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unusual facts about Arna's Children


Zakaria Zubeidi

In 2004, Mer-Khamis completed a documentary film about the group, Arna's Children.


Acid Survivors Foundation

2011 was also the year that ASF’s Executive Director Monira Rahman was honored with the prestigious World's Children's Prize in recognition for her struggle for the children who have been the victims of acid attacks or petrol attacks leading to permanent and disfiguring scars.

America's Children's Museum on Wheels: StoryBus

Filled with a rotating collection of hands-on interactive exhibits, the StoryBus transports children inside the worlds of favorite children's stories, such as The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Armageddon's Children

A group of children, the Ghosts, hide out in the ruins of downtown Seattle.

He secretly sees Tessa, a girl from the nearby compound at Safeco Field, though they are forbidden to be together by compound law.

Angel Perez, who is pursued by the demon Findo Gask and his henchwoman Delloreen.

Arna, Norway

The name is very old, and it is maybe related to the Italian name Arno.

Ayelet Galena

Ayelet is the granddaughter of Rabbi Reuben Poupko of Montreal, QC and Arna Poupko Fisher of Cincinnati, OH and Rita Lourie-Galena of New York, NY and the late Dr. Harold Galena, after whom she is named after (Ayelet means deer in Hebrew).

Bergen Commuter Rail

Bergen Commuter Rail, sometimes called Vossebanen, is a commuter rail service between Bergen and Arna, Voss and Myrdal, Norway.

Betty Makoni

In 2007, Makoni won the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child.

Brass monkey

In Midnight's Children, the protagonist's little sister is nicknamed the Brass Monkey because of her personality and hair.

Britten's Children

Britten's Children is a scholarly 2006 book by John Bridcut that describes the English composer Benjamin Britten's relationship with several adolescent boys.

They became close friends a few years later when Humphrey was at Eton.

Carlos Sayadyan

Carlos was only 13 when he was awarded the first prize at an exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Soviet Armenia while still attending H. Kojoyan’s Children’s Fine Arts School.

Dusty Mancinelli

He was the Second Unit Director and Canadian Production Coordinator on the 2009 film "Cooking with Stella" and the stills photographer on Academy Award Nominated Director Deepa Mehta's film Heaven on Earth, and her latest film Midnight's Children, which was released in 2012.

Earth's Children

This "spirit language" has no spoken words apart from personal names, and its users generally refer to themselves in the third person.

Fana

Eastwards, Rv 580 follows E39 to Nesttun, where it branches off and runs through Haukeland and Espeland to Indre Arna in Arna borough.

Giles Nuttgens

He is best known to fans of independent art house fare for his work on Deepa Mehta's "Elements trilogy", consisting of the films Fire (1996), Earth (1998) and Water (2005), as well as Mehta's adaptation of Salman Rushdie's epic novel Midnight's Children (2012).

Halvar Björk

He worked at the Malmö City Theatre from 1962 till 1986, but also made many substantial film- and TV-roles; for example, he acted in Autumn Sonata (1978) and Sunday's Children (1992) by Ingmar Bergman and The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972) by Jan Troell.

Herb Butterfield

His other roles in radio programs included: Rex Kramer on Dan Harding's Wife, Ziehm in Girl Alone , Clarence Wellman in The Halls of Ivy, Weissoul in Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, Preacher Jim in Kitty Keene, Inc., Judge Carter Colby in Lonely Women, Phineas Herringbone in Ma Perkins, Judge Glenn Hunter in One Man's Family, and Judge Colby in Today's Children.

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang is a 1977 book about the West German militant left-wing group, the Red Army Faction (also known as The Baader-Meinhof Gang), by the British author Jillian Becker.

In Search of the Pope's Children

He then made the claim that 87% of Ireland's exports generated by multinational companies such as Microsoft, Apple Computer, Dell, Intel, and Google, implying that decisions made in New York boardrooms have a far greater effect on the Irish economy than decisions made in the Dáil.

Inertialess drive

Inertialessness, though not for faster-than-light travel, is discussed in Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah's Children, Isaac Asimov's short story The Billiard Ball, Larry Niven’s Known Space universe, Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, and

Ja'net Dubois

Dubois won an CableACE Award for her work on the TV movie Other Women's Children based on the novel by Perri Klass, and she also two Emmy Awards for her voiceover work on the animated program The PJs.

Life-Line

Pinero is mentioned in passing in the novels Time Enough for Love and Methuselah's Children when the practically immortal Lazarus Long mentions having been examined and being sent away because the machine is "broken".

Methuselah's Children

Other Heinlein novels featuring Lazarus Long include Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

Peter Jebsen

After working in the cloth industry for a relative in Hamburg, he moved to Bergen in 1843, bought a river in Arna for 200 specidaler borrowed money and started manufacturing cloth; as one of the first manufactures in the country, profits gained were high due to protectionism against import of wool.

Prateep Ungsongtham Hata

In 2004 she received the The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child from Queen Silvia of Sweden.

PVR Pictures

In October 2012 the company acquired the Indian distribution rights for the film adaption of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children.

Rentschler House

Succeeding generations of his family followed in his manufacturing footsteps and further embellished the lustre of the name of Rentschler, and it was ultimately home to Rentschler's children and members of succeeding generations.

Saleem Sinai

Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

Saturday's Children

Warners originally cast Priscilla Lane in the lead but Garfield was sure that the Lane Sisters would somehow have to be written in as well.

Schlitzie

Schlitzie appeared in bit roles in various movies, and is credited with a role in the 1934 exploitation film Tomorrow's Children, as a mentally-defective criminal who undergoes forced sterilization.

Scott Grimando

Scott Grimando is an artist whose work includes the cover of Hannibal's Children.

Shade's Children

Ella and Drum, managing to escape, climb to the top of Mount Silverstone, meet a hologram of Shade, who though having been physically destroyed, is spread through the Overlords' computer systems.

Small Voices: The Stories of Cambodia's Children

After Saigonell, the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and killed 1.7 Million people in a former high school also known as S21 that also included rape, torture and a living hell.

Socialist Patients' Collective

Book: Jillian Becker, Hitler's Children: Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang, HarperCollins Distribution Services; New edition (28 Jun 1978) ISBN 978-0-586-04665-4.

State Express 555

The brand is cited in Salman Rushdie's post-colonial novel Midnight's Children, where it is, however, mis-attributed to the former British importer and manufacturer W.D. & H.O. Wills: Rushdie later explains this as symptomatic of an 'unreliable narrative' device in his essay on the book's 'errata'.

The Merman's Children

The story follows them and their various fates as they seek a place to call their own, in locales as varied as the dying Norse colonies in Greenland and the coastlands of Dalmatia.

The Plains of Passage

The Plains of Passage describes the journey of Ayla and Jondalar west along the Great Mother River (the Danube), from the home of The Mammoth Hunters (roughly modern Ukraine) to Jondalar's homeland (close to Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France).

The Widow’s Children

The Widow’s Children is a novel by American writer Paula Fox, first published in 1976.

To Our Children's Children's Children

#"Legend of a Mind" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Thomas) - 4:37

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Triyuga

The Koshi Island wild life reserve is inside a big Island of Koshi River, which is the store of the wild water buffalo (called Arna) in Nepal.

Tuesday's Children

The camp uses a curriculum designed by Harvard University Law School's Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program as well as a dignity model developed at the Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Uncle Tom's Children

The Harper Perennial edition of Wright's novel Black Boy, under the heading 'Books by Richard Wright', misprints "Uncle Tom's Children" as "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of short stories by African American author Richard Wright, also the author of Black Boy, Native Son, and The Outsider.


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