Word: 10th
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...battlefield of Badr. According to some hadiths, Muhammad was left wondering what to do with the resulting prisoners. This, the texts claimed, was the context for God's Koranic statement "As to prisoners of war, we have not sent you as an oppressor of the land." One 10th century gloss further asserted that the Prophet took God's word to mean he should kill the captives so as not to continue to be a prisoner holder, and that is probably the proof text al-Zarqawi had in mind...
...second semi of the women's 200-m medley has been run, and Alice's time places her 10th. She's missed out on the final by a quarter of a second. But the next Olympics are only four years away. The papers are already suggesting Beijing won't be ready, but it will be; and so will Alice, and so will everyone in her team. Tonight, as they head for the tavernas of the Plaka, there are thousands of them...
...Side of the World [Nov. 24] compared the movie with the novels on which it was based and stated that "the novel is set in the War of 1812." The movie, however, combines two books, the first in the series, Master and Commander, which begins in 1800, and the 10th, The Far Side of the World, set during...
...combinatorial problem involving ‘up-down permutations’ such as 2 1 7 3 4 < 10—the number of ways to distribute the numbers 1 through 10 to make this work is 50521, same as the numerator of the 10th Euler formula...
...SETUP In case you haven't met before--this is the 10th book in the series--Stephanie Plum, based in Trenton, N.J., is a bounty hunter with a great sense of humor that balances out her bad attitude and worse luck. This time around, Stephanie--through no fault of her own--is the sole witness to a robbery, which makes her a target for the gang of bad guys who perpetrated it. At least it gives her an excuse to turn to her ridiculously good-looking fellow bounty hunter Ranger for help...