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Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner.
El Ain (Arabic: العين), Al Ain, or Ain is a village at an elevation of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) on a foothill of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. It is famous for agriculture and trade, located on the highway connecting Syrian borders and the Hermel area with Chtaura and Beirut.
Al Ain Oasis is the city’s largest and, dating back more 4,000 years.The oasis covers more than 1,200 hectares and contains more than 147,000 date palm trees producing 100 varieties of date.Adjacent to the oasis are Al Ain National Museum [5] [6] and Sultan Bin Zayed Fort [7] to the east, and Al Ain Palace Museum to the west.
History Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan club Honorary President since 1974. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed is the current club president since 1979.. Since its founding in 1968, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, helped the club financially and gave the founders the first club headquarters, became club Honorary President on 13 November 1974.
Eid al-Adha is also sometimes called Eid II or "Greater Eid" (Arabic: العيد الكبير, romanized: al-ʿĪd al-Kabīr). [15] As with Eid al-Fitr, the Eid prayer is performed on the morning of Eid al-Adha, after which udhiyah , or the ritual sacrifice of sheep , may be performed.
The Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn [1] (Arabic: ٱلْمَوَاقِع ٱلْأَثَرِيَّة فِيْ بَات وَٱلْخُطْم وَٱلْعَيْن, romanized: Al-Mawāqiʿ al-Athariyyah fī Bāt wal-Khuṭm wal-ʿAyn) are a group of beehive tombs or necropolis from the Hafit period in the 3rd Millennium BC, located near a palm grove in Oman.
Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (Arabic: الرحيق المختوم; transl. The Sealed Nectar [ 1 ] ), is a seerah book (biography of Muhammad) by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was awarded first prize by the Muslim World League in a worldwide competition of biographies of Muhammad held in Mecca in 1979.
The first mention of the town is in Akkadian Rēš ina [7] during the reign of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II (911-891 BC). [7] The Arabic name Ras al-Ayn is a literal translation of the Akkadian name and has the same meaning; "head of the spring", [7] or idiomatically, "hill of the spring", indicating a prominent mountain formation close to a well.