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  • Krishna repaid the debt of love during "Vastra haran"removing of clothes forcefully of Draupadi.

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

  • Now, what's happening with this system is, on the north and west side we're getting a lot of that haran dust (ph) coming in, so that limits development of this system.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008 2008

  • Greater Market Access all sub-S.haran African countries eligible for the U.S. Generalized S.stem of Preferences program (GS.) will be able to avail themselves of several of the Partnership's programs; additional support will be provided to countries pursuing aggressive, growth-oriented economic reforms; further substantially enhanced access to the U.S. markets for products from Africa's strongest reformers will be granted through rapid passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which the President supports.

    Fact Sheet On Ron Brown Commercial Center ITY National Archives 1998

  • Heb. haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the Accadian charana, meaning "a road."

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • His sisters were Milcah the wife of Nahor, and Iscah, by some identified with Sarah. haran died before the emigration of Terah and his family from Ur of the Chaldees, ver. 28, and Lot was therefore born there.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • Jordan taken and built by the tribe of Gad (Numbers 32: 36) and described as being in the valley beside Beth-haran.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • _Nuthurini-haran_ in some parts of Bengal; _Weel-mooha_, Singhalese (_Kellaart_).

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • _Mugi_ in Central India; _Turi-maoo_, Gondi; _Jitri-haran_,

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

  • Yo quiero que toda immundicia suya, y de todos sus hijos, en saliendo de sus cuerpos entre por tu boca, porque en verdad ellos haran penitencia, y tu quedaras harto de immundicia.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

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