Suharto (Javanese: ꦯꦸꦲꦂꦠ;[2] Gêdrìk: Suhartå; O-Javanese: Suharta;  pronunciation (help·info); 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was the secondPresident of Indonesia, holding the office for 31 years from the ousting ofSukarno in 1967 until his resignation in 1998. Suharto was born in a small village, Kemusuk, in the Godean area near the city of Yogyakarta, during the Dutch colonial era.[3] He grew up in humble circumstances.[4] His Javanese Muslim parents divorced not long after his birth, and he was passed between foster parents for much of his childhood. During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, Suharto served in Japanese-organised Indonesian security forces. Indonesia's independence struggle saw him joining the newly formed Indonesian army. Suharto rose to the rank of Major General…

date palm n. A palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) of western Asia and northern Africa thatis cultivated also in the United States, South Asia, and Australia, havinglarge pinnate leaves and bearing clusters of dates. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. date palm n 1. (Plants) a feather palm, Phoenix dactylifera, probably native to N Africa and SW Asia andwidely grown in other arid warm temperate and subtropical regions for its edible fruit (dates) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003 date′ palm`  n. any tall date-bearing palm of the genus Phoenix, esp. P. dactylifera, topped by pinnateleaves. [1830–40] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1. date palm - tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweetedible fruit Phoenix dactylifera date - sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woodyseed feather palm - palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves  Link : http://www.thefreedictionary.com/date+palm

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924. He was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensiclaboratories. Late in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses…

Ruling on the crime of rape What is the ruling on the crime of rape in Islam?. Praise be to Allaah. The Arabic word ightisaab refers to taking something wrongfully by force. It is now used exclusively to refer to transgression against the honour of women by force (rape).  This is an abhorrent crime that is forbidden in all religions and in the minds of all wise people and those who are possessed of sound human nature. All earthly systems and laws regard this action as abhorrent and impose the strictest penalties on it, except a few states which waive the punishment…

Two police officers, a soldier and 12 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters were killed in Turkey's southeast in the space of 48 hours in operations to push back the militant group, the army and the Dogan news agency reported on Friday. The soldier came under rocket fire on Friday in the district of Cizre, where 12 PKK militants also died in an ongoing military operation, the army said on its website. One policeman was killed in Cizre late on Thursday when he and a group of colleagues came under rocket attack as they tried to break down barricades set up…