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unusual facts about clique



Agathe Habyarimana

She was the centre of a powerful clique of northern Hutus called le clan de madame or akazu (Kinyarwanda for "little house").

Amdo

In 1928, the Ma Clique joined the Kuomintang, and during the period from 1928 to 1949, much of Amdo was gradually assimilated into the Qinghai province (and part of Gansu province) of the Kuomintang Republic of China.

Barbarellas

It was originally a Ms Lynch demo, and was produced by Yoad Nevo, and remixed by Manhattan Clique and Riffs&Rays.

Benoît Sinzogan

Hachème was a member of what Decalo called the Abomey clique, which also included prominent offices Philippe Aho, Jean-Baptiste Hachème, and Benoit Adandejan.

Big Ed

Knight was born in Richmond, California, and attended Eastern Washington University from 1992 to 1993 on a basketball scholarship, but dropped out to pursue a career in rap music in the Bay Area with Master P's West Coast Bad Boy Clique.

Constitutional Protection Movement

The Extraordinary Session of Parliament was controlled by the Guangxi clique, and was restructured on May 1918 in which the generalissimo was replaced by a committee of seven executives consisting of Sun, Tang Shaoyi, Wu Tingfang, and Tang Jiyao on one side and Lu Rongting, Cen Chunxuan, and Lin Baoyi on the other.

Derek Minor discography

The discography of Christian hip-hop artist Derek Minor, formerly known as Pro, consists of four studio albums and seven mixtapes as a solo artist, one studio album each with the groups R.M.G. and 116 Clique, twenty-three singles, including eight as a featured artist and three with R.M.G. and one with 116 Clique, and eleven music videos, including two as a featured artist and one each with R.M.G. and 116 Clique.

Desmond Chute

Later Desmond moved for his health to Rapallo, Italy, where he was a close friend of Max Beerbohm and Ezra Pound, and one of the Tigullian Circle clique around him.

Down with the Clique

"Down with the Clique" is a song written and produced by R. Kelly for R&B singer Aaliyah's debut album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number.

Eesti Aeg

One of the first truly independent (of the Soviet ruling clique influences) newspapers, it was set up in 1991 after a mass exodus of staff from Eesti Ekspress after its Soviet parent company, Cross Development FSP, fired Hans H. Luik.

Go Records

Bands awarded contracts included The Cherokees, The Deakins, MPD Ltd, Tony & The Shantels (from Shepparton, Victoria), The Chosen Few (South Australia), and The Clique (Perth).

Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale

She had numerous adulterous love affairs within the elite Melton Mowbray hunting clique and had a long affair with the renowned pianist Arthur Rubinstein, whom she said she slept with on his wedding day.

Jiangyan District

The philosophy and one of the founders of 'Taizhou clique', Wang Dong (王栋) had been teaching in Jiangyan for decades, and his teaching place, Wanggong Temple ("王公祠") is now preserved as a museum.

Ma Bufang

Ma Bufang was described as a socialist by American journalist John Roderick and friendly compared to the other Ma Clique warlords.

Ma Fuxing

In 1924 Yang intercepted some correspondence between Ma and the Zhili clique and became suspicious.

Mahmud Tukur

He became friends with contemporaries such as Mamman Daura, Adamu Ciroma, Hamza Rafindadi Zayyad to form a small clique of policy advocates in Northern Nigeria.

Maximum common subgraph isomorphism problem

One possible solution for this problem is to build a modular product graph, in which the largest clique represents a solution for the MCS problem.

Nicola Porpora

In 1729 the anti-Handel clique invited him to London to set up an opera company as a rival to Handel's, without success, and in the 1733–1734 season, even the presence of his pupil, the great Farinelli, failed to save the dramatic company in Lincoln's Inn Fields (the "Opera of the Nobility") from bankruptcy.

Nicole Fiscella

Fiscella bagged the role of Isabel Coates, a "friend"/sidekick of Blair Waldorf and a part of the insider clique in The CW's Gossip Girl in March 2007.

Peng Zhen

He was accused of being an associate to Wu Han's counter-revolutionary clique and deposed at a May conference, along with Lu Dingyi, Luo Ruiqing and Yang Shangkun, at the very start of the Cultural Revolution.

Presidency of Luis Herrera Campins

Unknown to anyone but themselves, a group of junior-grade officers had formed a clique called the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200 in Spanish), and it was led by then-Captain Hugo Chávez Frías.

Qiao Guanhua

With the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Qiao Guanhua was first identified as member of the counter-revolutionary clique ruling the Foreign Ministry along with Chen Yi and Ji Pengfei.

School of Diplomacy

Both Su Qin of the Vertical Alliance clique and Zhang Yi of the Horizontal Alliance clique issue many plans and schemes that are politically subjective.

The Alphas

The Alphas is a spin-off of the Clique book series by Lisi Harrison.

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Instead, Paker reports that a small clique of policy people in key administration positions, primarily Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, sought to fundamentally alter the future of the Middle East.

The Shadow of Night

The three noblemen and their associates, like Sir Walter Raleigh, John Dee and Thomas Harriot among others, have been interpreted as members of a clique of advanced thinkers called The School of Night, who were interested in promoting new ideas like the Copernican and Galilean view of a heliocentric solar system, and the spirit of open inquiry that underlay it.

Uranian poetry

The chief poets of this clique were William Johnson Cory, Lord Alfred Douglas, Montague Summers, John Francis Bloxam, Charles Kains Jackson, John Gambril Nicholson, Rev. E. E. Bradford, John Addington Symonds, Edmund John, John Moray Stuart-Young, Charles Edward Sayle, Fabian S. Woodley, and several pseudonymous authors such as "Philebus" (John Leslie Barford) and "A. Newman" (Francis Edwin Murray).

Vyner baronets

A younger daughter of Robert's, Delicia, married the future Field Marshal Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, and was thus one of a clique of English wives (including Princess Victoria) who influenced the Prussian military to adopt liberal political views.

Zhili–Anhui War

In April 1920, while visiting a memorial service at Baoding for soldiers who died in Hunan, one-time presidential-candidate Cao Kun added more warlords to the anti-Anhui clique alliance, including the rulers of Hubei, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Zhili.

Zhu Qinglai

In 1940 Zhu Qinglai participated in the Reorganised National Government of China and entered the Kuomintang (Wang's clique).


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