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Amah Ayivi, a designer and clothing dealer in Paris, has spun secondhand garments into a stylish business.

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When her grandmother, Amah, the Storyteller, gets kidnapped by the evil emperor, Pinmei must find her voice and embrace its power.

Oh my gosh, there are so many entries I've never used, and which I hope I'm never desperate enough to allow. AMAH. ITEN. ETUIS.

One morning in March, Amah Ayivi, a designer and clothing dealer, dug through mounds of utility jumpsuits, his hands bedecked with heavy silver rings.

The school decided to remove the bell after discussions over the past year with Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, a group of Native Americans along California's Monterey Bay.

"These bells are deeply painful symbols that celebrate the destruction, domination and erasure of our people," Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman Valentin Lopez said in the school's online post.

Owner Amah Ayivi's personal style of rugged-French-African-bohemian-artist is a thing of beauty, and by combing the shelves at Marché Noir, the look can be yours too.

Earlier this decade, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band opposed the Catholic Church's canonization in 2015 of Junipero Serra, an evangelist who oversaw and founded Catholic missions in Spanish America, including in the current state of California, in the 1700s.

The group's chairman "spoke of the historical injustices and oppression that the bell represents to the Amah Mutsun and indigenous populations," Sarah Latham, the university's vice chancellor for business and administrative services, said in a post last week on the school's website.

Amah Rock The replica of Amah Rock at Tao Fung Shan Amah Rock (,Mong Fu Shek, lit. "the stone gazing out for her husband") is a naturally shaped rock located on a hilltop in southwest Sha Tin District, Hong Kong.

Amah (阿媽, Ama) is a term for "mother" in several different languages and contexts, see mama and papa. It has also become a term for the job of a combined nanny and housemaid, see Amah (occupation).

In Chinese, amah ("grandmother") is often used as an equivalent of the English word "nanny"—the term does not refer to a wet nurse or a servant, but rather a "friend" who helps a family to raise a child. This is a common occupation in China. During the T'ang dynasty, the word amah was used as an informal and poetic title for the Taoist goddess Queen Mother of the West. Amah is the Mosuo term for mother.

Bayt Na`Amah is a village in west-central Yemen. It is located in the San‘a’ Governorate.

Awaswas people, the "documented descendants of Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz", have become members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. In 2012, Amah Mutsun Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez stated that "tribe members are scattered. Few can afford to live in their historic lands today," and many now make their homes in the Central Valley.

Prosper Afam Amah is an Anglican bishop in Nigeria:ABS Radio TV he is the current Bishop of Ogbara,Anambra State one of nine within the Anglican Province of the Niger, itself one of 14 provinces within the Church of Nigeria.Church of Nigeria Amah was born on 15 September 1973 in Uruagu. he was educated at Paul University. He reached the post of Archdeacon before consecration.

Billie is experimenting with chemical tonics and warns Amah that they are deadly if ingested. She ignores the ringing phone, believing it to be Othello - Amah suggests it may be Billie's estranged father, Canada. Othello finally arrives with Mona (who is never seen on stage) to retrieve his things. He and Billie begin to divide their books and dive into a conversation on race relations and how cultural pressures impacted their marriage.

Billie is supported by her landlady and by Amah, Othello's sister, while she writes and lives as a shut-in. Southern US, 1860. Othello, here a slave and blacksmith, woos Billie by gifting her his mother's handkerchief. Harlem, Present.

From the family perspective, problems range from privacy invasion to abuse type cases. Newspapers, radios and TV broadcasts have covered the subjects on numerous accounts. To stir controversies, the media often claimed traditional amah Chinese servants as superior workers.

Leung was born on 27 March 1956 in Hong Kong to an immigrant family from the Guangdong Province. Born in Shau Kei Wan, he later moved into Chai Wan Estate. He was raised in a single family after his father left home when Leung was 6 years old, while his mother was an amah in a British family to support the family and Leung had to live with relatives back in Shau Kei Wan who had seven children.My life: Activist and politician 'Long Hair' on prison, being banned from China and his amah mother, South China Morning Post, 30 August 2015 Leung was educated at the Clementi Secondary School.

She is quickly arrested and prosecuted by Dan. Refusing to defend herself, she is condemned to death by hanging. Amah pleads with her to tell Dan the truth in the hope that he can help her, but when he comes to see her, she remains silent.

The town has a river, the Mmiri Amorka. It also has several churches: St. Peter's Catholic Church Amorka, St. Augustine Anglican Church, Winner's Chapel, a Kingdom Hall for Jehovah's Witnesses, Assemblies of God church, and a famous Sabbath synagogue.It has two major junctions ibiasoegbe junction, and amah Gabon junction.

Idegun is the premier village of Anwain. Its other villages are Idegun, Amah, Ibhioba, Uzokin, Ovughu, Otteh, and Eware. All these villages are in close proximity of an average of four kilometers. The villages are linked by seasonal motorable (untarred) roads which are under the supervision of the local government council.

But only for the value of 50 cents, they replace it with the word se-amah ( where "se" refer to one in Malay), if it's RM 1 (100 cents), it will be called dua-amah ( "Dua" is two in Malay), and so on. And, exclusively in Kelantan, they don't refer the value of money in "ringgit", for example, in other states, RM 10 is called 10 ringgit, RM 25 is called 25 ringgit and so on. But, in Kelantan, they replaced the word "ringgit" with "riyal", for example, RM 10 is usually called 10 ringgit, but in Kelantan, it's called 10 riyal. This might be because Kelantan is an "Islamic state" on which the administration of the state is mostly by ulama.

Fritz was born to American Presbyterian missionaries Arthur Minton Guttery and the former Myrtle Chaney in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was twelve."Meet the Author: Jean Fritz". eduplace.com; accessed April 30, 2017. Growing up, she attended a British school and kept a journal about her days in China with Lin Nai-Nai, her amah.

He officially received 38.1% of the vote on the latter occasion, losing to Faure Gnassingbé, son of the deceased Eyadéma, amidst opposition claims of a rigged vote. The UFC decided not to join the national unity government under Prime Minister Yawovi Agboyibo in September 2006, although many in the party were reportedly unhappy with Olympio's decision in this regard. The party's Second Vice-President, Amah Gnassingbé, accepted a post in the government"Amah Gnassingbé exclu de l’UFC", Forum de la Semaine, number 191 (iciLome.com), September 21, 2006 as Minister of State and was suspended from the UFC as a result. The party participated in the October 2007 parliamentary election, the first time it participated in a parliamentary election since multiparty elections began to be held in the early 1990s.

Tang writers called her "Golden Mother the First Ruler", the "Golden Mother of Tortoise Mountain", "She of the Nine Numina and the Grand Marvel", and the "Perfected Marvel of the Western Florescence and Ultimate Worthy of the Cavernous Darkness". Commoners and poets of the era referred to her more simply as the "Queen Mother", the "Divine Mother", or simply "Nanny" (Amah).

7 in (1.70 m) tall and weighing around 120 lb (54 kg). According to the FBI, he used a number of aliases including Abu Musab, Sol, Abu Tuan, Esnilon, and Salahuddin. The Rewards for Justice Program lists further aliases including Abubakar Hapilon, Amah Hi Omar, Abu Omar, Abubakar, and Bakkal. He spoke Tausug, Tagalog, Yakan, and Arabic, as well as English.

When Steve tries to bribe Dan to free some of his men, he is arrested. Out on bail, Steve asks Jenny to blackmail Dan into dropping the charges, but she refuses to jeopardize her son's future. In fact, she intends to retire to France with Amah. When Steve threatens to reveal that Jenny is Dan's real mother, she shoots and kills him at Dan's office.

Area where the Utian languages were spoken Mutsun (also known as San Juan Bautista Costanoan) is an Utian language that was spoken in Northern California. It was the primary language of a division of the Ohlone people living in the Mission San Juan Bautista area. The Amah Mutsun band is currently working to restore use of the language, using a modern alphabet.Warner, N. (2006).

Mutsun is one of the eight Ohlone languages originally spoken in the San Juan Bautista, California area. The last fluent speaker, Ascencion Solórzano de Cervantes, died 1930. The contemporary tribe, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, is working to revive the language using the notes of linguist John Peabody Harrington. The Mutsun language has a program to teach it to tribal members and a dictionary is being planned.

Her father and her stepmother raised her, in addition to her brother and five half-brothers and half-sisters. Five of Kwan's siblings became lawyers. Except during World War II, Kwan had a comfortable early life. Cared for by an amah (阿嬤), a woman who looks after children, Kwan owned a pony and passed her summers in resorts in Borneo, Macao and Japan.

Within fifty years of the Spaniards' arrival, the Ohlone or Coastanoan culture and way of life had virtually disappeared in the Bay area. Today, two of the Coastanoan tribes, the Awaswa people 'missionized' in Santa Cruz and the Mutsun people 'missionized' at San Juan Bautista, have joined together as the Amah Mutsan Tribal Band in an effort to protect and maintain the authentic and distinct cultural history and practices.

The rock provides a view of the city and Hong Kong Island in the distance. The entire mountain is located within Lion Rock Country Park, south of Hung Mui Kuk, Tai Wai and is made passable by vehicles by Lion Rock Tunnel, which connects Kowloon Tong and Tai Wai. Lion Rock is near another famous rock structure, the Amah Rock. A road in Kowloon City is named Lion Rock Road ().

Jenny has one loyal friend, the Chinese woman Amah (Helen Jerome Eddy), who helps take care of the baby. At a party in Steve's honor, he catches gambler Ed Harris (an uncredited J. Carrol Naish) cheating him in a back room. In the ensuing struggle, Steve kills him, with Jenny the only eyewitness. The pair are unable to dispose of the body before it is found and are questioned by the police.

Comfort Iyabo Amah Momoh, (born 1962) is a British midwife who specializes in the treatment of female genital mutilation (FGM). Born in Nigeria, Momoh is a member of the British FGM national clinical group, established in 2007 to train health professionals in how to deal with the practice."Our Team", FGM National Clinical Group. Until 2017 she served as a public-health specialist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Harlem, Present. Othello is alone in a dressing room, dressing in tails and a top hat. He practices Othello's speech to Desdemona's father while applying black greasepaint - by the end of the speech he is in full Blackface. Harlem, Present. Billie sings - she is in the psychiatric ward of a hospital. Amah visits her, but is unable to explain Billie's condition to the white doctors. Canada enters and promises that he will not leave Billie alone again.

Adejubu initially played with the Sunshine Stars' youth team, third-tier side Akure City, before the 14-year old was promoted to the first team in the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) in January 2019. He made his professional debut on 11 February, coming on for Chibundu Amah during a 2–0 victory at home over Katsina United. He "shone in his debut season" in the league, and received further attention for his performance in the 2019 NPFL/ La Liga U15 Promises Tournament.

The evil wazir and his seductive, beautiful wife-of-wives, Lalume, discuss a loan he desperately needs. In return for the money lent from the king of Ababu, the wazir must arrange for the caliph to marry one (or all three) of the princesses of Ababu, who perform a sexy dance. Through their amah, the princesses tell Lalume that they wish to return home. Lalume convinces them that Baghdad is much more exciting than any other place on earth ("Not Since Nineveh").

There were two words used for female slaves, which were amah and shifhah. Based upon the uses in different texts, the words appear to have the same connotations and are used synonymously, namely that of being a sexual object, though the words themselves appear to be from different ethnic origins. Men assigned their female slaves the same level of dependence as they would a wife. Close levels of relationships could occur given the amount of dependence placed upon these women.

112 As with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz served as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, first the Amah Mutsun people, the original inhabitants of the region renamed the "Ohlone" by the Spaniards, and later the Yokuts from the east. The settlement was the site of the first autopsy in Alta California.Ruscin, p. 196 The current Holy Cross Church was built on the site of the original mission church in 1889, and it remains an active parish of the Diocese of Monterey.

The Quran does not forbid slavery, nor does it consider it as a permanent institution. In various verses, it refers to slaves as "necks" (raqabah) or "those whom your right hand possesses" (Ma malakat aymanukum). In addition to these terms for slaves, the Quran and early Islamic literature uses 'Abd (male) and Amah (female) term for an enslaved and servile possession, as well as other terms. According to Brockopp, seven separate terms for slaves appear in the Quran, in at least twenty nine Quranic verses.

As recently as the 1980s, most Macanese had not received formal Chinese schooling and, hence, could speak but not read or write Chinese. Spoken Cantonese was largely familiar, and some spoke the language with a regional accent (鄉下話) – acquired largely from their mothers or amahs.Of interest is the role that the amah plays in Macanese society. It is well known that local Cantonese women were often hired by the Catholic Church in Macau to act as wet-nurses for orphans in the Church's charge.

2 The first name was rapidly elided to "Plum", the name by which Wodehouse became known to family and friends.McCrum, p. 9 Mother and son sailed for Hong Kong, where for his first two years Wodehouse was raised by a Chinese amah (nurse), alongside his elder brothers Peveril (1877–1951) and Armine (1879–1936).McCrum, p. 14 When he was two, the brothers were brought to England, where they were placed under the care of an English nanny in a house adjoining that of Eleanor's father and mother.

In 2009, Ajibola made a return to acting in the Teco Benson produced and directed movie, The Fake Prophet alongside Grace Amah. In 2013, he featured in the MTV Base produced television series, Shuga. He has also featured in several Nigerian box office movies including Last Flight to Abuja with Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and The Antique alongside Kiki Omeili, Judith Audu and Gloria Young. As of 2016, he had played the role of Spiff, a character in the Africa Magic produced television series The Johnsons for four seasons.

Rabbinic prohibition further limits the Kohen of coming within four amoth6 feet 3.58 inches (based on rabbi Avraham Chaim Naehs definition of the amah) of an outdoor (i.e. no roof or overhang present) corpse or grave, but a fence or groove with a height or depth of 10 tefachim2 feet 8.27 inches (based on rabbi Avraham Chaim Naeh's definition of the tefach) eases the restriction and enables the Kohen to be within four tefachim of the corpse or grave.Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah chap. 371:5. Tur Yoreh Deah chap.

The Kohanic cities all come along with the detail ואת מגרשה ("the peripheral land around the city") - presumably, this amount is 2000 amah in all directions. These 13 cities are the primary land allotments for kohanim in the Land of Israel and were in use from the initial entry of the children of Israel into the land of Israel up until they were depopulated by Nebuchadnezzar. According to the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah, these 13 cities where re-inhabited by the kohanim upon their return from the 70-year term of the Babylonian exile.

Lim's first story The Valley of Golden Showers was written in 1979 for a children's story competition. A year later, Lim entered another writing competition sponsored by the National Book Council, winning second place. These competitions sparked her interest in becoming a writer. Lim's first novel Rice Bowl was published in 1984, and she co-wrote the award-winning short play The Amah: A Portrait in Black And White in 1986. Her second novel Gift From The Gods (1990) was nominated for a National Book Development Council award in 1992.

The problem became who will carry the char, when no one volunteered again Amah from Amekeme a great son of Umueze Anam from Ebendu clan volunteered to carry out the task and his brother Iwo of Odionwu clan from the same umuebendu volunteered to accompany his brother such that if he is killed he will ensure that the head of his brother returns home while Obalichi from Umuoba anam lead Anam warriors to the fight. Eventually, they succeeded and defeated Aboh warriors and killed Prince Enebeli of Aboh.

The charm was prepared and the problem became who shall carry the charm no one accepted until one young man called Iwoegbune from Umuodionwu in Umuebendu quarters of Umueze Anam volunteered to carry the charm, this heroic volunteering thrown the town into joy such that his cousin Amah from Umuamekeme in Umuebendu quarters volunteered to ensure that his brother head returns home once killed while Obalichi from Umuoba led the warriors to fight the Aboh warriors led by the Aboh Prince. The plan was carried out perfectly such that the charm was taken by Iwo to the Aboh camp, he was killed as foretold his brother Amah fought and brought back the head of the hero while the warriors slaughtered all the Aboh warriors including the prince and freed Anam people in their slave camp some returned to Anam while others who could not return settled at Umunankwo in present-day Ogbaru. This festival tells this story too. The celebration of this festival starts a month to the actual date of the celebration with the Otiekwe Adah, this a masquerade that moves round the village with a wooden gong to announce to the people that the festival is at hand.

The palm was not a major unit in ancient Mesopotamia but appeared in ancient Israel as the tefah, tepah, or topah (, ."a spread").. Scholars were long uncertain as to whether this was reckoned using the Egyptian or Babylonian cubit,. but now believe it to have approximated the Egyptian "Greek cubit", giving a value for the palm of about .. As in Egypt, the palm was divided into four digits (etzba or etsba) of about and three palms made up a span (zeret) of about . Six made up the Hebrew cubit (amah or ammah) of about , although the cubits mentioned in Ezekiel, .

In February 1942, as Japanese forces tightened their grip on the Philippines, President Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to relocate to Australia. On the night of 12 March 1942, MacArthur and a select group that included his wife Jean, son Arthur, Arthur's Cantonese amah, Ah Cheu, and other members of his staff, including Sutherland, Richard Marshall and Huff, left Corregidor. They traveled in PT boats through stormy seas patrolled by Japanese warships, and reached Del Monte Airfield on Mindanao, where B-17s picked them up, and flew them to Australia. MacArthur ultimately arrived in Melbourne by train on 21 March.

He was the third of seven children of Eustace Pratt, a well-connected physician fluent in Mandarin Chinese who had spent some time in India and China, and was a friend of Henry Parkes and Edmund Barton. His grandfather Henry Pratt, also a medical man, had in his later years become obsessed with Eastern religions and philosophies of India and Tibet. Ambrose himself was brought up by an amah and educated at St Ignatius' College, Riverview and Sydney Grammar School. He had private tutors for French, German, and the manly arts boxing, riding, fencing and shooting.

The cultural affiliations of these colonists have not yet been determined, however it is likely that different people moved into the area at different times. Russian exploration of Alaska began in the mid-18th century, with fur traders arriving shortly afterwards to take advantage of the sea otters that populated the coast. Traders and native trappers took sea otters along both sides of the Aleutian peninsula. The first recorded mention of the Aniachak region appears in an 1827 atlas, which notes "Baie Amah-chak" and "Cap Kumlik." In 1831 the cast was mapped by the Russian Navy and followed up by two more expeditions in the 1840s.

The creek is named for Francisco Pacheco and Juan P. Pacheco who were granted the Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe land grants in 1833 and 1836, and 1843 respectively. An early name for the creek was Arroyo de San Felipe.. Francisco Pacheco came to California in 1819. Just north of the earthen dam on North Fork Pacheco Creek was one of the last refuges of the Amah-Mutsun band of the Ohlone people, and is rich archeologically with multiple burial sites and artifacts, including projective points so large that they would have been used for bear or elk. In 1993, Mark Hylkema documented eight different Native American sites in this area, dating from 1000 B.C. to 500 A.D.

The novel alternates between the voices of the two women, contrasting their worlds. Liesl Schillinger suggests that the novel is a "compassionate fictional exploration of this complicated global relationship, Simpson assesses the human cost that the child-care bargain exacts on the amah, on her employer and on the children of both."Liesl Schillinger, Review: "For Love and Money", The New York Times, 8 August 2010, accessed 24 October 2011 Ron Charles says: > What really invigorates this novel, though, is the way it alternates between > Claire's chapters and chapters narrated by Lola, her 50-year-old Filipino > nanny. I was worried early on that Lola would be a Southeast Asian version > of the Magical Negro, who exists merely to help some self-absorbed white > person reach enlightenment.

Ailin's father dies of tuberculosis when she is twelve and she loses the only support she has in her family and cannot continue with school any longer because of new head of her family, her uncle. Unable to find a man willing to marry her, her uncle, her father's older brother and the head of the family since Ailin's Grandmother died of a paralyzing stroke, offers her two choices: she either becomes a concubine by marrying a farmer, or becomes a nun. Ailin chooses none of the given options and is thrown out of the family, saved from her uncle's wrath only out of Uncle's respect and love for Ailin's father. With the help of her English teacher, Miss Gilbertson, Ailin finds work as an amah (governess) for the Warners, an American or foreigner family.

The author Emily Hahn wrote in the Shanghai journal T'ien Hsia in the mid-1930s that "unfortunately" Hobart "seems to share a strange idea of the public’s that all persons whose skin-pigmentation differs from ours must use a bastard eighteenth-century Biblical sort of elocution." Hahn continues: :I grant that her portrayal of Western business methods in contact with the East is excellent. Only, this insistence upon Chinese peculiarities is misleading, taking us away from the ultimate truth that these differences are traceable not to some occult inheritance, but to tradition and training and environment.... :This is a pity in Oil for the Lamps of China. Nobody else has given us such realistic portrayals of very familiar types; the amah, the house-boy, the manager’s wife, queen of the hong.

As per the prophetic vision of Ezekiel regarding the divisions of the Land of Israel to the Twelve tribes of Israel and to the Messiah, the apportioning of a swath of land to the Sons of Zadok around the Temple Mount is mentioned. The measurement of this area is specified as 4,750 kanns (The kann measurement of Ezekiel is described as six amahs, with each amah consisting of six tefachs) beginning from the southern end of the Temple Mount heading South and from the opposite edge of the Temple Mount leading North, 12,250 kanns leading West and likewise to the East. This portion of the sons of Zadok is included in the 25,000 by 25,000 kanns that are to be given the greater Tribe of Levi with the greater tribe of Levi including Kohanim as well (Ezezkiel chapters 45 and 48).

Following an unsuccessful assassination attempt by the Ba'ath Party on Iraq's ruler Abdul Karim Qasim in October 1959, Saddam Hussein was placed in charge of Jihaz al Khas (Special Apparatus), sometime between 1964 and 1966. Codenamed Jihaz al-Haneen (Instrument of Yearning), the organisation concentrated on security and intelligence work. After the Ba'ath Party seized power on 17 July 1968, Saddam expanded the Special Apparatus and took control of the Amn (State Internal Security Department). Following the failed coup attempt led by Director of Internal Security Nadhim Kzar in 1973, Jihaz was transformed into Da'irat al Mukhabarat al Amah (The General Intelligence Department or the GID). In 1983, under the leadership of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, the GID organized the massacres of the villagers of Dujail and Jezan Al Chol, the disappearance of the Barzanis from the Qushtapa camp, and the assassination of 18 members of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim's family.

Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf (2018) Julia Stoschek was born in 1975, the daughter of Michael Stoschek, a German billionaire businessman, chairman of Brose Fahrzeugteile, the German car parts company founded by her great grandfather Max Brose, a Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany. Stoschek first began buying art in 2003.Anny Shaw (24 March 2016), German collector Julia Stoschek to open satellite space in Berlin The Art Newspaper. Her collection features more than 850 works by about 250, mainly European and US artistsGuy Chazan (26 July 2019), Ephemeral art: a private museum in Berlin dedicated to video Financial Times. working from the 1960s onwards and includes video, multi-media environments, internet-based installations and performance. The Julia Stoschek Collection in a former industrial building in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel opened in 2007, and has two floors of exhibition space, over . Within the first ten years from 2007 until 2017, the Julia Stoschek Collection staged 15 exhibitions,Amah-Rose Abrams (13 June 2017), Julia Stoschek Collection celebrates 10 years with generation spanning video show The Art Newspaper.Diane Solway (20 November 2017), The Ambitious Collector Julia Stoschek Is Single-Handedly Building One of the World’s Best Video Art Collections W. including solo shows of Cao Fei (2009), Derek Jarman (2010),Gareth Harris (10 June 2016), Interview: video art collector Julia Stoschek Financial Times.