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Abdul Rahman al-Iryani

According to Yossi Melman of Haaretz, Dorit Mizrahi of the Mishpacha Magazine, and an article in the weekly HaOlam HaZeh, there are allegations that Al-Eryani was born Zekharia Hadad to a Yemenite Jewish family in Ibb.

Acousmatic sound

More recently, in the article Space-form and the acousmatic image (2007), composer and academic Prof. Denis Smalley has expanded on some of Schaeffers' acousmatic concepts.

Agrarian Reform Law of 1970

The areas of agricultural land possessed by a person Tapu-authorized or granted under long lease (rain-irrigated land, irrigated areas) shall not exceed the limits defined in article 2.

Alex Beam

In December, 2010, Beam wrote an article in the Globe about Liverpool Football Club's supporters, criticizing them for continuing to mourn the deaths of 96 supporters during the Hillsborough disaster, which he called a "riot".

Antonio Pacheco D'Agosti

:This article is about the footballer, for other people with the same name see Antonio Pacheco.

Ballyragget

The very first Journal of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society "Old Kilkenny Review, Number 1 (1946–1947). January 1948" has an article about Ballyragget and its environs and states the belief that Domhnach Mór means Big Sunday and relates to the fact that thousands of people congregated at the now ruined church in Donoughmore for its opening on a Sunday and the name stuck.

Beverley Baxter

It was published in an undergraduate magazine Panorama edited by Kenneth Tynan, and Shulman mischievously showed the article to Charles Curran, the features editor, who passed it to Baxter who "was not amused."

Boutique

For example, before the release of the Wii, a Time Magazine article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.

Bruce Munro

In an article in the Financial Times, the curator, Turner prize judge and broadcaster Richard Cork called Bruce Munro's Light Shower 'spectacular'.

Charles Knickerbocker Harley

The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article in the Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1981-June 1982 for “British Industrialization Before 1841.He is a Professor of Economic History and an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College both at the University of Oxford.

Charles R. Forbes

On December 16, 1927, after the publication of his New York World article, Forbes testified before a grand jury in Kansas City that concerned his statement in the article that alleged narcotics was easily obtained at USP Leavenworth.

Connecticut for Lieberman

In March, Korchin changed the Wikipedia article about the party to reflect his role and in response to Orman's claims.

Cult Information Centre

BBC News has cited the Cult Information Centre's five key factors that distinguish a cult, in an article on Scientology.

Eschenmoser fragmentation

In the same year, i.e. 1967, Masato Tanabe et al. of SRI International published an article detailing on the reaction, and thus, some also refer to it as the Eschenmoser–Tanabe fragmentation.

Fritz von Frantzius

Von Frantzius published a book in 1914, in response to an article written by Brander Matthews.

Gailen David

On April 1, 2013, Savvy Stews ran an April Fool article claiming that David, Laurie and "Sassy Stew" Shawn Kathleen had been selected as flight attendants on Lindsay Lohan's private jet.

Grantville Gazette II

The Grantville Gazettes — This article covers various common matters on the sub-series in depth, in particular the Phase II experiments with an eMagazine and Phase III (ongoing) maturation of the milieu using collaborative fiction.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira

Auroras Anlaß, Erich Hackl, Zürich 1987 (described in the German Wikipedia article Auroras Anlaß).

Hula massacre

An article (no title given) by R. Barkan from the Mapam newspaper Al Hamishmar, quoting a letter from eyewitness Dov Yermiya and the Jewish Agency's response, translated in the Journal of Palestine Studies, vol.

Istrian Shorthaired Hound

The smooth and coarse-haired hounds were used for hunting in Istria (see the article on Motovun for photographs of the sort of mountainous terrain they were bred to hunt) while the Posavaz Hound is from the Sava Valley.

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

:This article is based on a translation of the corresponding article at the German Wikipedia.

John Hanbury Angus Sparrow

He famously wrote an article for Encounter on Lady Chatterley's Lover (after the obscenity trial) arguing that the acquittal was wrong, as the novel promoted the illegal practice of sodomy.

Journal of Contemporary History

The winner of the first George L. Mosse Prize in 2006 was the British historian of Nazi Germany Alex J. Kay, who won for his article Germany’s Staatssekretäre, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941.

Lisa Donovan

In a Forbes magazine article, YouTube founder Chad Hurley highlighted Donovan's success as an example of the changing paradigm of entertainment.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Lynn Brewer

A USA today article by Greg Farrell based on interviews with two dozen former colleagues, found that her claim to be a former Enron Executive and as the first whistleblower at Enron can't be substantiated.

Marxism and the National Question

"Marxism and the National Question" (Russian:Марксизм и национальный вопрос) is an article written by Joseph Stalin at the end of 1912–1913 in Vienna, at the insistence of Lenin.

Mattress World of Michigan

Mattress World was, according to a Furniture Today article, the apparent high bidder for six Mattress Discounters stores in Metro Detroit; Mattress Discounters was exiting the Michigan market.

Michaela Gagne

Gagne has been interviewed nationally on CNN, Fox News and Inside Edition, as well as being featured in various publications including USA Today, Newsweek online (personally written article) and The Boston Globe.

My Old School

The same article speculates that a Bard professor's wife, Rikki Ducornet, was the inspiration for "Rikki Don't Lose That Number".

Nanaya

:This article is about the Mesopotamian goddess; for the Telugu author see Nannayya.

Nasi Lemak 2.0

an article by Fauziah Arof dated 21 September 2011 condemned Namewee for insulting the national anthem Negaraku, Islam and Malay race as a whole.

National Civilian Community Corps

AmeriCorps (which includes the NCCC program) is a USA federally funded "network of more than 3,000 non-profit organizations, public agencies, and faith-based organizations." AmeriCorps has met with sharp criticisms from fiscal conservatives who accused it of being a "boondoggle", most notably by libertarian James Bovard in a Fox News article that covered proposals to cut funding for the program.

Neo-Gramscianism

The beginning of the Neo-Gramscian perspective can be traced to York University professor emeritus, Robert W. Cox's article "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory", in Millennium 10 (1981) 2, and "Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method", published in Millennium 12 (1983) 2.

Nicola Abbagnano

In existentialism, having freed himself from the negative implications he found in Heidegger, in Jaspers, in Sartre, in Dewey's pragmatism and in neopositivism, Abagnano saw the signs of a new philosophical trend, that he called a "New Enlightenment" in an article written in 1948.

North Carolina Science Olympiad

An article was published in the Journal of Chemical Education in January 1978 documenting the success of recruiting students through Science Olympiad.

Office Open XML

The same InfoWorld article reported that IBM (which supports the ODF format) threatened to leave standards bodies that it said allow dominant corporations like Microsoft to wield undue influence.

Parliamentary Consultation Committee

It is established by Article 82 of the Belgian Constitution and its main task is to resolve certain disputes with regard to legislative procedure and the time limits within which the Senate can evoke and examine certain bills.

Phaethusa

:This article is about the Greek Goddess, for the bird genus see Large-billed Tern.

Phillip E. Hardy

In a May 9, 1994 Music Connection magazine review, Hardy’s vocal style was compared to Harry Chapin and in a July 4, 1994 article said his drumming was described as “As precise as the tick-tock of Big Ben and rocks like a run away renegade.

Pixie Jenkins

Born 'Paul Blake Jenkins' in Launceston, Tasmania in 1957, now referred to by his stage name 'Pixie', in an article in The Australian, Pixie was referenced alongside Jimmy Little, Chad Morgan and Slim Dusty as "...an icon of Australia's country music industry".

Pope Pius V

An article by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani on L'Osservatore Romano of 31 August 2013 states that the earliest document that speaks explicitly of the Pope wearing white is the Ordo XIII, a book of ceremonies compiled in about 1274 under Pope Gregory X.

Revenge for Honour

"Revenge for Honour" was believed up to the 20th century to have been written by George Chapman, appearing in volumes of his works in the 19th century, but the current consensus appears to favor authorship by Glapthorne since J.H. Walter's article in The Review of English Studies (1937).

Sibutramine

In a dissenting article, "Sibutramine: gone, but not forgotten", Professor David Haslam (ex-president of the Royal College of General Practitioners and currently chairman of the National Obesity Forum) says that the SCOUT study is flawed as it only covered high-risk patients and did not consider obese patients who do not have cardiovascular complications or similar contra-indications.

Society for Scientific Exploration

The Skeptical Inquirer published an article by Robert Sheaffer who wrote that the SSE was a non-mainstream organization that was biased towards uncritically believing UFO phenomena, that the panel included many scientists that were UFO advocates but no scientists that were skeptics of UFO claims, and that all the uphold cases were old cases that had failed to convince any skeptic of its accuracy or veracity.

Syd Field

:This article is about the screenwriting guru; for information on the British comedian, see Sid Field.

Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Article XII-The Sublime Porte promises to use its power and influence to assist the Court of Russia when the court has the intention of making any commercial treaty with the regencies of Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, etc.).

Valle de Villaverde

In 1979, deputies (congressmen) Xabier Arzalluz of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and Juan María Bandrés of Euskadiko Ezkerra, affirmed that Article 8 of the then-new Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country was intended to integrate the enclave of Treviño into Álava and the enclave of Villaverde into Biscay.

Willem Pleyte

A notable work of Pleyte was in 1868, when he wrote an article for "Etudes Égyptologiques" in which he gave a translation and commentary of the hieratic text on the verso of Papyrus Leiden I 348.

Yawara

In the United Kingdom, "any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person, or intended by the person having it with him for such use" is defined as an offensive weapon under the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 thus potentially including a yawara stick.


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