frocking
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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frocking, the term used in the US Navy where an individual has been selected for promotion and is authorized to assume the insignia, title, and seniority of his higher rank in advance of his official promotion date. However, as with an
acting rank, he does not receive any increase in pay until the official promotion date.
Tyrone G. Martin
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Ajmer suspect's landlord under scanner
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 10/23/2007; 475 words
; ...Delhi on Tuesday in connection with the Ajmer shrine blast case. The meeting was held...the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer. The CBI is investigating the Mecca Masjid...Salim, one of the people who died in the Ajmer blast, continued to be a suspect for the...
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Inflation hits hard poultry business in Ajmer
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 7/23/2008; 488 words
; ...International brought to you by HT Syndication. Ajmer, July 23 -- The poultry industry at Ajmer in Rajasthan is hit hard by inflation. Due to...owner, Indra Poultry Farm. Poultry farmers at Ajmer, one of the country's biggest egg production...
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Ajmer blast toll rises to three
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 10/15/2007; 414 words
; ...Jaipur, Oct. 15 -- The death toll in the Ajmer shrine blast has increased to three with...Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer Thursday, two days before Eid. He was...Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Hospital from Ajmer's Jawahar Lal Nehru hospital. Badruddin...
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Ajmer Urs not far, but Nizamuddin shrine hardly festive
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 7/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...on the festive spirit of the Urs at the Ajmer-e-Sharif in Rajasthan. The 'pirzadas...preparations there for pilgrims of the Ajmer Urs, an annual religious celebration dedicated...shrine from July 6 to 11. On their way to Ajmer, nearly 500,000 pilgrims will pray at...
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Ajmer blast probe has gone as far as our borders: Shivraj Patil
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 10/13/2007; 445 words
; ...International brought to you by the Hindustan Times Ajmer, Oct. 13 -- Union Home Minister today...people and wounded 17 others. "People of Ajmer have worked together to maintain peace...prevent terrorist-related events like the Ajmer blast. "I think this government has never...
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Civilian airports to come up at Bikaner, Kishangarh-Ajmer.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 2/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...airports to come up at Bikaner, Kishangarh-Ajmer Jaipur/Amritsar, Feb 25 (PTI...will come up at Bikaner and Kishangarh-Ajmer in Rajasthan to promote tourism, Union...visitors to Dargah Sharief and Pushkar in Ajmer district, Patel said after dedicating...
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Amisha visits Ajmer dargah
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 2/26/2007; 398 words
; ...shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer near here. The actress, who was here...committee member told IANS on phone from Ajmer. The actress was dressed in a black burqa...dedicated to the Sufi saint who came to Ajmer from Persia in 1192, attracts thousands...
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Fear of bird flu continues to haunt Ajmer's poultry farms
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 7/16/2006; 453 words
; ...International brought to you by the Hindustan Times Ajmer, July 16 -- Fear of bird flu continues to haunt the economy of poultry farms in Ajmer with reduced demand of poultry and allied...Egg Co-ordination Committee (NECC), Ajmer. However, the farmers are disappointed...
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Pak pilgrims to Ajmer dargah enticed by perfumes, qawwali.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 8/6/2006; 586 words
; Pak pilgrims to Ajmer dargah enticed by perfumes, qawwali Ajmer, Aug 6 (PTI) Pakistani pilgrims, who visited the dargah...worth around Rs 20 lakhs. A leading perfume dealer of Ajmer, Anil Gandhi, told PTI that the Pakistanis bought a variety...
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Safety net for Ajmer
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 7/10/2006; 292 words
; ...India, July 10 -- After Ayodhya, it is Ajmer on the Centre's "security list". Specific...the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer, the Union home ministry will soon put...shrine. Home secretary V.K. Duggal said Ajmer's security structure will be on the lines...
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Ajmer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ajmer , former state, NW India. Now part of Rajasthan state, it formerly...Rajasthan and was identical with the former British province of Ajmer-Merwara. The city of Ajmer (1991 pop. 402,700), the former capital and now a district...
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Rajputana
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Akbar captured the fort of Chitor in 1568. From their seat at Ajmer the Mughals ruled Rajputana until the early 18th cent. The...states, notably Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, and Ajmer. The internal autonomy of many of the states was guaranteed...
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Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...realized his recurring vision to become the first qawwali to sing at the Muslim shrine Hazrat Khwaja Moinud-Din Chisti in Ajmer, India, where neither qawwalis nor Pakistanis had previously been welcome. First recording in 1973, Khan became prolific...
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Muin ad-Din Hasan Chishti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...teachings in India. After traveling extensively in the Middle East and central Asia he went to Lahore and later settled in Ajmer, India. His splendid mausoleum there is an important center of pilgrimage. The Chishti sect today has a number of sub-orders...
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Chishti, Muʿīn al-Dīn Muḥammad
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...continues to make music central: it developed the qawwāli (singers) whose songs of love and devotion to Allāh are a feature of holidays and festivals. He died at Ajmer, and his tomb is a celebrated place of pilgrimage.
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