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  2. Amr (name) - Wikipedia

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    It is most commonly written as "Amr", but is also written as "Amro". The word is derived from the tri-literal Arabic root ( ع م ر) meaning "to live a long time." When the Arabic letter wāw is added to the end of the Arabic name Umar, the name changes to "Amr". Although very close in writing in Arabic, they are two different names, though ...

  3. Amr ibn al-As - Wikipedia

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    Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi ( Arabic: عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِل السَّهْمِي, romanized : ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil al-Sahmī; c. 573 – 664) was the Arab commander who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and served as its governor in 640–646 and 658–664.

  4. Aston Martin AMR-One - Wikipedia

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    To meet the new regulations brought in by the ACO for endurance racing, the AMR-One is powered by a downsized, 2.0-litre turbocharged straight six petrol engine and features a blade-fin behind the cockpit. [1] The AMR-One is built around a light carbon fibre monocoque chassis with open top bodywork, in contrast to the closed cockpits of the ...

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  6. AMR radiotelephone network (Czechoslovakia) - Wikipedia

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    The very first analog mobile radio telephone in Czechoslovakia (and in the whole Eastern Bloc) was AMR (sometimes AMRAD ), in Czech Automatizovaný městský radiotelefon ( Automated Municipal Radiotelephone ). The system was developed by company Tesla in Pardubice. Since 1978 it was tested in experimental mode and in 1983 it switched into full ...

  7. AMR - Wikipedia

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    Audio/modem riser, on a computer motherboard. Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec for speech coding. Adaptive mesh refinement in numerical analysis. AMR radiotelephone network (Czechoslovakia) (in Czech, Automatizovaný městský radiotelefon) Automatic meter reading, for utility meters. Autonomous mobile robot, portable robots used in industrial ...

  8. Floodplain (Kronos Quartet album) - Wikipedia

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    Concept. The Kronos Quartet have a long record of commissioning compositions and of collaborating with musicians from around the world. The compositions for this album, all written or arranged for the quartet, hail "from cultures based in areas surrounded by water and prone to catastrophic flooding," ranging from Egypt and Serbia in the west to India in the east; from Central Asia in the north ...

  9. Short Stories (Kronos Quartet album) - Wikipedia

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    AllMusic's "Blue" Gene Tyranny describes this album as a, "fascinating collection," of nine pieces by, "very different composers," and that, "the Kronos Quartet is in top form throughout all these selections." A Wired review says that, "a fine mesh of brains and guts, Short Stories is an eclectic roller-coaster ride through 20th-century music."