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9 unusual facts about Turk


Carrick bend

This same configuration is also one of the most basic Turk's head knots.

Carrick mat

In its basic form it is the same as a 3-lead, 4-bight Turk's head knot.

Damascus Spring

The other eight activists, Riad al-Turk, Aref Dalila, Walid al-Bunni, Kamal al-Labwani, Habib Salih, Hasan Sa`dun, Habib `Isa, and Fawwaz Tello were referred to the Supreme State Security Court which issued prison sentences between two to 10 years.

Girdle book

The knot used for the handle was a Turk's head knot, so named for similar appearance to the turbans worn by medieval Muslims of the Turkish Empire.

Matthew 6:28

Modern scholars have proposed a number of different flowers that Jesus could be here referring to, according to Fowler these include the autumn crocus, scarlet poppy, Turk's cap lily, anemone coronaria, the narcissus, the gladiolus, and the iris.

Turk's cap lily

Lilium michauxii, a species native to southeastern North America

Lilium martagon, a species native to a wide area from central Europe east to Mongolia and Korea

Lilium superbum, a species native to eastern and central regions of North America

Woggle

The New Zealand Scouts sometimes use a plastic Woggle in the shape of a traditional Maori carved head, more commonly though warranted leaders trained to Gilwell Woggle standard are allowed to wear the "traditional" leather Turk's head woggle.


1911 Census of the North West Frontier Province

Most of the Hazara region was home to Hindko speaking tribes such as the Awan, Gakhar, Sarara, Karral, Turk and Dhund, as well as Gujjars.

A Christian Turn'd Turk

A Christian Turn'd Turk (1612) is a play by the English dramatist Robert Daborne.

Abu'l-Harith Muhammad

After taking vengeance on the Ma'mun's murderers Mahmud installed a Turk, the hajib Altun Tash, as governor of the province.

Bersiap

In December 1946, Special Forces Depot (DST), led by commando and counter-insurgency expert Captain Raymond 'Turk' Westerling, were accused of pacifying the southern Sulawesi region using arbitrary terror techniques, which were copied by other anti-Republicans.

Çetinkaya Türk S.K.

Lefkoşa Türk Spor Kulübü was founded in 1930, and was one of the founding members of the Cypriot First Division in 1934, the sole Turkish Cypriot team in the league (with 7 Greek Cypriot teams: AEL Limassol, Trast AC, Olympiakos Nicosia, Aris Limassol, APOEL, Anorthosis Famagusta, and EPA Larnaca).

Daniel Gottlob Türk

Born in Claußnitz, Saxony, Türk studied organ under his father and later under Johann Adam Hiller.

Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg

He was also known as Türkenlouis (Turk Louis) due to his famous efforts again Louis XIV in the field and as part of the Imperial Army.

Frank Turk

In August 1849 Frank Turk was elected Vice Alcalde (vice mayor) of San Francisco with John W. Geary as First Alcade.

Greg Turk

Cohen J, Varshney A, Manocha D, Turk G et al. (1996) Simplification envelopes.

Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi

In 1648, John Wilkins cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople in 1554-1562, as recording that "a Turk in Constantinople" attempted to fly.

Jacques François Mouret

Mouret was one of many strong players who played hidden in the Turk (others being Johann Baptist Allgaier, who defeated Napoleon in 1809, Schlumberger, Boncourt and Lewis).

Karl Gottlieb von Windisch

Tom Standage, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine.

Kato Asites

While being under Turkish domination between 15th and 19th centuries, a Turk tried to sabotage a Cretan wedding.

Kingston Regatta

The Regatta moved from Raven’s Ait in 1937 to Canbury Gardens after the Club moved to Turk’s Boat House in Lower Ham Road.

Kunsthalle Wien

In 2005, the Kunsthalle exhibited Feridun Zaimoğlu's work "Kanak Attack. The Turk's third siege?" (a "flag installation").

Lakhnauti Turk

Lakhnauti Turk is a historic village, and founded by a group of Turkmen colonist who arrived from Central Asia some six centuries ago.

Magnolia Projects

The most well-known artists to come out of the Magnolia Projects are Birdman (rapper) magnolia shorty, Juvenile and Turk of the Hot Boys, a former rap group who started their careers on Cash Money Records, and rapper Jay Electronica.

Mağusa Türk Gücü S.K.

Mağusa Türk Gücü last won the title of champions of the Turkish-Cypriot Football League Birinci Lig in the 2005-06 season in Northern Cyprus.

Mahmut Karaduman

His lieutenant, a Turk named Gabi Kaiat, lives in Bucharest and handles transshipments on the Romanian end.

Megali Idea

However, the city fell to a different foe in 1453—the Muslim Turk—and this fall of Constantinople marked the nadir of Byzantine civilization; the city was comprehensively sacked and looted; the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque.

Morea Eyalet

Upon its conquest, the peninsula was made a sanjak of the Rumelia Eyalet, with its capital first at Corinth (Turk. Kordos or Gördes), later in Leontari (Londari), Mystras (Mezistre or Misistire) and finally in Nauplion (Tr. Anaboli).

My Nah Nah Nah

Turk hears about a risky therapeutic hypothermia procedure while watching SportsCenter, and he considers using it in an attempt to restore a paralyzed teenager's ability to walk.

Northern Cyprus

In 1975, the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus (Kıbrıs Türk Federe Devleti) was declared as a first step towards a future federated Cypriot state, but was rejected by the Republic of Cyprus and the United Nations.

Oktay Sinanoğlu

A book in which he was interviewed about his life and works, under the name The Turkish Einstein, Oktay Sinanoglu (Turkish: Türk Aynştaynı Oktay Sinanoğlu Kitabı) was edited by Turkish writer Emine Çaykara and published in 2001 in Turkey.

PakTurk International Schools and Colleges

In response to the collapse of the educational infrastructure in regions affected by the 2005 earthquake, Pak Turk ICEF—again in collaboration with the Kimse Yok Mu Aid and Solidarity Association—completed the construction of ten prefabricated school buildings that were erected on the sites of collapsed schools in Muzaffarabad, Balakot and Mansehra.

In the wake of the 2005 earthquake that devastated areas of Pakistan, Pak Turk ICEF participated in humanitarian aid efforts targeting those affected by the earthquake.

Peloponnese

During the first period of Ottoman rule (1460–1687), the capital was first in Corinth (Turk. Gördes), later in Leontari (Londari), Mystras (Misistire) and finally in Nauplion (Tr. Anaboli).

Peter Maris

Among his early work was the cult film Delirium in 1979 that starred Turk Cekovsky and Barron Winchester.

Richard Chandler

Having explored numerous sites in Anatolia and Ionian Islands, they continued to Athens, where they purchased fragments of sculpture from the Parthenon: "We purchased two fine fragments of the frieze which we found inserted over the doorways in the town, and were presented with a beautiful trunk which had fallen from the metopes, and lay neglected in the garden of a Turk".

Stereotypes of West and Central Asians in the United States

"The Turk", a Turkish Mafioso in the dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers and "Ahmet Sunay", a Turkish High-Tech Missile Guidance System dealer and "businessman" in the thriller film The International, both played by Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is another similar stereotype.

Tadkeshwar

Since Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna was himself of Turkic origin and his armies consisted of Turks, Persians and Afghans from Afghanistan/Afghan Turkestan after the conquest the town became known as Turk-sar, which in the Turkic language means 'beset by the Turks'.

The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack

"Rondo" includes a short excerpt from Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, as well as an extended quote and re-harmonization of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Blue Rondo a la Turk." "The Cry of Eugene", which was later re-recorded by Jackson's group Jackson Heights, refers to "Harlequin & Columbine".

Thomas R. Berger

Described as a "Young Turk" and "young man in a hurry", Berger challenged long-time BC CCF/NDP leader Robert Strachan for the party leadership in 1967.

Turk Flu

"Turk Flu" is the fifth episode of the 2006 Robin Hood television series, made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One.

Türk Telekom B.K.

In September 2011, first Turkish NBA All-Star player Mehmet Okur of the Utah Jazz announced he would play for Türk Telekom, due to the 2011 NBA lockout.

Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988

However Turkish Eurovision fans consoled themselves, because Atilla Şereftuğ the composer of the winner ("Ne partez pas sans moi" by Celine Dion) was a Turk, living in Switzerland .

Turkic migration

Thus the ethnonym "Turk" for the diverse Islamized Turkic tribes somehow served the same function as the name "Tajik" did for the diverse Iranian peoples who converted to Islam and adopted Persian as their lingua-franca.

Un Oso Rojo

Oso is determined to establish a relationship with Alicia, and to collect money owed him by a sleazy crime boss known as the Turk (René Lavand).

Veraval

In addition there are also significant populations of Turks, Rajwadi bhoi's, Lohanas, Maleks, Memons, Patnis and Raykas.

Yictove

Born Eugene Melvin Turk, Yictove was a proponent of rhymed poetry, who mentored high school students in New Jersey, including those at East Orange High School, performed as a poet in the schools courtesy of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, taught creative writing in public libraries and in the Safe Haven program/YMCA in East Orange, New Jersey, and directed poetry series in New York City's Knitting Factory.

Zonuz

The origins of the Azeris probably derive from ancient Turk tribes (such as the Medes in Iranian Azarbaijan and Oguz invaders who arrived during the eighth century BCE).


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