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2 unusual facts about Invitation


Invitation

Invitation system, a method of joining an organization, such as a club or a website

Wedding invitation, an invitation to a wedding, often an ornate greeting card


2013 FIBA Asia Championship Group A

In a game that is colored by the killing of the Philippine Coast Guard to a Taiwanese fisherman at the waters near Batanes, and the subsequent withdrawal of invitation from the 2013 William Jones Cup by Taiwanese to the Philippines, which were defending champions, Chinese Taipei banked on Lu Cheng-ju and Lin Chih-chieh to defeat the Filipinos to win the group.

Abraham Wald

Wald and his wife died in an airplane crash in the Nilgiri mountains, in southern India, while on an extensive lecture tour at the invitation of the Indian government.

Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan

Mr Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan participated in Training Course on Judicial Ethics organised by Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA), London in June 2009 Also, he visited Morocco in 2010 after an official invitation and met the Chief Justice of Morocco and Minister of Law & Justice .

Alan Kitching

In 1972, this led to an invitation from computer artist Colin Emmett for Kitching to join him at the Atlas Computer Laboratory to try programming, using Fortran.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

The thawing of the Cold War and subsequent break up of the Soviet Union yielded a formal invitation from Mikhail Gorbachev for JDC’s return to the region in 1989; 50 years after Joseph Stalin brutally expelled the organization, killing several JDC members in the process.

Anson Dodge

First attracted to the forests of Ontario in 1866, with an invitation from Henry W. Sage, possibly at a time when Sage was considering disposing of his Bell Ewart mill.

Anton Schmid

On May 8, 2000, by invitation of German Federal Minister of Defence Rudolf Scharping, President Heinz Fischer attended the barracks-appellation as President of the National Council of Austria in Rendsburg.

Anwar Jamal

He joined the AJK, Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, on the invitation of its founder Chairperson, the late AJ Kidwai, and came close to the world-renowned documentary filmmaker James Beveridge.

Aston Martin Owners Club

Having been fired with enthusiasm by winning an automobile race at age twenty and by his first meeting with 'Bert' Bertelli shortly after, his success led to the purchase of the team car LM7 and an invitation to drive “under works control’’ at Le Mans in 1933.

Aureolus

In any event, Postumus ignored his invitation and Aureolus, unsupported by the Gallic usurper, was defeated by Gallienus in a battle on the River Adda east of Milan at a place known for centuries as Pontirolo (from Latin Pons Aureoli i.e. 'The Bridge of Aureolus').

Bugatti 16C Galibier

Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. debuted the 16C Galibier at an invitation-only show held at the Molsheim, France assembly salon on September 12, 2009.

Centro d'Arte Modigliani

They received an invitation from French artists and the "Twinning Council" of Pantin (Paris), France and inaugurated their XXXIV Year Salon of Painting with the Pantin art association "Les Amis des Arts" (Friends of Art).

Collective Security Treaty Organization

The Belarusian President defended himself against this criticism by citing former Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation of Askar Akayev to Russia after he was ousted as President of Kyrgyzstan during the 2005 Tulip Revolution.

Daphne Jackson

Jackson moved to what is now called the University of Surrey at the invitation of Lewis Elton to study nuclear physics when he became head of the physics department at Battersea College of Advanced Technology.

David Farquhar

This music was originally commissioned by Richard Campion for the New Zealand Players' production of Ring Round the Moon, Christopher Fry's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's play L'invitation au château.

Dennis Byron

At the invitation of then-Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, Judge Byron, while serving as Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, from which position he retired, became a permanent Judge of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2004.

Gerhard Skiba

In 1992 representatives from Bautzen, Mauthausen, Wunsiedel and other towns with an “unwelcome heritage” followed his invitation for the 1st Braunau Contemporary History Days.

Gloria Yerkovich

Yerkovich attended the signing of the latter at the invitation of President Ronald Reagan.

Jennifer 8

At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural northern California, for a job with the Eureka police force.

Johannes Mensing

He was forced to leave, and took up the invitation of the Princess Margaretha von Anhalt, who ruled during the minority of her sons; he went to Dessau to support her in her efforts against Protestants in her territory.

John Wheeldon

He strongly opposed the Vietnam War and (though no supporter of Communism) visited North Vietnam at the invitation of the North Vietnam peace committee, while Australia was involved in fighting in South Vietnam.

Kyle McClellan

On January 15, 2013, McClellan signed a minor league deal (with invitation to spring training) with the Texas Rangers.

Lim Guan Eng

On November 6, 2011, the Penang state government under Lim's leadership managed to strengthen ties and forge friendship with the state of Victoria, Australia when the Governor of Victoria Alex Chernov made an official day-long visit to Penang with the invitation of the state government.

Liu Shueh-Shuan

Upon invitation by The National Chinese Orchestra under the Ministry of Education, Liu composed “Song of the Tsou Tribe” based on Taiwanese aboriginal folk music and toured throughout Europe.

Luigi Romersa

On Mussolini's invitation, he went to Germany to be present for Nazi war experiments in October 1944 in Rügen Island, in the Baltic Sea: in fact Hitler wanted to show a new bomb to Mussolini.

Lyudmila Zykina

It is known she was a particular favourite of both Kim Il-song and his son Kim Jong-il, performing in Pyongyang six times at the invitation of the Kims.

Matthew Herbert

In 2010 he produced a new project at the invitation of London Sinfonietta called One Day in which he set to music a Saturday edition of the Guardian newspaper, performed at London's Southbank Centre in the London Jazz Festival.

Müfide İlhan

This time their destination was Kabul, Afghanistan, where her husband, now a professor, had got an invitation to teach in the Medicine school of Kabul University.

National team appearances in the Rugby World Cup

2 Georgia and Russia were part of the Soviet Union in 1987, whose national team declined an invitation to the inaugural World Cup on political grounds.

New York Angels

Among the 75 Accredited Investor members of the invitation-only group are Gideon Gartner (Gartner Group and GIGA), Esther Dyson (Release 1.0 and PC Forum), Alan Patricof (Apax Ventures and Greycroft Partners), Scott Kurnit (About.com), Roger Ehrenberg (IA Capital), Jeff Stewart (Mimeo.com), Jon Whelan (AfterNIC.com), Linda Holliday (Digitas Health) and other technology entrepreneurs.

Noah Worcester

Three years later, in 1813 he accepted an invitation to edit the The Christian Disciple, a Boston-based periodical founded by the eminent Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing and others, and moved to Brighton, Massachusetts.

Nomataras

As a result, in October 1993 at the invitation of Luciano Giugno (Luciano Jr.), one of the original members of that group, Pedro Visintin joined the group of bands supporting The Girlie Show World Tour, Madonna’s first appearance on tour in Buenos Aires.

NYC Ya Basta Collective

In April, 2001, this collective, along with the Direct Action Network, was active in organizing, after invitation, a US / Canada border crossing over the Seaway International Bridge, in cooperation with the Akwesasne Mohawk Warrior society, at the St Regis Mohawk reservation, leading up to the anti-FTAA protests in Quebec City, Quebec.

Odyssice

The interest lad to an invitation to perform at a Sym-Infos festival at 't Noorderligt in Tilburg on 16 June 1989.

Perry Jackson

Jackson, a teammate of Arnie Shockley's from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, used Archie's invitation to try-out for Boston.

Peter S. Meadows

At the invitation of Dr Maliha Lodhi, the High Commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom, the lecture was delivered in September 2005 to an audience at the High Commission of Pakistan in London.

Peter Sugiyama

He moved to Koror in 1914 at the invitation of his uncle, after the Japanese Empire seized control of the islands as part of its World War I invasion of German New Guinea (which control would later be formalised by the League of Nations as the South Pacific Mandate).

Ralph A. Sawyer

At the invitation of Harrison M. Randall, Sawyer then joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the University of Michigan, an affiliation that he retained for his entire career.

Rana dynasty

Many of Crown Prince General Dhoj Narsingh's children and family remained with Sri Teen Ranodip Singh's widow in Benares and were then relocated later to Udaipur upon the invitation by Maharana Fateh Singh, who sought to give refuge to his Rana cousins.

Sadakazu Uyenishi

In the year 1900, aged twenty, Uyenishi travelled to London at the invitation of Edward William Barton-Wright, the founder of the eclectic martial art of Bartitsu.

Salem Hanna Khamis

He soon accepted an invitation from the United Nations to work in its Statistical Office in Lake Success (1949-1950) then New York (1950-1953).

Sarath Jayawardene

He played for a Malaysian Cricket Association Invitation XI against England A in February 2004, also playing in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy for a second time the same month.

Sisters of the Holy Childhood of Jesus and Mary

At the invitation of bishop Jauffret of Metz, Mme Méjanes and her community went from Argancy to Metz and took up their abode in the Abbey of St. Glossinde, where, on 20 April 1807, they bound themselves by vow to follow the statutes drawn up for them by the bishop.

Travels to the West of Qiu Chang Chun

In 1220, on the invitation of Genghis Khan with a golden tablet, Qiu Chuji left his home town in Shandong with nineteen disciples, and travelled through Beijing and travelled north.

Under the Dark Cloth

It is the result of an invitation by the Department of Photography of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to write a suite of songs inspired by the work of pioneering photographers Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen.

Walter Johannes Stein

Stein moved to London in 1933, at the invitation of the theosophist-turned-anthroposophist Daniel Nicol Dunlop.

West Sussex Invitation Cricket League

The West Sussex Invitation Cricket League is a cricket competition in West Sussex, England.

World Doctors Orchestra

Further concerts in 2013 will be on September 17 in the Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany, on invitation of the Beethovenfest Bonn and on September 18 in the Philharmonie Berlin, Germany, with countertenor Jochen Kowalski and jazz singer Donna Brown.

Zhang Jiqing

Zhang Jiqing accepted the invitation and performed The Peony Pavilion and the Lankeshan—the Crazy Dream.


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