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29 Sep 2022, 1:01 am
PBS relates: “. . . tradition says that not a single coffee plant existed outside of Arabia or Africa until the 1600s, when Baba Budan, an Indian pilgrim, left Mecca with fertile beans fastened to a strap across his abdomen. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 3:48 am
” Mecca Grade Growers, 125 USPQ2d at 1957. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 7:29 am
Industrial capacity is not synonymous with technological prowess. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 10:00 am
” And for those of the are in the Muslim faith, you know about the journey from Mecca to Medina. [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 5:01 am
As I mentioned last week, ten years ago I wrote a descriptive and analytical law review article called Private Employees' Speech and Political Activity: Statutory Protection Against Employer Retaliation, which aimed to catalog these often-little-known statutes. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 3:37 am
Touted as the “Cultural Mecca of the South”, creativity abounds in Oxford as musicians, artists and writers alike find inspiration in Oxford’s rich history, small town charm and creative community. [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 4:44 am
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31 Mar 2022, 7:00 am
Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars – or duties – of Islam, along with the testimony of faith, prayer, charitable giving, and making a pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
12 Mar 2022, 9:24 am
The number of executed surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979, the worst-ever militant attack to target the kingdom and Islam’s holiest site.It wasn’t clear why the kingdom choose Saturday for the executions, though they came as much of the world’s attention remained focused on Russia’s war on Ukraine — and as the U.S. hopes to lower record-high gasoline prices as… [read post]
21 Feb 2022, 12:01 am
During a pilgrimage to Mecca in April 1964 Malcolm reported that seeing Muslims of all colors worshiping together caused him to reject the view that all whites were devils. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 5:04 am
Some 28,000 put themselves forward to operate bullet trains between the holy cities of Mecca and Medina... [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 1:52 am
This was also the case in the decision to be discussed here, in which the applicant demands that her divorced husband pay for the costs of a pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 2:54 pm
The company is talking about making Brown’s riverside mansion on Beech Island, South Carolina into a tourist mecca similar to Elvis’ Graceland, and even creating a Broadway musical based on his life. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 5:52 am
Atlanta has never truly been a sports mecca, although baseball might come close (congrats, Braves!). [read post]
6 Dec 2021, 9:00 am
Florida is a Mecca for boating enthusiasts. [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 9:59 am
And it also may raise the question of whether the creators of the Camel Site were indigenous inhabitants, or more distant nomads, or, indeed, especially because of the "megalithic" style of portrayal, were perhaps even more distant ancient surveyors, stargazers and/or navigators from elsewhere who first carved the astronomical figures in Northern Arabia.See in this wider connection our previous postings at:The Four Corner Stones of a Land Survey in Ancient Egypt and Arabia: Sais (Sa al… [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 1:01 am
The British were aided by the Hashemite tribe of Arabs from Mecca, who conquered most of the Arabian Peninsula (but not Medina). [read post]
19 Oct 2021, 6:00 am
Long Island City in Queens is a burgeoning site for Asian food, cutlure, and politics in what is becoming a mecca for a new migrant community. [read post]
22 Aug 2021, 1:08 pm
Pix Credit here (Tony Blair and George Bush after a White House press conference in November 2004) Pix Credit HERE; Final Scene as the heroes leave Anyone who claims to be someone has been polishing up their opinions about the tragedy in the form of a farce that is the botched up U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. [read post]
18 Aug 2021, 10:18 am
It is fitting that Las Vegas is a major mecca of gambling, given that, next week, several hundred people will take a gamble on their safety to attend the physical portion of the first-ever hybrid ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. [read post]
