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Al Mar Knives. Al Mar Knives is a production knife company headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon, United States. Al Mar Knives was established in 1979 by Al Mar, and has a reputation for making tactical knives of innovative design. While headquartered in the United States, Al Mar knives were made in Seki City of Japan from 1979 to 2019.
Al Mar was an edged-weapons specialist in the U.S. Army Special Forces, a 5th degree black belt in Judo when he started Al Mar Knives in 1978 and began work on the famous and highly sought after "Warrior" knife. In his book, Battle Blades, Greg Walker[3] refers to the Al Mar Warrior as, "perhaps the ultimate in battle-blade design.
Mar-a-Lago (/ ˌ m ɑːr ə ˈ l ɑː ɡ oʊ / MAR ə LAH-goh, Spanish: [ˈmaɾ a ˈlaɣo]; Spanish for 'Sea-to-Lake') is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach, Florida. It spans 126 rooms and 62,500 sq ft (5,810 m 2) built on 17 acres of land. Since 1985, it has been owned by former president Donald Trump, who now resides on ...
Omar Sharif [a] ( Arabic: عمر الشريف Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf], born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub [1] [miˈʃel dɪˈmitɾi ʃælˈhuːb]; 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. [6] [7] [8] He began his career in his ...
Umar ibn al-Khattab [a] ( Arabic: عُمَر بْن ٱلْخَطَّاب, romanized : ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb; c. 582/583 – 644 ), also spelled Omar, was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634, when he succeeded Abu Bakr ( r. 632–634) as the second caliph, until his assassination in 644. Umar was a senior companion and father ...
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi [note 1] ( Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850 ), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Hailing from Khwarazm, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of ...
Omar Al-Mukhtar was born in 1858 in the town of Zanzur near Tobruk, in the region of Ottoman Cyrenaica to the Arab mnifi tribe, belonging to the Senussi (who were seen as Libyan Ashrafs clan just like Emir or King Idris es Senussi ), [6] [7] before eventually becoming chief or leader of the clan. As a child, Omar lost his father early on and ...
v. t. e. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir [a] (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. [2] He was subsequently incarcerated, tried and convicted on multiple corruption charges.