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Bashar Al Masri (/ Arabic: بشار مصري / February 3, 1961) is a Palestinian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Massar International since its establishment in 1994. He is the founder of Rawabi, Palestine's first planned city, and the founder and the CEO of Bayti Real Estate Investment Company that built the city. [1]
J. R. R. Tolkien repeatedly dealt with the theme of death and immortality in Middle-earth. In fact, he once stated that the "real theme" of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." [T 1] In Middle-earth, Men are mortal, while Elves are immortal. One of his stories, The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, explores the willing choice of death ...
Mohammad al-Massari. Mohammad al-Mass'ari ( Arabic: محمد المسعري) is an exiled Saudi physicist and political dissident who gained asylum in the United Kingdom in 1994. [1] He runs the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR) and is an adviser to the Islamic Human Rights Commission. In the mid-2000s, he was employed as a ...
The Battle of Mogadishu (Somali: Maalintii Rangers, lit. 'Day of the Rangers'), also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent.It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—against the forces of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) and armed irregular citizens of south Mogadishu.
J. R. R. Tolkien invented heraldic devices for many of the characters and nations of Middle-earth. His descriptions were in simple English rather than in specific blazon. The emblems correspond in nature to their bearers, and their diversity contributes to the richly-detailed realism of his writings. Scholars note that Tolkien went through ...
The newly capitalized "bank" of the MIT Blackjack Team started on 1 August 1980. The investment stake was $89,000, with both outside investors and players putting up the capital. Ten players, including Kaplan, Massar, Jonathan, Goose, and "Big Dave" (aka "coach", to distinguish from the other Dave from the first round) played on this bank.
Sons of Ivaldi. "The third gift—an enormous hammer" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith. In Norse mythology, the Sons of Ivaldi ( Norse: Ívaldasynir) are a group of dwarfs who fashion Skíðblaðnir, the flying ship of Freyr, Gungnir, the spear belonging to Odin, as well as the golden hair for Sif to replace the hair that Loki had cut off [1 ...
Ängsälvor (Swedish "Meadow Elves") by Nils Blommér (1850) An elf ( pl.: elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . In medieval Germanic -speaking cultures, elves generally seem to ...