Friday, August 24, 2012

Spartan Gold: the Ayatollah and more

pg 266

"It turns out the Iranian Pasadaran Colonel who was Bondaruk's handler during the border war ran into some trouble with the Ayatollah a few years later."
Ayatollah (āyatu allah "Sign of the god") is a high ranking title given to Usuli Twelver Shī‘ah clerics. Those who carry the title are experts in Islamic studies such as jurisprudence, ethics, and philosophy and usually teach in Islamic seminaries.[citation needed] The next lower clerical rank is Hojatoleslam wal-muslemin.
 Sam pulled their rented Opel coupe off the dirt road.
Adam Opel AG (Opel) is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862. Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an Aktiengesellschaft in 1929. The company is headquartered in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany. It became a majority-stake subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation in 1929 and has been a wholly owned subsidiary since 1931. Their models have been rebadged and sold in other countries and continents, such as Vauxhall in the UK, Holden in Asia and Australia and, previously, Saturn in the US and Canada. Following the demise of General Motors Corporation's Saturn division in North America, Opel cars are currently rebadged and sold in the US, Canada, and China under the Buick name with models such as the Opel Insignia/Buick Regal, Opel Astra sedan/Buick Verano, and Opel Mokka/Buick Encore.
In 2010, Opel announced that it will invest around 11 billion in the next five years. One billion of that is designated solely for the development of innovative and fuel-saving engines and transmissions.
Directly below them the pallisades of Cape Fiolent plunged directly into the blue-green water.
There is a Cape Fiolent, but while it is mentioned in Wikipedia it does not have its own entry.

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