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8 unusual facts about GIA


Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar

In 1998, Bary asked al-Naggar to claim asylum in the United Kingdom, so he could help convince Hani Sibai to support the Algerian GIA in media communiques.

Gang de Roubaix

Then Kamel, who was working for the GIA, convinced Caze and Dumont, who was an idealist, to commit terrorist attacks in their hometown country because of the diplomatic relationships between France and Algeria.

Gia-Fu Feng

On Christmas Day, 1970, Gia-Fu and Jane English were married in Mill Valley in a ceremony performed by Alan Watts.

Gia-Fu Feng (1919–1985) was prominent as both an English translator (with his wife, Jane English) of Taoist classics and a Taoist teacher in the United States, associated with Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, The Beats and Abraham Maslow.

To illustrate how different people perceived Gia-Fu, one person writes: Toward the end of the 1960s Gia-Fu gained a great degree of notoriety as a Patriarch of the Countercultural Free Love movement.

Hearts and arrows

Most diamonds with an overall cut graded by GIA as "Excellent" (with Excellent symmetry as well) or American Gem Society as "0" (or "Ideal") will have some sort of hearts and arrows pattern when seen through a viewer, although the pattern may not be perfect.

Mouawad

It is judged to be internally flawless and 'D' color by the Gemological Institute of America.

On the Real

On The Real was a radio show on the Air America network hosted by Gia'na Garel & Chuck D.


Armed Islamic Group of Algeria

In May, FIS suffered an apparent blow as Abderrezak Redjam, Mohammed Said, the exiled Anwar Haddam, and the MEI's Said Makhloufi joined the GIA; since the GIA had been issuing death threats against them since November 1993, this came as a surprise to many observers, who interpreted it either as the result of intra-FIS competition or as an attempt to change the GIA's course from within.

Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine

In 2008, La Stampa reported that an anonymous high-ranking Western government official, based in Algeria at the time of the murders, had told them that the kidnapping was orchestrated by a DRS-infiltrated GIA group, but the monks had been killed accidentally by an Algerian military helicopter which attacked the camp where they were being held captive.

Atiyah Abd al-Rahman

The Washington Post reported that another prominent Libyan exile, Noman Benotman, he was sent to Algeria in the 1990s to serve as an envoy to a group they said was then known as the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).

Battle of Ba Gia

Even though the fighting at Ba Gia was minor in scale, it convinced President Lyndon B. Johnson that South Vietnam's armed forces could not deal with the growing Communist forces by themselves.

Bentalha massacre

Responsibility for this massacre and that of Rais was claimed by the Armed Islamic Group in a press release from London on September 26 (according to Agence France-Presse.) Fouad Boulemia, a leading GIA member, was sentenced to death on August 1, 2004 (for the second time; he had also been found guilty of killing FIS leader Abdelkader Hachani) for involvement in the massacre.

Cochinchina

Gia Long's successors (see the Nguyễn Dynasty for details) repelled the Siamese from Cambodia and even annexed Phnom Penh and surrounding territory in the war of 1831 to 1834, but were forced to relinquish these conquests in the war of 1841 to 1845.

Descant

The Vocal Descant Edition for Worship, Third Edition (GIA Publications, 1994) offers 254 descants by such composers as Donald Busarow, John Ferguson, Richard Hillert, Robert Hobby, Hal Hopson, David Hurd, Austin Lovelace, Ronald Nelson, Sam Batt Owens, Robert Powell, Richard Proulx, William P. Rowan, Carl Schalk, Randall Sensmeier, Scott Withrow, and Michael Young.

Dinamo Arena

Built in 1976 by the Georgian architect Gia Kurdiani, the Dinamo Arena was named Boris Paichadze National Stadium after the famous Georgian football player Boris Paichadze.

Gia Johnson

As a result, Gia has worked with noted fashion photographers including Ellen von Unwerth, Rankin, Robin Derrick, and Dan Smith.

Giorgos Velentzas

He is characteristically made a role in the movie Apo pou pana gia to havouza, in which his brother of unforgotten Anna Mantzourani in the movie The Charlatan with Thanassia Veggos, he also starred with his father master-Lefteris, Velentzas did several police roles.

Heaven Music

In 2002, Heaven began a collaboration with the Ministry of Sound, a leading dance label in Europe, exposing Despina Vandi's album Gia, which was already certified multi-platinum in Greece, across Europe and North America.

Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts

The predecessor of this school was the École des Dessin, founded by André Joyeux in 1913, which became the École des Arts appliqués de Gia Đinh from 1940-1971 (Trung học Trang trí Mỹ thuật Gia Định).

Hoang Anh Gia Lai – Arsenal JMG Academy

The academy is a built as cooperation between Arsenal Football Club and a Vietnamese privately owned corporation Hoang Anh Gia Lai.

Hristougenna Me Tin Katy

Garbi sings her favorite carols accompanied by Spiros Lambros's well-known children's choir and by internationally known tenor Konstantinos Paliatsaras on "Touli Gia To Hristouli".

Irrigation in Vietnam

Nine rivers count as major ones accounting for ~93% of the total basin area; these are the Red River, Thái Bình River, Bằng Giang-Kỳ Cùng rivers, Ma River, Cả River, Vu Gia-Thu Bồn rivers, Đà Rằng River, Đồng Nai River and Cửu Long River.

James Haven

He had minor roles in several films starring his sister, Angelina Jolie, namely Gia (1998), Hell's Kitchen (1998), and Original Sin (2001), as well as in Monster's Ball (2001), which starred his sister's then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

Louise Pajo

Having trained in England she appeared in many popular programs there including The Avengers and is remembered by fans of Doctor Who for her role as Gia Kelly in the 1969 serial The Seeds of Death.

Lý Nhã Kỳ

She is known for portraying Diem Kieu in VTV's series Kiều nữ và đại gia (The beauty and the wealthy).

Mahfoud Nahnah

After being freed four years later, he helped found the El Islah Oual Irchad (Reform and Guidance) charitable association with Mohammed Bouslimani, as well as the Islamic Preaching League with Ahmed Sahnoun, uniting major figures of the Algerian Islamist movement such as Abbassi Madani and Mohammed Said.

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid

A group of animal activists, consisting of Dr. Nikki Riley (Debbie Gibson), Gia (Arden Cho) and Ben (Patrick Hancock), break into a house and steal dozens of exotic pythons before setting them free into the Florida Everglades.

Ocean Dream Diamond

The Ocean Dream is the first and one of the only natural diamonds known to the GIA to possess a blue-green hue (besides the Ocean Paradise Diamond owned by the Nahshonov Group, found in Brazil in 2012), making it one of the rarest diamonds in the world.

Ocean Paradise Diamond

The Ocean Paradise is the second and one of the only natural diamonds known to the GIA to possess a blue-green hue (the first being the Ocean Dream Diamond owned by the Cora Diamond Corp., found in Central Africa), making it one of the rarest diamonds in the world.

Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion

In 1996, in Roubaix, the unit neutralized a 14-terrorists group tied to the GIA, suspected of several bloody bank robberies, murders and a missed attack against a G7 meeting in Lille.

Rick Batalla

He has worked both in front of the camera as a series regular (Payne, HUD, True Love), and as a guest star (Married With Children, Living Single, Brooklyn South, 8 Simple Rules) on various television shows, and in films like Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Gia with Angelina Jolie.

Si Zerrouk massacre

Larbaa was a major center for the FIS's armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), which the GIA had recently declared war on; Mustapha Kartali, a former GIA chief who had split from him in 1995 and become head of the AIS's Katibat Errahamane brigade, was based in the area.

South Vietnam national football team

The South Vietnam national football team (Vietnamese: Đội tuyển túc cầu quốc gia Việt Nam Cộng hòa) was the national team of South Vietnam controlled by Vietnam Football Association (now Vietnam Football Federation) between 1949 and 1975.

The Victor Twins

On the 10th episode, The Twins were involved in a physical altercation with housemates Erica Figueroa, Demitra Roche, Gia Sapp-Hernandez, and Elease Donovan which resulted in the Twins leaving the house two weeks later.

To Ximeroma Tou Erota

# "Gia na niosis san Theos" - 3:53 - (Christos Nikolopoulos-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Για να νιώσεις σαν Θεός)

Tống Thị Lan

Empress Thừa Thiên had two sons with Gia Long: Nguyen Phuc Chieu (who died after several days) and Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh.

Tragoudia Gia Tous Mines

Tragoudia Gia Tous Mines (Songs For The Months) is an album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki and it was released in 1996.

Tragoudia Gia Tous Mines: The Third Side

"Tragoudia Gia Tous Mines: The Third Side" (Songs For the Months: The Third Side) is an EP by Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 2000.

Tzeni Karezi

In 1967, during the filming of Kontserto gia polyvola, she met Kostas Kazakos, "the love of her life" as she continuously said, with whom she gave birth to her only child, Konstantinos Kazakos.

Xylina Spathia

In 1999, the EP "Trofi gia ta thiria" was released by Virgin Records.It contained 4 songs, which were recorded from April to May 1999 in Agrotikon studio owned by Nikos Papazoglou in Thessaloniki, with Christos Megas as sound engineer.These songs were indicative of the band's double sound direction.

You're Cut Off!

Gia, Jaqueline, Pamela, Erica, and Jessica get into a fight (not the least bit helped by Jessica's response to Erica's rendition of Kumbaya or Gia's deflated air mattress).


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