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13 Nov 2018, 10:35 am
Boston is the mecca of strong universities coupled with some of the top teaching hospitals in the country, producing imaginative, intelligent individuals with science and medical backgrounds. [read post]
2 Nov 2018, 8:47 am
This collection also provides primary source documents related to the assassination of Anwar Sadat, U.S. actions taken against Benevolence International Foundation for allegedly financing terrorism, the 1979 attack against the Great Mosque in Mecca, as well as additional documents pertaining to the September 11 attacks. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 5:20 am
One option for that role would be Khalid bin Faisal, the former mayor of Mecca and a son of King Faisal, who governed in the 1960s and 1970s. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 1:45 pm
The Sunshine State is a mecca for tourists and other riders, meaning you’ll have to share the road with a lot of people – who aren’t always as aware of motorcycles as they should be. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 5:03 am
The song in question goes something like this: A woman like a pearl Her highness the great Khadija Who lived like a queen in the holy land of Mecca She called upon the Seal of the Prophets To take charge of her trade caravan At the first sight of him Desire and longing filled her heart When the blessed Messenger of God returned She sought his hand1 Khadija was Muhammad’s first wife. [read post]
20 Aug 2018, 7:10 pm
“Now that the hajj has commenced in Mecca, I thought it might be of some interest to share something I learned when writing biographies of Sufis from various orders (ṭarīqah[s]) for The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy, Oliver Leaman, ed. [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 8:38 am
And what a hideous triumph in the market-place before all the country, when all the mangled organ pipes, vestments, both copes and surplices, together with the leaden cross which had newly been sawn down from the Green-yard pulpit and the service-books and singing books that could be carried to the fire in the public market-place were heaped together....The first act of Muslim iconoclasm dates to the beginning of Islam, in 630, when the various statues of Arabian deities housed in the Kaaba in… [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 3:00 am
Other drivers need to understand that Florida is a Mecca for motorcyclists, and they may be anywhere at any time. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 6:00 am
Opposition includes a coalition of over 70 groups (and growing) including the Senator Dodd in his introduction of S.B. 1121 stressed the importance of providing consumers a measure to sue following a data breach of their personal information, however Senator Dodd has said he is open to amendments of the bill to prevent “a mecca for lawsuits when no harm has been done”. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 6:00 am
Opposition includes a coalition of over 70 groups (and growing) including the Senator Dodd in his introduction of S.B. 1121 stressed the importance of providing consumers a measure to sue following a data breach of their personal information, however Senator Dodd has said he is open to amendments of the bill to prevent “a mecca for lawsuits when no harm has been done”. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 1:29 pm
See In re Mecca Grade Growers, LLC, 125 USPQ2d 1950, 1958 (TTAB 2018). [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]
4 Jun 2018, 3:28 pm
In a 2017 trial over the shooting of two club patrons, Mecca Anderson’s searing rebuttal on close helped bring home a $3.5 million verdict. [read post]
30 May 2018, 10:18 am
There’s an abundant nightlife with live bands playing in local places like Cine El Rey and McAllen’s 7th Street which is a mecca of nightlife. [read post]
29 Apr 2018, 11:18 pm
It's a research mecca brimming with some of the brightest scientific minds from Harvard and MIT on a mission to fight disease. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 3:48 am
The government sent a protest note to Saudi Arabia on Monday (19/03), after an Indonesian national was beheaded in Mecca. [read post]
14 Mar 2018, 7:48 am
The Board pointed out, however, that Mecca was misreading the precedent. [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]
21 Feb 2018, 8:45 am
Under Cohen’s tutelage, 5Pointz evolved into a mecca for high-end graffiti art, including works from renowned international artists. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 9:17 pm
A BLS Library Blog post titled VARA and a Whitewashed Graffiti Mecca discussed a federal law suit brought by a group of plaintiff artists, under the Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990, against a defendant real estate developer in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. [read post]
