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4 unusual facts about Pala


Albert Pahimi Padacké

Pahimi was elected to the National Assembly in the April 2002 parliamentary election as an RNDP-Le Réveil candidate in Pala constituency, in Mayo-Dallah Department.

Jaan Eilart

Jaan Eilart (24 June 1933 in Pala, Kirna Parish, Järva County – 18 May 2006 in Tartu) was an Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist.

Pala, Chad

The Roman Catholic bishopric of Pala served Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture, in 1970, Pala included 116,000 of Chad's 160,000 Catholics.

Palai Assembly Constituency

Pala has many prestigious educational institutions; St. Thomas College, Alphonsa College, St. Joseph's Engineering College, St. Thomas Bed College, are some of them.


Ano Pala

Peter O'Neill became Prime Minister, and appointed Pala as his Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration.

Jagannath Sami

Jagannath Sami's soccer career started when he first represented the Lautoka soccer team in 1972, playing his first game in that year's Pala Cup against Suva.

Jhulelal

On Cheti Chand, second day of the new moon paksha of Chaitra, Mata Devki gave birth to a boy - a miracle hailed the child's birth - the babe opened his mouth and behold! there flowed the Sindhu with an old man sitting cross-legged on a 'pala' fish.

Joseph Kallarangatt

He currently serves as the Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Palai (also known as Pala), which has the largest concentration of Syro-Malabar Catholics.

Jute

Likewise, the Lugbara of Northwestern Uganda eat the leaves as soup, locally called pala bi.

Kamarupa – Late to end period

There is two copper-plate inscriptions of Ratna Pala, known as the Bargaon and the Sualkuchi grants.

Konstantin Airich

After Airich became the vacant IBF Inter-Continental heavyweight titleholder by knocking out German fighter Varol Vekiloglu in round 1, on March 9, 2012 he faced Ondrej Pala for the second time to retain his IBF Inter-Continental heavyweight title and for Pala’s WBO European heavyweight title.

Kottiyoor Temple

The Puffed rice(Pori or Malaru) is prepared at “Pullancheri Illam”, and handed over to the temple from Narasimhaswamy temple, Pala, Kottayam district.

Labor and Agrarian Party

In 1989 it allied with the National Liberation Coalition (COLINA) and its candidate Carlos Duque, PALA was expected to be allocated 1 seat in the post-US invasion legislature in 1989.

Loharinag Pala Hydro Power Project

Impacts on the rivers will be mitigated by the release of a 0.85–1.1 m3/s minimum environmentally acceptable dry season flow from the Loharinag–Pala dam, the release of monsoon season flushing flows, and yearly restocking of rivers above and below the barrage sites with snow trout.

Nava Telangana Praja Party

Blue color was chosen to reflect rivers around the regions of Telangana state and also reflects the color of bird Indian Roller (Pala Pitta bird in Telugu language) which is regarded as most auspicious to watch on the occasion of Dasara festival by the people of Telangana .

Old Dhaka

The city area was ruled by the Buddhist kingdom of Kamarupa and the Pala Empire before passing to the control of the Hindu Sena dynasty in the 9th century.

Pal clan

Pal is a Bengali surname, believed to have originated from Sanskrit 'Pala' meaning protector or keeper, and mostly found among Bengali Kayasthas.

Pala d'Oro

The pala (from Latin palla, "cloth") was to be covered by Paolo Veneziano's wooden altarpiece and opened to the astonished public during liturgies only.

Palakkad

The commonly held belief, however, is that the name is a fusion of two Malayalam words, Pala, a tree (Alstonia scholaris) that is found abundantly in Palakkad, and Kadu, which means forest.

Perugia Altarpiece

The Perugia Altarpiece (Italian: Pala di Perugia) is a painting by the Italian early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, housed in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria of Perugia, Italy.

Poetics and Linguistics Association

The Poetics and Linguistics Association is usually known by the acronym PALA.

Puri district

Ghoda nacha, Dhudki, Pala, Daskathia, Bhalunacha and Navrang are some other folk dances prevalent in the district.

Rajya Pala

Rajya Pala (908-940 AD), seventh ruler of the Pala Empire of eastern Indian subcontinent, mainly the Bengal and Bihar regions


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