National: Asha Bhosle receive ’Hridayanath Mangeshkar Award’ Lata Mangeshkar presented ’Pt Hridaynath Lifetime Achievement Award’ to her sister Asha Bhosle. In 2012‚ the same award was given by Amitabh Bachchan to Lata Mangeshkar. Hridaynath Mangeshkar is a composer and singer hailing from Maharashtra. He is better known as Balasaheb in the industry and is the younger brother of two music icons of India: Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle. First non-IPS officer to head BSF operations at Indo-Bangla
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States‚ and the young nation became forced to borrow money from other countries in order to sustain itself. The Barbary states marked a collection of nations located in North Africa‚ which practiced state-supported piracy. These nations included Morocco‚ Algiers‚ Tunis‚ and Tripoli. Barbary pirates began to tax American merchant ships ever since the country first gained its independence‚ but it was not until 1801 that Thomas Jefferson decided to stop the practice of bribe payments. In 1787‚ America
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| Cultural Discussion | Islam | | DoddR | 5/12/2013 | [A discussion and Identification of the history and location of the second largest religion and culture in the world‚ Islam and the followers of the faith‚ Muslims. A look at and description of the positive and negative points of the culture as well as ways in which Islam have affected and contributed to society.] | Roddric Dodd Paragraph Word Count: 1041 Professor: Jason M. Brocato Total Word Count: 1128 Social
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officers. From birth it was expected that Franco would also go down the same path. When he was 14 years old he attended a military school and graduated three years later at the age of 17. After graduation Franco volunteered to be Stationed in Spanish Morocco and he was stationed there until 1912. When he was only 20 years old he became first lieutenant in the company of the Moroccan based spanish
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WHAT ARE THE MAJOR REASONS WHY SOME FORMER COLONIAL POWERS STILL CONTINUE MEDDLING IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES? INTRODUCTION In 1885 Bismarck initiated the Berlin Conference to establish international guidelines for the division of African territory amongst European countries. The Europeans used the conference formalise Africa to become a colonial possession for Europeans. The possession of African territory that is many times larger than their own made European states have a great feeling of self-esteem
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Tower of Pisa was built to show the rest of the world the wealth of the city of Pisa. The people of Pisa were very good sailors and they conquered many lands‚ including Jerusalem‚ Carthago‚ Ibiza‚ Mallorca‚ Africa‚ Belgium‚ Britania‚ Norway‚ Spain‚ Morocco‚ and other places. But they had only one real enemy‚ the people from Florence. And to show how well they were doing they started to build a really useless belltower to go with the rest of the buildings near it - the Cathedral‚ Baptistery‚ and Cemetery
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Air Arabia Case Study 1) Air Arabia is a cost efficient airline that currently operates a total fleet of 23 aircraft‚ serving 65 routes from three hubs in Morocco‚ UAE‚ and Egypt. It hopes to expand to cover many areas of the world such as Europe and the Indian subcontinent and increase its fleet to over 50 by 2015 solely without working with any other companies. It is obvious that Air Arabia is utilizing the concentration growth strategy; the concentration growth strategy focuses on its primary
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WWI was an inevitable war. Imperialistic and Nationalistic tension‚ alliances between European countries‚ and the conflict between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia contributed to the inevitability of WWI. To begin with‚ imperialistic and nationalistic tension existed between the European powers. This tension was only heightened during the second half of the 19th century‚ largely due to the "scramble for Africa". As many explorers began to realize the economic potential of the African interior
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To what extent was Germany responsible for causing World War One? To what extent was Germany responsible for causing World War One? In August‚ 1914‚ 6 million men mobilised for war on the European continent. It was the bloodiest war that had been fought yet in history due to huge advances in weapons and technology. This question of who was to blame for the war has been debated many times by many historians. Germany was responsible for its beginning to some extent but that extent can be argued
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of state. All European monarchies are constitutional ones‚ with the exception of the Vatican City‚ but sovereigns in the smaller states exercise greater political influence than in the larger. The monarchs of Cambodia‚ Japan‚ Jordan‚ Malaysia and Morocco "reign‚ but do not rule" although there is considerable variation in the amount of authority they wield. Although they reign under constitutions‚ the monarchs of Brunei‚ Oman‚ Qatar‚ Saudi Arabia and Swaziland appear to continue to exercise more political
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