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unusual facts about Yemen, Mauritius



Abdur-Rahman al-Mu'allimee al-Yamani

Al-Mu`allimee's father Yahya ibn `Ali was raised in the village of al-Tufan in the Automah district of Dhamar, Yemen.

Abu Hatim Tayyib Ziyauddin

Throughout 2000, he visited Karbala, Shaam, Najaf, Kufa, Bait ul-Muqaddas, Cairo, and Yemen in a comprehensive tour, making him the first Mansoor ul-Yamane and Zaair il-Mashhadain il-'Azeemain to do so.

Abu Musa Ashaari

Abu Musa came originally from Hadhramaut, region of Yemen, where his tribe, the Ashar, lived in the pre-Islamic period.

Action of 7 September 2009

On 7 September Brandenburg launched a Sea Lynx helicopter to perform a reconnaissance mission on a suspected skiff just south of Al Mukalla, Yemen.

Arabia Felix

Arabia Felix (lit. Happy Arabia; also Greek: Eudaimon Arabia) was the Latin name previously used by geographers to describe the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, a country with an extensive history.

Arabian Waxbill

It can also be found along the south coast of Yemen east to Wadi al-Jahr and, in the extensively irrigated intensive agricultural areas of Wadi Hadramawt between Shibam and Tarim, usually with a dense cover of trees and bushes.

Battle of Zinjibar

The Battle of Zinjibar was a battle during the 2011 Yemeni uprising between forces loyal to Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh and Islamist militant forces, possibly including elements of al-Qaeda, for control of the town of Zinjibar and its surroundings as part of the wider insurgency in the self-declared Islamic Emirate of Abyan.

Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy

When Nandy retired in 2000, Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth made an offer to Nandy to come back to Mauritius as NSA.

Bojer's skink

It occurs in patches of the Black River Gorges National Park and on some off-shore islands of Mauritius including Ilot Vacoas, Round Island, Serpent Island, Ilot Gabriel, Pigeon Rock, Flat Island, Gunner’s Quoin, Ile aux Aigrettes, and Ile de la Passe.

British currency in the Middle East

The 1825 order-in-council was limited largely to the remnants of the old Empire in North America and the West Indies, along with New South Wales, Gibraltar, and some spoils of the Napoleonic wars such as the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Mauritius.

Cecil Margo

the Helderberg air disaster of 1987 which claimed 159 lives when an SAA Boeing 747, the Helderberg, crashed into the sea north-east of Mauritius.

Charles William Andrews

He noticed the connections among widely separated flightless rails of Mauritius, the Chatham Islands and New Zealand and deduced that their flightless character had been independently evolved on the spot.

Clarisse

Eddy Clarisse (born 1972), retired badminton player from Mauritius

Claude de Baissac

Claude Denis Boucherville de Baissac, DSO and bar, CdeG, known as Claude de Baissac or by his codename David (born 28 February 1907, Curepipe, Mauritius - died 22 December 1974) was a Mauritian of French descent who became an agent in the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Cliff L'Aimable

Cliff L'Aimable (born 1961:Mauritius ) is a Chartered Surveyor specialising in UK Building Regulations was associated to a public building control body as an early authorising building regulation approval signatory to landmark building developments within the regeneration programme being administered by the London Borough of Southwark, such as the Shard London Bridge ( aka. London Bridge Tower ).

Dor Daim

Over time more and more Kabbalistic practices became popular among the Yemenite Jews to the point that the Baladi community became localized as a significant population only around the area of Yemen's capital city, Sana'a.

Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon

In a letter from Lord Minto Governor General of India upon that occasion, he acknowledges the public service I rendered, not only as relating to the fall of the Mauritius, but adds that it was to the co-operation I afforded he was indebted for the means of moving against Java.

East Caribbean dollar

In 1822, the British government coined 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 fractional 'Anchor dollars' for use in Mauritius and the British West Indies (but not Jamaica).

Eduard Glaser

He collected thousands of inscriptions in Yemen that are today held by Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Elemo Qiltu

Not much is know of Elemo's early life but by 1956 he had had an Islamic education and was living in Dire Dawa working for a wealthy Arab merchant who eventually took him to Aden, Yemen in 1956.

Fathi Jabir

Fathi Jabir (Arabic: فتحي جابر ) (born 29 December 1980) is a Yemeni football striker and Club Al-Tilal، Yemen's top scorer the season: 1998/99

First Battle of Lawdar

The First Battle of Lawdar refers to the Yemeni army offensive, launched between 19 and 25 August 2010 on the city of Lawdar, that at the time was controlled by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Francis Thomé

Francis Thomé (October 18, 1850, Port Louis, Mauritius - November 16, 1909, Paris), was a French pianist and composer.

Frederick Leith-Ross

Leith-Ross was born in Mauritius, but grew up with his grandfather at the family estate, Arnage Castle in Scotland.

GDRT

GDRT is first mentioned in South Arabian inscriptions as an ally of `Alhan Nahfan, king of Saba, in an inscription at Maḥram Bilqīs, at Ma'rib in Yemen, the temple of the moon god Almaqah /Ilmuqah.

Gurty Calambé

On August 9, 2011, Calambé finally scored his first official goal for Mauritius in their 2 – 0 win in the group stage of the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games football tournament over Comoros to help secure Club M's place in the knockout stage.

Guy Lionnet

In 1984, Mauritian botanist Deva Duttun Tirvengadum, a former director of the Mauritius Institute, renamed the endemic plant mangliye gran bwa as Glionnetia sericea, in honour of Guy Lionnet.

Habib Munzir Al-Musawa

While he was at ma'had Al-Khayrat, he got acquainted with Habib Umar bin Hafiz, the director and founder of Dar al-Mustafa boarding school in Tarim, Hadramaut in Yemen who visited the school as part of his outreach.

Habib Umar bin Hafiz

Umar bin Hafiz was born in Tarim, Hadhramaut, Yemen, and raised in a household that possessed a tradition and lineage of Islamic scholarship and righteousness by his father.

Henri Le Sidaner

Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – July 1939) was an intimist painter born to a French family in Port Louis, Mauritius.

Inverted Jenny

The play Mauritius, written by Pulitzer Prize for Drama-nominee Theresa Rebeck, features the Inverted Jenny alongside the one- and two-penny Mauritius "Post Office" stamps.

Israel–Yemen relations

When the Israeli singer, Ofra Haza planned to visit Yemen, her country of origin, the Yemeni government gave its approval.

Jean-Chrysostôme Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne

On 28 February 1803, he departed for India, arriving at Île de France in August.

Malartic

Comte de Malartic, a French colonial governor and general in Canada and Mauritius.

Maria Al-Masani

Maria Al-Masani founded Yemen Rights Monitor during the Arab Spring in 2011, providing a means of updating news via social media when traditional news media had been blocked – she was later cited by Andy Carvin as one of his most reliable sources about opposition activities in Yemen.

Mauritius cricket team

In April 2011, Tommy Hammond, of Tommy Hammond Sports, took South African first-class side Kwazulu-Natal Inland Under-15 side to Mauritius in what promised to be a most important and promising tour and proved to a ground-breaking tour in Mauritian cricket.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Minaeans

The Minaeans were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in (Old South Arabian mʿn, vocalized Maʿīn; modern Arabic معين Maʿīn) in modern day Yemen, dating back to the 6th century BCE.

Miss Mauritius

Diya Beeltah is the first Miss Mauritius to participate at the Miss Tourism World Beauty contest.

Mufaddal Saifuddin

During his trip to Yemen, he laid the foundations for the construction of Syedna Hatim's Roza.

René Lemarant de Kerdaniel

In 1809, he took command of the Astrée and sailed to Île de France to reinforce the frigate squadron under Hamelin, where he witnesses the last stages of the Battle of Grand Port and helped sealing the fate of the last remaining British frigate.

Ridda wars

He had to deal with widespread apostasy on the eastern and southern coasts of Arabia: in Bahrain, in Oman, in Mahra, in Hadhramaut and in Yemen.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a 2011 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked.

Sino-Mauritian

Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been "shanghaied" from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing; however, they soon went on strike to protest their kidnapping.

Stanley Alexander de Smith

His work for Mauritius is commemorated by a memorial in the Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens; his ashes were scattered in that country.

Stanley Portal Hyatt

Stanley and his brothers had started from Central Africa in a penniless condition, but by lecturing and journalism in Durban, they got to Mauritius, from which they wore exported as distressed British subjects.

The Slave Route Project

The societies of the Indian Ocean, including Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, came into being at different times through ancient slave trades and the migrations of populations from Africa, Asia and Europe.

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din was born on Friday 18 June 1869 in Sanaa into the Hamidaddin branch of the al-Qasimi dynasty who ruled most of Yemen proper and South Saudi Arabia today for over 900 years.

Yemeni presidential election, 2006

Incumbent president Ali Abdullah Saleh of the General People's Congress party defeated the Yemen opposition coalition candidate Faisal Bin Shamlan.

Yemeni unification

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, the former Southern Prime Minister continued to serve as the Yemen's Prime Minister, but his government was ineffective due to political infighting.


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