Year: 2012

The MNLA was rumoured to have factionalised, according to the sources in the Malian government,[21] with the Islamist Ansar Dine claiming control of the region after the capture of several cities,[22] previously attributed to the MNLA. Though the international media has linked the MNLA to...

Further information: Tuareg rebellions Since 1916 there have been at least five Tuareg rebellions. After the failure of the previous rebellion, Tuareg fighters left for Libya where they were integrated into the Libyan Army.[8] At the end of 2011, following the defeat of Libyan Arab...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad Mouvement National pour la Libération de l’Azawad Participant in Tuareg rebellions MNLA emblem.png Active     October 2011 – present Ideology     Azawadi nationalism Secularism[1] Leaders     Bilal Ag Acherif[2]...

Throughout the telecom industry, there is a fundamental shift from circuit-based to packet-based traffic. Along with this shift in traffic, there is a shift in the transport vehicle from SONET/SDH to Ethernet. The demand for Ethernet links is increasing with Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10GbE,...

Grant Wood used DAR for the subject matter in his 1932 satirical painting Daughters of Revolution. Wood was dissatisfied with the elitism and class distinction that he thought characterized the group in the 1930s. The DAR is featured in the 2011 film Main article: The...

In March 1984, a controversy arose when Lena Lorraine Santos Ferguson said she had been denied membership in a Washington, D.C. chapter of the DAR because she was black.[16] The reporter Ronald Kessler quoted Ferguson’s two white sponsors, Margaret M. Johnston and Elizabeth E. Thompson,...

In October 1977, Karen Batchelor Farmer (now Karen Batchelor) of Detroit, Michigan was admitted as the first known African-American member of DAR.[13] Batchelor started her genealogical research in 1976 as a young mother who wanted to commemorate the American bicentennial year in a way that...

Although the DAR now forbids discrimination in membership based on race or creed, some members held such views when racial segregation was public policy in parts of the United States. In 1932, Washington, D.C. was a segregated city. The DAR adopted a rule excluding African-American...

Membership in DAR is open to all women who can prove lineal bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving United States independence, regardless of race or religion.[1] The National Society of DAR is the final arbiter of the acceptability of all applications for...

There are three major fossil locations in Lebanon: Sahel Alma, Hajula and Hakel. Hajula and Hakel are each about twelve miles north-east of the coastal town of Jebeil, the ancient Byblos. Hajula is situated six miles south of Hakel; and between the two villages there...