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The ex-Royal Kumari Rashmila Shakya states in her autobiography From Goddess to Mortal ( 2005 ) that this has nothing to do with the selection process, but rather is a ritual the Royal Kumari goes through each year, and that there are no men dancing around in masks trying to scare her, and that at most there are only a dozen or so decapitated animal heads in the scary room test.
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In an English village, ex-Inspector Evans, late of the CID tells his friend, Captain Haydock ( ex-Royal Navy ) that he has recognized a local woman, Mrs. Merrowdene, as being Mrs. Anthony, a notorious woman who was charged and tried nine years previously with the murder of her husband by arsenic poisoning.
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In 2007, Nolinor Aviation has acquired two ex-Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-200 Combis ( freight / passenger ).
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Some 17 further ex-AMARC aircraft were also procured along with six ex-Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16BMs for training purposes ( Combat Capable ) along with 16 ex-Belgian F-16AM / BM in MLU ( Mid Life Update ) standard in 2009, Another 2 ex-Spanish Mirage F1CE / EE aircraft have been procured in 2006.
York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May ( née Chown ), a musician ; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores.
Brunel's SS Great Britain, although a merchant ship, appears to have worn ( and still wears, in dry dock ) the White Ensign, apparently because its first master ( an ex-Royal Navy man ) brought it with him.
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* Bradford Milbanks ( voiced by Julian Holloway )-An ex-Royal Air Force officer who now presides over Warfield Academy and is Tracy's father.
The young man is on a tour of the Caribbean in his yacht, a converted ex-Royal Navy brig-sloop, the Bride of Abydos.
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Even though by 1922 the RCN had been cut back to 366 men and had paid off its last remaining cruiser HMCS Aurora, the Navy kept two destroyers donated by the Royal Navy, HMCS Patriot and HMCS Patrician, until they were replaced in the late 1920s by two other ex-Royal Navy vessels HMCS Champlain and HMCS Vancouver, and thereby maintained ships in service throughout the lean years.
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On 25 April 1950, demobilized ex-Royal Dutch East Indies Army ( KNIL ) soldiers and other South Moluccan men who remained loyal to the Dutch crown, staged a revolt and proclaimed an independent " Republic of South Maluku " ( Indonesian: Republik Maluku Selatan ).
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Some of these vehicles were among the last of a consignment of ex-Royal Navy armored cars that had been serving in the Middle East since 1915.
When Lemmy was three months old, his father, an ex-Royal Air Force chaplain, separated from his mother.
In 1956, ATL purchased over 250 surplus ex-Royal Air Force Percival Prentice trainer aircraft, about 20 of which were converted for civilian customers.
Red Bull's colours on De Havilland Aviation's ex-Royal Navy de Havilland Sea Vixen.
* A type of oxygen cylinder of an ex-Royal Air Force pilot's oxygen cylinder that had a tapering end, and was often used as an Aqua-Lung cylinder in the 1960s and earlier.
He was said to take an appropriate treatment to the remnants of the ex-Royal Family, arranged a grand cremation of the remains of Ekatat, and tackled the problem of locating the capital.
North American T-28 Trojan trainer aircraft, ex-Royal Laotian Air Force.
Bond's examination of the hull of the Disco Volante was inspired by the ill-fated mission undertaken on 19 April 1956 by the ex-Royal Navy frogman " Buster " Crabb on behalf of MI6, as he examined the hull of the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze that had brought Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin on a diplomatic mission to Britain.
Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, worked for a period as an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time.
Four Short Sandringhams and later Short Solents were acquired, as well as an ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force PBY Catalina for survey flights.
However in the late 1940s NAC also provided international services to some nearby South Pacific countries, using converted ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) Short Sunderlands.
INS Eilat, ex-Royal Navy Z Class destroyer sold to Israel in 1955.
The LY-60N was, however, exported to Pakistan in the 1990s to re-fit its purchase of 6 ex-Royal Navy Type 21 frigates, re-classified as the Tariq class.
Kumari and Shakya
Sajani Shakya, a former Kumari of Bhaktapur, Nepal, during her June 2007 visit to the United States to the Film Festival Silverdocs.
In Nepal a Kumari is a pre-pubescent girl selected from the Shakya clan of the Nepalese Newari community.
The current Royal Kumari, Matina Shakya, aged four, was installed in October 2008 by the Maoist government that replaced the monarchy.
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The Silappadhikaram, one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature written in first few centuries CE, states that the " cruel sea " took the Pandiyan land that lay between the rivers Pahruli and the mountainous banks of the Kumari, to replace which the Pandiyan king conquered lands belonging to the Chola and Chera kings ( Maturaikkandam, verses 17-22 ).
The mythical tradition states that it has been known as ' Sripada Parai ', meaning the rock that has been blessed by the touch of ‘ the sacred feet ’ of the Devi Kumari.
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A Kumari is believed to be the incarnation of the goddess Taleju ( the Nepalese name for Durga ) until she menstruates, after which it is believed that the goddess vacates her body.
Hindu scriptures like the Jñanarnava Rudrayamala tantra assign different names to a Kumari depending on her age.
Even today, a mother's dream of a red serpent is believed to be a portent of the elevation of her daughter to the position of Royal Kumari.
Once Taleju has left the sitting Kumari, there is a frenzy of activity to find her successor.
After passing all other tests, the final test is that she must be able to pick out the personal belongings of the previous Kumari from an assortment of things laid out before her.
Once these rituals are completed, Taleju enters her and she is presented as the new Kumari.
She is dressed and made up as a Kumari and then leaves the Taleju temple and walks across the square on a white cloth to the Kumari Ghar that will be her home for the duration of her divinity.
Once the chosen girl completes the Tantric purification rites and crosses from the temple on a white cloth to the Kumari Ghar to assume her throne, her life takes on an entirely new character.
The power of the Kumari is perceived to be so strong that even a glimpse of her is believed to bring good fortune.
Crowds of people wait below the Kumari's window in the Kumari Chowk, or courtyard, of her palace, hoping that she will pass by the latticed windows on the third floor and glance down at them.
The more fortunate, or better connected, petitioners visit the Kumari in her chambers where she sits upon a gilded lion throne.
Many of those visiting her are people suffering from blood or menstrual disorders since the Kumari is believed to have special power over such illnesses.
During these audiences, the Kumari is closely watched and her actions interpreted as a prediction of the petitioners lives ', for example as follows:
If the Kumari remains silent and impassive throughout the audience, her devotees leave elated.
This lady is truly the Meena Kumari of her generation.
Inspired by Bollywood actresses like Nargis and Meena Kumari and her sister Karisma, Kapoor is known for her fashion style and her film roles ( both of which have made her a trend-setter for young women ).
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