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5 unusual facts about Wadi


Adil Kamil al-Wadi

Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid had called for the Bahrain government to provide financial compensation to the released men.

Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i

After his death, reports continued to surface of changes in curriculum and power struggles at the Dar al-Hadith, though these rumors were dispelled a few years later by contemporary Muslim scholar Rabee Al-Madkhali.

Riverbed

Wadi, a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain

Solhi al-Wadi

In 1995 Solhi al-Wadi conducted the first-ever performance of an opera in Syria, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which was performed at the ancient Roman amphitheaters of Bosra and Palmyra for huge crowds of enthusiastic listeners.

Wadyan

The name of the village is derived from the Arabic word Wadi An which means Wadi of An.


Abalak

The town itself lies in a seasonal wash — a Kori (Hausa) or Wadi (Arabic) — which retains underground water even during the long dry season.

Abdeen

Abdeen Mosque, the main mosque in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, named after Omar Abdeen

Baal-gad

Its exact location is uncertain, but it is generally considered to be Hasbaya in Wadi et-Teim or a site nearby.

Bab edh-Dhra

Bab edh-Dhra (bāb al-dhrā' ) is the site of an Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea, on the south bank of Wadi Kerak.

Battle of Wadi Akarit

The Battle of Wadi Akarit (code-named Operation Scipio) was the successful Allied action on 6 and 7 April 1943 to dislodge Axis forces from their positions along the Wadi Akarit in Tunisia (also known as the Akarit Line).

Bill Kennedy Shaw

He also travelled with Bagnold in 1932 from Cairo to Kharga, to Uweinat, Sarra, Tekro, Uweinat, El Fasher, Bir Natrun, Merga, Laqia, Selima, Wadi Halfa, Dakhla, Bahariya and Cairo, a total distance of 6000 miles.

Dallol Bosso

Dallol is the Djerma language equivalent of the Arabic Wadi or the Hausa Kori: an ancient river valley which carries surface water in the rainy season, but maintains subsurface water at other times, making it a magnet for human habitation.

Dana Biosphere Reserve

The threatened Nubian Ibex, Syrian Serin, Caracal, and Lesser Kestrel are natives of Wadi Dana and plans to save the species were put forth by Global Environment Fund in 1994.

Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions

The monument, also known as the Chalouf stele (alt. Shaluf Stele), records the construction of a forerunner of the modern Suez Canal by the Persians, a canal through Wadi Tumilat, connecting the easternmost, Bubastite, branch of the Nile with Lake Timsah which was connected to the Red Sea by natural waterways.

Datta Jayanti

The temples dedicated to Dattatreya are located throughout India, the most important places of his worship are in Karnataka,Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat like Ganagapur in Karnataka near Gulbarga, Narasimha Wadi in the Kolhapur district, Pithapuram in Andhra Pradesh near Kakinada, Audumbar in Sangli district and Girnar in Saurashtra.

Demchok

Across the wadi, less than a kilometer away, is a Chinese-administered village, called Dêmqog, which was once part of Demchok.

The Line of Actual Control (LAC) passes along the southeast side of the village, following a wadi just upstream from the nearby Indus River.

Hernán Madrid

Hernán Madrid (born April 2, 1981) was a naturalized Palestinian football defender, who played for Wadi Al-Nes.

Italian support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war

Iraq ordered four Lupo class frigates, and six Wadi Assad class corvettes equipped with Otomat-2 anti-shipping missiles.

Kadisha Valley

The Kadisha Valley (also known as Qadisha Valley, Wadi Qadisha, Ouadi Qadisha, or وادي قاديشا in Arabic) is a valley that lies within the Becharre and Zgharta Districts of the North Governorate of Lebanon.

Kalba

The first merges after Wadi al-Haloo (وادي الحلو) tunnel with Maliha Road (شارع مليحة) which finally leads to the Sharjah-Kalba Road (90 km) from Sharjah International Airport.

Mahamadwadi Dam

Mahamadwadi Dam, (or Mohamod Wadi Dam) is an earthfill dam on Gad river near Nardave in Kankavli taluka of Sindhudurg district, in the state of Maharashtra in India.

Nadec

Other crops such as wheat, clover, shami corn and Rhodes grass are grown on thousands of acres of land across four major projects in Haradh, Wadi Al-Dawasser, Hail and Al Jouf.

Nandura

Some of these villages are Chandur Biswa, Wadner, Nimgaon, Takli(Wachpal), Jigaon, Palsoda, Patonda, Mamulwadi, Higana Gavhad, Mominabad, Sawargaon, Sirsodi, Yerali,Belad (Sabe), Alampur, Narakhed, Pimpalkhuta Dhande, Rasulpur, Wadali, Dighi, Khumgaon, Dahigaon,Matoda,sonaj, Danora, Kati, Dahivadi, Potali, Medhali, Wadi, Shegaon, Lonwadi, Malegaon Gond, Wasadi, Khadatgaon, Mahalundi, Jawala Bazar, Takarkhed, Fuli, Khaira, and Shemba.

Peter J. A. Lucas

The 8th DLI confronted the German assault with no supporting weapons – the few Valentine tanks and anti-tank guns were unable to cross the wadi - and no air support, since the aircraft had been grounded by torrential rain.

Reginald Ernest Moreau

The young couple preferred to live at Maadi close to Wadi Digha where they kept a pet raven and conducted experiments to see if the plumage colours of larks were genetically inherited.

Robert Edward Cruickshank

On 1 May 1918 east of the Jordan River, Palestine, Private Cruickshank volunteered to take a message to company headquarters from his platoon which was in the bottom of a wadi, with its officer and most of the men casualties.

Sheik Ali

Wadi Ayoub (1927 -September 29, 1976) was a champion Greco–Roman style professional wrestler, best known as Sheik Ali.

Sudanese Air Force

In 1991, the two main air bases were at the capital Khartoum and Wadi Sayyidna near Omdurman.

Trans-African Highway network

Trans-African Highway (TAH 4), Cairo–Gaborone–(Pretoria/Cape Town) Highway, 10,228 km: the completion of the stretch of highway from Dongola to Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan and the road from the Galabat border crossing in North-Western Ethiopia leaves only 2 stretches unpaved: between Isiolo and Moyale in northern Kenya (dubbed 'the road to hell' by overland travellers) and the gravel section through Dodoma in central Tanzania.

Wadi Al Sail

Wadi Al Sail is a neighborhood of Doha, Qatar.

Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush Important Bird Area

The Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush Important Bird Area is a 4,500 ha site in the Qatana District of south-western Syria.

Wadi Ara

Approximately 1 km west of the Border Patrol intersection on Highway 65, the wadi opens into the Sharon plain, and becomes a tributary of the Hadera Stream, south of Talmei Elazar and north of Tel Zeror.

Wadi Junction railway station

Wadi Junction railway station is located in Gulbarga district in the Indian state of Karnataka and serves Wadi.

Wadi of the Maldives

Sultan Wadi ascended the throne in 1214 after the death of his elder brother Sultan Dhihei.

Wadi Zighen

Wadi Zighen (also Wadi Zighan) is a depression (height 310 metres) located in the Libyan Desert in the Kufra District of Libya, about 180 km north-northwest of El Tag and east of Tazirbu.


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