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Forms nouns that denote a person who 'feeds on' the first element or part of the word Greek φαγιστής (phagistḗs) eater; see -phagia: Lotophagi-phagy: Forms nouns that denotes 'feeding on' the first element or part of the word Greek φαγία (phagia) eating; see -phagia: hematophagy: phall-phallus: Greek φαλλός (phallós ...
Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, [a] commonly known as FATA, was a semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 through the Twenty-fifth amendment to the constitution of Pakistan.
The Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) were a special set of laws of British India, and which were applicable to the Tribal Areas. They were enacted by the British Empire in the nineteenth century and remained in effect in Pakistan until 2018. They were extended to the Gilgit Agency in Jammu and Kashmir in 1901 and to Baltistan in 1947 ...
The word fatwa comes from the Arabic root f-t-w, whose meanings include 'youth, newness, clarification, explanation'. [4] A number of terms related to fatwa derive from the same root. A jurist issuing fatwas is called a mufti. The person who asks for a fatwa is known as mustafti. The act of issuing fatwas is called iftāʾ.
quae non posuisti, ne tollas. do not take away what you did not put in place. Plato, Laws. quae non prosunt singula multa iuvant. what alone is not useful helps when accumulated. Ovid, Remedia amoris. quaecumque sunt vera. whatsoever is true. frequently used as motto; taken from Philippians 4:8 of the Bible.
Romanian. Country. Romania. The Bay-Tree Maiden ( Romanian: Fata din dafin) is a Romanian fairy tale about a fairy or maiden that comes out of a tree or plant and falls in love with a human prince. [1] In the story, the prince's mother promises to him marriage with the maiden Sanda-Lucsandra. Years later, she confesses to him that Sanda ...
President James A. Garfield with James G. Blaine after being shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, began at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:20 AM on Saturday, July 2, 1881, less than four months after he took office.
The World Bank strongly disputes that its money supported the mass evictions in western Ethiopia. Even as Anuak refugees and human rights groups have publicly charged that World Bank money has been used to bankroll brutal evictions, the bank has continued to send hundreds of millions of dollars into the same health and education program.