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unusual facts about Alliance, Alberta



1996 in Afghanistan

Taliban officials met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Najmuddin ShaikhThe subject discussed as during Mr. Shaikh's meeting with Dostum and Dr. Abdullah in Mazar Sharif a day earlier was the working out of ceasefire arrangements between the contending factions in Afghanistan and suggesting talks with the Northern Alliance for the formation of a coalition government

A-dec

The company has affiliations with the American Association of Women Dentists, American Dental Association, American Student Dental Association, Dental Trade Alliance, National Dental Association, British Dental Health Foundation, and Australian Dental Industry Association among others.

Aalto University School of Business

The CEMS is a strategic alliance of 27 member schools around the world and over 75 corporate partners.

The school is also an active member of the CEMS (Global Alliance in Management Education) and PIM (Partnership in International Management), a consortium of 54 leading business schools worldwide.

Access 5

The cancellation of the program led members of the UAV National Industry Team (UNITE) alliance, which includes Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, AeroVironment, and Aurora Flight Sciences to advocate for a new national plan in testimony before the United States Congress.

AJGAR

AJGAR was a suggested caste alliance of the Ahir, Jat, Gujar and Rajputs castes.

Al Pscholka

Prior to his election to the state legislature he worked as District Director for Congressman Fred Upton; fostered partnerships between business and education through his work at Cornerstone Alliance; served eight years on the Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan Board of Trustees; as well as serving seven years on the Southwest Regional Water and Sewer Authority.

Alberta Alliance Party

The party managed a narrow victory in the Progressive Conservative stronghold of Cardston-Taber-Warner, where Paul Hinman became the first MLA elected under the Alliance banner, defeating incumbent Broyce Jacobs.

Alliance for Europe of the Nations

The Alliance for Europe of the Nations was a pan-European political party that gathered conservative and national-conservative political parties from across the continent.

Briar Stewart

In 2010, Stewart won an AMPIA Award for her documentary "Journey to Jamaica", a story that followed a group of First Nations cadets from Hobbema, Alberta on an exchange that took them to the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Bryan Ryley

His work is found in numerous private and public collections, such as, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Kelowna Public Art Gallery, Kelowna; Vernon Public Art Gallery; The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Petro Canada Collection; Shell Collection in Calgary, Alberta.

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

CJDV

CKDQ, a radio station (910 AM) licensed to Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, which held the call sign CJDV from 1958 to 1981

CKOS

CKOS-FM, a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

EcoHealth Alliance

EcoHealth Alliance was founded in 1971 by British naturalist, author and television personality Gerald Durrell, who is perhaps best known for his many entertaining books based on his life’s work with animals, as well as a dozen series on the BBC.

Fred Archer

Fred W. Archer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1913–1917

Gary M. Heidnik

Shortly after Maxine's birth, Heidnik was arrested for the kidnapping and rape of Anjeanette's sister Alberta, who had been living in an institution for the mentally disabled in Penn Township.

Gas Exporting Countries Forum

In May 2006 Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev threatened that Russia would create "an alliance of gas suppliers that will be more influential than OPEC" if Russia did not get its way in energy negotiations with Europe.

Gungsangnorbu

In 1912, in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, Gungsangnorbu made some attempts to form an alliance with Bogd Khan and the Khalkha Mongols in the newly independent state of Mongolia, with the Pan-Mongolist aim of annexing China's Inner Mongolian territories to an independent, Mongol-dominated Greater Mongolia.

Hans-Christoph Seebohm

In the run-up to the first federal election of 1949, he and his party fellows Hellwege and von Merkatz negotiated a national conservative alliance with the Deutsche Rechtspartei and Hessian National Democrats, which however were aborted by the British occupation forces.

Heilbronn League

The Heilbronn League was an alliance between Sweden, France, and the Protestant princes of Western Germany against the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War.

Henry Atkins

Henry B. Atkins former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Holy Child High School, Ghana

Holy Child School has an ongoing alliance with their fellow Catholic boys' school, St. Augustine's College.

Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy

When Philip Augustus succeeded Louis in 1180, Hugh seized the opportunity and forced several men to change alliance to Burgundy.

Human rights in Uzbekistan

In 2005 the Uzbek government arrested Sanjar Umarov, an opposition politician, and raided the office of Sunshine Uzbekistan, an opposition political alliance.

Jeremy Grantham

He has stated his opposition to the Keystone Pipeline on the basis of the ruinous environmental consequences that its construction will bring to Alberta and to the entire planet due to the contribution that burning the extracted oil would make to climate change.

La Belle Alliance

Blücher, the Prussian commander, suggested that the battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor.

Lance Bouma

Additionally, he played for Team Alberta at the 2007 Canada Games hockey tournament, scoring two goals as the team finished in fourth place.

Levens

At the end of the 14th century, the destiny of Levens was linked to the whole County of Nice, which parted with Provence to form an alliance with Savoy on the initiative of the powerful John All Saints' Day, baron of Beuil, whose eldest son later became lord of Levens.

Lynch-Staunton

Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, AOE (1905–1990), the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1979 to 1985

Marty Wood

Martin Roy (Marty) Wood is a celebrated rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada.

Metro Cinema

Metro Cinema Edmonton, a non-profit organization and registered charity located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

My Rona Home

Hosted by Elissa Lansdell and sponsored by the Rona chain of building supply stores and The Brick furniture chain, the series pits two Alberta families against each other in a competition to design and build a dream home.

National Alliance of Student Organizations in Romania

This came after a court battle which saw the Alliance's right to exist confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice.

Paul Hinman

Former Alberta Alliance leader Randy Thorsteinson stepped down as leader of the party shortly after the 2004 provincial election.

Paul Piesse

Following the splintering of the Alliance, Piesse sided with the Harré-McCarten faction.

Phaistos

Phaistos had its own currency and had created an alliance with other autonomous Cretan cities, and with the king of Pergamon Eumenes II.

Red green

Red-green alliance, an alliance of "red" social democratic or democratic socialist parties with "green" environmentalist parties

Samurai Cowboy

The movie was filmed in 1993 in Southern Alberta, more specifically, Waterton Lakes National Park.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

Simon, Count of Ponthieu

It is thought that in order to strengthen the alliance with the Dammartins, King Philip Augustus of France allowed Simon to marry Marie, Countess of Ponthieu, who was a niece of the king, in 1208.

Star Wars: Empire at War

The campaign explores how the X-Wing is pressed into the service of the Rebel Alliance, the liberation of Kashyyyk, the first whisperings of a brand new Imperial superweapon and ultimately the Battle of Yavin.

Systems and Control

GCSE Systems and control is a General Certificate of Secondary Education run by the AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) in the United Kingdom.

Torrington Gopher Hole Museum

The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, located in Torrington, Alberta, features stuffed gophers (Richardson's ground squirrels) posed to resemble townspeople.

Tov

Treaty of Versailles (1756), a defense alliance treaty between France and Austria; see Diplomatic Revolution

Vaughan Mills

CrossIron Mills, located outside of Calgary, Alberta, opened on August 19, 2009.

Wesley Wark

So after the NSA affair in a talk to the Berlin newspaper „Der Tagesspiegel“ he recommended Germany to join the intelligence alliance UKUSA, this would be „logical“.

WWCW

In the spring of 1997, the market's UPN affiliation moved to WDRG-TV (now WEFC-TV), and WFXR/WJPR picked up a secondary alliance with the WB Television Network.

Yinka Dene Alliance

On February 6, 2012, the Yinka Dene Alliance released an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao.


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