Word: medinae
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...After pricing to a point where the merchant is unwilling to come down to the group's price, they walk out, planning to return often claiming. "I can get this anywhere in the Medina," or a similar phrase of disinterest...
...heritage and geography, Jerusalem is like no other place in the world. For Jews and many Christians, it is the holiest city; for Muslims, only Mecca and Medina, both in Saudi Arabia, are more sacred. In its 4,000-year history, Jerusalem has been the focus of national and religious wars, from the Roman conquest to the Crusades to the struggle between Arab and Jewish communities during the British mandate of 1919-48. Israel established its modern capital in the western part of the divided city in 1950, two years after the country's founding. During...
...Arab population. Israeli Arabs not only enjoy full political rights they have representatives in the Knessel but also unrestricted religious practice. The Israeli Government safe guards the holy shrines of Islam and every year helps in the chartering of buses for Arab pilgrims wishing to travel to Mecca and Medina for holidays. Thousands of Arab children attend free Israeli public schools and have access to institutions of higher education. Furthermore, many Arabs over the years have benefited from social programs stretching from the Galilee to the Negev, including low-cost housing, government subsidized food and free medical care...
Kahl had been wanted on murder charges since a shootout last February at Medina, N. Dak., in which two federal marshals were killed. The marshals had been trying to serve a warrant on Kahl for violating his parole on a 1977 conviction for failure to file federal income tax returns. On May 28, Kahl's son Yorivon, 23, and Scott Paul, 29, were convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and six counts of assault in the episode. But the elder Kahl, a member of the ultraright-wing Posse Comitatus, a paramilitary organization that opposes income taxes...
Eagerly awaited during the weekend was Britain's Richard Broadhead on the 52-ft. cutter Perseverance of Medina. When Frenchman Jacques de Roux's Skoiern III was smashed by high seas in the southern ocean Broadhead dashed 318 miles to rescue his sinking rival...