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Ainata

Officially, Ainata is considered a village of the Baalbek District, but it is sometimes considered a village of the Bsharri District, mostly because its name "Ainata-Al Ariz" means "Ainata-The Cedars", in reference to the Cedars of God near Bsharri.

Alexander Chayanov

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Vladimir Megre's Ringing Cedars series have many points in common with Chayanov.

Andrew Kline

He is currently a member of the Stanford Executive Circle, Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Association of Corporate Growth, the NFLPA, the NFL Retired Players Association, the Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular, and the Los Angeles Sports Council, and was the Chairman of the Athletes for Rudy Giuliani Coalition.

Bsharri

Bsharri is the town of the only remaining (preserved) Original Cedars of Lebanon (Cedrus libani), and is the birthplace of the famous poet, painter and sculptor Khalil Gibran who now has a museum in the town to honor him.

Cedars Lock and Dam Historic District

The Cedars Lock and Dam Historic District is a district in Little Chute, Wisconsin, United States.

Cedars Park, Broxbourne

Sir Hedworth Meux, formerly The Hon Hedworth Lambton, had been involved in the siege of Ladysmith and inherited The Cedars from Valerie, Lady Meux on condition that he change his surname to Meux.

Cedros Island

Cedros Island (Isla de Cedros, "island of cedars" in Spanish, also called in English Cerros Island in former times) is a Mexican island in the Pacific Ocean.

Ellen Idelson

Idelson died on September 19, 2003 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center due complications from Crohn's disease, a disease she suffered from for much of her life.

Etienne Saqr

The Guardians of the Cedars joined the Lebanese Front, a coalition of mainly Christian parties intended to act as a counter force to the Lebanese National Movement of Kamal Jumblatt and others.

George D. Wallace

Wallace died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from injuries he sustained during a fall while on vacation in Pisa, Italy.

Gertrude Sanborn

The novel's title was borrowed in 1932 by pioneer African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux for his talkie Veiled Aristocrats, a remake of House Behind the Cedars, his 1924 silent film based on the novel by that name by Charles Chesnutt.

Government of Dallas

The Jack Evans Police Headquarters building is located in the Cedars, a south Dallas neighborhood adjacent to downtown.

Hans Heysen

In 1912 Hans Heysen had earned enough from his art to purchase a property called "The Cedars" near Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, which remained as his home until his death in 1968 aged 90.

Herman Platt

Platt was a key supporter of and fundraiser for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, the Jewish Home for the Aging, the City of Hope National Medical Center and the UCLA Foundation.

Katherine Low Settlement

The mission there foundered after the First World War, when ill-health forced the retirement of its principal, Nesta Lloyd, but in 1921 she passed the baton to a Christ's College, Cambridge initiative, Christ’s College Boys’ Club, and followed this up in 1923 by introducing the all-female Katherine Low Settlement to the club as its tenant at the Cedars.

O. W. Tancock

When he died in 1930, at the age of ninety, his address was The Cedars, Springfield, Essex.

Pinus sibirica

The Russian name Сибирский кедр (tr. Sibirsky kedr) is often mis-translated in English as "Siberian cedar"; references to "cedar" in texts translated from Russian usually refer to this tree or related pines, not to cedars.

Pulmonary artery catheter

The pulmonary artery catheter is frequently referred to as a Swan-Ganz catheter, in honor of its inventors Jeremy Swan and William Ganz, from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Rahul Parikh

After graduating, he took a year off from college, attended Tufts University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Riaumont

Scouting is ubiquitous and the three principal buildings do the activities: "Godefroy de Bouillon", "Beaumanoir" and "Cedars".

Staatliche Baderverwaltung Badenweiler

Today the garden contains extensive plantings of exotic trees, including mature sequoias, cedars, palm trees, eucalyptus, bananas, lemons, oleanders, hibiscus, and magnolias, as well as fine specimens of Prunus, Quercus, Rosa, Sorbus and Viburnum species and varietals.

The House Behind the Cedars

Micheaux remade The House Behind the Cedars in 1932 under the title Veiled Aristocrats.

Watson, Australian Capital Territory

Also located in the suburb are the Southern Cross Ten and Prime7 television studios, The Ted Noffs Foundation, Canberra Carotel (motel and caravan park), Red Cedars motel, Formule 1 Motel, Canberra Potters Society, and a BP service station.

Willis Brewer

He was interred in the family mausoleum on Cedars plantation, near Montgomery, Alabama.


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