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9 unusual facts about Adra


AD Adra

Agrupación Deportiva Adra was a Spanish football team based in Adra, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

Adra, Purulia

It is one of the three most important coal loading divisions (the other two being Bilaspur and Chakradharpur) which supply coal to power plants across India.

An important railway junction, Adra railway station connects to Asansol on the Howrah-Delhi Main Line, Tatanagar on the Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line, Kharagpur on the Kolkata-Chennai and Kolkata-Mumbai lines, and Gomoh on the Kolkata-Delhi line.

Costa de Almería

Poniente Almeriense is in the southwest of the province, adjacent to the province of Granada, and includes the coastal municipalities of Adra, Berja, El Ejido (including Almerimar), Roquetas de Mar, and Enix.

Jaysh al-Islam

On 11 December 2013, al-Nusra Front and Jaysh al-Islam fighters entered the industrial town of Adra and targeted minority civilians, killing at least 32 Alawites, Christians, Druze and Ismailites.

Jose Marin Rodriguez

José Manuel Marín Rodríguez (born July 19, 1971 in Adra, Almería) is an archer from Spain.

Mazen Darwish

In April 2008, Darwish and a colleague were arrested after their reporting on riots in Adra, a town near Damascus.

MV Mar Negro

On 8 March 1939, Franco’s government decreed a ban on shipping around three miles from the coast of Levante, between the ports of Adra and Sagunto.

Rourkela Railway Division

Adra, Kharagpur, Chakradharpur and Ranchi divisions are located in the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand respectively.


Adra massacre

The Adra massacre was the killing of at least 32 Alawite, Christians, Druze and Ismailite civilians in the industrial town of Adra, Syria in December 2013 during the Syrian Civil War.

Bhojudih railway station

Bhojudih is a railway station on the Adra-Netaji SC Bose Gomoh branch line, just south of the Damodar and links to Sudamdih, north of the Damodar, and on the Jharia Coalfield rail network.

Georgia-Cumberland Academy

More recently the school has sponsored trips to Thailand and China, working on humanitarian projects with ADRA.

RpoS

The transcriptional regulator CsgD is central to Biofilm formation, controlling the expression of the curli structural and export proteins, and the Diguanylate cyclase, adrA, which indirectly activates cellulose production.

Santaldih Thermal Power Station

It is located on the Adra-Gomoh branch line of South-Eastern Railway, on the southern bank of Damodar River.

Sudamdih railway station

Sudamdih is a railway station on the Jharia Coalfield rail network, just north of the Damodar and links to Bhojudih, south of the Damodar, and on the Adra-Netaji SC Bose Gomoh branch line.


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