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Endgame: Syria

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Abdul Rahman Orfalli

On March 20, 2012, he was reported to have been killed in heavy shelling by the Syrian army in an offensive on Homs.

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.

Adwan, Syria

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 21 households and 15 bachelors.

Al-Dana, Syria

In the mid-19th-century al-Dana was visited by English traveler James Silk Buckingham who noted that the village was built along the slopes of a rock in the center of a plain.

Al-Harra, Syria

The village itself was built around the eastern section of a small volcanic crater in the southeastern base of the Harrat ash-Shamah (Tell al-Harra) elevation.

In the 1870s the Palestine Exploration Fund visited al-Harra and reported that except for two small Damascus-born Arab Christian families, the town's population of 500 was entirely Muslim.

Arbin

Arbin, Syria, a town in the Rif Dimashq Governorate(*) in southern Syria

Archbishop Spyridon of America

In 1985 the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected him titular bishop of Apamea, assigning him as an auxiliary bishop to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Austria and Exarchate of Italy, as it was then known.

Arne Zwaig

Zwaig's first participation on the Norwegian Chess Olympiad team was in 1962 where he, as an untitled 15-year old, held Paul Keres to a draw in an inferior rook endgame.

Battle of Kissoué

By 12 June, Deraa, Sheikh Meskine and Ezraa on the Deraa to Damascus road had been captured and the Indian and Free French forces, now named Gentforce and under the unified command of French Major-General Paul Legentilhomme were before Kissoué.

Battle of Qalamoun

The Battle of Qalamoun started on 15 November 2013, with air strikes on the town of Qara, in the strategic Qalamoun region, in an attempt by the Syrian Army to cut rebel supply lines to Damascus from Lebanon.

Cinema Dimashq

Opened in Damascus, Syria, in 1943 by Toufik Chammas, a prominent local businessman, Cinema Dimashq rapidly became a local entertainment proxy, bringing Syria into the era of cinematography.

Consolidated Gold Fields

This ultimately resulted in the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and the handover of power to majority rule: the events are described in the 2009 television film "Endgame".

Dama, Syria

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 74 households and 28 bachelors.

Dead Cities

Many other sites and dead cities in the area are located at various distances around Aleppo and Idlib: Serjilla, Ebla, Bara, Qalb Loze Basilica, Baqirha Byzantine Church, Deir Mishmish Church, Benastur Monastery, Deir Amman churches, Sargible settlement, Tell A'de Church and Monastery and other settlements found in Jabal Halaqa region.

Death of Sammy Yatim

Sammy Yatim (1995 - 27 July 2013) was an 18-year-old Toronto man, born and raised in Aleppo, Syria, who was shot nine times by Toronto Police Service officer James Forcillo on July 27, 2013.

Diniktum

It enjoyed independence briefly during the 18th century under the reigns of the Amorite chieftains (ra-bí-an MAR.DÚ) Itur-šarrum, attested on a single seal from Ešnunna, and Sîn-gāmil, son of Sîn-šēmi and a contemporary of Zimri-Lim (ca. 1710–1698 BC short) of Mari and Ḫammu-rapī (ca. 1728–1686 BC short) of Babylon.

Ekallatum

The history of upper Mesopotamia in this period is documented in the archives of Mari, Syria.

Endgame: Singularity

The interface style is similar to an older hacking simulation Uplink by Introversion Software.

Ernest Pogosyants

Harold van der Heijden included 1,727 studies by Pogosyants in his endgame study database.

Fiq, Syria

When Gottlieb Schumacher surveyed the area in the 1880s, he described Fiq as a large village with about 400 people.

Head Crusher

"Head Crusher" is the first single from American heavy metal band Megadeth's twelfth studio album, titled Endgame, which was released on September 15, 2009.

Jandar, Syria

The refinery was a $100 million joint project between Syrian businessman Najib Assaf, government-owned SugarInvest, multinational Cargill, Brazilian company Crystalsev and the Dubai-based Wellington Group.

Jean Carzou

Jean Carzou (1907, Aleppo, Syria – August 12, 2000, Marsac-sur-l'Isle, Dordogne, France), born Karnik Zouloumian, was a French Armenian artist, painter and illustrator, whose work illustrated the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus.

Jund al-Urdunn

During the Fatimid era, the principal cities were Acre, Tiberias, Baysan, Beit Ras, Jadur, Fiq, Tyre, Lajjun, Faradiyya, Kabul and Saffuriya.

Ken Thompson

Later, with the help of chess endgame expert John Roycroft, Thompson distributed his first results on CD-ROM.

Larry Evans

Evans also contributed a large amount of tutorial and other content to the Chessmaster computer game series, most notably an endgame quiz and annotations of classic chess games.

Marc Tyler Arnold

Subsequent instructors included Grandmaster William Lombardy who included much chess culture and endgame technique, and Grandmaster Joel Benjamin.

Mari, Syria

A photograph of the Palace of Mari gave the title to one of Morton Feldman's last piano pieces, 'Palais de Mari' (1986).

Contemporary archives have been found, among others, in Tell Leilan in the Upper Khabur area and Tell Shemshara in the Zagros Mountains.

The cities with which Mari is confirmed to have traded include: Ur, Aleppo, and Ugarit.

Mazen Darwish

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

Michelle Borth

In 2008, she wrapped the independent film TiMER with Emma Caulfield and Desmond Harrington, and appeared in the Endgame Productions' comedy film, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy with Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, and Jason Sudeikis.

Morgan Clark

Sheridan and his forces, however, were able to destroy the defense platforms before they fired; Sheridan was prepared to ram the final platform (targeting North America's eastern seaboard) with his badly damaged ship, but the EAS Apollo (previously fighting against Sheridan) appeared, then destroyed the platform and save Sheridan's life ("Endgame").

Najran, Syria

It had a population of 65 households and 25 bachelors, all Muslim.

Qarah

Qarah, Syria, a town in the Qalamoun District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate of Syria

Shinan, Syria

The village hosts two schools for basic education (first cycle and second cycle), a branch for Consumption (Cooperative) Society, a mosque, a pharmacy.

It also contains a plate carved in the rock with a painting of Nero, with a lion and a young girl.

Thomas McInerney

Thomas McInerney and Paul E. Vallely, Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror, Regnery Publishing, February 1, 2004 ISBN 0-89526-066-2


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