turks and the conquest of Syria by Sultan Selim I in 1516, the Ma ' ans were acknowledged by the new rulers as the feudal lords of southern Lebanon.
As early as the days of Saladin, and while the Ma ' ans were still in complete control over southern Lebanon, the Shihab tribe, originally Hijaz Arabs but later settled in Ḥawran, advanced from Ḥawran, in 1172, and settled in Wadi al-Taym at the foot of mount Hermon.
They soon made an alliance with the Ma ' ans and were acknowledged as the Druze chiefs in Wadi al-Taym.
At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

Ma and chose
Ma chose not to join in calls to challenge or contest the election.
As an example, the surname Ma () includes descendants of the Warring States – era bureaucrat Zhao She, descendants of his subjects in his fief of Mafu, Koreans from an unrelated confederation, and Muslims from all over western China who chose it to honor Muhammad.
Many suggested appointing either Wei Yan or Wu Yi ( 吴懿 ) as the vanguard commander, but Zhuge Liang chose the callow Ma Su instead.
Zhuge Liang chose generals Ma Su and Wang Ping to intercept Zhang He.
Relying purely on books of military tactics, Ma Su chose to " take the high ground " and set his base on the mountains instead of in a city, ignoring Wang Ping's advice to make camp in a valley well supplied with water.
Bane buries Batman alive, Star Sapphire makes Hal Jordan lose his will by having some people ( including a fake-robot version of Carol ) die in front of him, Cheetah infects Wonder Woman with a poison that makes everyone she sees be Cheetah, making her fight them all until her heart gave out, Mirror Master planted a bomb through Flash's wrist that would explode should he remove it, do nothing, or decelerate, should he chose to run ( which he did ), Metallo shoots Superman in the chest with a Kryptonite bullet, and Ma ' alefa ' ak coats the Martian Manhunter in magnesium sulfite and lights him on fire.
In the November 2006 elections, Supervisor Fiona Ma chose not to seek reelection in District 4, having won the Democratic nomination for California State Assembly District 12.
He managed to preserve his Muslim community with his diplomatic skill: While Zuo Zongtang pacified other areas by exiling the local Muslims ( with the policy of " washing off the Muslims " () approach that had been long advocated by some officials ), in Hezhou, the non-Muslim Han were the ones Zuo chose to relocate as a reward for Ma Zhanao and his Muslim troops helping Qing crush Muslim rebels.
Voters may chose from a choice of candidates: Ma Ranger, the mother of the Kokanee ranger ; Micheal Baystreet a Gordon Gecko-like TSX day trader ; Cory, a Ski instructor who has skied the Rockies since the ' 80s and needs some responsibility ; Beer Fridge 2. 0, a beer cooler with a lock ; Glacier and Fresh, a Starsky and Hutchesque buddy duo eager to make their mark by stopping Sasq's crime wave ; and " Glacier Goat " a foul mouthed cantankerous goat.
When Liu Bei's forces had surrounded Liu Zhang, Ma Chao chose this time to take his leave of Hanzhong, and with his personal army he joined Liu Bei.

Ma and for
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
But he didn't figure Ma for much.
Tsing Ma Bridge and Kap Shui Mun Bridge in Hong Kong have six lanes on their upper decks, and on their lower decks there are two lanes and a pair of tracks for MTR metro trains.
It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.
It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma.
The Cretaceous (, ), derived from the Latin " creta " ( chalk ), usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide ( chalk ), is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ( Ma ) ago.
Before 2000, arguments that the Deccan Traps flood basalts caused the extinction were usually linked to the view that the extinction was gradual, as the flood basalt events were thought to have started around 68 Ma and lasted for over 2 million years.
In 1939 Muslim leaders Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent by Chiang to several Middle eastern countries, including Egypt, Turkey, and Syria, to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, and to express his support for Muslims.
Chiang also ordered Ma Bufang to put his Muslim soldiers on alert for an invasion of Tibet in 1942.
Ma Hongkui was eventually scapegoated for the failure of the Ningxia Campaign against the Communists, so he moved to the USA instead of remaining in Taiwan with Chiang.
* Largest Explosive Eruptions: New results for the 27. 8 Ma Fish Canyon Tuff and the La Garita caldera, San Juan volcanic field, Colorado
When used in science, for example geology, eras denote clearly defined periods of time of arbitrary but well defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic Era from 252 Ma – 66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event.
This extinction event lasted perhaps as long as 20 Ma, and there is evidence for a series of extinction pulses within this period.
These are proposed species names for fossils from about 1. 9 – 1. 6 Ma, whose relation to Homo habilis is not yet clear.
In the early Pleistocene, 1. 5 – 1 Ma, in Africa some populations of Homo habilis are thought to have evolved larger brains and made more elaborate stone tools ; these differences and others are sufficient for anthropologists to classify them as a new species, Homo erectus.
* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

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Reports of cannibalism were also recorded during the First Crusade, as Crusaders were alleged to have fed on the bodies of their dead opponents following the Siege of Ma ' arrat al-Numan.
The armies raised by this " Ma Clique ", most notably their Muslim cavalry, were incorporated into the KMT army.
Nearly all modern non-African humans have 1 % to 4 % of their DNA derived from Neanderthal DNA, and this finding is consistent with recent studies indicating that the divergence of some human alleles dates to one Ma, although the interpretation of these studies has been questioned.
Later, two poetic restatements of these principles (" Ani Ma ' amin " and " Yigdal ") became integrated into many Jewish liturgies, leading to their eventual near-universal acceptance.
Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).
On July 2, 2007, a suicide bomber killed eight Spanish tourists and their two Yemeni drivers in Ma ' rib.
To defuse the situation, ten Ma ' rib sheiks were detained as hostages of the state in comfortable rooms in the presidential palace for 35 days, until 43 lesser tribesmen took their place.
It has been suggested that their origin may be related to the end-Permian mass extinction (~ 250 Ma ), after which many marine niches were opened.
An explanation for the general lack of Hadean rocks ( older than 3800 Ma ) is the efficiency of the processes that either cycled these rocks back into the mantle or effaced any isotopic record of their antiquity.
His political inclinations are more controversial ; he is a very vocal critic of both the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party and their many politicians, including Chiang Kai-shek, Ma Ying-jeou and Chen Shui-bian.
Thus, all measured nakhlites give essentially identical CRE ages of approximately 11 Ma, which when combined with their possible identical formation ages indicates ejection of nakhlites into space from a single location on Mars by a single impact event.
According to the Mishnah and Talmud, the Men of the Great Assembly instituted the requirement that Jews both in Judea and in the diaspora pray three times a day ( morning, afternoon and evening ), and include in their prayers a recitation of these passages in the morning (" Shacharit ") and evening (" Ma ' ariv ") prayers.
The Beagle Boys have lots of relatives who count each other as brothers and cousins: apart from Ma Beagle, there are the Beagle Brats ( sons or nephews ), the Beagle Babes ( older generation which happens to be a trio of female cousins and a younger generation which happens to be their daughters or nieces ) and their grandfather Blackheart Beagle.
Those whose heart did not match the weight of the feather of Ma ' at due to their sins were excluded.
Noted residents of Smallville include the Kent family, Jonathan and Martha Kent, or Ma and Pa Kent as they were often called, and their adopted son Clark Kent ; Clark's friend, classmate and sometimes romantic interest Lana Lang ; Clark's best friend Pete Ross, and Smallville police chief Douglas Parker.
Also during their work on the Never Say Never album, she briefly dated rapper Ma $ e.
California's proposed bill AB1519 ( Ma ), sponsored by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, would " require exhibitors to get a county permit ; to do so, they would have to prove to county health officials that the people whose cadavers were on display — or their next of kin — had consented.

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