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17 unusual facts about Salé


Barghawata

After allying with the Sufri Kharijite rebellion in Morocco against the Umayyads, they established an independent state (CE 744 - 1058) in the area of Tamesna on the Atlantic coast between Safi and Salé under the leadership of Tarif al-Matghari.

After the conversion to Islam at the beginning of the 8th century and the Maysara uprising (CE 739-742), the Barghawata Berbers formed their own state on the Atlantic coast between Safi and Salé.

Claes Gerritszoon Compaen

Compaen later turned up in the Mediterranean, selling captured ships and their cargo at the Moroccan ports of Saffi, Mogador and Salé.

Curtis Barnett

On his return through the Straits on 24 November 1731, he encountered a French merchant ship, which fired at Bideford, taking her for a Sallee rover, only to be forced to apologize after a short action.

Diocese of Gippsland

The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral Church of St Paul, Sale.

François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Châteaurenault

In 1672 he became captain of his own ship and fought in the Mediterranean against the pirates from Salé.

Fusta

The fusta was the favorite ship of the North African corsairs of Salé and the Barbary Coast.

Gippsland Art Gallery

The Gippsland Art Gallery is a Victorian Regional Public Gallery based in Sale, Victoria, 220 kilometres east of Melbourne.

Gippsland phantom cat

In June 2005 Kurt Engel, a deer hunter from Noble Park, shot what he claimed was a large cat in rugged terrain near the town of Sale.

Harry Mallinder

Born in Sale, Greater Manchester, Mallinder lived resided here until the age of 11, attending both Tyntesfield and Brooklands primary schools respectively.

Jean-Honoré de Trogoff de Kerlessy

A son of Marc Louis de Trogoff de Kerlessy and Jeanne Eléonore Bourel de Kermès, de Kerlessy joined the Ancien Regime French fleet as a volunteer in 1764 and fought in the 1765 campaign against the Salétins.

Larache expedition

The Larache expedition occurred in June 1765 when French Navy troops attacked the Moroccan city of Larache following a bombardment of Salé and Rabat.

Pearl Poet

In 1956 Ormerod Greenwood, working on a translation of Gawain, made the suggestion that the author of Pearl and Gawain was one of the Masseys of Sale.

Sale, Victoria

As a tribute to the late King George V, an elm-lined section of the Princes Highway is named King George V Avenue.

Thomas Mack Wilhoite

Each section of the squadron drew assigned tasks on 8 November 1942, the first day of the landings; and Wilhoite flew one of five Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats which attacked the French airdrome at Rabat-Sale, the headquarters of the French air forces in Morocco.

Turkish Abductions

In 1627 Barbary corsairs from Algiers and Salé descended on Iceland in two separate raids, taking around 400 prisoners (Iceland's population at the time has been estimated to have been then about 60,000).

Water privatization in Morocco

At the time of the French protectorate of Morocco beginning in 1912 the water supply of Casablanca, Rabat, Salé, Tangiers and Meknes was provided by the French private company Société Marocaine de Distribution d'eau, de gaz et d'électricité (SMD), a subsidiary of Lyonnaise des Eaux, under concession contracts.


1990–91 Port Vale F.C. season

All of the money raised from Jepson's sale went on bringing Dutchman Robin van der Laan to Burslem from Wageningen.

Amazonia for Sale

Amazonia for Sale is a documentary film about the struggle of the Peruvian indigenous peoples Awajún for the preservation of their lands and the survival of their people and culture.

Anthony Crichton-Stuart

He has been involved in the rediscovery and sale at auction of works by Joachim Wtewael, Bernardo Bellotto, Carlo Dolci, Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo and Ludovico Carracci.

Avenir Telecom

They consist in the distribution and sale of a wide variety of communication products, especially mobile phones, activation of service, accessories, answering and fax machines, phone cases, phone chargers, phone soxs, plastic shelves, 3D phone stickers for mobiles and laptops, earkits, hands-free kits, portable headsets, and USB Bluetooth dongles under the OXO name.

Boaz Zippor

He has supported several projects in Thailand, including Camillian Hospital, Rotary Club Bangkok South, Baan Unrak, Baan Prakart, Newsmakers Clutter Sale, and Bangkok Opera Education Fund, most of which are projects in the field of education for underprivileged children.

Camp Dearborn

During the Great Recession of 2008, Dearborn investigated selling off the camp but found that the camp was profitable and that there was no prospect of a reasonably profitable sale due to zoning issues.

CHEP

In 1949, a new government under the Liberal Party of Australia decided to privatise the industry and mandated the sale of the Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool organisation.

Citibank Argentina

The president of Citicorp Argentina during the 1990s, H. Richard Handley, had been raised in Argentina with the chairman of Citigroup at the time, John S. Reed, and obtained his support for the bank's lucrative participation in the 1990 sale of the state telephone concern ENTel.

Claude Brochu

In 2001, he published the book My Turn at Bat: The Sad Saga of the Expos, which blamed Quebec ex-premier Lucien Bouchard for the sale of the baseball team.

Cobasys

On July 14, 2009, the sale of Cobasys to SB LiMotive Co. Ltd., an electric vehicle battery joint venture between Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Robert Bosch GmbH, was announced.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The operating agreement required Fisk to set aside $3.9 million of the $30 million sale proceeds to be used to establish a fund for the care and maintenance of the collection at the Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk.

David Chappe

After the sale of Gale Force Chappe continued to write original screenplays, novels, became a re-writer for Hollywood action films, and wrote the production draft of the 1999 film Beowulf.

Digital download

Digital distribution, a method of downloading software or audio-visual media as opposed to buying it at a traditional point of sale

Dodge Tomahawk

Hand-built examples of the Tomahawk were offered for sale through the Neiman Marcus catalog at a price of US$ 555,000, and up to nine of them might have sold.

Emilio Romano

Romano was a member of the Board of Directors for Univision Communications between 1995 and 1998, where he was responsible for leading numerous high profile transactions, including the sale of PanAmSat to Hughes Electronics; the formation of Via Digital DTH venture for the Iberian Peninsula; and the Sky Latin America joint venture with The News Corporation, Organizacoes Globo and TCI.

Excel mobile phones

The first phone sold by Excell Communications of Washway Rd, Sale, Cheshire was the M1 and later the M2 and the M2 (Phillips class 3 phone)

General Dynamics Land Systems – Australia

General Dynamics Land Systems – Australia (GDLS-A), formally General Motors Defence Australia, was established in October 2000, as a result of the sale of all General Motors Defense operations worldwide to General Dynamics Land Systems in March 2003.

Geraldine C. and Emory M. Ford Foundation

The initial assets of the foundation were funded by the sale of a John Constable painting left to Mrs. Ford by her husband.

Islwyn Borough Transport

Prior to its sale in 2010, Islwyn operated 18 local bus routes centred on Caerphilly and Blackwood, taking in Cardiff and Bargoed.

Kooperativa Förbundet

The grocery retail group, Coop, stands for around 85 per cent of the sale with store brands like Coop Konsum, Coop Nära, Coop Extra and Coop Forum.

KQEG-CA

This time was formerly filled by an affiliation with FamilyNet before that network's sale and programming direction was changed at the start of 2013.

Kvutzat Kinneret

Beekeeping and the sale of honey were among the earliest economic branches.

Legal issues in airsoft

Letter of Instruction 1264, a Presidential Directive, signed by former President Ferdinand Marcos in 1982, bans the import, sale and public display of gun replicas.

Leslie's House

Leslie said she was saving an old newspaper because it had the "first rumblings of Iran-Contra", a reference to the scandal in which U.S. figures facilitated the sale of arms to Iran.

Lipniki, Ostrołęka County

He also had to appeal to the Royal Beekeeping Society and accept the so-called "Prawo Bartne" or "Beekeeper's Laws." This was a set of laws governing the production and sale of honey, wax, and related products, which were a chief product of this region and were particularly valuable to the noble class at the time.

Lucius F. C. Garvin

He furnished information for Lincoln Steffens' muckraking article, "Rhode Island: A State for Sale," published in 1905 in McClure's.

Lycos Europe

Sold assets included the sale of the Danish portal Jubii, the Lycos Chat - worldsbiggestchat (which at the time was both the Lycos & Yahoo Chat in Europe) was transferred to the new operator Noesis Systems Ltd, on March 9, 2009 and later rebranded as the Noesis Chat, Love@Lycos was sold to a Swedish company.

Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation

The visitors center is a tourist attraction with its self-guided tour of the processing plant (viewed from the outside on a second-floor walkway due to safety and sanitation concerns) and large gift shop with homemade macadamia ice cream for sale and free samples of every flavour variation sold by the company.

Morris Pashman

In a 1964 decision, Pashman upheld Bergen County prosecutor Guy W. Calissi's decision to ban the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill in New Jersey, calling the book "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution."

Musictoday

A company specializing in the sale of: CDs, films, and various ephemeria related to the late musician and composer Frank Zappa.

Peter Menegazzo

Partner in the Nebo Consortium (with Jack Cowin, founder of Hungry Jack's, and Queensland grazier Peter Hughes), Menegazzo became one of Australia's largest landholders, and the third-biggest cattle owner, with the $417.5 million plus debt sale, gaining 115,000 square kilometres and a herd of half a million cattle.

Robert Sale

His regiment formed part of Baird's brigade of Harris's army operating against Tippoo Sahib, and Sale was present at Malavalli and the Battle of Seringapatam, subsequently serving under Colonel Arthur Wellesley in the campaign against Dhundia.

Roger Sale

In an entirely different field, Sale served as an occasional columnist for the Seattle Weekly, an alternative newspaper, covering the Seattle SuperSonics' season and playoff performance.

Rowan Companies

In 2011, Rowan announced the sale of LeTourneau Technologies to Joy Global.

Samuel Bemis

However, his camera apparatus may still be seen in the George Eastman House along with the original bill of sale and a number of his images.

Silverton Park

The art forger Shaun Greenhalgh and his father bought a copy of the 1892 sale catalogue and used the unillustrated catalogue descriptions to recreate items, for which the catalogue would provide a spurious provenance.

Smallgoods

Many companies, such as Primo smallgoods, specialise in the preparation and sale of smallgoods.

Square, Inc.

The original inspiration for Square occurred to Jack Dorsey in 2009 when James McKelvey (a St. Louis friend of Dorsey at the time) was unable to complete a $2,000 sale of his glass faucets and fittings because he could not accept credit cards.

Swisher Hygiene

It was known for its Eskimo Pie and Chipwich brands, which in February 2007, CoolBrands announced the sale of to the Dreyer's division of Nestlé.

The First Fat Truckers Album Is for Sale

The First Fat Truckers Album is for Sale is an album by Fat Truckers.

The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan

After Origins '79, unsold copies were put up for sale at the Dungeon Shoppe in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Thomas Allcock

Allcock returned to New York after the war and joined up with Benjamin Brandreth in the manufacturing and sale of popular patent medicines.

Tommy Sale

Despite most of his goals coming from open play, Sale was a penalty specialist; it is reported Sale only missed one penalty in his entire professional career.

Unican Security Systems

At its sale (to Kaba Group), the company had over $800 million in sales annually and was the largest maker of key blanks and key copying machines in the world.

Universities Superannuation Scheme

The scheme formerly owned Telford Shopping Centre in Telford, Shropshire, prior to its sale to Hark Group and Apollo Real Estate.

William Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore

But he bought two other Landseers, of the 31 in the 86 lot sale, and two of the next most expensive works, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833) by Paul Delaroche (lot 78, £1,575), and Cromer Sands by William Collins (lot 15, £2,205), now in Tate Britain.