Dodi was the eldest son of Mohamed Al-Fayed and was born in Alexandria in 1955. Episode three of season five, titled "Mou Mou," focuses on Mohamed's life story. Mohamed was a businessman, and, as the show portrays him, he was intent on working his way into the upper crust of British society. He and his brothers had a successful shipping company. In 1979, he bought the Ritz Hotel in Paris. In 1984, the siblings bought a 30 percent stake in the House of Fraser, which included London's famed Harrods department store. He also signed a lease to Villa Windsor, where Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson lived for many years after his abdication of the throne. According to Town & Country, Mohamed was worth around $1.87 billion in 1997.
hooked in annus 1984
@Bob Kerfuffle: And don't forget Einstein's annus mirabilis, the year in which he published three(!) trail-blazing articles.@Smitty, in case you care: annus is the nominative case and anno the dative or ablative case--it means "in the year" (of the Lord--domini, which is the genitive of dominus).The puzzle: My experience is that starting with a couple of gimmies is the ticket to success with a Friday or Saturday puzzle--so, when I put down SEHEN and DER ALTE off the bat, I had high hopes for something mirabilis, but it turned out horribilis anyway--for the reasons mentioned by others, including being unable to think of any mediterranean wind other than Mistral. But as a foreigner, I claim the right of not knowing Meg March--what an ugly name anyway!
@van55 and Jesse: I happily disagree. The CD clue is my favorite in the puzzle: MCMXLVII can be read in only one way, whereas CD can be a data carrier, or a certificate of deposite, or, yes, an annus--it's called ambiguous cluing, a hallmark of late-week puzzles--THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT!
1792 was the "annus mirabilis of eighteenth-century radicalism": its most important texts, such as Rights of Man, were published and the influence of the radical associations was at its height. In fact, it was as a result of the publication of the Rights of Man that such associations began to proliferate.[3] The most significant groups, made up of artisans, merchants and others from the middling and lower sorts, were the Sheffield Society for Constitutional Information, the London Corresponding Society (LCS) and the Society for Constitutional Information (SCI).[4] But it was not until these groups formed an alliance with the more genteel Society of the Friends of the People that the government became concerned. When this sympathy became known, the government issued a royal proclamation against seditious writings on 21 May 1792. In a dramatic increase compared to the rest of the century, there were over 100 prosecutions for sedition in the 1790s alone.[5] The British government, fearing an uprising similar to the French Revolution, took even more drastic steps to quash the radicals. They made an increasing number of political arrests and infiltrated the radical groups; they threatened to "revoke the licences of publicans who continued to host politicized debating societies and to carry reformist literature"; they seized the mail of "suspected dissidents"; and they supported groups that disrupted radical events and attacked radicals in the press.[6] Additionally, the British Government initiated the Aliens Act of 1793 in order to regulate the entrance of immigrants into Great Britain. Essentially, the Aliens Act enforced that aliens be recorded upon arrival and register with the local justice of the peace. Specifically, immigrants were required to give their names, ranks, occupations, and addresses.[7] Overall, the Aliens Act reduced the number of immigrants into Great Britain out of fear that one of them may be an unwanted spy. Radicals saw this period as "the institution of a system of terror, almost as hideous in its features, almost as gigantic in its stature, and infinitely more pernicious in its tendency, than France ever knew".[8]
Intense love for her children aside, Diana described the two-year stretch between William being born and Harry's birth in 1984 as "total darkness. I can't remember much, I've blotted it out, it was such pain."
2618KABIR, S. N. y COLS. Flowers of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, a potential source of contragestative agent: I. Effect of benzene extract on implantation of mouse, Contraception, Vol. 29, Num. 4, 1984, 385-397.
2705KASPRZYK, Z. y COLS. Thin layer chromatographic characterization of ether-soluble terpenoid compounds in plants of the Compositae family Arnica montana, Calendula officinalis, Helianthaus annus, Taraxacum officinale, Bull Acad Pol Sci Ser Sci Biol, Val. 13, 1965, 661.
2760KHAN, S. A. y COLS. Development of erucic acid and glucosinilate-free rapeseeds (Crucifers) in Pakistan. Part IV. The instance of erucic acid and glucosinate occurrence in some wild Crucifera of Pakistan, Pak J Sci Ind Res, Vol. 27, Num. 4, 1984, 225-228.
2867KONO, Y. y COLS. Absolute configuration of oryzalexin A and structures of its related phytolexins isolated from rice blast leaves infected with Pyricularia orizae, Agr Biol Chem, Vol. 48, Num. 1, 1984, 253-255.
2879KOSUGE, T. y COLS. Studies on active substances in the herbs used for oketsu, blood coagulation, in chinese medicine. I. On anticoagulative activities of the herbs for oketsu, Yakugaku Zasshi, Vol. 104, Num. 10, 1984, 1050-1053. 2ff7e9595c
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