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13 Mar 2012, 10:50 am
Lake Nona, for those involved in Florida real estate development, is home to Lake Nona's Medical City, which is becoming an internationally recognized biotech mecca for medical resources, both research and treatment, including: VA Medical Center - at a projected cost of $665 million, a new 1.2 million square foot medical center is being constructed at Lake Nona by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and will include a multispecialty outpatient clinic along with… [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 6:18 am
This has been seen so far most often in Santa Barbara County, which is gaining a reputation for being California’s cannabis cultivation mecca. [read post]
12 Jun 2018, 7:14 am
In meetings in Mecca on Sunday and Monday, King Abdullah met with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Kuwait, who agreed to reopen the aid spigot. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 8:07 pm
The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem allows men and women to worship only separately; non-Muslims cannot visit the holy sites of Mecca and Medina; women are completely barred from entry into the sanctum sanctorum of the Haji Ali Dargah; Mormon churches often deny entry to homosexual couples. [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 7:06 am
More recently, in this past September, a stampede during the annual hajj in Mecca killed over 2,200 pilgrims, including more than 450 Iranians. [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 12:55 pm
Saudi Arabia accused the Houthi rebels in Yemen of firing a ballistic missile at Mecca today, writes the AP. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 11:09 pm
He loses his fiance, but he manages a lifelong dream and takes his mother on a pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
27 Nov 2013, 6:37 am
To control the problem, Cohen approached Wolkoff in 2002 to become the curator, and Wolkoff agreed; Cohen was one of the principal contributors to the art and Wolkoff liked his work, though nothing was put in writing.Under Cohen’s supervision, the quality of the art improved and the site “evolved into a mecca for high-end works by internationally recognized aerosol artists” and a “New York must-see. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 7:00 am
The Qatari leadership has had to fend off the mediation of a royal pretender who tried to facilitate the passage of Qatari pilgrims to Mecca, and denunciation by Saudi Arabia’s leading religious family, who threatened to strip their family name from Qatar’s main mosque. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 10:03 am
The Saudi and Iranian governments had another of their episodic sectarian public spats last week, this time in advance of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, which began last Friday. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 11:00 am
Four are in the works: King Abdullah Economic City lies between Mecca and Medina and serves as a seaport; Knowledge Economic City, in Medina, is an information technology hub with a plan to create 20,000 jobs; Prince Abdulaziz bin Mousaed Economic City, in Hail, is slated to become a land transport hub; Jazan Economic City, south of Jeddah, will be an industrial center with plans for its own dedicated desalination and electricity plants. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 2:19 pm
[Nota Bene: Readers are warned in advance that this will be the first in another of those desultory series on this blog about the continuing decline and fall of ECUSA. [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]
2 Nov 2010, 6:38 am
By: David A. [read post]
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]
1 Feb 2010, 5:58 am
Has this 3.8 billion dollar a year agricultural Mecca come up with any solutions to its complex problems? [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 12:18 am
A Youtube clip of Billy Connolly laying into religion “Take your Reformation, your Vatican, Your Mecca…..and F**k off” I couldn’t have put it better myself. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 11:23 am
To use a blatantly obvious example, a Christian employer might be unwilling to accommodate a Muslim employee's need to make a pilgrimage to Mecca because the Christian considers it unnecessary. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 7:00 am
” According to the prophecies, the Sufyani descends from Abu Sufyan, the leader of Muhammad’s tribe in Mecca who persecuted the Prophet and his early followers. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 9:09 am
Long a cultural melting pot and mecca for hippies, surfers, tourists, bohemians, tree-huggers, and environmentalists of all stripes, the City of Santa Cruz – nestled between the deep blue Pacific and the deep green Santa Cruz Mountains – unsurprisingly has a long and proud history of local legal protection for its “urban forest. [read post]
