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King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life (Yale University Press; 2008) excerpt; Bradshaw, Tancred. Britain and Jordan: imperial strategy, King Abdullah I and the Zionist movement (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012). El-Anis, Imad H. (2011). Jordan and the United States : the political economy of trade and economic reform in the Middle East. London ...
Mary Catherine Jordan is an American journalist and author who is Associate Editor at the Washington Post. She was a foreign correspondent for 14 years. She was a foreign correspondent for 14 years. With her husband, Kevin Sullivan , Jordan ran the newspaper's bureaus in Tokyo , Mexico City and London .
Jordan renounced its claim to the territory to the Palestinians in 1988 and signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Jordan is a semi-arid country, covering an area of 89,342 km 2 (34,495 sq mi) with a population of 11.5 million, making it the eleventh-most populous Arab country.
Jordan was not a member of the United Nations when the vote on the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine of 1947 was taken, but following the establishment of the state of Israel on 14 May 1948, Jordan, then known as Transjordan, was one of the Arab League countries that immediately attacked the new country, precipitating the 1948 Arab ...
Amman, and Jordan in general, is the Middle East's hub for medical tourism. Jordan receives the most medical tourists in the region and the fifth highest in the world. Amman receives 250,000 foreign patients a year and over $1 billion annually. [89]
In 1855, farmer William Herbert Jordan bought Holme Mills in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England. The mills produced flour until 1970. The mills produced flour until 1970. In 1972 the mill owners, brothers Bill and David Jordan, founded Jordans Cereals to produce granola , which they had discovered in California.
Hugh Hefner, the man who created a magazine empire, died Wednesday at the age of 91. His legacy includes some of the most famous Playboy playmates ever to grace the cover and go one to become ...
Mary Augusta Jordan (1855–1941), American college professor of English literature and rhetoric; Mary Jordan (journalist) (born 1960), American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner; Mary Jordan (filmmaker) (born 1969), American filmmaker, artist, activist, and social justice advocate; Mary Ranken Jordan (1869–1962), American philanthropist