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News of the World, 2007

2007 news of the world from Iraq to Sudan by Beth Rowen Related Links 2007 Year in Review 2007 People in the News 2007 Places in…

Algeria Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Algeria Index: Geography People History Government Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations U.S.-Algerian Relations GEOGRAPHYAlgeria, the…

Brewer's: Mohadi

[Mohammed ]. The twelfth Imaun, who is said to be living in concealment till Antichrist appears, when he will come again and overthrow the great enemy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Mahdi

(The). The supreme pontiff of the Shiites (2 syl.) Only twelve of these imaums have really appeared- viz. Ali, Hassan, Hosein, and the nine lineal descendants of Hosein. Mohammed, the last…

Brewer's: Mamelukes

(2 syl.) or Mamalukes (Arabic, mamluc, a slave). A name given in Egypt to the slaves of the beys brought from the Caucasus, and formed into a standing army. In 1254 these military “slaves…

Brewer's: Hussars

Matthias Corvinus compelled every twenty families to provide him with one horse-soldier free of all charge. This was in 1458, and in confirmation of this story we are told that huss is an…

1956 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Winners

Class   Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, URS   Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour, IRN   Hüseyin Akbas, TUR Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb) Mustafa Dagistanli, TUR  …

1960 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Winners

Class   Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) Ahmet Bilek, TUR   Masayuki Matsubara, JPN   Mohamed Saifpour Saidabadi, IRN Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb) Terrence McCann, USA   Nejdet…