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Jordan at the 1984 Summer Olympics; IOC code: JOR: NOC: Jordan Olympic Committee: Website: www.joc.jo (in English and Arabic) in Los Angeles; Competitors: 13 in 3 sports: Flag bearer : Mourad Barakat [1] Medals: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0: Summer Olympics appearances
Flipsyde currently consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Steve Knight, lead guitarist Dave Lopez, and rapper The Piper (Jinho Ferreira). Their 2005 debut album, We the People, was released by Interscope Records and featured the singles "Happy Birthday" and "Someday", with the latter chosen as a theme song by NBC for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, [2] and appeared on the soundtrack for the ...
Jordan won its first medal at the Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro in 2016, when Ahmad Abughaush took the gold in the Men's 68 kg tournament in Taekwondo. Jordan earned its second medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with another taekwondo achievement as Saleh Al-Sharabaty won a silver medal in the 80 kg category.
Egypt and Jordan do not share a land border. They are separated by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Negev Desert to the east and southwest, with the latter's border with Jordan being 335 km (97 km with the West Bank and 238 km with Israel), while the border with Egypt is 265 km (including 11 km with the Gaza Strip and 254 km with Israel).
Jordan and allies Opponents Result Monarch Jordanian losses; First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Kingdom of Yemen Holy War Army ALA Israel: Partial victory [1] (overall Arab defeat) Tactical and strategic Arab failure; 1949 Armistice Agreements; Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -The model of pagers used in detonations in Lebanon were made by Budapest-based BAC Consulting, Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo said on Wednesday, adding it had only ...
The All-Palestine Government (Arabic: حكومة عموم فلسطين Ḥukūmat ‘Umūm Filasṭīn) was established on 22 September 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, to govern the Egyptian-controlled territory in Gaza, which Egypt had on the same day declared as the All-Palestine Protectorate, Three horizontal bands of green, white ...
Jordan has ranked constantly among the top 20 remittances-recipient countries over the last decade. In addition, the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) statistics in 2010 indicate that Jordan was the third biggest recipient of remittances among Arab countries after Egypt and Lebanon.