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unusual facts about Medina, Dakar



2009 IFA Shield

Most of the teams came from the I-League 1 & 2, with AS Douanes (Dakar) invited from Senegal and Tata Football Academy qualifying by winning the Prodyut Dutta Memorial Trophy.

2sTV

The channel is based in the business quarter close to the Banque Centrale des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (BCEAO) in the centre of Dakar.

824th Bombardment Squadron

It also engaged in transport operations from North Africa to the Azores or Dakar in French West Africa where personnel were eventually transported to Florida.

Alfonso Fraile

In collaboration with Joseph Vento Ruiz, and Medina and Julio Martín-Caro, Fraile founded the group, "Nuevo Espacialismo," reintroducing the figure with a narrative emphasis, citing the abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning as one of their influences.

AllAfrica.com

It is available in both English and French and produced by AllAfrica Global Media, which has offices in Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Monrovia, Nairobi, and Washington, D.C..

Ayub Thakur

Dr. Ayyub Thakur also attended the 1991 Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign minister meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the 1993 OIC summit meeting in Dakar, Senegal and World tactics did not yield the desired result.

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

It describes events set in the Najd plateau along the pilgrim route between Mecca and Medina during one day in 1844-1845, when a mysterious saddlebag passes from hand to hand, and influences the lives of each person who comes across it.

Basketball at the 2011 Island Games – Men's tournament

The men's tournament was held from 26 June–1 July 2011 at the Medina Leisure Centre, Newport and Cowes High School, Cowes.

Battle of Dakar

Also in the afternoon, an attempt was made to set Free French troops ashore on a beach at Rufisque, to the south-east of Dakar.

Capital punishment in Mexico

In 2002, President Vicente Fox cancelled a trip to the United States to meet US President George W. Bush, in protest of the then imminent execution of a Mexican national, Javier Suárez Medina, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Christianity in Saudi Arabia

Christians and other non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest cities.

County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota

County Road 116 begins at Hamel Road (County 115) in Medina, then passes through Corcoran to Territorial Road in the unincorporated town of Fletcher, then follows Territorial Road to the Wright County line at the Crow River, where it becomes Wright County Road 22.

Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally

The game begins in rural Paris and ends on a beach in Dakar, Senegal, with 11 stages in between, including tracks in the Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains.

Dakar Department

The département of Dakar is divided into four arrondissements: Almadies, Grand Dakar, Parcelles Assainies (which literally means "drained lots"; this is the most populous arrondissement of Dakar), and Plateau/Gorée (downtown Dakar).

Dakar-Plateau

The commune d'arrondissement of Plateau/Gorée (34,626 inhabitants), in the arrondissement of Dakar-Plateau, is the historical heart of the city, and most ministries and public administrations are located there.

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.

Dewoitine D.332

The three D.333s were used on the Toulouse-Dakar sector of the Air France South American route for several years.Two of these planes were transferred to the Argentine Air Force after WWII and usde along with two 338s.

Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza

Following a broadcast of the television programme Top Gear on 30 January 2011, during which the presenters made several derogatory slurs depicting a stereotypical portrayal of Mexican culture and people, Medina-Mora wrote to the BBC about comments made by Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May about himself and Mexico, demanding a public apology from the BBC.

Éric Aubijoux

Éric Aubijoux died on the 14th and penultimate stage between Tambacounda and Dakar.

Ernest Medina

Medina is mentioned by name in the first stanza of Pete Seeger's Vietnam protest song "Last Train to Nuremberg" (1970).

Farman F.70

Lignes Aeriennes Latécoère used the aircraft to operate passenger and mail routes between Casablanca and Dakar and also from Algiers to Biskra.

Fashoda Incident

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.

Guy Bourdin

During his military service in Dakar (1948–1949), he received his first photography training as a cadet in the French Air Force.

Hampshire Basin

The central part drains into the Solent (directly or via via Southampton Water), through the Lymington River, Test, Itchen, Meon, Hamble, Western Yar, Medina and Eastern Yar.

Jesús de Cárdenas

The Republic of Rio Grande claimed as its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to the north until the Nueces river and Medina respectively, and all the states of Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Nuevo México, among those present were appointed official representatives of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

Khadim N'Diaye

Serigne Khadim N'Diaye (born 30 November 1984 in Dakar) is a Senegalese footballer who plays for Kalmar FF on loan from ASC Linguère as a goalkeeper.

Mame Younousse Dieng

Mame Younousse Dieng is a Senegalese writer born in Tivaouane who lives in Dakar.

Maria Medina Coeli

Maria Medina Coeli (1764 in Chiavenna – 1846 in Pianello Lario) was an Italian scientist.

Mario Medina

Mario Medina Rojas (born 2 September 1952) is a Mexican football forward who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

Mbaye-Jacques Diop

On 13 February 2008, the Grand Marabout of the Mourides, Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, asked Diop to return from Paris to meet with Wade in Dakar on 14 February.

Medical Ostraca of Deir el-Medina

; Rash : Leaves of Acacia and Wax, smeared on the rash in the morning for four days.

Medina College-Pagadian

After acquiring St. John College and Hospital, Medina College Pagadian City in the Philippines is the leading nursing school in the province of Zamboanga del Sur attracting students from Sulo, Basilan, Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga City, Lanao del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, and even Cotabato City.

Medina House

Medina House is a former Turkish bath on the seafront of Hove, Sussex, England.

Medina Valley

For example, the California Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera occurs only in the western USA west of the Medina Valley and Balcones Fault.

Medina, Minas Gerais

::Not to be confused with Medina, Saudi Arabia.

Mukhayriq

Two Jewish tribes that were allied with Mecca in the Battle of Uhud were expelled from Medina soon after the battle.

Nafissatou Niang Diallo

Born in Dakar, she was brought up from infancy by her paternal grandmother after her mother's death.

Nicolás Medina

In January 2013, Medina joined the pre-season camp of the Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer as a trialist.

Patricia Medina

Medina also made television appearances on Perry Mason ("The Case of the Lucky Loser", 27 September 1958); Bonanza ("The Spanish Grant", 6 February 1960), Thriller ("The Premature Burial", 1961) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("See the Monkey Dance", 9 November 1964).

Ramon Goose

As of 2012 Goose has started work on the Desert Rock (band) a unique musical project which evolved after Goose travelled to the Sahara and also Dakar to combine his love of Berber and Mandinka rhythms and melodies with Blues Rock.

Richardson Olmsted Complex

The large Medina red sandstone and brick hospital buildings were designed in 1870 in the Kirkbride Plan by architect Henry Hobson Richardson with grounds by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Roque Balduque

In 1554 he contracted for the sacramental altarpiece of the Parish Church of Santa María la Coronada in Medina Sidonia (Province of Cádiz).

Salto del Guairá

This depended of Hernandarias District, and, at that time it was integrated by three renowned neighbors: Col (SR.) Isabelino Pimienta Medina (+) as the president, Carmelo Peralta as the treasurer, and for the secretary position, Prof. Pedro Ramón Girett.

Salvador Medina

Salvador Medina Cárcamo (born January 27, 1988 in Distrito Federal) is a Mexican professional football defender who currently plays for Pumas Morelos in the Liga de Ascenso.

SS West Saginaw

She then sailed to Bathurst, South Africa, arriving on 10 June and departing the same day for Dakar.

Stuart Robles de Medina

As a visual artist, Robles de Medina received several large orders, which the result can still be seen in Paramaribo.

Velkommen til Medina

Velkommen til Medina (Danish for "Welcome to Medina") is the second studio album by the Danish pop singer Medina.


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