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5 unusual facts about ASA


Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq

In December 2010 it was reported that notorious Shi'a militia commanders such as Abu Deraa and Mustafa al-Sheibani were returning from Iran to work with Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq.

After the raid, the U.S. military launched a crackdown on the group and the raid's mastermind Azhar al-Dulaimi was killed in Baghdad, while much of the group's leadership including the brothers Qais and Laith al-Khazali and Lebanese Hezbollah member Ali Musa Daqduq who was Khazali's advisor was in charge of their relations with Hezbollah.

Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, a former Badr Brigades member who ran an important smuggling network known as the Sheibani Network played a key role in supplying the group.

Har Hevron Regional Council

The council provides various municipal services to Adora, Abigail, Beit Hagai, Beit Yatir, Carmel, Eshkolot, Livne, Ma'ale Hever, Ma'on, Mitzpe Asa'el, Negohot, Otniel, Sansana, Shim'a, Susia, Telem and Teneh Omarim.

Job's Passion

Miriam Glazer-Ta'asa, Israel's Deputy Minister of Education and Culture at the time, claimed before the Knesset that the state should not fund theater where, "a naked man is hanging for twenty minutes with his genitals flailing about."


1977 Winchester 400

Roahrig pitted on lap 218 giving the lead to 1976 ASA Champion Mike Eddy.

1980 Winchester 400

Battling for the lead, with just eight laps to go, ASA standouts Mark Martin and Mike Eddy tangled while racing side-by-side and crashed out of the event.

1991 Winchester 400

Glenn Allen, Jr. of Cincinnati, Ohio scored the biggest win of his ASA career in the 1991 Winchester 400.

A. Philip Randolph Campus High School

Retiring as president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1968, Asa Philip Randolph was named the president of the recently formed A. Philip Randolph Institute, established to promote trade unionism in the black community.

Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense

Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, usually known by the acronym ASA (which means "Wing", in Portuguese), sometimes called "ASA de Arapiraca", is a Brazilian football club from Arapiraca, Alagoas state.

American Synesthesia Association

The first meeting of the ASA was held at Princeton University in 2001 with the attendance of numerous synesthesia researchers including Larry Marks, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Peter Grossenbacher, and artists and authors including Patricia Lynne Duffy and Natasha Lvovich.

AMSAR

This organisation, originally (GEC-Thomson-DASA Airborne Radar) is now made up of their successor companies, BAE Systems (now SELEX), Thales, and EADS, respectively.

Asa Howe Cory

Asa Howe Cory (May 31, 1814 – June 6, 1892) was a captain of Company H in the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Asa Kaigan Railway Asatō Line

The western portion of the planned Asa Line opened as Tosa Kuroshio Railway Asa Line in 2002.

Asa Lansford Foster

Asa Lansford Foster (August 19, 1798 – January 9, 1868) was a Pennsylvanian geologist, merchant, and coal mine owner.

Asa Long

Asa Long (1904 - 1999) was an important figure in English draughts generally called checkers in his native USA.

Åsa Solberg Iversen

Åsa Solberg Iversen (born 7 April 1929 in Overhalla, Nord-Trøndelag, died 3 February 2009 in Fredrikstad) was a Norwegian politician (Ap).

ASA style

Standards for ASA style are specified in the ASA Style Guide, which is published by the American Sociological Association, the main scholarly organization for academic sociologists in the United States.

Asa Taccone

Asa started out producing rap and has also written songs for Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Asian Sponsorship Association

The ASA also has 15 founding organisations to help advise the Association on its direction - these include HSBC, Google, Fox International Channels, Singapore Sports Council, Yum Group and many other blue-chip corporations.

Bernard Rimland

He called a meeting in Teaneck, New Jersey, at the house of one of the families, and this small group of parents, including Ruth C. Sullivan (first president of the ASA), became the nucleus that founded the Autism Society of America.

CCIE Certification

The CCIE Security track focuses specifically on network security, and certifies individuals with expert level knowledge of specific security protocols and components such as VPN solutions, ASA, IPS and IOS security features.

Churchill Eisenhart

Eisenhart was honored with an Outstanding Achievements Award of the Princeton University Class of 1934 and with Fellowships in the ASA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Cisco Career Certifications

The Security track covers advanced topics in subjects such as ASA, IDS, IOS security, and many others.

Cuadrilla Resources

In April 2013, the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) compelled Cuadrilla to withdraw a brochure published the previous year following a complaint by anti-fracking group Refracktion concerning 18 statements it argued were misleading, of which the ASA upheld 6, plus one in part.

Frank DeLuca Hall of Fame Field

It is the home of the Connecticut Brakettes team of Amateur Softball Association (ASA).

Fremont Rider

Grace Godfrey died in 1950 and one year later Rider married Marie Gallup Ambrose who was the daughter of Asa Oran Gallup, the Club’s manager at the time Rider was there with Melvil Dewey.

Gavin Shuker

The letter called for the ASA to provide indisputable scientific evidence that such healing did not work.

Green brands

In August 2008 the British ASA ruled that Shell had misled the public in an advertisement which claimed that a $10bn oil sands project in Alberta, northern Canada, was a "sustainable energy source".

Happiness!

The opening theme of the Happiness! visual novel is "Zero" by Hiromi Satō, and the ending theme is "Mezame no Asa" by the voice actresses of the four main heroines (Yui Sakakibara, Mia Naruse, Yura Hinata and Oto Agumi), performing under the name Happiness!

Hexvix

Hexvix is an optical imaging agent developed by the Norwegian pharmaceutical company Photocure ASA.

James Birren

He is working with ASA and the MindAlert program to bring Guided Autobiography to locations as diverse as Kelowna, British Columbia and Atlanta, Georgia.

Jamie Reeves

In addition to powerlifting he had become actively involved in strength athletics and in 1986 won the National Truck Pulling Championships (sponsored by ASA/Bristol Street Motors) and came second to Peter Tregloan in 1986 in the Midland's Strongest Man competition.

Jared Banks

Natalie warns Sarah about Jared, but Sarah is undeterred; when the time comes for the reading of Asa's will in Paris, Texas, Sarah invites Jared to come with her — which annoys Natalie, Jessica and Nash.

KOAN Sound

The duo have since released music on various labels including Inspected and OWSLA, and have worked with a number of other artists, including producer Asa and singer Ed Sheeran.

Matilda White Riley

From 1949 to 1960 she served as the Executive Officer of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and later became the 77th President of the Association.

Middle Georgia Regional Airport

Commercial airline service to this airport included Eastern Airlines and Delta Air Lines with its ASA "Delta Connection" discontinuing service to the airport in 2008.

Nór

The saga says that Eystein, son of Thrand and Dagmær, married Ása, a daughter of Sigurd Hart (the maternal grandfather of Harald Fairhair), and she bore him Halfdan, the hero of the saga.

Ōasahiko Shrine

The planted seeds were then cultivated by the area's population so they could produce linen called asa, which formed the base of the area's industry.

Ramanathan Gnanadesikan

He is a fellow of AAAS, ASA, IMS and RSS, and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

Reptile House

The band included Daniel Higgs, later of Lungfish, guitarists Alex Layne, Asa Osborne and Joe Goldsborough, bass players David Rhodes and Leigh Panlilio, as well as drummers Gary Breezee and London May who went on to play in Glenn Danzig's post-Misfits band Samhain.

Robert V. Hogg

One of the ASA President's tasks is to arrange an annual meeting, and Hogg's diligence was rewarded by the ASA staff, who presented him with the name tag, "Boss Hogg" (after the name of a character in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard).

Seredžius

Seredžius was the birthplace of the American singer, comedian, and actor Al Jolson, born into the town's Jewish community in 1886 as Asa Yoelson.

Split hand syndrome

The term split hand syndrome was first coined in 1994 by a researcher from the Cleveland Clinic called Asa J. Wilbourn.

Terespol

Terespol features in a novel by the Yiddish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat (1950), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to Warsaw from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study.

TripAdvisor

In September 2011, the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) launched a formal investigation into TripAdvisor after receiving complaints that its claims to provide trustworthy and honest reviews from travellers are false.

Tulpan

Asa, a recently discharged Russian Navy sailor, is living in the remote Kazakhstan steppe with his sister Samal, her older husband, Ondas, and their three children.


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