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The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada .
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
Ishak, Ishaq, Isak, Isaque, Isaac, Isaak, Isaach or Eshaq ([/ˈɪsħɑːq/] ISS-hahk; Arabic: إسحاق / ALA-LC: Isḥāq) is a masculine given name (first name), the Arabic form of Isaac. Ishak was the son of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Sarah, patriarchs in the Bible and the Quran. The name Ishak means ‘One who laughs’ because Sarah laughed ...
Urdu in its less formalised register is known as rekhta (ریختہ, rek̤h̤tah, 'rough mixture', Urdu pronunciation:); the more formal register is sometimes referred to as زبانِ اُردُوئے معلّٰى, zabān-i Urdū-yi muʿallá, 'language of the exalted camp' (Urdu pronunciation: [zəbaːn eː ʊrdu eː moəllaː]) or لشکری ...
Donner, Louisiana, an unincorporated community; Donner Lake, a freshwater lake in California; Donner Memorial State Park, site of the Donner Camp, where the Donner party was trapped by snow; Donner Pass, a mountain pass in California; Donner Ski Ranch on Donner Summit, California; Donner und Blitzen River, a freshwater river in Oregon
Isaac, the main protagonist in video games The Binding of Isaac and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth; Isaac, a main character in Nintendo's Golden Sun series; Isaac, an android of extraterrestrial origin in American television series The Orville, played by Mark Jackson; Isaac Chroner, the main antagonist from the Stephen King short story Children ...
The biblical patriarch Isaac, Isak (Arabic: إِسْحَاق or إِسْحٰق ʾIsḥāq) is recognized as a prophet of God by Muslims. [1] As in Judaism and Christianity , Islam maintains that Isaac was the son of the patriarch and prophet Abraham from his wife Sarah .
Fred Donner argues that Muhammad turned against the Banu Qaynuqa because as artisans and traders, the latter were in close contact with Meccan merchants. [34] Weinsinck views the episodes cited by the Muslim historians used to justify their expulsion, such as a Jewish goldsmith humiliating a Muslim woman, as having no more than anecdotal value.