Plot
Killing Poe is a dark comedy about an unlikely quintet of college students who, through a series of peculiar events, find themselves enrolled in what was supposed to be an ordinary class on Edgar Allan Poe. Their lecherous professor, Dr. Reginald Reinhold Lynch, proves to be unethical and tyrannical, ultimately pushing the quintet to their breaking point. In a moment of desperation, they hatch a plan to teach Lynch a lesson in true Poe style. When the plan goes awry, the students find themselves at the center of a massive cover-up.
Plot
Master explorer and former US Air Force Major Dirk Pitt and his wisecracking buddy Al Giordino goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War ironclad battleship known as the "Ship of Death" that protects a secret cargo is lost somewhere in the deserts of West Africa. But while the two cross paths with a beautiful and brilliant U.N. scientist Dr. Eva Rojas who is being hounded by a ruthless dictator. She believes that the hidden treasure may be connected to a larger problem that threatens the world around them. Hunting for a ship that no one else thinks exists, Dirk, Al, and Eva must rely on their wits and their daring heroics to outsmart dangerous warlords, survive the threatening terrain, and get to the bottom of both mysteries.
Keywords: action-hero, admiral, africa, ak-47, ambush, american-civil-war, assault-rifle, attempted-murder, based-on-book, based-on-novel
Dirk Pitt. Adventure has a new name.
Adventure has a new destination.
Rudi Gunn: [Dirk wants Al to pull a "Panama"] What's a Panama?::Al Giordino: It's a Navy thing.::Rudi Gunn: I didn't know you were in Panama.::Al Giordino: We weren't in Panama, we were in Nicaragua.::Rudi Gunn: So why do you call it a Panama?::Al Giordino: Because we thought we were in Panama!
Al Giordino: [after going outside and being shot at] Next time, *you* go!::Dirk Pitt: What the hell took you so long?::Al Giordino: What? I stopped for coffee.::Dirk Pitt: Get a receipt?::Al Giordino: Yeah, I got a receipt, and I got you one, too!::Dirk Pitt: You're the best, Al!::Al Giordino: You know what? I'll even get you the money from Sandecker!
[two of Zatib's gunboats have just intercepted the NUMA team]::Dirk Pitt: I'm sorry, I don't speak English.::Gunboat Officer: You are speaking English right now.::Dirk Pitt: No, I only know how to say, "I don't speak English" in English.
Dirk Pitt: Hey, Al. Do remember that time when we were in Morocco?::Al Giordino: Ya, when you made me ride that damn camel, that bit my ass.::Dirk Pitt: Yeah, that's the time.::Al Giordino: [pauses, confused] Why?
Rudi Gunn: [answers the phone] Uh... Hello, Admiral, you still there? I shot a guy with a flare gun.::Admiral James Sandecker: [on the phone] What? You shot a guy with a flare gun? Who?::[no answer]
Admiral James Sandecker: [sees Rudi on a couch] Rudi?::Rudi Gunn: [sits up] Admiral, I have news about your boat. Boom.::[makes a hand gesture that implies blowing up]
Al Giordino: Man, the Admiral's gonna be mad when he hears you lost his satellite phone.::Dirk Pitt: Not as mad as when Rudi tells him it was attached to the boat.
Al Giordino: Hi! How are ya?
Admiral James Sandecker: [after his boat has been shot up] [over the phone] Don't you hurt my boat.
Rudi Gunn: [after they pulled a Panama] Is that how it worked the first time?::Dirk Pitt: Well, it didn't really work the first time.
An imam (Arabic: إمام, plural: أئمة A'immah; Persian: امام) is an Islamic leadership position, often the worship leader of a mosque and the Muslim community. Similar to spiritual leaders, the imam is the one who leads Islamic worship services. More often, the community turns to the mosque imam if they have a religious question. In smaller communities, an imam could also be the community leader however most Imams are there for religious guidance.
The Sunni branch of Islam does not have imams in the same sense as the Shi'a. In every day terms, the imam for Sunni Muslims is the one who leads congregational Islamic worship and prayers, and the Friday sermon is most often given by an appointed imam.
The term is also used:
for a recognized religious scholar or authority in Islam, often for the founding scholars of the four Sunni madhhabs, or schools of jurisprudence (fiqh). It may also refer to the Muslim scholars who created the analytical sciences related to Hadith or it may refer to the heads of the Prophet Muhammad's family in their generational times.
Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (r. 909-934) (Arabic: عبد الله بن الحسين بن أحمد بن عبد الله بن محمد بن اسماعيل بن جعفر المهدي), often referred to as Ubayd Allah, is the founder of the Fatimid dynasty, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islam, and established Fatimid rule throughout much of North Africa.
At the beginning of the Abbasid realm in Baghdad, the Alids faced severe persecution by the ruling party as they were a direct threat to the Abbasid Caliphate. Owing to the political complexities, the forefathers of Imam Abdullah opted to conceal themselves which helped them secure the Dawa's existence. Subsequently, these Imams traveled long and far towards the Iranian Plateau and distanced themselves from the epicenter of the political scenario. Al Mahdi's father, Imam al Husain al Mastoor returned in secrecy to Syria and began to control the Dawa's affairs from there in complete concealment. He sent two Dai's of great calibre, abul Qasim and Abu 'Abdullah Al-Husayn Al-Shi'i to Yemen and Western Africa respectively to build the foundation for what was to be the Fatimid Caliphate.
Anjem Choudary (Urdu: انجم چودری; born 1967 in England) is a British former solicitor, and, before it was proscribed, spokesman for the Islamist group Islam4UK. He is married, has four children, and lives in Ilford, London.
Choudary studied medicine at the University of Southampton before switching to law. He became a solicitor, and chairman of the Society of Muslim Lawyers. He later met Omar Bakri Muhammad, and the two helped form the Islamist organisation, al-Muhajiroun. The group organised several anti-Western demonstrations, including a banned protest march in London for which Choudary was summoned to appear in court. Al-Muhajiroun was a controversial organisation, which was later disbanded following the UK government's decision to ban it. Choudary was present at the launch of its intended successor, Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah, and later helped form Al Ghurabaa, which was also banned, before he became the spokesman for Islam4UK.
Choudary is a vocal critic of the UK's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has praised the terrorists involved in the attacks of 11 September 2001, and 7 July 2005. He believes in the implementation of Sharia Law throughout the UK, and marched in protest at the Jyllands-Posten cartoons controversy, following which he was prosecuted for organising an unlawful demonstration. He was also investigated, but not charged, for his 2006 comments regarding Pope Benedict XVI. Choudary receives little support from the mainstream UK Muslim population and has been largely criticised in the media.
Abu Zakaria Mohiuddin Yahya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (1234–1278) (Arabic: أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي), popularly known as al-Nawawi, an-Nawawi or Imam Nawawi (631–676 A.H. / 1234–1278 CE), was a Sunni Muslim author on Fiqh and hadith. His position on legal matters is considered the authoritative one in the Shafi'i Madhhab. He was born at Nawa near Damascus, Syria. As with many Arabic and Semitic names, the last part of his name refers to his hometown.
He studied in Damascus from the age of 18 and after making the pilgrimage in 1253 he settled there as a private scholar. From a young age he showed signs of great intelligence, and so his father paid for a good education. As a judge, he was much sought after for advice and adjudication of disputes.
During his life of 45 years he wrote many books on Islamic studies and other topics. He collected and sourced 40 hadith of the Islamic prophet, Mohammed back to one of his companions.
In 1267 he succeeded Abu Shama as professor of hadith at the Ashrafiyya [school] in the city. He died at Nawa at a relatively young age, having never married.