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3 unusual facts about Janus-Merritt Strategies


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This time the name of Alamoudi had been replaced by the name of Dr. Jamal al Barzinji, who is also notable as a vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).

Perhaps the most controversial client of the lobbying firm was the American Muslim Council and Abdurahman Alamoudi, a fierce supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah.

Safavian left Janus in January 2001 to become Chief of Staff for Representative Chris Cannon.


2003 mutual fund scandal

Spitzer and later the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also charged that major mutual fund groups such as Janus, Bank One's One Group, and Strong Capital Management and others facilitated "market timing" trading for favored clients.

A Message to Your Heart

The "message to the heart" refers to Janus imploring the better-off to, at the very least, say a prayer for the less fortunate, ending with the well-known John Bradford quotation, "There but for the grace of God, go I."

Asher Keddie

Keddie had guest roles early in her career in various television dramas, including her first roles in Five Mile Creek (1985), Fortress (1986) and Janus (1994).

Dhimitër Pasko

While in Bucharest he became a journalist with the Albanian weekly newspaper Shqipëri' e re (New Albania), using the pseudonym Janus.

Edward Wormley

Wormley's occasional tables for Dunbar include his tile-topped tables created as part of the Janus line in 1957 which were a partnership between Modern production design aesthetic and the tile traditions of Tiffany and Otto Natzler.

General Recorded Tape

General Recorded Tape later grew to acquire major labels in its own right, such as Chess Records and Janus Records, and also released music under its own label, GRT Records.

Holsteinische Schweiz station

The entire route was built due to the efforts of businessman Johannes Janus, who ran the Hotel Holsteinische Schweiz ("Holstein Switzerland") after which the station was named.

Jacob Theodor Klein

Geus, Armin: Die Kontroverse von R. A. F. de Réaumur und J. Th. Klein über Bau und Wachstum der Schneckenschalen. in Janus. no. 65, Amsterdam 1978

Jamie Livingston

Livingston was a member of Chris Wangro's circus troupe The Janus Circus founded by Wangro at Bard College with other Bard Alumni including Zeena Parkins.

Janolus

The name Janolus is derived from the two-headed god Janus, in ancient Roman mythology.

Janus effect

Janus was a Roman god with two faces; one looking forward and the other looking back.

Janus Kamban

Janus Kamban (10 September 1913 in Tórshavn - 2 May 2009) was a Faroese sculptor and last living representative from the "first generation" of professional artists in the Faroe Islands.

Janus kinase

The name is taken from the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and endings, Janus, because the JAKs possess two near-identical phosphate-transferring domains.

Janus the Nega-Man

Janus plotted to siphon the power of the Negative Zone, however he was apparently destroyed this time by an energy disruption.

Jens Oliver Lisberg

While a law student in Copenhagen, he devised the flag in 1919 with two other Faroese students, Janus Øssursson from Tórshavn and Paul Dahl from Vágur.

John Toland

He would later write that he had been baptised Janus Junius, a play on his name that recalled both the Roman two-faced god Janus and Junius Brutus, reputed founder of the Roman republic.

Las Dos Caras de Ana

The title is upon the phrase Las Dos Caras de Jano (The Two Faces of Janus).

LET L-13 Blaník

This variant is similar in concept to the modified Janus once operated by the DFVLR (today the DLR, or German Aerospace Center) for the same purpose.

Maria Anna Mozart

Marianne and her family were noted in The 39 Clues series as members of the Cahill family branch, Janus.

Outernet

They use a low-tech form of teleportation, traveling to Stonehenge (where Janus and Sirius originally landed), the Great Pyramid of Giza, Machu Picchu, Uluru, and Shangri-La to complete a chain that will defend Earth.

Past, Present and Future

The U.S. album cover (Janus Records), by Hipgnosis and George Hardie, is a photography-like rendition of the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange using his Cloak of Levitation to travel through a hole created in the air into an alternative universe.

Philippa Ballantine

Philippa Ballantine, Tee Morris, The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel (2012), HarperVoyager ISBN 0-06-204978-X

Quadrigatus

The choice of Janus for these coins is believed to coincide with the closing of the doors of the Temple of Janus, indicating the absence of warfare, a rare occasion.

Scientific community metaphor

In the book, Janus figures make paradoxical statements about scientific development.

Sebastian Fuchsberger

As a trombonist, he has performed in concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Klangforum Wien, the Camerata Academica Salzburg, the Wiener Taschenoper, the Janus Ensemble, Mund.Art, the Burgtheater, and bands such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, Max Nagel and the Alegre Correa Group.

Take Aim at the Police Van

This film was made available in North America when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu Noir films as part of the Criterion Collection, also including I Am Waiting, Rusty Knife, and A Colt Is My Passport.

Tee Morris

Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine, The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel (2012), HarperVoyager ISBN 0-06-204978-X

The Head of Janus

This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus (the Roman god of the doorway), which Warren / O'Connor purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane Lanyon (Margarete Schlegel).

The Janus Man

As he attempts to discover the identity of "The Janus Man who faces both East and West", he tracks sources of information in Moscow, Lübeck, Copenhagen and Oslo to hunt down the killer of Ferguson.

Víðarr

Dumézil theorizes that these myths of Fenrir/Víðarr and Bali/Vishnu may have a common origin in an Indo-European God of spatiality, similar but distinct from the hypothetical framing or entry/exit God that spawned Janus and Heimdall.

Zündapp Janus

In the animated feature film Cars 2, the secondary antagonist, Professor Zündapp is based on a Zündapp Janus.


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