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  Derbent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the south lies the seaward extremity of the Caucasian wall (50 m long), otherwise known as Alexander's Wall, blocking the narrow pass of the Iron Gate or Caspian Gates (Portae Athanae or Portae Caspiae).
The walls and the citadel are believed to belong to the time of Kavadh's son, Khosrau I.
Historical attractions include the baths, the cisterns, the old cemeteries, the caravanserai, the 18th century Khan's mausoleum, as well as several mosques: the most interesting built from a 6th century Christian basilica is the Juma Mosque (with a 15th century madrassa); the 17th century Kyrhlyar mosque, the Bala mosque and the 18th century Chertebe mosque.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derbent   (893 words)

  
 Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Granite for the wall came from Bangalore, India and was deliberately chosen because of its reflective quality.
The wall listed 58,159 names when it was completed in 1993; as of 2005, when four names were added, there are 58,249 names, including 8 women.
A short distance away from the wall is another part of the memorial, a bronze statue known as The Three Soldiers (or The Three Servicemen).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial   (1194 words)

  
 Caucasian Owtcharka, Dog Breed Information Center®, Caucasian Sheepdog, Caucasian Shepherd, Caucasian Owcharka, ...
The Caucasian Ovtcharka is a flock guardian developed from pre-historic molasses in Caucasus by local herders.
Caucasians are used to protect sheep from predators and thieves.
Caucasian Ovtcharka arrived in East Germany in the late 1960's to serve as a border patrol dog, especially along the Berlin Wall.
www.dogbreedinfo.com /caucasianowtcharka.htm   (655 words)

  
 Iranica.com - TAK¨T-E SOLAYMAÚN
The architectural layout inside the oval exterior wall may be reconstructed as a walled in rectangle, long twice its width, fortified by semicircular bastions and with a high and bulky building protruding from the center of its impressive western front of 280 m length.
The area between the rectangular enclosure and the oval outer wall was at least partly occupied by mud brick houses, probably of priests and officials; one house on the east side was replaced by a stone building.
In general the northern area inside the oval wall was reserved for workmen and workshops during the construction of the palace.
www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Takht_e_Solayman.html   (4474 words)

  
 Yerydag_2004
Yerydag 3925м - is the top of the Caucasian ridge on the border between Russia and Azerbaijan.
The wall was climbed also in inter-season period, a number of routes is gone in winter conditions.
On opposite from Settlement at the river Chehychaj coast the kilometer wall of " Red mountain " dominates.
www.russianclimb.com /yerydag.html   (1112 words)

  
 GOG & MAGOG
Dhu-l-Qarnain means "Two Horned One or two generations of rule or rule two kingdoms." Mongols may have been from Magog, and the Great Wall of China was called 'wall of al Magog' by Arab writers.
The Antes, a tribe developed among the Alans, became the "strongest tribe among the Slavs." "Some As groups were organized by Iranians, while others were purely Iranian." They were ruled by Iranian clans in the second century." The As aka Os, originally came from the Caucasus.
Rox aka Rukhs, Ros,Roxolani, and Rus were called the most important tribe of the North Caucasian Alans.
www.geocities.com /amuse_amenace/gog.htm   (1061 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Entertainment - Jim Farber's Bullets & Bombs: Opening the door to Wall's success   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As talented as he may be, Wall knows his zoom to success may be a case of region trumping race.
Wall claims his race has neither been a help nor a hindrance.
Wall says he began rapping in the third grade, and started making his own money by 14.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/story/343636p-293417c.html   (644 words)

  
 Bulimia nervosa - Definition, Description, Causes and symptoms, Demographics, Diagnosis, Treatments, Prognosis, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Tearing of mucous membranes in the upper gastrointenstinal tract or perforation of the esophagus and stomach wall.
Recent studies indicate that bulimia in the United States is no longer primarily a disorder of Caucasian women; the rates among African American and Hispanic women have risen faster than the rate of bulimia for the female population as a whole.
One report indicates that the chief difference between African American and Caucasian bulimics in the United States is that the African American patients are less likely to eat restricted diets between episodes of binge eating.
www.minddisorders.com /Br-Del/Bulimia-nervosa.html   (4245 words)

  
 Ecotour to the Kabarda-Balkarian Alpine Nature Reserve
The most scenic part of the Main Caucasian Ridge – the 15 km long Besengi Wall – is known among mountaineers as Russian Himalayas or the “Presidium of the Central Caucasus”.
There may be a chance to watch the Caucasian Tur at a short distance as well as many passerine and raptorial birds.
At the bottom of the Besengi Wall, we will pass by the “cemetery” of migratory birds which were not able to fly over the Besengi Wall during the misty weather.
www.ecotours.ru /english/tours/wild13.htm?&print=yes   (949 words)

  
 DERBENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
To the south lies the seaward extremity of the Caucasian wall, otherwise known as Alexander's Wall, blocking the narrow pass of the Iron Gate or Caspian Gates.
The walls and the citadel are believed to belong to the time of Kavadh's son, Khosrau I. Derbent becamse a strong military outpost and harbour of the Sassanid empire.
Historical attractions include the baths, the cisterns, the old cemeteries, the caravanserai, the 18th century Khan's mausoleum, the Armenian Church as well as several mosques: the most interesting built from a 6th century Christian basilica is the Juma Mosque ; the 17th century Kyrhlyar mosque, the Bala mosque and the 18th century Chertebe mosque.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/de/Derbent.htm   (874 words)

  
 Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Correcting accessibility issues and replacement of the lighting in the statuary and along the mural wall with a state-of-the-art fiber optic system were required.
The juniper bushes are meant to be symbolic of the rough terrain encountered in Korea, and the granite stripes of the obstacles overcome in war.
Upon close inspection, you will see that all of the images look straight out from the wall over the platoon of statues; the soldiers they were there to support.
www.nab.usace.army.mil /projects/WashingtonDC/korean.html   (1184 words)

  
 Dover Community News: Vietnam Memorial arrives at Pease
The Wall was built in Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C., through private donations from the public, and dedicated in 1982.
The Seacoast Wall That Heals Committee is made up of approximately 30 people from the Seacoast area who have been working for more than a year to bring the replica here.
The Wall's visit was initiated by Vietnam Veteran Jim Alty of Dover who lost many comrades in the war.
www.seacoastonline.com /2001news/dover/d6_1b.htm   (502 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: Paul Wall
Paul Wall is a caucasian rapper from the 5900 block of Southlea in Houston, Texas.
A virtual renaissance man, Wall's myriad of assorted skills and talents include dentistry, "screwing and chopping" popular hip-hop music, actually believing that he is one fl-ass muthafucka, and bestowing others with his ornate, yet subtle, dentistry.
Paul Wall is the owner and proprietor of a jewelry store in Houston specialising in the production of iced-out grills, cosmetic dental apparati featuring silver, gold, or platinum caps with diamond inlays (usually princess-cut diamonds).
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Paul+Wall&defid=1130674   (477 words)

  
 Derbent - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
The modern name, a Persian word meaning "iron gates", came into use in the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th_century, when the city was refounded by Kavadh I of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia.
As a consequence of the Gulistan treaty of 1813 — between Russian and Persia — Derbent became part of the Russian_empire.
The walls, reaching until the sea, date from the Christian basilica is the Juma Mosque (with a 15th_century madrassa); the 17th_century Kyrhlyar mosque, the Bala mosque and the 18th_century Chertebe mosque.
www.indexsuche.com /Derbent.html   (801 words)

  
 VOX March 2000 page 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I was unable to hear their comments as an overweight Caucasian girl walked by, but by the look on their faces it seemed as if they were going to throw up.When a thin Caucasian girl walked by, their faces began to change they smiled.
In the Caucasian community, being thin and having a small waist is the symbol of the "perfect" female body.
The Caucasian students responded saying a thinner female body is better; the boys tended to think a Barbie doll was the "perfect" female body.
www.youthcommunication-vox.org /300pg3.htm   (1059 words)

  
 Seattle, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most of the Denny Party, the most prominent of the area's early Caucasian settlers, arrived at Alki Point on November 13, 1851.
As of the U.S. Census of 2000, Seattle had a population of 563,374 and in all the Greater Puget Sound metropolitan area is home to almost 3.8 million people.
The population today is approximately 73.40% Caucasian, one of the highest percentages of Caucasians for a major American city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seattle,_Washington   (6185 words)

  
 The Chinese Wall
It is an exemplary play, in which Max Frisch employed theatrical means of representation that are similar to those that had been developed by Brecht and those that had been used in Asian theaters.
He tells the audience who are the characters in the play and what the implication of the Chinese Wall for the humankind is. After his theatrical introduction, the Contemporary becomes one of the dramatic characters.
To celebrate this hstorical event, ceremonies are held and guests from all ages and all corners of the world are invited.
www.cwru.edu /artsci/modlang/german-drama/f-wall-analysis.html   (474 words)

  
 Takhté Soleymân - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
The exterior mud brick wall was coated by a rough-stone wall with a facing of large stone slabs, imitating stretching and heading bond, obviously a copy of the technically more perfect masonry of the great Caucasian wall of Darband (see FORTIFICATIONS), which is ascribed to the reign of Khosrow I Anoširavân.
The northern ayvân (I), closed by a front wall with a door for climatic reasons during a later period, and the door into the temple were considerably smaller at the north side.
There ware kilns for the production of at least part of the glazed wall tiles (Naumann, 1971), which, beside stucco and painting, were the most prominent decorative elements, mainly applied at the palace building with the great ayvân and the ayvân and hall on the former fire temple (Quchâni; Masuya).
www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Archaeology/Sasanian/takhti_soleyman.htm   (4560 words)

  
 Bandido from Enid
Saturday morning, October 13, 2001, thirty-two years later at the Wall pictured above, was the first chance I had to thank him for having saved my life.
These are not just names on a wall to a parent, or grand-parent, or a spouse, or a brother, or a sister, or cousin, or relative, or a loved one of a Vietnam Veteran, or another Vietnam Veteran.
There are memories and feelings attached to each and every name on that Wall for us.
www.geocities.com /bandido1_1/wall.html   (772 words)

  
 Among friends: Will racism flourish?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Inside, immaculate floors shone, too-sexy-for-their-shirt models pouted from large posters, laughter and conversation drifted around the corner of a gray dividing wall.
Taken by surprise, Caucasian guilt running rampant, I babbled on about what those terms mean (though I'm not exactly sure) ending with, "So, it's not like North or South America, it's about all the different people who live and work and go to school in one country together."
I could take it as a sign of hope, if I thought that the things separating us are as superficial as the way we do our hair.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/02/04/friends.html   (825 words)

  
 Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association - SHS | Stuyvesant High School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Rothenberg memorial, commissioned in his honor, is a wall made up of 50 of these boxes, each featuring a concept in mathematics.
One room in the Stuyvesant building, called the "Museum Room", is a replica of one of the rooms in the old Stuyvesant building, with desks, chairs, a table and flboard from the old building, as well as period style paint and flooring.
As of 2005 the student body was approximately 51 percent Asian and 38 percent Caucasian, with Blacks and Hispanics each constituting roughly three percent of the population.
www.shsaa.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=57   (2231 words)

  
 The Chinese Wall
He shows the audience in front of a drop curtain a realistic picture of the Chinese Wall and tells the audience who are the characters in the play and what the implication of the Chinese Wall for the humankind is. After his theatrical introduction the Contemporary becomes one of the dramatic characters.
With the stage setting, every effort is made to insure that "the stage remains a stage." A herald is proclaims that in the empire of Tsin She Hwang Ti, a conlusive peace has been established.
To celebrate this hstorical event, ceremonies are held and guests from all ages and all corners of the world are invided.
www.cwru.edu /artsci/modlang/german-drama/f-wall-prologue.html   (263 words)

  
 KIA
MARVIN DALE BANAR, DELTA 2 1967, CANTON, OHIO, BORN AUGUST 29, 1947, SINGLE, CAUCASIAN, KIA DECEMBER 2, 1967...ON THE WALL AT PANEL 31E, LINE 27.
CHARLES BRISCOE, DELTA 5 1967-68, CLEVELAND, OHIO, BOEN SEPTEMBER 30, 1948, SINGLE, NEGRO, KIA JANUARY 5, 1968...ON THE WALL AT PANEL 33E, LILNE 26.
WILLIAM NED BRITTON, DELTA 4 1968, DAYTON, OHIO, BORN SEPTEMBER 11, 1947, SINGLE, CAUCASIAN, KIA MARCH 7, 1968...ON THE WALL AT PANEL 43E, LINE 41.
capdelta4.homestead.com /KIA.html   (217 words)

  
 DE QUINCEY - LoveToKnow Article on DE QUINCEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
To the north of the town is the monument of the Kirk-lar, or forty heroes, who fell defending Daghestan against the Arabs irs 728; and to the south lies the seaward extremity of the Caucasian wall (50 m.
The modern name, a Persian word meaning iron gates, came into use in the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century, when the city was refounded by Kavadh of the Sassanian dynasty of Persia.
The walls and the citadel are believed to belong to the time of Kavadhs son, Khosrau (Chosroes) Anosharvan.
www.1911ency.org /D/DE/DE_QUINCEY.htm   (4488 words)

  
 Other Textiles and Decorative Home Furnishings
On this page are other decorative home furnishings, such as wall hangings and cushions, which we have collected.
You can open up the side seams and use as a long runner, or fill it and use as a nice floor chair.
Made from a fragment of a semi-antique Caucasian kilim.
www.seeingisdreaming.com /id12.html   (1082 words)

  
 Politically Incorrect Genocide, Part Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
No sooner had public discussion begun about whether Kennewick Man was Caucasian than the Army Corps of Engineers took and locked away the bones from scientists.
As journalist Mark Lasswell reported in the January 8 Wall Street Journal, even the Army Corps of Engineers in Walla Walla, Washington, acknowledges the "participation and interest at the Executive level" in the Kennewick Man controversy.
If Kennewick Man is Caucasian, then white people, according to the racial politics Clinton has promoted, have as legitimate a right to be on American soil as do any people of color.
www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=2659   (1801 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: caucasian
"Caucasians are now a target of persecution by all races, even their own kind (see Michael Moore)."
Ok, in reality Caucasians DO NOT mean Hilter's Aryans because Caucasians in general are a mixed-up bunch of people.Not every Caucasian is Blonde, Blue-Eyed(those are Nordics) and a majority would not classify as a legitimate "Aryan" under Hilter's policies.
Mom: Us caucasians are a race doesn't matter are skin colour.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=caucasian   (504 words)

  
 Caucasian Ovtcharka
lthough very rare in North America, the Caucasian Ovtcharka is popular in his native land - the mountain and steppes regions of the Caucasus in the former Soviet Union.
The Soviet army once used the versatile Ovtcharka as a service dog, and these dogs were also used in East Germany to patrol the Berlin Wall.
Resembling a bear in appearance, the Caucasian Ovtcharka stands up to 33 inches at the shoulder and weighs 100 lbs.
www.ameridogs.com /BreedCaucasian.htm   (400 words)

  
 CAP DELTA 4 - KIA
BORN AUG. 20, 1946, SINGLE, CAUCASIAN, KIA APRIL 30, 1968...ON THE WALL AT PANEL 53E, LINE 16.
WILLIAM NED BRITTON, DELTA 4 1968, DAYTON, OHIO, BORN SEPTEMBER 11, 1947, SINGLE, CAUCASIAN, KIA MARCH 7, 1968...ON THE WALL AT PANEL 43A, LINE 41.
MARVIN DALE BANAR, DELTA 2 1967, CANTON, OHIO, BORN AUG. 29, 1947, SINGLE, CAUCASIAN, KIA DECEMBER 2, 1967...ON THE WALL AT PANEL 31E, LINE 27.
capdelta4.tripod.com /kia/kia.html   (454 words)

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