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Algiers Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر al-Jazāʼir, literally "the Islands"; Berber: Ldzayer, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria in North Africa. According to the 1998 census the population of the city proper was 1,519,570, whereas the population for the metropolitan area was 2,135,630.
Algiers (film) Algiers is a 1938 film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 French film Pépé le Moko, which derived its plot from the Henri La Barthe novel of the same name.
Algiers Accords The Algiers Accords of January 19, 1981, were brokered by the Algerian government between the USA and Iran to resolve the situation that arose by the detention of American citizens in the American embassy in Tehran.
Algiers Agreement (2000) The Algiers Agreement was an agreement between the governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia signed on December 12, 2000, at Algiers, Algeria to end the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, a border war fought by the two countries from 1998 to 2000. (See also: History of Eritrea.
Algiers Coffee House One of the oldest commercial establishments in Cambridge, Massachusetts , the Algiers Coffee House is located on the second and third floors of historic Brattle Hall, originally the home of the Cambridge Social Union and since then of the Brattle Theater.
Algiers putsch The Algiers putsch (or Generals' putsch) took place on 23 April 1961 in the midst of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). It was a failed coup d'état attempt organized by professional members of the French army in Algeria, headed by three generals, Maurice Challe, Edmond Jouhaud and André Zeller, who were opposed to the secret negotiations which Michel Debré's government had started with the National Liberation Front (FLN).
Algimantas Liubinskas Algimantas Liubinskas (born November 4, 1951 in Kybartai, Lithuania) is a Lithuania national football team coach since 2003. His finest hour came in leading Lithuania to a 1-1 draw against Germany in UEFA EURO 2004 qualification.
Alginite Alginite is a component of some types of kerogen alongside amorphous organic matter. Alginite consists of organic-walled marine microfossils, distinct from inorganic (silica)-walled microfossils that comprise diatomaceous earth.
Algirdas Brazauskas Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas (, born September 22, 1932) is a former President of Lithuania and a former Prime Minister. His government resigned on 31 May 2006 after the large Labour Party left the governing coalition was born in Rokiškis], Lithuania, and graduated from [[Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1956 with a degree in civil engineering.
Algis Kizys Algis Kizys is a New York City bassist most well-known for his long-time membership in no wave indie band Swans. First joining Swans on 1986's Greed LP, he stayed with the group through The Great Annihilator (1995).
Algodones Dunes The Algodones Dunes are located southeast of the Salton Sea in southern California at the border with Arizona and Baja California del Norte, Mexico. The field is approximately 72 kilometers long by 10 kilometers wide (45 miles by 6 miles) and extends along a northwest-southeast line that correlates to the prevailing northerly and westerly wind directions.
Algol (Phantasy Star) Algol is the name of a planetary system (as well as the star that is part of this system) that serves as the setting for the first four installments of the Phantasy Star computer role-playing game series. The system consists of a single star (called Algol or Algo), around which orbit four planets: Palma, Motavia, Dezoris and Rykros (in order from closest to farthest).
Algol variable Algol variables or Algol type binaries are a class of eclipsing binary stars. When the cooler component passes in front of the hotter one, part of the latter's light is blocked, and the total brightness of the binary, as viewed from Earth, temporarily decreases.
Algolagnia Algolagnia (IPA pronunciation: ) (from the Greek "άλγος" algos meaning pain and "λαγνεία" lagnia meaning lust) is a sexual disorder which is defined by deriving sexual pleasure and stimulation from physical pain, particularly involving an erogenous zone.
Algoma Ink Algoma Ink is a juried journal devoted to the publication of poetry, prose, and art from both established and emerging artists which reflects a diversity of social and cultural experience with a focus on literary and artistic excellence. An annually published literary magazine co-sponsored by Algoma University College's Department of English, Music and Fine Arts, it is archived at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
Algoma School District The Algoma School District is a school district serving the area around the city of Algoma in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. It covers approximately 68 square miles"Wisconsin Unified and Secondary School Districts, Area" Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Algona, Washington Algona is a city in King County, Washington and the Seattle metropolitan area, surrounded by the suburbs of Auburn to the north and east, Pacific to the south, and unincorporated King County to the west. The population was 2,460 at the 2000 census.
Algonquian languages The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (the two Algic languages that are not Algonquian are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). Speakers of Algonquian languages stretch from the east coast of North America all the way to the Rocky Mountains.
Algonquian peoples Algonquian Indians are one of the most populous and widespread North American Native groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds, and hundreds of thousands who still identify with various Algonquian peoples. This grouping consists of peoples that speak Algonquian languages.
Algonquian-Wakashan languages Algonquian-Wakashan (also Almosan, Algonkian-Mosan, Algonkin-Wakashan) is a hypothetical language phylum composed of several established language families that was proposed by Edward Sapir in 1929. His proposal consists of the following:
Algonquin The Algonquins (or Algonkins) are an aboriginal North American people speaking Algonquin, an Algonquian language. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, with whom they form the larger AnicinĂ pe grouping.
Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board is a separate school board in the Canadian province of Ontario. The school board is the school district administrator for Roman Catholic schools in the western portions of Eastern Ontario, including Napanee, Kingston, Belleville and Quinte West.
Algonquin College Algonquin College is an English-language college of applied arts and technology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Funded by the Province of Ontario its main campus is in Ottawa, located at 1385 Woodroffe Avenue, near the intersection with Baseline Road.
Algonquin language Algonquin (or Algonkin) is an Algonquian language closely related to Ojibwe, although many consider it to be instead a particularly divergent dialect of Ojibwe. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin First Nations of Quebec and Ontario.
Algonquin Provincial Park Algonquin Provincial Park is a provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in central Ontario. It is the first provincial park in Canada, established in 1893, and therefore the oldest in Ontario.
Algonquin Radio Observatory The Algonquin Radio Observatory is a research facility located at () in the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. The site houses a 46-m single-dish radio antenna, a solar-observing array of 32 three-metre dishes, and a single 1.
Algonquin Regional High School Algonquin Regional High School is a regional high school in New England, located in Northborough, Massachusetts. Its students come from either Northborough or neighboring Southborough which together comprise the Northborough-Southborough Regional School District.
Algonquin Trail The Algonquin Trail is an Ontario Tourist Route, starting at the Kings Highway 35/115 interchange with Kings Highway 401 (Exit 436) in Newcastle, Ontario (in the Municipality of Clarington, Ontario. Upon the Highway 35/115 split, the Algonquin Trail follows Highway 35 into Lindsay, Ontario, along a brief concurrency with Kings Highway 7.
Algor mortis Algor mortis (Latin: algor—coolness; mortis—death) is the reduction in body temperature following death. This is generally a steady decline until matching ambient temperature, although external factors can have a significant influence.
Algorism Algorism comprises all of the rules of performing arithmetic computations using a decimal system for representing numbers in which numbers written using ten symbols having the values 0 through 9 are combined using a place-value system (positional notation), where each symbol has ten times the weight of the one to its right.
Algorists The Algorists are a group of digital artists who create works of art in a way that includes a process based on their own algorithms. For their purposes, an algorithm is simply a detailed recipe for execution of an artwork, which may include computer code, functions, expressions, or other input which ultimately determines the form the art will take.
Algorithm In mathematics, computing, linguistics, and related disciplines, an algorithm is a procedure (a finite set of well-defined instructions) for accomplishing some task which, given an initial state, will terminate in a defined end-state. The computational complexity and efficient implementation of the algorithm are important in computing, and this depends on suitable data structures.
Algorithm BSTW The Algorithm BSTW is a data compression algorithm, named after its designers, Bentley, Sleator, Tarjan and Wei in 1986. BSTW is a dictionary-based algorithm that uses a move-to-front transform to keep recently-seen dictionary entries at the front of the dictionary.
Algorithmic efficiency In computer science, efficiency is used to describe several desirable properties of an algorithm or other construct, besides clean design, functionality, etc. Efficiency is generally contained in two properties: speed, (the time it takes for an operation to complete), and space, (the memory or non-volatile storage used up by the construct).
Algorithmic information theory Algorithmic information theory is a subfield of information theory and computer science that concerns itself with the relationship between computation and information. According to Gregory Chaitin, it is "the result of putting Shannon's information theory and Turing's computability theory into a cocktail shaker and shaking vigorously.
Algorithmics Inc. Algorithmics is a Toronto, Ontario based company that provides enterprise risk management solutions and services to financial institutions. Founded in 1989, Algorithmics employs over 700 people in 18 global offices, and serves more than 300 clients around the world.
Algorithmics of sudoku The class of Sudoku puzzles consists of a partially completed row-column grid of cells partitioned into N regions or zones each of size N cells, to be filled in using a prescribed set of N distinct symbols (typically the numbers {1, ..., N}), so that each row, column and region contains exactly one of each element of the set.
Algorithms for calculating variance Algorithms for calculating variance play a minor role in statistical computing. A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.
Algorithms for Recovery and Isolation Exploiting Semantics In computer science, Algorithms for Recovery and Isolation Exploiting Semantics, or ARIES is a recovery algorithm designed to work with a no-force, steal database approach. One such algorithm is, ARIES, used by IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and many other database systems.
Alguazil Alguazil is a Spanish title often to be met in stories and plays, derived from the Arabic "visir" and the article "al" The alguazil among the early Spaniards was a judge, and sometimes the governor of a town or fortress. In later times he has gradually sunk down to the rank of an officer of the court, who is trusted with the service of writs and certain police duties, but he is still of higher rank than the mere corchete or catch-poll.
Alguien Más Alguien Más is the second official single from Belinda's second studio album UtopíaThe song is about a girl that her boyfriend isn't the same that she feels theres some other girl that he's seeing and she's torn apart and won't forgive him.
Algum Algum (sometimes rendered Almug) is a type of wood referred to in the Bible. According to the Second Book of Chronicles (II Chronicles 2:8), it was used, together with cedar and pine, in the construction of Solomon's Temple: "for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great".
Alhaji Alhaji or Al-Hajj (Arabic الحاجّ) is a term of respect used to address a Muslim man who has completed one of the Five Pillars of Islam by going on the Hajj, or religious pilgrimage to Mecca. A woman who has completed the pilgrimage is addressed as Alhajia.
Alhaji Jeng Alhaji Jeng born December 13, 1981 in Banjul, Gambia is a Swedish athlete competing in pole vault. He came to Sweden when he was just 3 months old but retained his Gambian citizenship until he was 18 years old, when he applied for and was granted Swedish citizenship.
Alhambra The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء = Al Ħamrā'; literally "the red") is an ancient mosque, palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada, in southern Spain (known as Al-Andalus when the fortress was constructed), occupying a hilly terrace on the south-eastern border of the city of Granada. It was the residence of the Muslim kings of Granada and their court, but is currently a museum exhibiting exquisite Islamic architecture.
Alhambra (solitaire) Alhambra is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Its unusual feature is akin to that of Crazy Quilt: the cards in the reserve are built either on the foundations or on a waste pile.
Alhambra Centre The The Mall Barnsley is Barnsley's main shopping complex, housing 41 shops and adjacent to Barnsley Market. At various points during the year, it plays host to the visiting German Market which also runs through the main shopping streets and is very popular in the run up to the festive season.
Alhambra decree The Alhambra Decree was issued in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, married in 1469), following the final triumph over the Moors after the fall of Granada. The decree ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Spain and its territories and possessions by July 31 1492 (Tisha B'Av).
Alhambra Theatre Glasgow The Alhambra Theatre Glasgow opened on 9 December 1910 at 41 Waterloo Street, Glasgow and was acknowledged as the best equipped theatre north of London. The Theatre was designed by a local architect, Sir John James Burnet.
Alhambra Theatre, Sacramento The Alhambra Theatre opened in 1927 and was the preeminent movie house in the greater Sacramento area for many years. It was designed in the Moorish style of the great Spanish cities and included a large courtyard and fountain.
Alhambra, California Alhambra is a city (incorporated on 11 July 1903) located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California which is approximately eight miles from the downtown Los Angeles civic center. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 85,804.
Alchabitius Alchabitius (or Alcabitius <Medieval Latin<Arabic: Abû al-Saqr al-Qabîsî 'Abd al-'Azîz ibn Uthmân, عبدالصقر القبيصي بن عثمان), also known as Abdelazys, Abdilaziz (<Arabic: 'Abd al-Azîz, عبدالعزيز), was a 10th century Arabian astrologer (d. 967).
Alchemical elements The four alchemical elements are Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Traditionally the elements are thought of as representing physical substances, and the discussion can end there, but in the larger consideration of Philosophical Alchemy, there is an entirely different category of thought.
Alchemical Exalted The Alchemical Exalted are a sub-category of semi-divine heroes from the high fantasy role-playing game Exalted published by White Wolf Game Studio. Unlike the other five types of Exalted, they were invented after the game's core rulebook was published.
Alchemical symbol Alchemical symbols, originally devised as part of the protoscience of alchemy, were used to denote some elements and some compounds until the 18th century. Note that while notation like this was mostly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists, so this page lists the most common.
Alchemilla Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the Rosaceae, commonly known as Lady's mantle. There are about 300 species, the majority native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe and Asia, but a few species also present on the mountains of Africa, North America and South America.
Alchemilla mollis Alchemilla mollis, Lady's Mantle, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe, but grown throughout the world as an ornamental garden plant. The leaves are palmately veined, with a scalloped and serrated margin.
Alchemist (band) Alchemist are a progressive metal band from Canberra, Australia. The band was formed in 1987 by Adam Agius (lead vocals/guitar), eventually teaming up with the present line up of Roy Torkington (guitar), Rodney Holder (drums/percussion) and John Bray(bass) which has been together since 1992.
Alchemist (video game) Alchemist is a computer game developed by Ian Weatherburn for the ZX Spectrum and released by Imagine Software in 1983. It is an action adventure game in which the player controls an alchemist who may transformed into a golden eagle.
Alchemy In the history of science, alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in Muslim civilization, and then in Europe up to the 19th century—in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years.
Alchemy (comics) Alchemy (Thomas Jones) is a fictional British mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. Alchemy, created by British comic book fan Paul Betsow, was the winning entry of a contest held by Marvel Comics for the best fan-created character.
Alchemy (Fullmetal Alchemist) In the anime/manga series Fullmetal Alchemist, alchemy is a technique used to transform one material into another (referred to as a transmutation). For most alchemists, performing a transmutation requires the use of a transmutation circle.
Alchemy (Islam) Alchemy in Islam differs from the general alchemy in certain ways, one of which is that Muslim alchemists didn't believe in the creation of life in the laboratory. alchemy means in the Islam the early chemical investigation of nature in general.
Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored is a book by Archbald Cockren published in 1941. Cockren discussed not only the alleged history of alchemy, but also makes the claims that he had rediscovered and perfected the alchemical methods and that he had successfully created the philosopher's stone.
Alchermes Alchermes is a type of Italian liqueur, said to have originated in Florence, prepared by infusing neutral spirits with sugar, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and vanilla, and other herbs and flavoring agents. Its most striking characteristic is its scarlet color, obtained by the addition of kermes — whence its name — or cochineal.
Alchesay High School Alchesay High School is a public high school located on the Apache Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona, Navajo County. It was founded in 1956 and named after Chief Alchesay, who was a key person in the formation of the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
Alchi Alchi is a village in Leh district of Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in Himalayan region, situated at the bank of Indus River. The village is famous for existence of one of the oldest monasteries in Ladakh mainly known for its wall paintings of the 11th century.
Alchian-Allen Theorem Developed in 1964 by Armen Alchian and William R. Allen in the book University Economics (now called Exchange and Production), Alchian-Allen Theorem states that when the prices of two substitute goods, such as high and low grades of the same product, are both increased by a fixed per-unit amount such as a transportation cost or a lump-sum tax, consumption will shift toward the higher-grade product.
Ali ‘Alī bin Abī Ṭālib (Arabic: علي بن أﺑﻲ طالب)‎ (599 – 661)was an early Islam]ic leader. He is revered by [[Sunni Muslims as the fourth Rightly Guided Caliph and as a foremost religious authority on the Qur'an and Islamic jurisprudence.
Ali (film) Ali is a 2001 biographical film which tells the story of boxer Muhammad Ali. It stars Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nona Gaye (in her film debut), Michael Michele, Joe Morton, Giancarlo Esposito and LeVar Burton.
Ali abd al-Raziq Ali Abd Ar-Raziq (1888-1966) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar and sharia judge. He can be regarded as the intellectual father of Islamic laicism (the separation of state and religion, not the secularization of society).
Ali al-Adeeb Ali al-Adeeb is an Iraqi politician and a senior member of the Islamic Dawa Party. In April 2006 he was tipped by the United Iraqi Alliance as a candidate for the post of Prime Minster, after their original choice, Ibrahim Jaafari, was vetoed by the Kurdistani Alliance and Iraqi Accord Front.
Ali al-Rida Imam 'Ali al-Rida (Translit: Imām 'Alī ibn-Mūsā ar-Riđā, Arabic: علي بن موسى الرضا) (January 1, 766 - May 26, 818) was the eighth Shīˤa Imām. His given name was Alī ibn-Mūsā ibn-Ja'far.
Ali az-Zahir ˤAlī az-Zāhir (20 June 1005 – 13 June 1036) (Arabic: الظاهر بالله) was the Seventh Caliph of the Fātimids (1021 - 1036). Az-Zāhir assumed the Caliphate after the disappearance of his father Tāriqu l-Ḥakīm bi Amr al-Lāh.
Ali Abdo Ali Abdo came to Iran from the United States and was a championship boxer. He founded Persepolis Sports Club in 1963, which is made up of a basketball team, bowling team, volleyball team and now a football team, Persepolis FC.
Ali Abdul Aziz Ali Ali Abdul Aziz Ali (Arabic: علي عبدالعزيز علي) is a member of the al-Qaida terrorist organization and reportedly a "nephew" or "cousin" of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, an important leader in the organization. Ali was an important facilitator and financer of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Ali Abdulla Al-Ubaydli Ali Abdulla Al-Ubaydli (Arabic: علي عبدالله العبيدلي) was a merchant, philanthropist and pioneer in Bahrain. At the turn of the 20th century, he was behind building the first modern port in Bahrain which was an important step in modernising the country.
Ali Abdullah Ahmed Ali Abdullah Ahmed (Arabic: علي عبدالله احمد) (January 12, 1970 – June 10 2006) (also transliterated as Salah Addin Ali Ahmed Al-Salami) was a citizen of Yemen who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.list of prisoners (.
Ali Abdullah Saleh Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: علي عبد الله صالح) (born March 21, 1942) is the current President of Yemen. He was President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) from 1978 to 1990 and became president of the new merged state of Yemen in 1990.
Ali Abunimah Ali Hasan Abunimah () is a Palestinian-American, born of a mother made a refugee in 1948 from the village of Lifta now in Israel, and a father from the village of Battir in the West Bank, who co-founded Electronic Intifada, a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective. Abunimah also serves as the Vice-President on the Board of Directors of the Arab American Action Network.
Ali Afshari Ali Afshari (Persian: علی افشاری; born 1973) has become one of the most recognizable faces within Iran’s reform movement. For ten years Afshari has campaigned for reform-minded leaders and change within the Islamic Republic.
Ali Ahmad Jalali Ali Ahmad Jalali was the Interior Minister of Afghanistan from January 2003 to September 2005. He is now a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the National Defense University.
Ali Ahmed Fazeel Ali Ahmed Fazeel (Urdu: علی احمد فضیل) was born in Fatehgarh in Uttar Pradesh, India on September 5, 1922. Son of a district magistrate and political activist of feudal background, he following in his father's footsteps went on to Aligarh University in the early 1940s.
Ali Ahsan Mujahid Ali Ahsan Mujahid is a prominent Bangladeshi Politician and currently Secratary Genaral of Jameet-i-Islami Bangladesh. He was Minister of Social Welfare from 2001-2007 and considered one of the most honest ministers in Bangladeshi History.
Ali Akbar Khan Ustad Ali Akbar Khan () is a North Indian classical musician of the Maihar gharana who plays the sarod.His performances worldwide have established the modern sarod idiom and contributed to greater awareness of Indian classical music.
Ali Akbar Meshkini Ayatollah Ali Akbar Feyz, famously known as Meshkini, is an Iranian cleric and politician. As of 2004, he is the chairman of the Iranian Assembly of Experts, which selects the Supreme Leader of Iran and supervises his activities.
Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini (also known as Seyed Ali Akbar Mosavi) is a notable Iranian human rights activist and politician. He was an active member of Office of fostering unity before he was elected as a Member of Parliament in the 6th Parliament of Iran.
Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani was an Iranian writer, poet and journalist who was imprisoned, and later reportedly killed in prison in mysterious circumstances in Tehran at hands of the Islamic Republic intelligence ministry in 1994.
Ali Akbar Tabatabai Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian exile and critic of Ayatollah Khomeini, was shot in his Bethesda, Maryland home. Salahuddin], an American Muslim convert, was apparently paid by Iranians to kill Tabatabai and is currently on the FBI fugitives listlinks==
Ali Akbar Velayati Ali Akbar Velayati (علی‌اکبر ولایتی; born June 25, 1945 in Shemiran) is an Iranian politician and a pediatrician, currently an Advisor in International Affairs to the Supreme Leader. He was the Foreign Minister of Iran for about 16 years (December 15, 1981 – August 20, 1997), making him the longest-serving Foreign Minister in Iranian history.
Ali Al Shargawi Ali Al Shargawi (Arabic: علي الشرقاوي) is a leading Bahraini poet, lyricist and playwright whose work has been translated into English, German, Bulgarian, Russian, Kurdish, and French. Born in Manama in 1948, he started publishing his poetry in 1968, and quickly gained prominence in Arab newspapers and magazines.
Ali Alatas Ali Alatas (born Jakarta, 4 November 1932) is an Indonesian diplomat of Hadhrami descent who served as the country's foreign minister. Ali Alatas is a Sayyid, which means a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad, and Imam Ali ibn Abithalib (the 1st Imam and the 4th ruler of the Islamic Caliphate after Muhammad).
Ali Allawi Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi was Minister of Trade and Minister of Defence in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council from September 2003 until 2004, and subsequently Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006. A Shia Muslim, Allawi was part of the Iraqi exile community in London during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
Ali Arman Ali Arman (born August 25, 1973) is an Urdu poet hailing from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He started poetry at an early age of 14 years, and joined major literary forums of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1990, where he attracted the attention of prominent poets, writers and critics with his unique style.
Ali Asghar ibn Hussain Ali Asghar ibn Hussain (14 April 680; Rajab 9, 60 AH) was the youngest child of Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad and the third Shia Imam, and Rubab, the daughter of the chief of the Kinda Imraul Qays tribe. He was born in Medina and is honored by Muslims, particularly Shi'a Muslims, as the youngest martyr in the Battle of Karbala.
Ali Azmat Ali Azmat (Urdu: علی عظمت) born in 1970 in Abbottabad, Pakistan is the lead vocalist of the band Junoon and TV actor. Currently, he's pursuing a solo career, and has released a solo album called Social Circus.
Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar Sayyid Ali bin Hamud Al-Busaid (June 7, 1884 - December 20, 1918) (Arabic: علي بن حمود البوسعيد) was the eighth Sultan of Zanzibar. Ali ruled Zanzibar from July 20, 1902 to December 9, 1911, having succeeded to the throne of the death of his father, the seventh Sultan.
Ali bin Said of Zanzibar Sayyid Ali bin Said Al-Busaid (1854 - March 5, 1893) (Arabic: علي بن سعيد البوسعيد) was the fourth Sultan of Zanzibar. He ruled Zanzibar from February 13, 1890 to March 5, 1893, and was succeeded by his nephew, Hamad bin Thuwaini Al-Busaid.
Ali Baba Ali Baba (, ) is a fictional character described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part of the Thousand and One Nights. Some critics believe that this story was added to The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by one of its European transcribers, Antoine Galland, an 18th-century French orientalist who may have heard it in oral form from a Maronite story-teller from Aleppo.

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