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Al-Mina

Al-Mina (Arabic "the port") is the modern name given by Leonard Woolley to an ancient trading post on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the Orontes, near present-day Samandag in Turkey's province (il) of Hatay.


28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing

The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing occurred in Peshawar, Pakistan, when a car bomb was detonated in a Mina Bazar (Market for women and children) of the city.

Ali Sadeghian

In his artistic endeavors, he has collaborated with Akram Monfared Arya (author, poet, and painter), Mina Boyne (lyricist), and Faryal Shakibi (singer).

American Dervish

Mina brightens the lives of the Shah family, becoming especially close with Hayat, telling him Sufi stories and teaching him the Quran.

Ares Tavolazzi

Since 1982 he has collaborated with numerous singers and musicians, including Mina, Eugenio Finardi, Paolo Conte, Paolo Fresu, Vinicio Capossela and others.

Birgit Kronström

The first film role was in Finland, in the 1932 film, Olenko minä tullut haaremiin! (I've joined a harem!) with Joel Rinne and Kaisu Leppänen.

Bruno Canfora

A conductor in a number of variety television and music shows, Canfora is also well known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed, among others, the songs "Brava" and "Come tu mi vuoi"; he was also author of a great number of successful songs for Rita Pavone, Ornella Vanoni and Kessler Twins.

Coro Musicanova

The choir has collaborated with composers such as Ennio Morricone, Leo Brouwer and Marco Frisina, and with the Italian pop stars Andrea Bocelli and Mina.

Daniel Mina

Daniel Nevil Mina Arisola (born December 9, 1980 in Santa Ana) is an Ecuadorian football midfielder currently playing for Barcelona.

Del mio meglio

The songs "Io vivrò (senza te)", "Se stasera sono qui", "Vedrai vedrai" and "Yesterday" were all recorded in 1970 during a concert at Radiotelevisione svizzera and were previously unreleased on album (as well as Mina's new hit "Io e te da soli").

Denise Mina

Mina's first Paddy Mehan novel, The Field of Blood, was filmed by the BBC for broadcast in 2011, and stars Jayd Johnson, Peter Capaldi and David Morrissey.

Edmé-Martin Vandermaesen

With 4,000 men and 500 horses, Vandermaesen battled Mina's guerillas, capturing his two artillery pieces.

Fantastic Man

While the costume of Diabolica (the main villain in the movie—Ara Mina's character who was named after her role/name in the movie Super Ranger Kids in 1997) was the idea of actor Michael V.

Francisco Espoz y Mina

In 1825 Espoz y Mina published A Short Extract from the Life of General Mina, in Spanish and English, in London.

Georg Feig

Georg Feig was born on 27 February 1899, in the town of Annaberg in Saxony, Germany to Karl and Mina Feig.

History of Togo

Various tribes moved into the country from all sides - the Ewe from Benin, and the Mina and the Guin from Ghana.

Jo-Anne Knowles

She has also played Mina Van Helsing in the popular CBBC series Young Dracula.

Julio Iglesias, Sr.

In his 1972 hit "Un canto a Galicia" (a song to Galicia), Julio Iglesias sings about his parents, with the words "Un canto a Galicia, Terra do meu pai. Un canto a Galicia, miña terra mai" (a song to Galicia, land of my father, a song to Galicia, my motherland).

Kilpi

In 2006 they released the album Kaaoksen Kuningas, and two of its songs, "Toinen Minä" and "Katharsis" were proposed to Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

Le più belle canzoni italiane interpretate da Mina

Le più belle canzoni italiane interpretate da Mina is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina, released in 1968.

Lys Assia

Lys Assia (born Rosa Mina Schärer, 3 March 1924, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

Maria Vitale

In 1951, the year of Verdi's 50th death anniversary, she sang major parts in lesser known Verdi operas for RAI, notably; Leonora in Oberto, Giselda in I Lombardi, Lucrezia in I due Foscari, and Mina in Aroldo.

Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga

There he defeated an attempted English landing at Luredo, seized Bilbao, was named governor of Biscay in 1811, completely routed Mina's band and contributed to the raising of the siege of Burgos.

Michael Mina

After working in Los Angeles at the Bel Air Hotel with Executive Chef George Morrone, Mina followed Morrone to San Francisco to help create Aqua.

Mina alla Bussola dal vivo

Mina was the first Italian woman to record a live album during her performance at the Bussola, a popular night club in Marina di Pietrasanta, Versilia, Tuscany, Italy.

Mina Celentano

A special edition of the album, titled Mina Celentano - Buon Natale, was released during the Christmas season packed with a CD-ROM titled "Molly e destino solitario" and new artwork.

Mina Guli

Mina is the Deputy Chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, a strategic advisor to the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders community, and a member of the Young Presidents Organisation.

Mina Hadjian

The program got the lowest possible rating of 1 by newspaper VG, and the online edition VG.nett wrote 17 April 2007 that Mina would "tattoo the 1-rating on her backside," in an attempt to copy Ari Behn s alleged tattoo of 6-rating (the best) on his shoulder.

Mina, Nevada

Thenardite, a sodium sulfate mineral, Na2SO4, found at Sodaville

Papiamento

Around those ports there developed several Portuguese-African pidgins and creoles, such as Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mina, Cape Verdean Creole, Angolar, and Guene.

Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Senator George Hearst invested in several Pinos Altos mines, including the Mina Grande and the Pacific Mine.

Porphy no Nagai Tabi

Focuses on features a Greek boy named Porphyras Patagos (more fondly known as Porphy) and his sister Mina, who have been orphaned after a devastating earthquake which destroyed their home in Greece.

Randy Newman Live

"I'll Be Home" is a song that was also recorded (most notably) by Harry Nilsson (Nilsson Sings Newman, 1970), Barbra Streisand (Stoney End), Cass Elliott (Cass Elliot), The New Seekers (Beautiful People album), Anne Murray (Danny's Song), Tim Hardin and Mina (Mina, in Italian).

Singolare

Singolare is an album by Italian singer Mina, originally distributed back to back with album Plurale.

Skye Bennett

Bennett appeared as Mina in the film adaptation of David Almond's Carnegie Medal- and Whitbread Children's Award-winning book Skellig, which was released in the UK in 2009.

St Werburgh's Church, Bristol

The area became known as St Werburghs when the church was relocated from Corn Street to Mina Road in 1879.

Studio Uno 66

"Se telefonando" is Mina's flawless interpretation of a difficult song, composed and arranged by Ennio Morricone to lyrics by Maurizio Costanzo.

The Quiet Family

The film ends with a wide shot of the lodge in winter, with Mina outside, looking at it, and then to the camera with an uncertain look on her face; all to the sound of The Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You".

Umberto Bindi

He also wrote the music of La musica è finita (1967), another Italian classic, made famous by Ornella Vanoni and Mina.

When I Was Cruel

# "When I Was Cruel No. 2" – 7:06 (featuring a sample from Mina's "Un bacio è troppo poco", also heard on The Herbaliser's 1997 release "Take London" on the track "Song For Mary")

Wilhelmina Bonde

Wilhelmina "Mina" Sofia Charlotta Bonde, née Lewenhaupt (10 July 1817 - 1899), was a Swedish countess and courtier.

Wilhelmina Koch

Mina Koch spent the first years there in a girls' school in Droyßig at Zeitz, where her Confirmation was celebrated.


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