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6 unusual facts about Salt, Jordan


1927 in Mandatory Palestine

The effects are especially severe in Jerusalem and Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many other areas, including parts of Transjordan, in particular the town of Salt.

Capture of Jisr ed Damieh

This victory by Meldrum's Force opened the way for Chaytor's Force to advance along the main Nablus to Es Salt road to capture Es Salt and to continue on to the victory at the Second Battle of Amman.

Chaytor's Force

Chaytor's Force crossed the Jordan River on their advance to Es Salt on 23 September which was captured in the evening after capturing rearguards.

Economy of Gaza City

Its factories purchased qilw from merchants from Nablus and Salt in Jordan.

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas

Then she was sent to Salt in Transjordan with three sisters, then in Nablus, before returning in Jerusalem because of her health.

Sama Al-Awael Private School

Sama Al-Awael School (SAS) (Arabic : مدرسة سما الاوائل) is a private educational institution located in As Salt, Jordan.


Annelise Hesme

As well as this, she has become particularly well known and popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland following the 2005 Renault Clio advert "France vs. Britain" directed by Ridley Scott’s daughter Jordan Scott who also directed the 2007 follow up spot "More Va Va Voom" again starring Hesme as Sophie and English actor Jeremy Sheffield as Ben.

Avraham Biran

Biran returned to Jerusalem in 1935, serving as a Fellow in the American Schools of Oriental Research until 1937, participating in a number of archaeological digs, including Tel Halifa near Aqaba, digs near the cities of Mosul and Baghdad in Iraq, Irbid in Jordan and Ras El Haruba outside Jerusalem.

Battle of Palmyra

An expanded Brigade group called Habforce had during the Anglo-Iraqi war advanced across the desert from Trans-Jordan to relieve the British garrison at RAF Habbaniya on the Euphrates River and had then assisted in the taking of Baghdad.

Binic

The port annually receives 150 to 160 ships and the activity was divided between fishing in Newfoundland and cabotage (imported salt, wine, wood North, flour and vegetables).

Bundesstraße 1

A trade and military road was already mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography about 150 AD, parts of it formed the medieval Westphalian Hellweg trade route, vital for the transport of salt and crops, and the course of the Via Regia, the Ottonian "royal road" trough the Holy Roman Empire from Aachen to Magdeburg.

Chijgam

Kolis from Chijgaam who were also agris ( salt gatherers ) also pray to goddess Mumba.

Clayton Scrivner

Clayton Scrivner (born November 15, 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the drummer for the Salt Lake City band The Rodeo Boys.

Collioure

Collioure is also famous for its anchovies, which are referenced in Mark Kurlansky's book Salt as the best in the world.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 11β-hydroxylase deficiency

Mineralocorticoid manifestations of severe 11β-hydroxylase deficient CAH can be biphasic, changing from deficiency (salt-wasting) in early infancy to excess (hypertension) in childhood and adult life.

Craft Lake City

The festival partnered with the Salt Lake Film Festival to continue festivities a second day, August 15, with a screening of Faythe Levine’s film “Handmade Nation” followed by a question and answer session with some Craft Lake City artists.

Deerfield Academy

He stepped down in June 2006 and soon after assumed the position of Founding Headmaster at King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, a school inspired in part by HM King Abdullah II's Deerfield years in the 1980s.

Displaced persons camp

In recent times, camps have existed in many parts of the world for groups of displaced persons including for refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan, and for Palestinians in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Doom novels

Multiple armed forces are sent to Salt Lake City to detain or fight the resistance, including the United States Army, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Internal Revenue Service 'revenue collection' strike force.

Eastern Mallee

Myrtaceous and proteaceous scrub-heath occurs in sandstone areas, and salt affected areas grow Tecticornia (Samphire).

El Oued Province

Chott Melrhir, a large endorheic salt lake, lies in the north-central part of the province, while Chott Felrhir is a smaller salt lake to its southwest, near El M'Ghair.

Extriplex

It is known from the Central Valley and the valleys of the inner coast ranges, and from slightly north of San Francisco to Cedros Island, Baja California, where is grows on sandy coasts, in shrubland and salt marshes.

Florence S. Jacobsen

As a church curator, Jacobsen supervised the restoration of many church buildings, including the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City; the E. B. Grandin building in Palmyra, New York; the Brigham Young home in St. George, Utah; the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara, Utah; the Newell K. Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio; and the interior of the Manti Utah Temple.

Fort Gaddis

Jordan, Terry G. The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethical and Ecological Interpretation.

Fruittella

Fruittella is known for their advertisement in the United Kingdom which contained spoofs of the songs "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred and "Let's Talk About Sex" by Salt-n-Pepa.

Global Marshall Plan Initiative

Supporters of the initiative include Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Hubert Weinzierl (BUND), Rita Süssmuth, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Franz Josef Radermacher, Jakob von Uexküll, Ulrich Martin Drescher, Renée Ernst, Sandra Maischberger (all from Germany), Josef Riegler, Franz Fischler (Austria), Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Jordan), Vandana Shiva (India), Jane Goodall (UK) and approximately 5000 supporters from Germany and Austria.

Greer Robson

Greer first came to prominence in the New Zealand film Smash Palace starring as Georgie alongside Bruno Lawrence, but is most well known for her role as Nurse Joanna Jordan in Shortland Street.

Hala Strana

Hala Strana (Bulgarian for "salt beach") is the name of a recording project of American musician Steven R. Smith.

Ham hock

Fläsklägg med rotmos is a Swedish dish which includes often salt-cured ham hocks, mashed rutabaga, and sweet Scanian mustard.

Hartford City, West Virginia

Salt extraction began in 1856, by capitalists from Connecticut named Morgan Buckley and William Healey, who named the town for Hartford.

Isiah Thomas

No player involved has ever confirmed that the "freeze-out" occurred, but the story has been long reported, and has never been refuted by Jordan.

Jenny Johnson Jordan

Jenny Johnson Jordan (born June 8, 1973) is an American beach volleyball player, who won the silver medal at the 1999 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Marseille, alongside Annett Davis.

Jerry Rosholt

He also covered the U.S. - U.S.S.R. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), the Sadat-Begin Peace Talks, the William Calley trial, several Civil Rights demonstrations, anti-Vietnam War protests and national political conventions from 1964 to 1988.

Larry Fedora

However, on December 5, one of UNC's early recruits, Jordan Fieulleteau, told The News & Observer and Inside Carolina that Fedora had assured him he would not leave UNC.

Maritime archaeology

Salt water provides for greater organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, terredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence of sediments has been found in the cold, dark waters of the Great Lakes in North America and in the (low salinity) Baltic Sea (where the Vasa was preserved).

Mortimer Jordan High School

That streak carried over into the 2010 season, and ended at 59 games when Jordan lost to Angelo Rodriguez High School of Fairfield, California in the ESPN RISE/Nike Fastest to First Tournament in Huntington Beach, California on March 25, 2010.

Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne

To top that, Mungerilal's father in law rubs salt on Mungerilal wounds by exaggerating his own achievements as a Police Inspector.

Neil Conti

The club spawned many imitations in the Soho area and became a hotbed of talent and A+R men, launching the careers of Ronnie Jordan, Seal, Keziah Jones, Juliet Roberts and D-Influence among others.

Noh Alam Shah

He scored in the 1–3 defeat to Iran at the National Stadium in Singapore and in the final group game against Jordan, which Singapore lost 1–2, at the King Abdullah Stadium in Amman.

Princess Haya bint Al Hussein

Princess Haya participated in the 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia representing Jordan in show jumping, where she was also her country’s flag bearer.

Princess Zein bint Al Hussein

Princess Zein bint Al Hussein (born 23 April 1968 in Amman, Jordan) is the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan and is the twin sister of Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein

Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

Consequently, there were a number of small salt works, such as those at Salins-les-Bains and Montmorot, that extracted salt by boiling water over wood fires.

Salt Pit

The artist/geographer Trevor Paglen claims to be the only civilian to have taken a photo of the Salt Pit.

Saltaire railway station

It is a busy commuter station both for passengers travelling to Leeds and Bradford and for staff in companies based in Salt's Mill, as well as serving tourists visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site at Saltaire.

Sarkis Soghanalian

He moved his office from the United States and opened up operations in France and Jordan.

Sesqui

Sodium sesquicarbonate, a double salt of sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate

The Pizza Company

In 2004, The Pizza Company began to expand and franchise internationally and today the restaurant has franchises in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Laos, China and Bahrain.

The Rural Juror

The episode focuses on the release of Jenna Maroney's (Jane Krakowski) long-anticipated indie film, The Rural Juror, the tongue-twisting title of which Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and the writers of TGS with Tracy Jordan cannot understand.

Tomar-Re

After the events of the War of the Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan and Sinestro are trapped in the Dead Zone by the Guardians of the Universe (who have become unemotional), until they encounter a mysterious figure lurking in the zone observing them.

Tscherim Soobzokov

In 2006, declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency confirmed that Soobzokov had been a CIA agent in Jordan and that the agency had misled the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service on Soobzokov's Nazi past.

Weißenbach am Lech

The Romans used to have an important salt trading route from Hall in Tirol to the Lake Constance, which mainly was used until the train was built through the Arlberg in the early 20th century.

Wich town

By the eleventh century use of the 'wich' suffix was extended to town placenames associated with salt production; at least nine English towns/cities carry the suffix, although only five are commonly connected to salt, Droitwich in Worcestershire and the four Cheshire 'wiches' of Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Leftwich.

Wilhelm Jordan

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan (1819–1904), known as Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician

WLAP

Jordan reportedly started broadcasting phonograph records to patients at Waverly Hills Hospital in 1921.

Yashira Jordán

In 2004 Jordán spent time in New York, Washington DC and Mexico City, training in various workshops and courses under the direction of American and Mexican filmmakers.

Żupy krakowskie

It managed salt mines and salt works in two neighboring towns (known as the Royal Salt Mines collectively), Wieliczka Salt Mine in Wieliczka and Bochnia Salt Mine in Bochnia (city rights, 1253), as well as river salt ports on Vistula and, only in 17th century, a salt work in Dobiegniewo.


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