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8 unusual facts about SiS


Bro'Sis

While "I Believe" remained another three weeks on top of the German singles chart, eventually selling more than a million copies, it also reached number 4 on the Europe Official Top 100.

Released in August 2004, it became the least successful album in the band's history when it peaked at number 24 on the German Top 100 albums chart, and completely failed to chart in Austria and Switzerland.

Christianity in Lebanon

The Armenian Orthodox Church has two catholicos (Sis and Etschmiadzin) and two patriarchs (Constantinople and Jerusalem).

Constantine II the Woolmaker

He was from the village of Catuk, but as he was educated in Sis he was called Sisetzi.

Hethumids

│ ├─3> John († 1289), Bishop of Mavleon, Archbishop of Sis

Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany

Her father planned her betrothal to Oshin of Armenia in exchange for religious relics of St Thecla, located at Sis in Armenia, which he was anxious to acquire for the cathedral of Tarragona.

Thorsten Brötzmann

He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with the No Angels, Bro'Sis, Christina Stürmer, Monrose, Jeanette, Alexander Klaws, and Modern Talking.

Toni Cottura

In 2000, Cottura parted ways with Aris and disbanded Booya, returning to Eurodance to form The Underdog Project and Popstars winners Bro'Sis.


Albanian Subversion

Senior British intelligence officer William Hayter, who chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), came to Washington, D.C. in March with a group of Secret Intelligence Service members and Foreign Office staff that included Gladwyn Jebb, Earl Jellicoe, and Peter Dwyer of SIS and a Balkans specialist.

Based on wrong assessments about Albania, and thinking that the country was ready to shake off its Stalinist regime, the British SIS and the American CIA launched a joint subversive operation, using as agents Albanian expatriates.

Altamont Lamina

He was 21 years old when he entered the SIS, and was assigned to spy on German and Austro-Hungarian dealings during World War I.

Armenian carpet

Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, a Florentine merchant stationed in Cyprus, reported in his La pratica della mercatura that from 1274 to 1330, carpets (kaperts) were imported from the Armenian cities of Ayas and Sis to Florence.

Blood Red, Snow White

To ease his return, he reconsiders the offer from the SIS, and becomes agent S76.

Bruno Stojić

HVO intelligence service known as Security and Information Service (SIS)

C.L.I.F.

Chris Tong 童冰玉 as ASP Zhang Cheng Ling (章岑琳) - Formerly an officer with the Police Coast Guard before being transferred to the SIS.

Rayson Tan 陈泰铭 as SSI(2) Yu Chong Nam (余忠南), a senior SIS officer and Yee Tat's ever-dependable deputy

Calotrophon carnicolor

This specie sis distributed in the Lesser Antilles along Nevis and Barbados.

Cash Asmussen

From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo in Webb County, Texas.

CIA activities in India

When India's intelligence community was built around RAW in 1968, RAW's first director, R.N. Kao, held meetings with his CIA counterparts in the U.S., as well as the United Kingdom's SIS and the Soviet Union KGB.

Darja Schabad

During a special episode on November 11, 2001, judges Soost and Christensen eventually disclosed that Ross Antony, Hila Bronstein, Shaham Joyce, Faiz-Kevin Mangat, Verena "Indira" Weis, and Giovanni Zarrella were chosen to become part of the multicultural group Bro'Sis.

Death of Gareth Williams

The coroner was highly critical of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), who failed to tell the senior investigating officer before the inquest began of the existence of nine memory sticks and other property in Williams's SIS office.

Drazark monastery

north of the city of Sis - historical capital of Cilician Armenia, at one of inaccessible slopes of Cilician Taurus range (middle part of the Taurus Mountains).

Framebuffer

At one time there were many manufacturers of graphics accelerators, including: 3dfx; ATI; Hercules; Trident; Nvidia; Radius; S3 Graphics; SiS and Silicon Graphics.

Fuck the Pain Away

The lyrics reference a number of female rock stars, such as Debbie Harry ("Callin me, all the time like Blondie") and Chrissie Hynde ("Check out my Chrissie behind"), and morally assertive slogans, such as "Stay in School" (SIS) which is also a reference to her being a teacher before becoming a musician.

Ivan Gašparovič

The conflict had gotten to the point where the Slovak Secret Service SIS was alleged to have kidnapped the president's son, Michal Jr., plying him with alcohol, and dropping him in front of a police station in nearby Hainburg in Austria, a country where he was wanted on suspicion of financial fraud.

Jacob I the Learned

The pontifical throne was vacant for a few months after the death of Constantine I until it was filled by Jacob I from the region of Tarsus or Sis.

Jeremy Wolfenden

Wolfenden was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) before becoming the Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent in Moscow where he indulged in his twin passions for sex and alcohol and was eventually compromised by the KGB.

Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale

She served with distinction in Stockholm and in Helsinki where, as the SIS Head of Station, she was involved in the successful exfiltration of the former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky.

New Zealand intelligence agencies

The Green Party, for example, aims to abolish the GCSB and possibly the SIS — the functions of the former are deemed unnecessary and undesirable, while the functions of the latter are suggested as better performed by the Police.

NextLabs

NextLabs partners with industry leaders such as IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Adobe, HP, PTC, and Siemens, and with global SIs such as HCL AXON, Deloitte and CSC to bring to market industry-focused information risk management (IRM) solutions.

Peter Lunn

Unknown to either the SIS or the CIA, the tunnel was revealed to the Soviets from the beginning by George Blake, who worked for SIS on the project.

Premakumar Gunaratnam

Gunaratnam's wife, Champa Somaratna, was detained by State Intelligence Services (SIS) at Bandaranaike International Airport from a flight originating from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.

Reinhard Gehlen

The Gehlen Organization was eventually compromised by East German moles within itself and by communists and their sympathizers within the CIA and the British SIS (MI6), particularly Kim Philby.

Satellite Information Services

SIS is owned by Ladbrokes 23%, Caledonia Investments 22.5%, Alternateport Limited 20.5%, William Hill Organisation 19.5%, Fred Done 7.5% and Tote 6%.

SiS 300

Following the successful SiS 6326 in 1998, SiS introduced the SiS 300 as its replacement.

SiS 630/730

The SiS 630 and SiS 730 are a family of highly integrated chipsets for Intel (Slot 1/Socket 370) and AMD (Slot A/Socket A) respectively.

SIS International Research

Its flagship full-service Market Research division, SIS International Custom Research, conducts custom Qualitative Market Research & Quantitative Market Research, Emerging Markets Research, Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, Focus Groups, Strategic Planning and Political Polling.

Slovenská informačná služba

The government of Vladimír Mečiar then changed the law to give the permission to name the SIS director to itself, rather than the President of Slovakia.

Under Lexa, SIS became internationally known for numerous controversies including the kidnapping of President's son to Austria and his light torture in 1995, the Assassination of Róbert Remiáš in 1996 and many more.

Steve Asmussen

Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas.

Trident Microsystems

It was not until the late 1990s that Trident finally released a competitive chip, the TGUI-9880 (Blade3D.) By this time, Trident's reach had once again retreated to the low-end OEM market, where it was crowded by ATI, S3, and SiS.

Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary

It loosely follows the history of the Berlin Tunnel (Operation Gold, covername: PBJOINTLY), which was built and run jointly by the CIA and the British SIS.


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