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2 unusual facts about Rais


Panchthar District

Panchthar's majority population is that of Kirantis (Limbu, Rais) and other ethnic groups and hill castes.

Rais

When the book "The pleasure of Philosophy" by Will Durant was translated into Urdu, by Syed Abid Ali Abid, he translated the word aristocracy with the Urdu word 'Raiseeat' 'رئیسيت'.


Amien Rais

Amien Rais was born in Surakarta, Central Java, as the second child of Suhud Rais and Sudalmiyah.

In 1993, at a Muhammadiyah mid-term meeting ( Tanwir ) in Surabaya, Rais urged a presidential succession, a very rare issue amid the New Order regime.

Rais led ICMI's Expert Council, but resigned in 1997 under pressure from Suharto because he argued on the Busang and the Freeport cases.

Åsne Seierstad

There are contradictory accounts regarding Seierstad's legal battles concerning Shah Muhammad Rais (the bookseller portrayed in The Bookseller of Kabul).

DataViva

The other database, provided by Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego (MTE – Ministry of Labor and Employment), shows information about all industries and occupations in Brazil (RAIS – Annual Social Information Report).

IR Bir Mourad Raïs

Ittihad Riadhi Bir Mourad Raïs, more commonly known as IR Bir Mourad Raïs, is an Algerian football club based in Bir Mourad Raïs, Algiers.

Mariam Matossian

2008: Named among KPFK’s “Best of 2008” for In the Light (by Yatrika Shah-Rais, Global Village)

Rais Ansari

Rais Ansari (or Rayees Ansari) is a famous Urdu poet from Lucknow, India.

Rais Lebled

Rais Lebled (Head of State) is a political rap song, released in December 2010 by Tunisian rapper El Général, which has been referred to internationally as the "anthem of the Jasmine Revolution".

Sali Noyan

Large-scale Mongol invasions of India ceased and the Delhi Sultans used the respite to recover the frontier towns like Multan, Uch, and Lahore, and to punish the local Ranas and Rais who had joined hands with either the Khwarazim or the Mongol invaders.

Tilden, Wisconsin


     John Myers has a farm on the N.E. quarter of Section 22 containing about 7.00(?) Acres(?) and has rais a good crop of Oats Wheat Barley Potatoes and Buckwheat this Season.

Udaybhanu Singh

1911-1918: His Highness Rais ud-Daula, Sipahdar ul-Mulk, Saramad Rajha-i-Hind, Maharajadhiraja Shri Sawai Maharaj Rana Udaibhanu Singh, Lokendra Bahadur, Diler Jang Jai Deo, Maharaj Rana of Dholpur


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