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Imaan Hammam was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to an Egyptian father from Cairo [12] and a Moroccan mother from Zagora. [13] [14] [12] Her parents were both immigrants; her mother immigrated to the Netherlands at the age of 19. [15] Hammam's father worked in music, and her mother worked as a seamstress and a Dutch language teacher for new ...
FHM 's 100 Sexiest Women was an annual listing compiled by the monthly British men's lifestyle magazine FHM, based on which women they believe to be the "sexiest". As of 2017, each year's list is first announced through a section on FHM 's official website, FHM.com. The first listing was published in 1995 and was voted for by a panel of 250 judges.
The first (light blue) and second (dark blue) French colonial empires France was a dominant empire possessing many colonies in various locations around the world. Still participating in his deadly Italian conflicts, Francis I of France managed to finance expeditions to find trade routes to China or Cathay through landmass already discovered by the Spanish under Giovanni da Verrazzano.
Mohamed ElBaradei (DEA 1964), Egyptian jurist and diplomat, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997–2009, and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner; Leonid Hurwicz (1940), Polish-American economist and mathematician, 2007 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
After the conquest of Egypt in 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I left the country. Grand Vizier Yunus Pasha was awarded the governorship of Egypt.However, the sultan soon discovered that Yunus Pasha had created an extortion and bribery syndicate, and gave the office to Hayır Bey, the former Mamluk governor of Aleppo, who had contributed to the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
Alexander Badawy (Egyptian, 1913–1986) John Robert Baines (British, born 1946) Pascale Ballet (French, born 1953) Émile Baraize (French, 1874–1952) Alessandro Barsanti (Italian, 1858–1917) Hussein Bassir (Egyptian, born 1973) Marcelle Baud (French, 1890–1987) Michel Baud (French, 1963–2012)
Among the nation's medalists were hurdler Liu Xiang, who emerged as China's first male athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in men's track and field, [3] badminton player Zhang Ning in the women's singles, diving tandem Wu Minxia and Guo Jingjing in the women's synchronized platform, and tennis players Li Ting and Sun Tiantian, who became the ...
human anti-chimeric antibody. HACE. High-altitude cerebral edema. HACEK. acronym for a group of bacteria that are a frequent cause of endocarditis in children. HAD. HIV-associated dementia. HADS. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.