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By the 19th century orchestral music in Europe had standardized the string section into the following homogeneous instrumental groups: first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.
Naming the central ray passing through the entrance pupil the axis of the pencil or principal ray, it can be said: the rays of the pencil intersect, not in one point, but in two focal lines, which can be assumed to be at right angles to the principal ray ; of these, one lies in the plane containing the principal ray and the axis of the system, i. e. in the first principal section or meridional section, and the other at right angles to it, i. e. in the second principal section or sagittal section.
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By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.
Ismail Omar Guelleh took the oath of office as the second President of the Republic of Djibouti on May 8, 1999, with the support of an alliance between the RPP and the government-recognized section of the Afar-led FRUD.
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The second major issue was over the inclusion of God in the last section of the document, with the draft using the phrase " and placing our trust in the Almighty ".
Susan, 16-years-old, competed in the grandmaster section and had a victory against GM Walter Browne and Sophia, 11-years-old, finished second in her section, but Judit gathered most of the attention in the tournament.
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Abdur Rahman Khan was considered a strong ruler who re-established the writ of the Afghan government after the disarray that followed the second Anglo-Afghan war.
Soon afterwards, an uprising in Kabul led to the slaughter of Britain's Resident in Kabul, Sir Pierre Cavagnari and his guards and staff on 3 September 1879, provoking the second phase of the Second Afghan War.
The second round of Anglo – Afghan negotiations for final peace were inconclusive.
The Bookseller of Kabul, her second, bestselling book, is an account of the time she spent living with an Afghan family in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
In 1874, in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent, he witnessed the operations of the Carlists in Spain ; he took service with the Turkish army in the war with Russia in 1877 and served under Lord Roberts in the second Afghan War ( 1878 – 1879 ), having narrowly escaped accompanying Sir Louis Cavagnari on his fatal mission to Kabul.
" He lauded the film's antagonist: " Oldman, in his second malevolent lead of the summer, after The Fifth Element, registers strongly as a veteran of the Afghan campaign pushed to desperate lengths to newly ennoble his country.
* April 17-The second of five rounds of polio immunizations to be held this year begins after the Taliban and the Afghan Northern Alliance agreed to a week-long ceasefire.
The suicide bomber was killed along with one of Masood's followers, and the Afghan commander's guards killed the second person posing as a journalist.
In 1871 he joined the Suffolk regiment but shortly after transferred to the second battalion Gordon Highlanders stationed in India, taking part in the Afghan War.
When he brought to the attention of the War Office the poor mail arrangements reported in The Times during the second Afghan War ( 1878 – 80 ).
During the second Afghan War ( 1878 – 80 ) between Britain and Afghanistan, a new urgency was needed to construct a Railway line up to Quetta in order to get easier access to the frontier.
Qanuni was elected in the 2005 Afghan Parliamentary elections, placing second in the Kabul province.
Sikandar Lodi ( died November 21, 1517 ), born Nizam Khan, was the second ruler of the Afghan Lodi Dynasty, who reigned over Sultanate of Delhi from 1489 to 1517.
The move to this second stage would require the convening of a traditional Afghan " grand assembly ", called a Loya Jirga.
In his 1957 book The Exiled and the Redeemed, Itzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel, writes that Hebrew migrations into Afghanistan began, " with a sprinkling of exiles from Samaria who had been transplanted there by Shalmaneser, King of Assyria ( 719 BC )..." The Afghan tribes, among whom the Jews have lived for generations, are Moslems who retain to this day their amazing tradition about their descent from the Ten Tribes.
After winning a second term, President Hamid Karzai nominated 23 ministers in December 2009 to be part of his new administration but only 7 were approved by the Afghan Parliament.
The second largest population of Afghan Jews is in New York City, with 200 families living mostly in the neighborhoods of Flushing, Forest Hills and Jamaica, in the borough of Queens.
After playing and touring extensively with both Boston-based and national acts such as The Lemonheads, Come, Galaxie 500, Dinosaur Jr., The Afghan Whigs, The Flaming Lips and The Jesus Lizard, as well as playing the second stage at Lollapalooza in 1992, the group released a CD EP titled Revisionist in 1993, and what would be their final CD, Illuminatus in 1995.
His second recruit is an Afghan seminarist, who also declines because he has religious objections against suicide.
During the period there were two short breaks: first in 1647-1648, when he was with the emperor on his campaigns against rebels in the Afghan passes ; and the second in 1652, when he was at Kabul for about four months from April to July.
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a doctor of medicine and one of Ahmad Shah Massoud's closest friends ( who is said to have been close to him politically also ), ran as an independent candidate in the 2009 Afghan presidential election and came in second place.
He was an Afghanistan veteran who was subsequently killed in action on his second tour on 05 Dec, 2008 by an improvised explosive device on his armoured vehicle during a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in the Arghandab District, west of Kandahar City, in Afghanistan.
The national team was invited to play in the second tier of Pakistani domestic cricket the same year, and the tour brought international media attention to Afghan cricket when the US-led invasion of the country began whilst the team was in Pakistan.
Sikandar Butshikan (" Sikandar the Iconoclast "), also known as Alexander the Iconoclast, was the second Sultan of the Swati Afghan Shah Miri dynasty of Kashmir 1389-1413 CE.

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