Eni, the biggest foreign oil and gas producer in Africa, is currently on trial in Milan on graft allegations revolving round the acquisition of a giant Nigerian oilfield in 2011.
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As emerges in a revealing biography by the late Heidi Holland, a journalist who had unique access to him, Mr Mugabe's childhood was steeped in piety, revolving round a Catholic mission station.
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To her, New York was the "white-hot center" and the Condé Nast empire, "like ancient Rome with all the politics and secrets, everything revolving round Si as Emperor Augustus," the tastemaker-in-chief.
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ROME (Reuters) - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being investigated for alleged corruption in a case revolving round a stake his holding company Fininvest has in the asset manager Banca Mediolanum, a judicial source said on Friday.
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The Queen and I is a 1992 novel and play written by Sue Townsend, a fictional best-selling political satire revolving round the topic of republicanism in the United Kingdom.
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He has also worked on the music for three projects with Opera North: tango music by Astor Piazzolla, Nothing Like The Sun with the Royal Shakespeare Company, revolving round Shakespeare's sonnets, and a Tom Waits- based project Mercy and Grand.
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It has seven whorls of which two constitute the protoconch. Sculpture :—The dominant feature is a prominent peripheral keel revolving round all the whorls. The summit of each whorl is crowned by a double thread. Along the fasciole area run four slender threads.
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After the omission of the letters "l" and "i", it remains Kisi. This is the origin of the town's name. However, the corrupt version of the town's name, Kishi, is still revolving round the original name. Today the name is either written as Kisi or Kishi.
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1390 BC. The symbols of Ashur include: 1\. A winged disc with horns, enclosing four circles revolving round a middle circle; rippling rays fall down from either side of the disc. 2\. A circle or wheel, suspended from wings, and enclosing a warrior drawing his bow to discharge an arrow. 3\. The same circle; the warrior's bow; however, is carried in his left hand, while the right hand is uplifted as if to bless his worshippers.
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The clock inside Wells Cathedral The Wells Cathedral clock is an astronomical clock in the north transept of Wells Cathedral, England. The clock is one of the group of famous 14th to 16th century astronomical clocks to be found in the West of England. The surviving mechanism, dated to between 1386 and 1392, was replaced in the 19th century, and was eventually moved to the Science Museum in London, where it continues to operate. The dial represents the geocentric view of the universe, with sun and moon revolving round a central fixed earth.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote that the U.S. states were "like the planets revolving round their common sun, acting and acted upon according to their respective weights and distances," Alexander Hamilton invoked a similar analogy in Federalist No. 9, using the word "orbit." Jefferson used the analogy to emphasize the systematic, self-balancing nature of the new United States Constitution. The analogy is also employed in an attempt to borrow Copernican simplicity as compared to Ptolemaic complexity. The implication here is that federal structures are more practicable than having many-to-many relationships.
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Assyria of the Early Period was polytheistic. The King of the Gods was Ashur. The symbols of Ashur included: a winged disc with horns, enclosing four circles revolving round a middle circle and rippling rays falling down from either side of the disc; a circle or wheel, suspended from wings, and enclosing a warrior drawing his bow to discharge an arrow; or the same circle with the warrior's bow carried in his left hand, while the right hand is uplifted as if to bless his worshippers. The Assyrian standard (representing the world pillar) had a disc mounted on a horned bull's head.
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Apart from the time on a 24-hour dial, it shows the motion of the Sun and Moon, the phases of the Moon, and the time since the last new Moon. The astronomical dial presents a geocentric or pre-Copernican view, with the Sun and Moon revolving round a central fixed Earth, like that of the clock at Ottery St Mary. The quarters are chimed by a quarter jack: a small automaton known as Jack Blandifers, who hits two bells with hammers and two with his heels. At the striking of the clock, jousting knights appear above the clock face.
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Map showing the Botswana–Namibia–Zambia–Zimbabwe purported quadripoint (circled) Zambezi River at the junction of Namibia (top left), Zambia (top), Zimbabwe (bottom right), and Botswana (bottom left) While some older sources claimed that a quadripoint existed in Africa,"Guinness Book of Records", 1979 et seq.; see "Shortest Frontier" where the borders of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe come together at the confluence of the Cuando (also called Chobe) and Zambezi rivers (approximately ), it is now widely believed that instead, two separate tripoints exist about apart. There have been a few international incidents revolving round this particular quadripoint, or near-quadripoint. In 1970, South Africa (which at the time occupied Namibia) informed Botswana that there was no common border between Botswana and Zambia, claiming that a quadripoint existed.
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