ZAB

zäb, zăb, name applied to the two principal tributaries of the Tigris River. The Great Zab, 265 mi (426 km) long, rises in SE Turkey and flows generally S through Iraq to the Tigris. The Little Zab, 250 mi (402 km) long, rises in NW Iran and flows SW through Iraq to the Tigris. Both rivers are extensively used for irrigation, flood control on the Tigris, and hydroelectricity. Bakhma Dam on the Great Zab and Dokan Dam on the Little Zab are among the world's highest dams.

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books on: Zab  - 325 results

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War Heroes: True Stories of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
Book by Kent DeLong; Praeger Publishers, 1993
Subjects: Medal Of Honor, United States--Armed Forces--Biography
...financial security the family might have had. Zab remembers asking his dad for a new coat...Just wear two shirts," his dad said. Zab envied kids with bicycles. He didnt have...In high school, other kids laughed at Zab because he couldnt read or spell. He had...
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The Maid's Tragedy; Philaster; A King and No King; The Scornful Lady; The Custom of the Country
Book by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher; George Bell and Sons & A. H. Bullen, 1904
Subjects: Drama
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Muslim Devotions: A Study of Prayer-Manuals in Common Use
Book by Constance Evelyn Padwick; S.P.C.K., 1961
Subjects: Islam--Prayer-Books And Devotions--History And Criticism
...of books containing famous awrad or a zab from unconnected orders under one cover...phrases carry with them. Some of the a zab are nothing more nor less than collections...Qadir al-Jilani. Majmuu awradin wa a zab , Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, p. 47. All...
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The Mishnah: Religious Perspectives
Book by Jacob Neusner; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Judaism--History--Talmudic Period, 10-425, Mishnah--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc
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Water Resources and Conflict in the Middle East
Book by Nurit Kliot; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Water Quality--Middle East, Water Rights (International Law), Water-Supply--Middle East
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Hmong Instructions to the Dead: What the Mouth Organ Qeej Says (Part Two)
Journal article by Catherine Falk; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 63, 2004
Subjects: Poetry--Analysis, Terms and phrases--Usage, Terms and phrases--Varieties, Translations--Methods, Transliteration, Word (Linguistics), Words
...yuav los mus nce sis hlwv sis hlo ib nees zab duav nees luav cev, ib su...yuav los nce sis hlo sis hlo nees zab duav nees luav cev su, pem leev su los mus...tseem yuav los mus nrog tau ib nees zab sis puag ntug, yuav los nrog tau ?? ib nees...
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The Conjunction Fallacy: A Derived Stimulus Relations Conceptualization and Demonstration Experiment
Journal article by Scott T. Gaynor, Yukiko Washio, Frederick Anderson; The Psychological Record, Vol. 57, 2007
Subjects: Fallacies (Logic)--Research, Human acts--Research, Human behavior--Research, Stimulus compounding--Research
...bottom portion of the screen (e.g., "SOJ" or "ZAB"). The participant then chose one comparison...SOJ in the presence of FOW, and selecting ZAB in the presence of REK, resulted in the...SOJ in the presence of REK or selecting ZAB in the presence of FOW resulted in the computer...
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Features of the Verbal System in the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq and Their Areal Parallels
Journal article by Hezy Mutzafi; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects: Dialects--Research, Grammar, Comparative and general--Research, Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb, Verbs--Research
...strongly affiliated with local Jewish dialects (Khan 1999a: 7; 1999b: 219) and is part of the Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic group located east of the Greater Zab river (Mutzafi 2000: 6-12, section0.5.2; forthcoming: section0.4.1). 3.2 The Loss of Neo-pa"el...
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A Local Historian's Debt to Al- Tabari: The Case of Al-Azdi's Ta'rikh Al-Mawsil
Journal article by Chase F. Robinson; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006
Subjects: Azdi, Yazid ibn Muhammad al---Criticism and interpretation, Azdi, Yazid ibn Muhammad al---Works, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works, Ta'rikh al-Mawsil (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir al---Criticism and interpretation, Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir al---Works
...report suggests that al-Tabari sliced off the tail end of Makhlad ibn Ibrahims account of Marwans movements before the battle of Zab; see al-Azdi, Tarikh, 75-76; and ef. al-Tabari., Tarik 2, 1944-45. Here one might also note that al-Azdi had access to a line...
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Media and Its Discontents
Journal article by Matthew Waters; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Medes--History, Medes--Portrayals, Media (Ancient country)--Analysis, Media (Ancient country)--Portrayals
...Araziash, and Harhar, accessible from Assyria via the Diyala to the Great Khorasan Road. (9) Subsequent expeditions went up the Zab and ultimately through Mannea to enter Median territory. A primary motivation for increased Assyrian activity in this area, Radner...
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Still Pawns in the Great Game
Magazine article by Joost R. Hiltermann; The Nation, Vol. 254, May 11, 1992
Subjects: Iraq--Political aspects, Kurds in Iraq, Kurds--Iraq
...ten years. We drove or slid along mud roads, and at the Great Zab River we waited for a makeshift raft of planks hammered onto...Sulaimaniyah last winter, they began shelling villages along the Great Zab farther north at the end of March, presumably to test both Kurdish...
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Letter from Montreal
Magazine article by Linde Howe-Beck; Dance Magazine, Vol. 73, September 1999
Subjects: Dancing--Quebec, Montreal, Quebec--Art
...lives up to its name with six world, ten North American, and three Canadian premieres. Apart from the work of Congolese-born Zab Maboungou, a Montrealer working in tribal ritual, Montreal has seen little new African dance. So Pontbriand and Boucher have...
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For Kurds - Hope and Hard Times; in the Shadow of Saddam
Magazine article by Joost R. Hiltermann; The Nation, Vol. 256, June 21, 1993
Subjects: Kurds in Iran--Political aspects, Kurds--Iran, Kurds--Political aspects
...raised, one-fourth of which was used for overhead in Geneva. One family I interviewed in the "collective village" of Jedideh Zab, near Erbil, said they had received a total of eighteen kilograms of flour, two kilograms of chickpeas, two kilograms of cooking...
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Festival International De Nouvelle Danse (F.I.N.D.)
Magazine article by Donald Hutera; Dance Magazine, Vol. 74, March 2000
Subjects: Dance festivals--Quebec, Festival International de Nouvelle Danse--1999, Quebec--Fairs, festivals, etc.
...back to nature. The piece mourned a guileless innocence Linke fears modern society has lost. Other artists straddled borders. Zab Maboungou, of Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata, is a Franco-Congolese pioneer of African dance in Canada. Forget the stereotypical...


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Speedway: SPORTS WIRE - Pirates Raid to Nab Zab
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 19, 2007
Speedway: SPORTS WIRE - Pirates Raid to Nab Zab. POLISH star Karol Zabik has agreed to join Elite League Poole next year. The Pirates moved in quickly to snap up the 2006...
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Clinton's Green Gets Second Chance to Win Title
Newspaper article by Thom Loverro; The Washington Times, January 13, 2001
...chance tonight when the Clinton junior welterweight fights for Zab Judahs International Boxing Federation junior welterweight title...Scheduled 12-round bout featuring Reggie Green (Clinton) vs. Zab Judah (Brooklyn, N.Y.) for Ju- dahs IBF junior welterweight...
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Penalosa Opts out of May 31 Fight in Vegas
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 19, 2008
...Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa will not be able to fight in the undercard of the Shane Mosley-Zab Judah slugfest on May 31 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada because of a swollen hand. Penalosa has been advised of Dr...
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Boxing: Baldomir in Hitman's Sights Next; BOXING
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 10, 2006
...34-year-old Argentinian who pulled off a shock victory to depose Zab Judah as the No 1 welterweight. But Manchesters Hitman Hatton...became the man at light-welterweight and Baldomir by beating Zab Judah, has become the man at welterweight. "I have the chance...
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Boxing: Stormy Weather; I'MNOT SCARED OF HATTON, SAYS FLOYD
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), April 2, 2006
...FLOYD MAYWEATHER has dismissed suggestions that he is running scared of Manchesters unbeaten hero Ricky Hatton. Mayweather fights Zab Judah for the IBF welterweight title next Saturday in Las Vegas in a bold bid to win his fourth world title at a fourth weight...
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encyclopedia articles on: Zab  - 7 results

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Zab
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZAB zab, zab, name applied to the two principal tributaries of the Tigris River. The Great Zab, 265 mi (426 km) long, rises in SE Turkey and flows generally S through Iraq to the Tigris. The Little Zab, 250 mi (402 km) long, rises in NW Iran...
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Zabbud
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZABBUD zab d, in the Bible, one who returned with Ezra from the Captivity. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Zabdi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZABDI zab di, in the Bible. 1 Davids vintager. 2 Grandfather of Achan. An alternate form is Zimri. 3 Benjamite. 4 Levite. Apparently...
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Zabrze
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZABRZE zab zhe, Ger. Hindenburg, city (1992 est. pop. 202,800), Slaskie prov., S Poland. It is a railway junction in the Katowice mining...
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Zabdiel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZABDIEL zab deel, in the Bible. 1 Father of Jashobeam. 2 Official under Nehemiah. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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