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  HARRAR - LoveToKnow Article on HARRAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar is built on the slopes of a hill at an elevation of over 5000 ft. A lofty stone wall, pierced by five gates and flanked by twenty-four towers, encloses the city, which has a population of about 40,000.
Harrar is a city of considerable commercial importance, through it passing all the merchandise of southern Abyssinia, Kaffa and Galla land.
Harrar is believed to owe its foundation to Arab immigrants from the Yemen in the 7th century of the Christian era.
7.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HARRAR.htm   (728 words)

  
 List of Yuuzhan Vong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harrar was a Yuuzhan Vong priest but in charge of the Vong fleet after the loss at the Battle of Ithor.
On Zonama_Sekot, Harrar grew to believe that the Yuuzhan Vong were related to the galaxy.
Harrar, using the distraction, freed himself and knocked Jakan unconscious with a hit to the head.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nom_Anor   (3800 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Prince Makonnen
Prince Makonnen, the Duke of Harrar, was the second son, and second youngest child, of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and Empress Menen Asfaw.
In 1974, with the overthrow of the Ethiopian monarchy, the widowed Duchess of Harrar and her sons were all placed under detention, with the exception of Prince Makonnen Makonnen (David) who was abroad at school in the United States.
The Duchess of Harrar was prominent at the Imperial funerals held for her brother-in-law, the late Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen (also known as Emperor-in-Exile Amha Selassie) in 1997, the funeral for Emperor Haile Selassie in 2000, and the funeral for her sister-in-law, Princess Tenagnework.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prince-Makonnen   (689 words)

  
 HARRAR
1525 - 1544 [Imam Muhammad Gragn] Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Sultan of Harrar.
Amir 'Abdu'l Karim ibn Abu Bakar, Amir of Harrar.
1856 - 1875 Amir Muhammad ibn 'Ali 'Abdu's Shakur, Amir of Harrar.
4dw.net /royalark/Ethiopia/harrar.htm   (744 words)

  
 Pterodactyl Coffee Product Pages Organic Coffee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ethiopian Harrar is characterized by winy and blueberry undertones, with good body and high acid.
Different from Harrar, Yirgacheffe adds a soft, fragrant, flowery note that is complex to the palate with a long resonant finish.
Harrar coffee is almost always used in espresso blends to capture the fine aromatics in the crema.
pterodactylcoffee.com /coffee_product/info_ey001.html   (819 words)

  
 The Unofficial NJO Homepage - Dark Journey Excerpt B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar's words followed the well-worn path of proverb, but there was genuine reverence in his eyes as he gazed upon the distant world.
Harrar knew himself honored when this promising warrior was assigned to his military escort, but he was also wary and more than a little intrigued.
Harrar had suffered a temporary demotion for his part in a failed espionage scheme; Nom Anor had merely received a reprimand, even though his agents played a significant role in the plot's failure.
www.theforce.net /books/unjoh/excerpts/exbdj.html   (1771 words)

  
 George Harrar: Books: Parents Wanted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar creates a balance of tenderness, humor and dramatic tension in this convincing portrayal of an ADD foster child adjusting to a new family.
Harrar has written a powerful book about second chances, trust and redemption, and about the difficulty of building a family.
Harrar's fictional yet amazingly realistic journey of one boy's struggle through the adoption system is sure to satisfy.
home.comcast.net /~gharrar/books/parents_wanted.html   (313 words)

  
 An Insult to Ethiopian Muslims
Harrar, then and now, is a city built out of mud houses that don't have either windows or latrines.
Five hundred years ago the population of Harrar was estimated to be 30,000.
Menilik's invasion was simply a continuation of the 16th century Northern (Christian) Ethiopia attempt to centralize the whole of Ethiopia, including Harrar, under a single ruler.
www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/08/15-08-03/An.htm   (724 words)

  
 'The Spinning Man' by George Harrar
Like Umberto Eco's popular "The Name of the Rose," Harrar's novel is concerned with a crime and with how we "read" words, symbols of various kinds, and facts.
Harrar, like Eco, has studied semiology (the science of signs) and the modern language philosophers, but his learning, unlike Eco's, is worn lightly.
Harrar's descriptions of the psychological and social tensions created by the crime and investigation are masterful.
www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030720helfandfnp5.asp   (454 words)

  
 Coffee by Country | Page 2
The Harrar coffees are the most widely available of fancy Ethiopian coffees.
Ethiopian Harrar can range from an extremely rough, winey coffee, gamey and light-bodied, to a coffee in which the wine quality becomes rich, fragrant, and fruit-like, and the body heavier, much like the best Yemen Mochas.
Grade designates the size of the bean; AA is largest, followed by A and B. Kenyan, like the Arabian Mocha and the Ethiopian Harrar to the north, has a distinctive dry, winey aftertaste.
www.lucidcafe.com /bycountry2.html   (2814 words)

  
 Harar Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Of all the advertisements, however, ''Harrar 94'', that announces a fund-raising exhibition to be held in an attempt to alleviate the region's water problem scarcity, particularly caught my attention.
Although the construction of the main transmission line had been completed to carry the water to Harrar, other equally important aspects of the transmission had been unfortunately overlooked, which is the rehabilitation of the distribution network in the city installed at best around 6 decades ago.
The city of Harrar, as I know it, is full of life - good and honest people, cool air breath, a commercial hub for centuries.
www.ethiosearch.com /newhararis/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=50   (1603 words)

  
 State Launches Project to Risqué Endangered Harrar Coffee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar, December 22,2003(WIC)- The Harrari State Agriculture Bureau disclosed that it has launched to develop seedlings of the endangered Harrar Coffee, famous for its flavour, on 21 hectares of land.
She said the seedlings would be distributed among farmers in the state as of the next main rainy season falls in.
It is to be recalled that the continuity of the flavoured Harrar coffee has been endangered as the farmers started to replace coffee development with chat, stimulant plant, following the serious coffee price decline World wide.
www.waltainfo.com /EnNews/2003/Dec/22Dec03/Dec22e4.htm   (133 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | The Spinning Man | George Harrar
George Harrar's fiction has been published in a dozen literary magazines, including his short story "The 5:22," which won the Carson McCullers Prize from Story magazine, and was reprinted in the 1999 edition of Best American Short Stories.
"...an elegant and unnerving mystery of psychological suspense...A graceful and subtle writer, Harrar invites us to identify with the philosopher's struggles to maintain his mental equilibrium, even as the novel dangles the possibility that the mind might not always be in control of the body's behaviors.
"This riveting, whip-smart suspense novel by Harrar (First Tiger) follows a philosophy professor under investigation for the disappearance of a teenage cheerleader...The interactions between husband, wife and the police detective crackle with sharp dialogue.
www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/spinning_man.html   (1223 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.57 (1987)
Harrar was instrumental in the electrification of steel mills for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
GEORGE HARRAR 29 sobriquet "The Flying Dutchman" (shortened to Dutch) for the records he set in 1928 in the 440-yard dash and as an- chorman on the record-setting mile relay team.
Harrar, whose vision always sought the financial hori- zon beyond existing monetary barriers, knew that the Rocke- feller Foundation could not by itself finance the first of the international agricultural research centers- let alone those to follow.
www.nap.edu /books/0309037298/html/26.html   (4459 words)

  
 Harrar to Get Trailer Water
Harrar has been facing a serious shortage of water for quite some years now.
Morteza Demanpak Jami said he had realized the severity of the water supply shortage in Harrar as he had personally visited the site in May. He hoped that the financial assistance obtained from his country will help in facilitating the implementation of the water supply project.
He wishes to see the water problem of Harrar solved once and for all, with the assistance of the donor countries including that of his own government, he concluded.
www.addistribune.com /Archives/2002/12/20-12-02/Harrar.htm   (319 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ethiopian Highland Coffee Harrar Longberry - Green at Epinions.com
Harrar was the first coffee that I tasted and truly began to understand the complexities of how coffee affects the palate.
Harrar is generally priced in the middle to lower range for gourmet coffees.
Harrar is by far my favorite choice of coffees.
www.epinions.com /content_137555381892   (853 words)

  
 Housing Prototypes: INA Casa Harrar-Ponti
The individual dwellings open to balconies that face to the interior of the block that is a partially landscaped open area.
The two facades clearly show the organization of flats and maisonettes, and the organization of galleries along the north side and the concatenated system of balconies on the south façade.
The canted surfaces are slightly expressed in the gallery façade, but become a dominant feature of the ends where roofs are inflected upward and side walls inward, forming a very dynamic solution to the bland, cut-off ends of the typical zeilenbau slab.
www.housingprototypes.org /project?File_No=ITA20   (794 words)

  
 Harrar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar la ville aux 99 mosquées a été fondée par l'émir Nur ibn-Mujahid au début de 16e siècle.
Harrar, protégé par son mur d' enceinte de 4 mètres de haut, est devenu un centre important de commerce qui lie l'intérieur de continent au reste du monde par le biais des ports sur la mer rouge.
Réputée pour ses enseignements coraniques, Harrar a été considéré comme la quatrième ville sainte d'islam.
girmay.beshah.9online.fr /harrar.html   (125 words)

  
 Coffee Varietals
The growing regions in Ethiopia consist of: Harrar, Sidamo, Yergacheffe, Limu, Djimmah, Lekempti and Bebeka.
Harrar's are wild coffees, with the fruit dried on the bean, imparting flavors of compote fruit and dark rich chocolate.
Harrar's have also been known to give off hints of tastes such as blueberry jam, cocoa, and even touches of cinnamon and cardamom (such as the Harrar we are currently carrying).
coffeecultureonline.com /html/featured_coffee.htm   (447 words)

  
 Harrar town wins UNESCO's Peaceful Coexistence award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar, September 06,2004(WIC)- The Harrari State Culture and Sports Bureau disclosed that Harrar town has become the winner of Peaceful Coexistence award initiated by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
He said such an initiative is believed to create a fertile ground for the realization of the efforts towards enabling the town to become one of the world heritages registered by UNESCO in its annual conference to be held next year in South Africa.
According to the Bureau Head, the Harrar town is 1,000 years old with various ancient tourist attractions and heritages.
www.waltainfo.com /EnNews/2004/Sep/06Sep04/Sep06e8.htm   (176 words)

  
 SOS Children's Villages: Harrar
Harrar is the capital of the province of Harrarghe,
Harrar is the capital of the province of Harrarghe, about 580 km east of the country's capital of Addis Abeba.
The SOS Kindergarten for 120 children is attended mostly by children of the surrounding area The elder youths are accommodated in Youth Houses as long as they undergo training, attend school or look for a job.
www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/harrar.html   (504 words)

  
 program3-vtrfg
Harrar, a former faculty member at Tech, serving in his capacity as the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, sent a report concerning recent Foundation grants to colleges and universities to promote desegregation and integration to President Hahn.
In a letter dated 5 July 1965, Hahn thanks Harrar for the report and suggests that Virginia Tech would be well positioned to play a leadership role in the program.
Dr. George Harrar, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, said, "This is probably the first grant we have made to a Southern state land grant college for this purpose." (Buder).
www.tandl.vt.edu /socialstudies/hicks/cjohnsto/vtrfgp.htm   (1993 words)

  
 Ethiopian Harrar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This Harrar has more in common with its neighbor across the sea, Yemen, than it does with other Ethiopian coffees, such as Yrgacheffe.
Rumor has it that Harrars were (are?) often smuggled across the water and sold as Yemens, as the Yemens command a higher price.
Our Harrar is full and very smooth, with just enough acidity to keep it from being flat.
www.rileys-coffee.com /harrar.htm   (149 words)

  
 Ethiopian Harrar Kaffeeklatsch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
All coffee from Ethiopia is processed by the oldest method of coffee preparation, the dry method.
The finest coffee of Ethiopia is Harrar from the high altitudes of east central Ethiopia where plants develop the distinctive youthful flavor that characterizes wild coffee.
With nuances of wine and fruit, Ethiopian Harrar is a bright, spirited coffee that will satisfy a craving for the unusual.
www.kaffeeklatsch.com /coffee-des/ethiopian.htm   (138 words)

  
 New Jedi Order Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Malik Carr is in the process of having his fleet with the captive slaves hyperjump to Coruscant when they come under attack by an Alliance task force, including Jaina, Han and Leia.
Harrar describes to Luke the story of how Shimrra ultimately gained power.
Harrar has fallen in love with Zonama Sekot, with a world that values symbiosis above competition and war.
www.njoe.com /index.php?id=view&sub=books&sub2=books&sub3=23   (4442 words)

  
 Star Wars Generation 1 | encyclopédie | Harrar
Harrar fut l’un de ceux-ci, prenant ses fonctions lors de la seconde vague d’assaut contre la Nouvelle République.
Harrar passait la plupart de son temps à consulter les « augures », afin de déterminer la meilleure façon d’envoyer les forces d’assaut.
Harrar se rendit donc sur Coruscant, espérant y trouver cette fois-ci la victoire.
www.swg1.net /encyclo/voir_fiche_in.php?fiche=241   (733 words)

  
 Caravan Coffee Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar is natural/dry processed resulting in a softer, more fruity coffee flavor.
When coffee is natural processed, the fruit is allowed to ferment and remain attached to the coffee bean (seed.) The flavors of the fruit are absorbed by the seed and some acidity is lost.
Harrar is hand picked to guarantee the best of the crop.
www.caravancoffee.com /cart/shop/item.asp?itemid=59&catid=11   (133 words)

  
 The Smoky Mountain News
Harrar previously served as a consultant to the Burlington Downtown Corporation and an advisor to the Town of Cary in its development of public art plans.
Harrar also agreed to lower her base fee, Huelster said.
As a result, the committee and Harrar would pack more activity into a single trip, with Harrar arriving on an undetermined Wednesday evening, touring Waynesville Thursday morning, holding a community planning forum Thursday evening and a wrap-up discussion with committee members on Friday.
www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/09_04/09_08_04/fr_consultant_hired.html   (551 words)

  
 Ethiopian Harrar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar has the rich coffee taste finishing with hints chocolate
The Harrar bean is one of the most exotic coffees of the world.
Harrar has the rich coffee taste finishing with hints chocolate and a distinctive fruitiness unlike any other bean.
www.bluestilly.com /catalog/ethiopian_harrar_1457529.htm   (59 words)

  
 Harrar Capital Partners Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harrar Capital Partners Inc. (HCPI) was formed and licensed as an investment counsel in the province of Ontario in 2001.
The business of the firm is to research and implement alternative investment strategies, with a primary focus on North American equities.
The firm's clients are individuals desiring discretionary management, either through segregated funds or through limited partnerships.
www.harrar.ca   (57 words)

  
 Emperor Haile Selassie I, Part 1
Ras Makonnen also summoned all his officers and informed them that it was his wish that his son Dejazmatch Taffari succeede him as governor of Harrar, and asked them all to swear their loyalty to Taffari.
Instead, she argued for the apointment of the elder son of Ras Makonnen, Yilma, who had been at the Imperial Court for several years, and was now given the title of Dejazmatch and appointed to succeede his father as governor.
In addition Lij Eyasu, after taking Harrar for himself, had moved into the governors palace there, and ordered that his niece, and Taffari's wife, Menen, be evicted immediately.
www.angelfire.com /ny/ethiocrown/Haile.html   (6612 words)

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