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unusual facts about Sangha, Mali



7 Walkers

Kreutzmann had been featured as a special guest at several of Mali's concerts since 2008 and the two decided to form an official band together with multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard, best known for his work with Willie Nelson, and Reed Mathis, of Tea Leaf Green.

Abderrahmane Sissako

Abderrahmane Sissako (born October 13, 1961 in Kiffa, Mauritania) is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France.

1998 : La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) (35mm, 67 minutes), set on the last day of the millennium (commissioned for the 2000 Seen By... series featuring other directors such as Tsai Ming-liang and Laurent Cantet) and filmed in Sokolo, Mali, Sissako's father's village.

2006 : Bamako (115 minutes), images of Mali's capital: everyday lives, a trial implicating the International Monetary Fund and World Bank for global poverty, a film within a film starring Danny Glover.

Adreno

Mali series media co-processors formerly Falanx, now become ARM Norway

Air Burkina

Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Ananda Vikatan

Cartoons and illustration also flourished with Artist Maya, 'Mali' Mahalingam, Madhan, Sridhar, Silpi, Thanu and Gopulu.

Bani-Bangou

On 22 January, four foreign tourists were reported kidnapped in Mali, north of Bani-Bangou, while traveling by auto from a festival at Anderamboukané to the Malian town of Ménaka, and on to Gao.

Bank of Africa

The maiden bank of the BOA Group, BOA Mali, was established in late 1982, in Bamako, Mali, by local businesspeople.

Besa Kavajë

The first match the football ever played took place in Mali i Robit, Golem against the Albanian-American Institute in a friendly.

Bobby Jasoos

Bobby Jasoos is an upcoming 2014 Indian pacy dramedy directed by Samar Shaikh and produced by Dia Mirza and Sahil Sangha under the banner of Born Free Entertainment.

Bongosso

Bongosso (or Bougounso) is a village and seat (chef-lieu) of the commune of Koromo in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali.

BXW

Bankagooma (ISO 639-3 code BXW), a language native to Mali.

Chenanisuchus

Chenanisuchus ("Chenane crocodile") is a genus of dyrosaurid crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Mali and the Late Palaeocene of Sidi Chenane in Morocco.

Cheonan Stadium

On 15 October 2013, the South Korea national football team used the stadium for the first time in the friendly match against Mali, which ended in a 3-1 victory for Korea.

Copper metallurgy in Africa

In sub-Saharan West Africa there were only two known source of copper that were commercially viable Dkra near Nioro, Mali and Takedda in Azelik, Niger.

Demain à Nanguila

A portrait of Mali in the sixties by means of the nightlife in Bamako, the capital’s monuments, women bent under the weight of too many tasks, Nanguila Tomorrow is regarded as the first Malian film.

Empower Mali Foundation

The Empower Mali Foundation is a Utah-based charitable organisation that was created in February 2013 to assist rural communities in Mali, West Africa, in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy.

Gouina Falls

The Gouina Falls or Chutes de Gouina are on the Sénégal River in Mali between the towns of Bafoulabé (upstream) and Diamou (downstream) in the Kayes Region, where the river runs north from the Talari Gorges.

Heggodu

NINASAM stands for Nilakanteshwara Natya Seva Sangha which is the brain child of the renowned dramatist, K. V. Subbanna.

Islam in Mali

Extremist worshippers of Islam have been responsible for some reprehensible acts in Mali, most notably what has been nicknamed the Battle of Gao, in which an extremist Muslim group, Ansar Dine began to destroy various World Heritage Sites.

John Talbot Clifton

They turned back in Mali but in 1928 he died in the Canary Islands on the way home.

Jorge F. Ramos

Among former members of the "CRT Ile de France team" is Daba Modibo Keïta from Mali, a heavyweight world champion 2009 and 2007; the first African to become double Taekwondo World Champion.

Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences

On 30 November 1980 the Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri. R Gundu Rao laid the foundation stone of the Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital in the premises of the Sangha and announced the grant of vacant land in Banashankari to be used for the construction of college building and hostels.

Khost Province

Khostwal (clans: Lakkan, Tawizai, Sabari, Shamil, Matun, Mali, Mandozai, Khostwal, Mangal from Musa khil sub branch dominating two district up northwest of khowst and Ismail Khel)

Le Boulet

Note the appearance of Nicolas Anelka as a football player, Jamel Debbouze as a prison guard in Mali, and musicians Stomy Bugsy (former Ministère AMER) and Marco Prince (singer of the FFF) and comedian Omar Sy (the duo Omar et Fred) as killer brothers.

Mari Djata

Sundiata Keita (c. 1217 – c. 1255), also called Mari Djata I, founder of the Mali Empire

Mining industry of the Central African Republic

Production of gold and diamonds, which is mostly artisanal, comes from the regions of Berberati, Haute-Kotto, and Haute-Sangha.

Moggaliputta-Tissa

After obtaining the consent of his parents, he joined the Sangha as Siggava's disciple, who taught him the Vinaya and Candavajji the Abhidhamma Pitakas.

Mopti Region

Mount Hombori, the highest point in Mali at 1153 meters, is in the Mopti Region, near the city of the same name.

Moussa Konaté

Moussa Konaté (1951 – 30 November 2013) was a Malian writer who was born in Kita.

Nada Mali

Nada Mali (born 21 October 1979 in Borovnica) is a Slovenian slalom canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

Niger Basin Authority

Nine nations which include part of the Niger Basin are members: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

Pioneer Valley Zendo

Eishin Ikeda, who had later been leading the Bean Town Sangha (founded by Eishin Ikeda and Michael Flessas) whose first meetings where held on the second floor of a book store in Arlington, Massachusetts and returned as the present resident priest in 2006.

Police Beat

The story is narrated by Z in his native Wolof language (the language of Senegal and parts of Mali, the Gambia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mauritania), though he makes the transition to English when interacting with those around him.

Pre-sectarian Buddhism

In the beginning the order of monks (Sangha) did not have any monasteries, but already in its first year the Buddha allowed these to be given, after being asked to do so by King Bimbisara.

Right of asylum

The first list, enacted in July 2005, included as "safe countries" Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius Island, India, Senegal, Mongolia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Croatia.

Robert O. Blake

During his 30-year career in United States Foreign service, Blake served as ambassador to Mali from December 10, 1970 until May 20, 1973 as a member of the Nixon administration, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Samatiguila

The French explorer René Caillié spent five days in Samatiguila in July 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali.

Samir Amin

Subsequently Amin left Cairo, to become an adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963.

Souleymane Dembélé

Souleymane Dembélé (born 3 September 1984) is a Malian football player, currently playing for Stade Malien.

Television in Mali

Television in Mali was introduced in 1983.

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

The Young Girl

The Young Girl is a 1975 Mali film, directed by Souleymane Cissé.

Thích Ca Phật Đài

There is also a garden, with plants and flowers blooming all year round, with props and scenery to re-enact the first sermon at Deer Park in Sarnath, where the Buddha explained the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Noble Path to the first five sangha and arahants: Kaundinya, Assaji, Mahanama, Bhaddiya and Vappa.

Tondidarou

Tondidarou is a small town and megalithic archaeological site in the Niafunké Cercle, Timbuktu Region, Mali, northwest of Niafunké, about 150 kilometres south-west of Timbuktu.

Traditional African religion

These are some of the important centers of religious life: Nri-Igbo, the Point of Sangomar, Ile-Ife, Oyo, Dahomey, Benin City, Ouidah, Nsukka, Akan, Kanem-Bornu, Mali, and Igbo-Ukwu.

Universal Nut Sheller

In 2001 Jock Brandis traveled to Mali to fix a small village's water treatment system.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Waman Bapuji Metre

Born in a family of Mali community farmers of modest means in the village of Kalamb, now in Maharashtra state in India, Waman went to high school in the nearest town of Yavatmal, and was reputed to be the first one from his village to attend high school.


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