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unusual facts about Fez


Faust Landmark

Plans to place a large replica of a 'Fez' Cap over the penthouse, at the base of the flagpole, which was abandoned as impractical.


Abraham Saba

According to Azulai ("Chida", Shem ha-Gedolim), who read the anecdote in a work entitled Dibre Yosef, Abraham in journeying from Fez to Verona became sick on the ship in mid-ocean during a great storm.

Ali Abu Hassun

Ahmad came back after two years, and was able to rule from 1547 and 1549, until 1549 when Fez and then Tlemcen were conquered by his southern Saadian rivals under their leader Mohammed ash-Sheikh.

Alids

Genealogoical chart of the descent from the Prophet of the Idrisid dynasty, rulers of Fez and Morocco, Kings of Tunis, and the Senussi dynasty, founders and heads of the Libyan Senussi Order and Kings of Libya are also descended from the other brother Hasan ibn Ali through Al Hassan Addakhil.

Charles Euan-Smith

In 1892 he travelled to Fez, the capital, in the hope of concluding a commercial treaty, and an agreement to end slavery.

Dar El Menia

Dar El Menia is a Riad or Dar, a traditional Moroccan house built around a central courtyard and lies in the heart of Fez (Fes) Medina, former imperial capital of Morocco and the world’s largest medina.

Donna Pinciotti

However, Donna told her friends that Eric had broken up with her in the eighth-season episode "Long Away", when Fez and Jackie suspected that she was cheating on Eric with the new cast character, Randy (Josh Meyers).

Fez Whatley

Ron Bennington was on-air the next day and in Fez's absence put on an impromptu radio memorial for Fez's father going to break playing Danny Boy.

Frank the Baptist

Frank Vollmann relocated to Berlin in 2006, joining long-time comrades Fez Wrecker (Bonniwell Music Machine, The Fuzztones) and Benn Ra (Hatesex, ex-Diva Destruction), both of whom had coincidentally played in early incarnations of Frank the Baptist in San Diego in 1997-1998.

French protectorate in Morocco

To ensure their own safety, the French moved the court from Fez to Rabat, which has served as the capital of the country ever since.

Irrational number

Al-Hassār, a Moroccan mathematician from Fez specializing in Islamic inheritance jurisprudence during the 12th century, first mentions the use of a fractional bar, where numerators and denominators are separated by a horizontal bar.

Jackie Burkhart

She believes herself to be very beautiful and appealing, and has been involved in romantic relationships with Michael Kelso, Steven Hyde, and Fez at different points in the series.

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil

Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized in April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon.

Joanna Canton

She had a recurring role on That '70s Show as Nina, Fez's boss and love interest at the DMV during the show's fifth season.

Kingdom of Sus

Traditionally, under the Alaouite dynasty, the Kingdom of Sus was one of the four "States of the King of Morocco", along with the Kingdom of Marrakech, the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Tafilalet.

Kingdom of Tlemcen

Under Yaghmurasen's leadership, and later under Abu Hammu II (1359-89), the kingdom pursued an expansionary policy, pushing towards Fez in the west and into the Chelif valley and Béjaïa in the east.

Luis Bravo de Acuña

In 1609 he commanded four galleys that accompanied a ship carrying Muley Xeque, exiled king of Fez, Morocco and Sous.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

This may explain their settlements and affinity with the Merinid and after the Wattasids dynasty, (وطاسيون waṭāsīyūn), ruling Fez, until, after 1554, the Saadi´s rulers, (Arabic: سعديون), from Tagmadert, at the Draa river valley, near Tidzi, near Zagora, conquered the town.

Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Wathiq

Muhammad ibn Ahmad, al-Wathiq (Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abu Zayyan) was Marinid Sultan of Fez from 1386 to 1387.

Retro City Rampage

The game also pays tribute to "cheesy" one-liners, television shows and pop culture, as well as cameos including Phil Fish (creator of Fez), Billy Campbell, and Phil Guerrero (of YTV fame) with permission.

Souleymane Demba

On October 4, 2009, Demba was chosen with the start team for the first time in Fez against Widad Fez, he played all the match which was ended with a draw between the two teams.

Street hierarchy

A clearer record of a stricter hierarchical order of streets appears in surviving and functioning Arabic-Islamic cities that originate in the late first millennium AD such as the Medina of Tunis, Marrakech, Fez and Damascus.

That '70s Pilot

The end credits features the gang in the Vista Cruiser singing the chorus to "Hello It's Me" with Fez singing the lyrics incorrectly.

The Maxes

The band performed their first shows at CB's Gallery, The Duplex, Arlene's Grocery and branched out to Fez Under Time Cafe, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, B.B. King's, Joe's Pub and other noted New York City venues.

Toorongo, Victoria

On any normal day walking around Toorongo you could see the townfolk donning a Native American headress, a Fez, a beret, an American GI helmet or even a Kolpik.

Twisted: The Game Show

Uncle Fez is the only contestant in the game in a non-human form and looks like a Pez dispenser.

Yusuf ibn Tashfin

Yusuf was an effective general and administrator, as evidenced by his ability to organize and maintain the loyalty of the hardened desert warriors and the territory of Abu Bakr, as well as his ability to expand the empire, crossing the Atlas Mountains onto the plains of Morocco, reaching the Mediterranean and capturing Fez in 1075, Tangier in 1079, Tlemcen in 1080, and Ceuta in 1083, as well as Algiers, Ténès and Oran in 1082-83.

Yuval Ron Ensemble

Some notable performances include: the International Sacred Music Festival of Fez (Morocco), International Oud Festival and peace tour (Israel), World Festival of Sacred Music (Los Angeles), headlining the Dalai Lama’s “Seeds of Compassion” benefit concert (Seattle), the International Peace Festival (South Korea), as well as concerts in Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and Poland.


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