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Adasa Asada is a city referred to the Maccabees and the site of the Syrian General Nicor's death and Judas Maccabeus's post during the Maccabean Revolt. It is said to be just opposite Beth-Horon (1 Macc 7:39); a 3 1/2 miles distantance.
Adasaurus Adasaurus (IPA: )AH-dah-SAWR-us; "Ada's lizard") is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Central Asia. It was a small bipedal carnivore with a sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each hind foot.
Adashino Nembutsu-ji Adashino Nembutsuji (化野念仏寺) is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Situated high on a hill overlooking the city from the northwest, it sits on the site of a graveyard where people formerly abandoned the bodies of the dead, exposing them to the wind and rain.
Adastra Minerals Adastra Minerals Inc (formerly America Mineral Fields Inc), was a London-based mining company with notable operations in central Africa (Angola, Congo, and Zambia), paritcularly in the copper, cobalt and zinc exploration sections. Adastra's properties and concessions were acquired in 2006 by First Quantum Minerals for $245m in cash and stock, outpacing a counter-offer by Mwana Africa Plc.
Adastreia (band) Adastreia is a six-piece band hailing from Essex in the UK, who combines the genres of progressive metal and symphonic metal or as they prefer to term it atmospheric metal. They follow in the general vein of established groups such as Nightwish and Within Temptation, whilst drawing on a wide spectrum of influences.
Adath Israel Congregation (Toronto) Adath Israel Congregation is a Conservative synagogue located in Toronto, Ontario, affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. It was founded around 1903 by a Jewish immigrant minority from Romania.
Adatoms An adatom is an atom that lies on a crystal surface, and can be thought of as the opposite of a surface vacancy. This term is used in surface chemistry, when describing single atoms lying on surfaces and surface roughness.
AdĂłnde Me Lleva La Vida After the independent production of Esquivando Charcos the band publishes in 1993 A DĂłnde Me Lleva La Vida, four months later the last word in promotional questions negotiates a contract with Polygram reserving itself and of image. The multinational is in charge of the distribution of the album and invested 25,000 dollars in the video of "El Rito de Los Corazones Sangrando"
Adán Chávez Adán Chávez Frías is the elder brother of current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Adán Chávez Frías was a student at the University of the Andes, and now collaborates in his electoral campaigns and also in the present Chávez administration.
Adán y la serpiente Adán y la serpiente (English language:Adam and the Serpent) is a 1946 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen and written by Aldo De Benedetti. The film starred Olga Casares Pearson, Alberto de Mendoza and Olga Zubarry.
Adélaide de Maurienne Adelasia of Moriana (fr. Adélaide de Maurienne) (1092 – November 18, 1154) was the daughter of Humbert II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy, and niece of Pope Callixtus II, who once visited her court in France.
Adélie Land Adélie Land is the portion of the Antarctic coast between Pourquoi Pas Point at and Point Alden at , with a shore length of 350 km and with its hinterland extending as a sector about 2,600 km toward the South Pole. It is one of four districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Adémar de Chabannes Adémar de Chabannes (989-1034) was an 11th century monk, a historian, who wrote the first annals that had been compiled in Aquitaine since Late Antiquity, as well as a musical composer and a successful literary forger.
Adèle de Batz de Tranquelleon Adèle de Batz de Tranqueleon (1789-1828) founded the Daughters of Mary Immaculate (FMI), or Marianist Sisters, a Roman Catholic order of nuns and one of the four branches of the Marianist Family. Adele was born to a wealthy, artistocratic French family that was exiled for several years during the French Revolution.
Ad·ver·sary Ad·ver·sary is the name of an independent Canadian industrial project by Jairus Khan. With output ranging from ambient to rhythmic noise and industrial rock, Ad·ver·sary has joined several acts on tours of the United States and Canada, including Iszoloscope, Terrorfakt, Antigen Shift, DJ leslie, and Adam X.
Adblock Adblock is a popular content-filtering extension for the Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Application Suite web browsers. Adblock allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, being downloaded and displayed.
Adbusters Adbusters Media Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The foundation publishes Adbusters, a 120,000-circulation, reader-supported activist magazine, devoted to numerous political and social causes, many of which are anti-consumerism in nature.
Adcon-L Adcon-L is a pharmaceutical gel designed to reduce the incidence and severity of scarring in back operations. It consists of a combination of marginally water-soluble artificial sugars, and is re-absorbed into the body within several months of application.
Adcox Aviation Trade School The Adcox Aviation Trade School was established in Portland, Oregon in the late 1920s. Aircraft created there as student projects include the Adcox 1-A, Adcox Special, Adcox Student Prince, and Adcox Cloud Buster.
Add-in Express Add-in Express is a component set for Microsoft Office developers that allows extending Microsoft Office with custom functionality. It is designed for creating COM add-ins, smart tags, Excel real-time data servers (RTD servers), Excel Automation Add-ins and Excel user defined functions (UDFs) in a RAD way.
Add-on Add-ons are optional computer hardware or software modules that supplement or enhance the original unit they are adding on to. Also known as plugins, extensions, snap-ins, or various other vendor-specific names, these modules often have proprietary interfaces that are tightly held by the company that manufactured the original unit in order to prevent competing companies from producing add-ons.
Adda (South Asian) Adda is one of the growing list of words which have entered English from the Indian ( Indo-Aryan and Dravidian families of ) languages ( like yoga, guru, avatar, etc). Adda was incorporated into the OED in 2004.
Adda Berga Adda Berga is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mirab Shewa Zone, Adda Berga is bordered on the south by Walmara, on the southwest by Ejerie, on the west by Meta Robi, and on the north and east by the Semien Shewa Zone.
Addai Among the Eastern Orthodox faithful, Saint Addai is the person who was sent by Saint Thomas the Apostle to Edessa in order to heal King Abgar, who had fallen ill. Addai stayed to evangelize, and converted Abgar—or Agbar, or in one Latin version "Acbar" — and his people including Saint Aggai and Saint Mari.
Addams Family (Game Gear) The Addams Family is a video game which was released for Sega Game Gear in 1993. It is based on the popular movie franchise of the 1990's, which was based on the 1960's situation comedy known as The Addams Family, featuring the recurring characters from Charles Addams's panel cartoons from The New Yorker magazine.
Addams Family Reunion The Addams Family Reunion was the third movie of the The Addams Family series, released in 1998. However, most members of the cast did not return to this direct-to-video installment; Raul Julia had died, and Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman at the ages of 18 were considered too old to play the children.
Addams Family Values Addams Family Values (1993) is a sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family. The movie was written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and many cast members from the original returned for the sequel.
Addams Family Values: The Original Orchestral Score Addams Family Values: The Original Orchestral Score was one of the two soundtrack albums released in support of the 1993 film Addams Family Values, the sequel to the 1991 film The Addams Family. The Original Orchestral Score featured selections from the film's incidental score music, produced by composer Marc Shaiman and conducted by Academy award nominee Artie Kane.
Addanc The Addanc (also called adanc, addane, afanc, avanc, abhac, abac) is a lake monster from Welsh mythology that also appears in Celtic and British folklore. Its exact description varies; it is described alternately as resembling a crocodile, beaver or dwarf, and is sometimes said to be a demon.
Addas Addas was a young Christian slave boy who lived in Taif, a mountainous area south of Mecca, during the times of Muhammad. He was the first person from the western province of Taif to convert to the new religion of Islam.
Addax The Addax (Addax nasomaculatus) is a critically endangered desert antelope that lives in several isolated regions in the Sahara. Although extremely rare in its native habitat, it is quite common in captivity and is regularly bred on ranches where they are hunted as trophies.
Adde Gabow Mohamed Ali Hassan, known as Adde Gabow, is a Somali politician. He is the former governor of the Banaadir region and was appointed mayor of the capital Mogadishu by President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on 15 January 2007.
Added mass In fluid mechanics, added mass is the inertia added to a system due to the fact that an accelerating or decelerating body must move some volume of surrounding fluid as it moves through it, since the object and fluid cannot occupy the same physical space simultaneously. For simplicity this can be modeled as some volume of fluid moving with the object.
Addedomarus Addedomarus (sometimes written Aθθedomarus on coins) was a king of south-eastern Britain in the late 1st century BC. His name is known only from his inscribed coins, the distribution of which seem to indicate that he was the ruler of the Trinovantes.
Addenbrooke's Hospital Addenbrooke's Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Cambridge, England, with strong links to the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with ÂŁ4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College.
Addendum An addendum is a supplemental addition to a given main work. It may correct errors, explain inconsistencies or otherwise detail or update the information found in the main work, especially if any such problems were detected too late to correct the main work.
Adder Adder is the name of several snakes, most belonging to the viper family, especially the Viperinae subfamily (pitless vipers). However, there are a few exceptions: the death adder is not a viperid at all, but a member of the family Elapidae (cobras and coral snakes); and the totally harmless hognose snakes (members of the Colubridae family) are sometimes referred to as puff adders because of their threat display.
Adderall Adderall® CII is a pharmaceutical stimulant amphetamine used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. Severe cases of depression may also be treated with Adderall or other stimulants.
Adderbury The village of Adderbury lies in Northern Oxfordshire, England, situated on the edge of the Cotswolds. Adderbury is noted for its Church which features an impressive steeple, as well as the many honey coloured Horton stone cottages in the older parts of the village.
Addi Addi (Tigrinya ዓዲ ʿĀddī, Tigre, Ge'ez ዓድ ʿĀd) is a Tigrinya term meaning "village" derived from the Ge'ez word "Ad" meaning "son." The word can be found in many village and city names in Tigray Region, Ethiopia and Tigre and Tigrinya-speaking Eritrea.
Addicks Reservoir The Addicks Reservoir and Addicks Dam in conjunction with the Barker Reservoir prevent downstream flooding of Buffalo Bayou in the City of Houston. Both reservoirs were authorized under the Rivers and Harbors Act of June 20, 1938, which were modified by the Flood Control Acts of August 11, 1938; September 3, 1954; and October 27, 1965.
Addicted To War Addicted to War, subtitled Why The US Can't Kick Militarism, is a 77 letter-sized pages "illustrated exposé" by Joel Andreas published by Frank Dorrel with AK Press in 2002 (ISBN 1-904859-02X). Originally published in 1991, the book was out of print until Dorrel convinced Andreas to create an updated, post-9/11 version.
Addiction Addiction is a chronic disorder proposed to be precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. Addiction is characterized by the repeated use of substances or behaviors despite clear evidence of morbidity secondary to such use.
Addiction medicine Addiction medicine is a medical specialty that deals with the treatment of addiction. The specialty often crosses over into other areas, since various aspects of addiction fall within the fields of public health, psychiatry, and internal medicine, among others.
Addiction Pinball Addiction Pinball (sometimes shortened to AdPin) is a pinball simulation game released in 1998 for PC, and later ported to the PlayStation and released as Worms Pinball to capitalise on the success of the Worms franchise. The PC version was published by Microprose, while the PlayStation version was published by Infogrames, who had recently acquired Microprose.
Addictive behavior Addictive behavior - any activity, substance, object, or behavior that has become the major focus of a person's life to the exclusion of other activities, or that has begun to harm the individual or others physically, mentally, or socially is considered an addictive behavior (for a detailed explenation of an addictive behavior - see addiction).
Addie Joss Adrian Joss (April 12, 1880 – April 14, 1911) was a Major League Baseball pitcher in the early 20th century. His father had been a cheese maker in Wisconsin and several of his nicknames in baseball reflected this.
Addington Bruce (Henry) Addington (Bayley) Bruce (1874–1959) was an American journalist and author, born in Toronto, Canada, and educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto. He was for a time on the Toronto Week, then came to the United States, was employed by the American Press Association in 1897-1903, and afterward contributed to many periodicals, notably The Outlook.
Addington Workshops The Addington Railway Workshops were a major railway facility first established on the Addington site in Christchurch in May 1880 by New Zealand Railways Department. Previously, workshops had been established in Carlyle Street.
Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (sometimes spelled Addis Abeba, the spelling used officially by the Ethiopian Mapping Institute; Amharic አዲስ አበባ, Āddīs Ābebā "new flower"; Oromo Finfinne) is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union, as well as its predecessor, the OAU. As a chartered city (ras gez astedader), Addis Ababa has the status of both a city and a state.
Addis Ababa Agreement (1972) The Addis Ababa Agreement were a series of compromises in 1972, aimed at appeasing the leaders of the insurgency in southern Sudan after the first Sudanese Civil War proved costly to the government in the North. Widespread local autonomy was granted.
Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa University is a university in Ethiopia. It was originally named "University College of Addis Ababa" at its founding, then renamed for the former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I in 1962, receiving its current name in 1975.
Addis Merkato Addis Merkato (Amharic for "New Market", popularly just Merkato or Mercato, from the Italian for "market") is the name for the large open-air marketplace in the Addis Ketema district of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and for the neighborhood in which it is located.
Addiscombe Addiscombe is a place in the London Borough of Croydon, England. It is situated just to the northeast of central Croydon, and is home to a high proportion of people who commute to Central London, owing to its proximity to the busy East Croydon railway station and Tramlink, linking Addiscombe with other parts of Croydon and Wimbledon, as well as extensive bus routes into Central Croydon and surrounding areas.
Addison Airport Toll Tunnel The Addison Airport Toll Tunnel, also known as the Addison Airport Tunnel and the Addison Toll Tunnel, is part of the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) system and extends Keller Springs Road under the Addison Airport property.
Addison Bain Addison Bain is a retired NASA technician and writer who is credited with postulating the Bain Incendiary-Paint Theory (IPT) that posits that the Hindenburg disaster was initiated by the electrical ignition of lacquer and metal based paints used on the outer hull of the airship. Thus implying that the hydrogen in the airship had no part to play in the initiaton of the disaster.
Addison H. Laflin Addison Henry Laflin (October 24, 1823 - September 24, 1878) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the common schools, was graduated from Williams College (in Williamstown, Massachusetts) in 1843, went to Herkimer County, New York in 1849 and became interested in paper making.
Addison Randall Addison Byron Owen Randall (Born May 12, 1906 in San Fernando, California - Died July 16, 1945 in Canoga Park, California) was an American film actor, chiefly in Westerns. He often used a pseudonym for his film work, chiefly "Jack Randall", though he also played roles as "Allen Byron" and "Byron Vance".
Addison Timlin Addison Timlin (born June 29, 1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American teen actress whose most recent movie character roll is Amy from the 2005 film Derailed alongside co-stars Melissa George playing her mother and Clive Owen her father, where she played a 14 year old girl ill with type 1 diabetes.
Addison Trail High School Addison Trail High School, or ATHS, is a public four-year high school located approximately half a mile east of Interstate 355/Illinois Route 53 at the intersection of Army Trail Road and Lombard Road in Addison, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of School District 88, which also includes Willowbrook High School.
Addison White Addison White (May 1 1824 – February 4 1909) was an American politician who served the state of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives between 1851 and 1853. He was a cousin of Kentucky Congressman John White.
Addison Wiggin Addison Wiggin is the editorial director and publisher of The Daily Reckoning, and executive publisher of Agora Financial, a multi-million dollar financial research firm and publishing group based in Baltimore, Maryland. Addison Wiggin is the author, with Bill Bonner, of two international best sellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt.
Addison-Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra Focus on Algebra was the widely cited 812 page algebra textbook which contained much context outside the traditional field of mathematics. Real life context to make mathematics more informative included chili recipes, ancient myths, a photograph of Maya Angelou and Bill Clinton.
Addition of natural numbers/Proofs Here we will define it from Peano's axioms (see natural number) and prove some simple properties. The set of natural numbers will be denoted by N, and "0" will be used to denote the natural number which is not the successor of any other natural number.
Addition polymer An addition polymer is a polymer which is formed by an addition reaction, where many monomers bond together via rearrangement of bonds without the loss of any atom or molecule. This is in contrast to a condensation polymer which is formed by a condensation reaction where a molecule, usually water, is lost during the formation.
Addition-chain exponentiation In mathematics and computer science, optimal addition-chain exponentiation is a method of exponentiation by positive integer powers that requires a minimal number of multiplications. It works by creating a minimal-length addition chain that generates the desired exponent.
Additional Member System The Additional Member System (AMS) is a branch of voting systems in which some representatives are elected from geographic constituencies and others are elected under proportional representation from party lists. Voters have two votes, one for the party and the second for the candidate in a constituency.
Additions to Daniel The additions to Daniel comprise three additional chapters added to the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel from the Greek Septuagint because the original Hebrew versions are no longer extant. They are accepted as canonical and translated as such in Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Bibles.
Additive manufacturing Additive manufacturing is the process of making a product by adding layers in a relatively efficient way, such that there is little waste or reduction of materials. An example is inkjet printing of an electronic circuit as compared to photolithography where the manufacturer must remove much of the material that she deposits to create a given layer of the product.
Additive rhythm In music, additive rhythms are larger periods of time constructed from sequences of smaller rhythmic units added to the end of the previous unit. This is contrasted with divisive rhythms, in which a larger period of time is divided into smaller rhythmic units.
Additive white Gaussian noise In communications, the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel model is one in which the only impairment is the linear addition of wideband or white noise with a constant spectral density (expressed as watts per hertz of bandwidth) and a Gaussian distribution of amplitude. The model does not account for the phenomena of fading, frequency selectivity, interference, nonlinearity or dispersion.
Additives for cut flowers Additives for cut flowers are substances added to water, intended to extend the viability of the flowers. Once flowers are removed from the plant they continue to grow slowly but have a diminished capability of receiving the nutrients that are vital for their survival.
Addled Parliament The Addled Parliament was the second Parliament of the reign of James I of England, which sat in 1614. Its name alludes to its ineffectiveness: it lasted no more than eight weeks and failed to resolve the conflict between the king (who wished it to raise money) and the House of Commons (who were resisting further taxation).
Addleshaw Goddard Addleshaw Goddard is a UK-based law firm (established as an LLP) with almost 600 lawyers, based in Leeds, London and Manchester. It was formed on 1 May 2003 by the merger of Addleshaw Booth & Co with Theodore Goddard.
Address book An address book or a name and address book (NAB) is a book or a database used for storing entries called contacts. Each contact entry usually consists of a few standard fields (for example: first name, last name, company name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, fax number, mobile phone number).
Address bus An address bus is (part of) a computer bus, used by CPUs or DMA-capable units for communicating the physical addresses of computer memory elements/locations that the requesting unit wants to access (read/write).
Address decoder In digital electronics, an Address decoder is a circuit that has two or more bits of an address bus as inputs and that has one or more device selection lines as outputs. When the address for a particular device appears on the address bus, the address decoder asserts the selection line for that device.
Address space In computing, an address space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a physical or virtual memory register, a network host, peripheral device, disk sector or other logical or physical entity.
Address space layout randomization Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is a computer security technique which involves arranging the positions of key data areas, usually including the base of the executable and position of libraries, heap, and stack, randomly in a process' address space.
Address to the Negroes of the State of New York The Address to the Negroes of the State of New York, or the Hammon Address, was a speech by Jupiter Hammon, the first African-American writer to be published in the United States. Hammon delivered the speech, in which he expressed his opinions on slavery, before the African Society on 24 September 1786.
Address to Young Men on Greek Literature Address to Young Men on Greek Literature (alternatively, "Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature") is a text by Basil of Caesarea. Although Basil is best known for his religious writing by most people, in this work Basil encouraged the study of Greek texts, and reassured his readers that despite their pagan origin, they were quite compatible with orthodox Christian thought.
Address Verification System The Address Verification System is a system used to verify the identity of the person claiming to own the credit card. The system will check the billing address of the credit card provided by the user with the address on file at the credit card company.
Address Windowing Extensions Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) is a set of extensions that allows an application to quickly manipulate physical memory greater than 4GB. Certain data-intensive applications, such as database management systems (for example Microsoft SQL Server) and scientific and engineering software, need access to very large caches of data.
Addressing mode Addressing modes, a concept from computer science, are an aspect of the instruction set architecture in most central processing unit (CPU) designs. The various addressing modes that are defined in a given instruction set architecture define how machine language instructions in that architecture identify the operand (or operands) of each instruction.
Addressing scheme There are three different addressing schemes for display devices: direct, matrix, and raster. The purpose of each scheme is to set (or maintain) the state of a pixel to either black/white or, more commonly, a gray-scale level.
Adduct An adduct, from addition product, is a product of a direct addition of two or more distinct molecules, resulting in a single reaction product containing all atoms of all components, with formation of two chemical bonds and a net reduction in bond multiplicity in at least one of the reactants. The resultant is considered a distinct molecular species.
Addventure An addventure is a type of online interactive fiction that combines aspects of round-robin stories and Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales. Like a round-robin story, an addventure is a form of collaborative fiction in which many authors contribute to a story, each writing discrete segments.
Addy Awards The ADDY Awards are the world's largest and arguably toughest advertising competition, with over 60,000 entries annually. The ADDY Awards recognize all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes, and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world.
Adeccoligaen 2006 The 2006 season of Norwegian football's second highest division, Adeccoligaen, kicked off on April 9 2006, with eleven rounds being played before the World Cup break on June 5. The league resumed on July 2 and the final round was played on November 5 2006.
Adedayo Adebayo Adedayo Adeyemi Adebayo (born 30 November 1970 in Ibadan, Nigeria) is a rugby union footballer, who played on the wing for England 6 times between 1996 and 1998. He played club rugby for Bath and Parma and then went on to coach the Scottish based sevens side, Steelers Rugby.
Adeem Adeem (pronounced ADM) is an American underground rapper from Keene, New Hampshire and currently a member of the hip-hop group Glue with DJDQ [and Maker. He started rapping in 1997 as a way to escape from the confines of his small town.
Adefovir Adefovir dipivoxil, previously called bis-POM PMEA, with trade names Preveon® and Hepsera®, is an orally-administered nucleotide analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (ntRTI) used for treatment of hepatitis B. It is a failed treatment for HIV.
Adegoke Adelabu Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu (September 3, 1915 - March 20, 1958) was an important politician from Ibadan in the middle part of the 20th century. He was a self made man born into a humble family, but became an influential figure in Nigerian politics.
Adeje, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Adeje is a municipality in the southwestern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Adeje is also a growing suburb of Tenerife Sur of South Tenerife and is the westernmost.
Adejeania vexatrix Adejeania vexatrix is a strikingly red tachinid fly from western North America, where it can be found from Mexicoup to Wyoming] and [[British Columbia. Although it is the only species of its genus in North America, there are four Adejeania species in Mexico.
Adekunle Ajasin University The Ondo State University, now Adekunle Ajasin University was established as a state-owned university in December 1999 by the governor of Ondo State in Western Nigeria, Chief Adebayo Adefarati. It is located in Akungba Akoko, a small town near Ikare-Akoko.
Adel Eid Adel Eid (born March 22, 1984) is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for HJK Helsinki. The defender, who is 5'11" tall and weighs 159 pounds, previously played for FC Honka before signing for Keith Armstrong's HJK Helsinki.
Adel Emam Adel Emam (sometimes credited as: Adel Imam), (Arabic: عادل إمام) (born May 17, 1940 (or, according to other sources, December 17 1946), is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, especially early in his earlier films, combined comedy with romance.
Adel Flaifel Colonel Adel Jassim Flaifel (or Felaifel or Flaifil) (Arabic:عادل فليفل)is a former colonel in the State Security and Intelligence Service of Bahrain who is accused of committing, or overseeing, acts of physical and psychological torture in the 1990s. He was released from his duties in December 2002 but government officials did not clarify the exact reason for his removal.
Adel Iskandar Adel Iskandar (aka Adel Iskandar Farag) (born March 15 1977) is a Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist and media reform activist. He is the author and co-author of several seminal works on Arab media, most prominently the first major analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera.

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