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1999 Pan Arab Games

Two of the sports were held and concluded before the opening ceremony: the athletics and basketball competitions were held early to allow the athletes to prepare and attend the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and the 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship, respectively, which clashed with the dates for the Pan Arab Games that year.

2012 Pan American Women's Junior Handball Championship

It acts as the Pan American qualifying tournament for the 2012 Women's Junior World Handball Championship.

Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim

Azeez was chosen as Barisan Nasional(BN)candidate for Pilihan raya umum 2008 against a candidate from the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party(PAS), Uztaz Taib Azamudden Md Taib for the parliament Baling, Kedah but lost with 7613 votes.

Abel Guerra

In 2006 he was the PRI candidate to municipal president of the municipality of Monterrey for the Monterrey election held on July 2, 2006; he lost the election against the PAN candidate Adalberto Madero.

Alliance for Europe of the Nations

The Alliance for Europe of the Nations was a pan-European political party that gathered conservative and national-conservative political parties from across the continent.

Annick Gendron

Uncommon themes such as the limits to scientific knowledge and the Pan-European identity are central to her work.

Brigade M

National Socialism was put on the ash heap and National Bolshevism, Strasserism, meta politics, people's nationalism, language purism, European unity and conservative criticism of society became the fundaments of the band.

Bukit Kepong Incident

On 21 August 2011, Mohamad Sabu, Deputy President of PAS, made a controversial statement saying that Mat Indera, the leader of the communists during the Bukit Kepong Incident, was a national hero for fighting against British rule.

Chihuahua state election, 2004

As the count progressed, Javier Corral Jurado of the PAN – representing an unusual alliance of his party and the left-leaning PRD – conceded the election at around 23h00 local time.

Continuous Plankton Recorder

Started in 1931 by Sir Alister Hardy, the CPR has provided marine scientists with their only measure of plankton communities on a pan-oceanic scale.

Deep fryer

Industrial enterprises producing deep-fried snack foods such as potato chips or pre-fried French fried potatoes use automated frying systems that consist mainly of the actual frying pan, a tube type heat exchanger to heat the frying oil, a filter, a circulation pump, a banana tank for fresh oil and the automation system, most often a PLC.

Florence Nightingale Levy

In 1901, she catalogued the art exhibition of the Pan-American Exposition.

German Conservative Party

The party supported Emperor Wilhelm II's naval policies and Germany's arms race with the United Kingdom, but initially kept its distance towards colonialism and the activists of the Pan-German League.

Gigapixel image

Only a few cameras are capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene, such as the Pan-STARRS PS1 and the Gigapxl Camera.

Glasgow smile

The Glasgow smile has been inflicted on characters in multiple films and television programs, including Green Street, House of Tolerance, The Krays, Sons of Anarchy, Pan's Labyrinth, and 2008's The Dark Knight, in which Heath Ledger as the Joker both has the scar and carves it on numerous victims.

Gungsangnorbu

In 1912, in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, Gungsangnorbu made some attempts to form an alliance with Bogd Khan and the Khalkha Mongols in the newly independent state of Mongolia, with the Pan-Mongolist aim of annexing China's Inner Mongolian territories to an independent, Mongol-dominated Greater Mongolia.

Howard Scott Warshaw

The first, The Complete Book of PAN, is a guide to the card game of the same name.

Hristofor Zhefarovich

Hristofor Zhefarovich (original Cyrillic: Христофоръ Жефаровичъ; Bulgarian: Христофор Жефарович, Hristofor Zhefarovich; Macedonian: Христофор Жефаровиќ, Hristofor Žefarović; Serbian: Христофор Жефаровић, Hristofor Žefarović) was an 18th-century Macedonian painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.

Jesse Ruíz

At the peak of his sporting career in Mexico, he became a three-time national champion, and won a silver medal at the 2010 Pan American Wrestling Championships in Rionegro, Colombia.

John Strotbeck, Jr.

After training intensely throughout the winter of 1983, Strotbeck made the 1983 Pan Am team rowing for the Vesper Boat Club.

Krásný Dvůr Castle

Deeper in the park we find Pan's-Temple, the Obelisk, the Vantage Pavilion, Goethe's Pavilion, a memorial plaque with the engraved names of important people who have visited the park, a hermitage, a grotto with a sarcophagus and other interesting objects.

Les Brigades du Tigre

Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is set in a very rich and interesting Belle Époque, it deals with a lot of real historical plots and characters like the scandal of the Russian Loan, the Triple Entente, the birth of modern profiling and crime-fighting police techniques, the rivalry between the PP (Parisian Prefecture Police Units) and the Brigades of Clemenceau, the birth of Socialism and famous Anarchist Movements.

Lisa Aziz

From 16 February 2009, she became co-presenter of the pan-regional news programme The West Country Tonight, which replaced The West Tonight (ITV West) and Westcountry Live (ITV Westcountry) alongside Steve Scott.

Luciana Morales Mendoza

In May 2003 she won the first place in the Pan-American Championship for Girls Under 20 in Botucatu, Brazil and Under 16 in July 2003 in Bogotá, Colombia.

Matija Majar

Influenced by the Illyrian Movement in Croatia, especially by the Slovene-Croatian poet and activist Stanko Vraz, Majar started developing Pan-Slavic ideals.

Milking the Rhino

Produced by Kartemquin Films and directed by David E. Simpson, Milking the Rhino won numerous awards at multiple international film festivals, including Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival and San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

Mongolism

Pan-Mongolism, an irredentist idea advocating the union of the contiguous territories inhabited by Mongols

Nick Toczek

In 1977, as a spin-off from the magazine, he published and co-edited (with Philip Nanton and Yann Lovelock) Britain’s first substantial anthology of black writing, Melanthika: An Anthology of Pan-Caribbean Writing, under the imprint LWM Publications.

NRJ Group

With its pan-European NRJ/ENERGY stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from diversifying market players like the Luxembourg-based RTL Group (Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and SBS Broadcasting (Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or Stockholm-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter).

Pan Zhang

During the attack, Pan Zhang's subordinates killed Feng Xi, a Protector of the Army (護軍) under Liu Bei, as well as several enemy soldiers.

Pan-African Union for Social Democracy

Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou was the UPADS presidential candidate in the presidential election held on 10 March 2002; he took second place but received only 2.76% of the vote, with Sassou Nguesso winning by an overwhelming margin according to official results.

Pan-Armenian Games

During the founding meeting on April 30, 1997 in Yerevan, World Committee of Pan-Armenian Games (WCPAG) was created, with the help of traditional Armenian unions of the Diaspora and the Iranian-Armenian cultural-sport organization "Ararat".

Pan's People

This was followed by a further routine featuring three members of Pan's People (Dee Dee, Ruth and Flick, dancing to "Respect" by Aretha Franklin, and subsequently, the entire sextet appeared in a routine set to "US Male" by Elvis Presley.

Paraguarí Department

As for the media radio, there are amplitude modulation stations such as Radio FM and 1000, radio Ybyty Rok, Pan American, Yaguarón, Oda, Mensajera, and Carapeguá Colmenar.

Peter Davies

Peter Llewelyn Davies (1897–1960), basis for the character of Peter Pan, publisher

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Portrayal of Native Americans in film

A major scene in Peter Pan involves the Lost Boys and Peter Pan celebrating at the Native Americans' camp after Peter rescues Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief, from Captain Hook.

Robin Nash

He died on 18 June 2011, aged 84, during a season of repeats on BBC Four of editions of Top of the Pops that he had produced in 1976 and the day after the funeral of Flick Colby who had choreographed dance sequences for the show with, among others, Pan's People and Ruby Flipper.

Rock 'n' Roll Star

The song's video consists of clips of the band performing the song from their Live by the Sea gig, interspersed with clips of them on Southend Pier, in and around the amusement park, 'Adventure Island' then named 'Peter Pan's Playground' and in the bowling alley which was located on Southend Pier before it burnt down in June 1995.

Roy Díaz González

In 1977 he won men's singles at the first ever Pan-American Badminton Championships.

Simon Njami

He is currently directing “At Work”, an itinerant and digital project with lettera27 Foundation, in partnership with Moleskine, as well as the Pan African Master Classes in Photography, project that he conceived with the Goethe Institut, and setting up the collection of contemporary art for the future Memorial Acte Museum in Guadeloupe.

Sino-Ocean Land

It is one of the largest real estate companies in Beijing and has a diversified portfolio of development projects and investment properties in Beijing, Pan-Bohai Bay, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta regions.

Slavic neopaganism

In the 19th century, many Slavic nations experienced a Romantic fascination with an idealised Slavic Arcadia believed to have existed before the advent of Christianity, combining such notions as the noble savage and Johann Gottfried Herder's national spirit.

Tengri

In Kyrgyzstan, Tengrism was suggested as a Pan-Turkic national ideology following the 2005 presidential elections by an ideological committee chaired by state secretary Dastan Sarygulov.

The Devil's Backbone

The response was overwhelmingly positive, though it did not receive the critical success that Pan's Labyrinth would in 2006.

The Martian General's Daughter

Pan-Polarian society is based on that of Imperial Rome, including an imperial cult and a variety of polytheistic and monolatric religions that have largely replaced the major religions of our time, including the cults of "El Bis" and the goddess Marilyn.

Theo Marzials

Marzials later spent much of his time as a composer and in 1883 released Pan Pipes, which coupled his music with the work of Christina Rossetti and the illustrations of Walter Crane.

Tinkerbella

It was named after the fairy Tinker Bell in the 1904 play “Peter and Wendy” (a.k.a. "Peter Pan") by J.M. Barrie.

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan

The gift of the pandas was first proposed during the 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China, when politicians from the then-Opposition Pan-Blue coalition, which is comparatively pro-unification in stance, visited mainland China.

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsen, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée.


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