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Eva Kingdom-New/Back to woods/Sleep 14 people in Kissimmee
- bedrooms 4
- baths 3
- sleeps 14
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type House
- community Emerald Island Resort
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 750 - $ 1,350 / week
$ 2,400 - $ 3,600 / month
Kissimmee House deals
stays between: 4/10/14 & 4/13/14
deal expires in: 13 days
Fill in gap April 10-13 and May 3-7
Fill in gap Please contact owner ASAP!
- $160 $140/night ($20 off)
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vacation rental description
Eva Kingdom (built in 2006) is situated in the famous gated community-Emerald Island, 3 miles to Disney. Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and Sea World are all close by. John F Kennedy Space Center and Florida's Space Coast beach area is about a one hour drive. Convenience is what is all about.Location and privacy sets this vacation home apart from the rest. Backing up to a WOODS/conservation area. Both the pool and spa can be optionally heated. Spa uses gas heater. Pool uses electronic heater.With 1,960 square feet of space (extra living room) our home is large enough to accommodate up to 14 guests with same price as 4 bedrooms house. All bedrooms have laminate floor.
property availability
Last modified on 03-9-2014 at 11:40 AM.
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Yan Qin 1-847-651-5256
house rental amenities
Property Amenities
• All linen and towels • Air conditioning
• Hair Dryer • Ceiling fans
• Washer & Dryer • Iron & board
• Clock/Radios
Beds (Sleeps 10)
• 1 King Bed • 2 Twin Beds in the Prince Sports Room
• 2 Sleeper Sofas • 1 Queen Bed
• 1 full bed • 2 Bunk Beds
• 59'' TV in family room(1) • TV in each bedroom (4)
• DVD • Play station
• Air Hockey • Pool Table
• Private Pool (Electric Heater) and Spa(Gas Heater)
• Child pool safety fence
• Screened Lanai • BBQ Gas Grill (optional for rent)
• Free National Call • Free Broadband Internet
• WiFi (Wireless Internet)
Baby Amenities
• Crib • Strollers
• High Chair
• Full Kitchen • Cooking Utensils Provided
• Salt & Peppershakers • Pot Holder
• CORKSCREW • Dishtowels
• Dinnerware/Set of 8-12 • Set of POTS & Pans
• Coffee Maker • Blender
• Wine Glasses • Ice Cooker
• Refrigerator with Ice maker • Microwave
• Stove top burners • Oven
• Toaster • Can Opener
• Blender • Mixing Bowl Set
• Colander • Measuring Spoons
• Knife Set • Baking Sheet
Indoor Activities
• Pool Table • Tennis table
activities and attractions in Kissimmee Central Florida
Restaurants and Shops: : There are countless restaurants, grocery stores and souvenir/gift shops within 1 to 3 miles of Indian Creek. Just 1 mile down the road on Formosa Gardens Blvd. at Highway 192 you will find an Outback Steak House, Red Lobster, Giordano's Chicago Pizza restaurant, Carabba's Italian Grill, Cracker Barrel, TGI Friday's, Taste of China, Golden Corral, Waffle House, Wild Side BBQ, Subway, Taco Bell, McDonald's, Winn-Dixie Food Store and Walgreens. Another mile further out there's Olive Garden, Denny's, Shoney's, Ponderosa Steak House, Sizzler, Publix Supermarket and much more. A Super Target is 3 miles away and Super Walmart 5 miles away.
All the Comforts of Home: 2 master en-suite Bedrooms one with a King sized bed the other with a Queen. Two masters have TV each. The other two bedrooms feature one full and 2 bunk beds shared full bathroom. 2 sleep sofas are individually located at living room and family room. Flat level layout is convenient for age 55+ and families with young children. Complete with a fully equipped kitchen and plenty of space for you and your guests, you can relax and spend your vacation unwinding from your normally busy schedule. With comfortable and luxury furnishings, towels and linens provided, and central air conditioning, you don't have to worry about any of the details.Enjoy sitting on the patio furniture under the covered lanai or on the sunny pool deck to view forest. Both the pool and spa can be optionally heated.The Lanai is fully screened to keep the bugs out while allowing the sunshine to come in. The pool deck comes complete with cushioned lounge chairs, tables and other pool furniture. All pool towels are provided
Golf: There are several Championship golf courses within a few miles of our home (only five minutes to Mystic Dunes, Reunion and Champions Gate). The Reunion Golf Course is 36 holes and was designed by Jack Nicholas, Tom Watson and Arnold Palmer. This course made 'Golf Weeks' list of best top 40 new golf courses in the country. You may enjoy the Lake Buena Vista Golf Course, Orange Lake Country Club Golf Course, and the Osprey Ridge Golf Course on the Disney grounds.
The Emerald Island Resort is manned and secured 24 hours a day has many community amenities. The entrance has the appearance of a five star resort with many large porpoise/dolphin statues and water fountains! The clubhouse has a gym facility, cyber café, game room, WIFI access, and concierge service. Just outside the clubhouse is a pool area with spa and cabana, sand volleyball court, barbeque picnic area, and a tot lot overlooking an expansive lawn and conservation area. Nearby are ponds with water fountains, hiking paths/nature trails, tennis and basketball.The community is centrally located (about 3 miles to Disney) and minutes from popular US192, shopping, dining, and attractions. A shuttle service to the area's attractions is available to guests for a nominal fee.
Hours: 8am to 10pm Daily
The place to meet our caring and attentive concierge team, headed by Superior Concierge. The staff are on hand to assist owners and guests with any problems or questions they may have ensuring that their stay at Emerald Island Resort is a happy and memorable one.
After registering your vehicle and obtaining your parking permit, enjoy a cup of tea or coffee while you plan your park days. The staff can assist with dinner show and restaurant reservations as well as discounted tickets for the major theme parks. Don't forget to ask for current deals on local golf courses.
Community Pool
Heated pool and spa.
Tiki Bar with snacks and sodas.
No life guard on duty.
All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Tiki Bar
Cold Beer and wine available from the licensed Tiki bar.
A selection of hot and cold snacks. Cold Sodas from the soda fountain and popsicles for the kids.
Exercise Room
The place to work on those Abs, Pecs and Quads. Build up your stamina before venturing into the theme parks. You're going to need it.
Games Arcade
Electronic games arcade style. Games require tokens that can be obtained from the change machine in the room.
Gathering Room
Meet those new found friends and discuss plans for the day or enjoy a complimentary cup of tea or coffee. Want to watch the game on a big screen? Then this is the place. Bring your laptop and surf the net via the open WiFi service available here. On weekends enjoy a complimentary Continental breakfast or a bagel. Hey how about a donut and coffee?
Internet Cafe
Can't tear yourself away from the information superhighway? Then get along to the clubhouse and surf the net, pick up those important emails and generally reflect on what you are doing on a computer when you could be out soaking up those rays or enjoying Emerald Island and Florida and all they have to offer.
Nature Walk
11 acres of natural woodland with a concrete pavement winding through it. A place of solitude and quiet, a place to reflect on the wonders of nature, away from the general bustle of today's busy lifestyle.
Tennis Courts
Location: To the left of the entrance from Funnie Steed Rd
Costs: Charge for racquets hire and balls
For those budding MacEnroes and Nastasi's, here is the place to enjoy a game of tennis. Two full size floodlit courts await you.
Equipment is available for hire at the clubhouse, for a small charge. Who knows next time it could be Flushing Meadows or the Stella Artois or even Wimbledon!
Tot Lot Central
Location: Junction of La Isla Drive and Lido Key Drive
Climb, swing and play to their heart's content. This tot lot area is ideal for those kids and families based at the West side of the community.
Tot Lots Clubhouse
Location: Clubhouse
Give the toddlers a treat and those that didn't reach the height restrictions in the parks. Not quite the Hulk or Dueling Dragons, but with a child's imagination these items can be anything they want.
vacation rental rates
Peak Season: Jul, Aug, Easter, Thanksgiving, Dec 14-31 ........ $1050-$1350/week.
LOW Season: $800-$850/week.
MID Season: $850-$950/week.
High Serson: $950-1050/week.
$300 deposit is required to make reservation. Pool heat available at $25/nt. Spa heat available at $15/nt.
Rates do not include 13% tax and a Cleaning fee of $90 if stay< 7 nights
BBQ grill is available for rent.
Yan Qin 1-847-651-5256
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.
Learn more in our Security CenterTop things to do in Kissimmee
- Walt Disney World
- Don't miss the fresh seafood at our restaurants
- Play a round of golf
- Belz shopping outlet
- Hang out at the beach
Top things to do on a budget
- Soak up the sun at the pool
- Grill on the patio
- Game Room
- Watch TV with 200+ channels
- Emerald Island Clubhouse, play ground and tennis court
Top things to do with a family
- Walt Disney World
- Emerald Island Clubhouse, playground and Tennis Court
- Play in the private swimming pool
- Watch movie
- Great Restaurant
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Art Poster Contest
Our 26th Annual HV Hot Air Balloon Festival and Fair (HABF) will take place this year at UNITY PARK, right in the midst of Highland Village. To promote the theme: UNITY "past to the future", we invited students to participate in the art contest that will provide HVLC with the art work for FIVE different posters that will appear in all types of businesses in the area. See the winners..
Lions Foundation
The Highland Village Lions Foundation is a nonprofit corporation registered with the State of Texas. It recognized of exemption from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Foundation will be considered as deductible charitable contributions. See the list of the locations that we will be screening over the next school calendar year.
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Seattle police publicize crimes on Twitter with 'Tweets-by-beat'
In a new initiative, city authorities get techie and transform run-of-the-mill police blotters into 140-character crime blasts via the social network.
Seattle residents now have the option of following the local police department on Twitter. In a first-of-a-kind program, the city's authorities are launching a new initiative that involves cops translating the news they get on the streets to tweets.
Dubbed "Tweets-by-beat," this program attempts to replace the police blotter that normally runs in local papers with a tech version of basically the same thing, according to the New York Times. When residents follow the department on the social network, they'll get routine tweets of the up-to-the-moment crime happenings in their neighborhoods.
"Liquor violation -- intoxicated person," read one tweet today. "Accident investigation at 5 Ave/James St," read another.
Fifty-one neighborhoods are involved with Tweets-by-beat and most all crimes and emergencies happening in these areas are broadcast on Twitter. According to the New York Times, the only crimes excluded are those that deal with sexual assault and domestic violence. While the tweets are timely, they are still posted one hour after police learn of the crime to avoid onlookers and gawkers.
"More and more people want to know what's going on on their piece of the rock," Seattle chief of police John Diaz told the New York Times. "They want to specifically know what's going on in the areas around their home, around their work, where their children might be going to school. This is just a different way we could put out as much information as possible as quickly as possible."
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Pre-Islamic Arabia
Pre-Islamic Arabia (in a non-Islamic sense) refers to the Arabic civilization that existed in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam in the 630s. The study of Pre-Islamic Arabia (in a non-Islamic sense) is important to Islamic studies as it provides the context for the development of Islam, in the days of Muhammad, the seal of Prophets in Islam.
- 1 Studies
- 2 Prehistoric to Iron Age
- 3 South Arabian kingdoms
- 3.1 Kingdom of Ma'īn (7th century BCE – 1st century BCE)
- 3.2 Kingdom of Saba (9th century BCE – 275 CE)
- 3.3 Kingdom of Hadhramaut (8th century BCE – 3rd century CE)
- 3.4 Kingdom of Awsān (8th century BCE – 6th century BCE)
- 3.5 Kingdom of Qataban (4th century BCE – 3rd century CE)
- 3.6 Kingdom of Himyar (2nd century BCE – 525 CE)
- 4 North Arabian Kingdoms
- 5 Bedouin tribes
- 6 Genealogy
- 7 Religion
- 8 Late Antiquity
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 Further reading
Scientific studies of Pre-Islamic Arabs starts with the Arabists of the early 19th century when they managed to decipher epigraphic Old South Arabian (10th century BCE), Ancient North Arabian (6th century BCE) and other writings of pre-Islamic Arabia. Thus, studies are no longer limited to the written traditions, which are not local due to the lack of surviving Arab historians' accounts of that era; the paucity of material is compensated for by written sources from other cultures (such as Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc.), so it was not known in great detail. From the 3rd century CE, Arabian history becomes more tangible with the rise of the Ḥimyarite, and with the appearance of the Qaḥṭānitess in the Levant and the gradual assimilation of the Nabataeans by the Qaḥṭānites in the early centuries CE, a pattern of expansion exceeded in the explosive Muslim conquests of the 7th century. Sources of history include archaeological evidence, foreign accounts and oral traditions later recorded by Islamic scholars—especially in the pre-Islamic poems—and the Ḥadīth, plus a number of ancient Arab documents that survived into medieval times when portions of them were cited or recorded. Archaeological exploration in the Arabian Peninsula has been sparse but fruitful; and many ancient sites have been identified by modern excavations.
Prehistoric to Iron Age[edit]
- Ubaid period (5300 BCE) - could have originated in eastern Arabia.
- Umm an-Nar Culture (2600–2000 BCE)
- Sabr culture (2000 BCE)
Magan, Midian, and 'ad[edit]
- Magan is attested as the name of a trading partner of the Sumerians. It is often assumed to have been located in Oman.
- The A'adids established themselves in South Arabia (modern-day Yemen), settling to the east of the Qahtan tribe.[citation needed] They established the Kingdom of ʿĀd around the 10th century BCE to the 3rd century CE.
The ʿĀd nation were known to the Greeks and Egyptians. Claudius Ptolemy's Geographos (2nd century CE) refers to the place by a Hellenized version of the inhabitants of the capital Ubar.
Archaeological evidence suggests that the biblical Midianites were originally a tribe of nomads that came from NW Saudi Arabia before expanding into Jordan and parts of the Arabah valley in Southern Israel. [1][2]
This article possibly contains original research. (November 2010) |
The Thamud (Arabic: ثمود) were a people of ancient Arabia, either a tribe or a group of tribes, that created a large kingdom and flourished from 3000 BCE to 200 BCE.[citation needed] Recent archaeological work has revealed numerous Thamudic rock writings and pictures not only in Yemen but also throughout central Arabia.
They are mentioned in sources such as the Qur'an, old Arabian poetry, Assyrian annals (Tamudi), in a Greek temple inscription from the northwest Hejaz of 169 CE, in a 5th-century Byzantine source and in Old North Arabian graffiti around Tayma.
They are mentioned in the victory annals of the Neo-Assyrian King, Sargon II (8th century BCE), who defeated these people in a campaign in northern Arabia. The Greeks also refer to these people as "Tamudaei", i.e. "Thamud", in the writings of Aristotle[clarification needed], Ptolemy, and Pliny. Before the rise of Islam, approximately between 400–600 CE, the Thamud totally disappeared.
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South Arabian kingdoms[edit]
Kingdom of Ma'īn (7th century BCE – 1st century BCE)[edit]
During Minaean rule, the capital was at Karna (now known as Sa'dah). Their other important city was Yathill (now known as Baraqish). The Minaean Kingdom was centered in northwestern Yemen, with most of its cities lying along Wādī Madhab. Minaean inscriptions have been found far afield of the Kingdom of Maīin, as far away as al-Ūlā in northwestern Saudi Arabia and even on the island of Delos and Egypt. It was the first of the Yemeni kingdoms to end, and the Minaean language died around 100 CE .[3]
Kingdom of Saba (9th century BCE – 275 CE)[edit]
During Sabaean rule, trade and agriculture flourished, generating much wealth and prosperity. The Sabaean kingdom was located in Yemen, and its capital, Ma'rib, is located near what is now Yemen's modern capital, Sana'a.[4] According to South Arabian tradition, the eldest son of Noah, Shem, founded the city of Ma'rib.
During Sabaean rule, Yemen was called "Arabia Felix" by the Romans, who were impressed by its wealth and prosperity. The Roman emperor Augustus sent a military expedition to conquer the "Arabia Felix", under the command of Aelius Gallus. After an unsuccessful siege of Ma'rib, the Roman general retreated to Egypt, while his fleet destroyed the port of Aden in order to guarantee the Roman merchant route to India.
The success of the kingdom was based on the cultivation and trade of spices and aromatics including frankincense and myrrh. These were exported to the Mediterranean, India, and Abyssinia, where they were greatly prized by many cultures, using camels on routes through Arabia, and to India by sea.
During the 8th and 7th century BCE, there was a close contact of cultures between the Kingdom of Dʿmt in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea and Saba. Though the civilization was indigenous and the royal inscriptions were written in a sort of proto-Ethiosemitic, there were also some Sabaean immigrants in the kingdom as evidenced by a few of the Dʿmt inscriptions.[5][6]
Agriculture in Yemen thrived during this time due to an advanced irrigation system which consisted of large water tunnels in mountains, and dams. The most impressive of these earthworks, known as the Marib Dam, was built ca. 700 BCE and provided irrigation for about 25,000 acres (101 km2) of land[7] and stood for over a millennium, finally collapsing in 570 CE after centuries of neglect.
Kingdom of Hadhramaut (8th century BCE – 3rd century CE)[edit]
The first known inscriptions of Hadramaut are known from the 8th century BCE. It was first referenced by an outside civilization in an Old Sabaic inscription of Karab'il Watar from the early 7th century BCE, in which the King of Hadramaut, Yada`'il, is mentioned as being one of his allies. When the Minaeans took control of the caravan routes in the 4th century BCE, however, Hadramaut became one of its confederates, probably because of commercial interests. It later became independent and was invaded by the growing Yemeni kingdom of Himyar toward the end of the 1st century BCE, but it was able to repel the attack. Hadramaut annexed Qataban in the second half of the 2nd century CE, reaching its greatest size. The kingdom of Hadramaut was eventually conquered by the Himyarite king Shammar Yahri'sh around 300 CE, unifying all of the South Arabian kingdoms.[8]
Kingdom of Awsān (8th century BCE – 6th century BCE)[edit]
The ancient Kingdom of Awsān in South Arabia (modern Yemen), with a capital at Ḥagar Yaḥirr in the wadi Markhah, to the south of the Wādī Bayḥān, is now marked by a tell or artificial mound, which is locally named Ḥajar Asfal.
Kingdom of Qataban (4th century BCE – 3rd century CE)[edit]
Qataban was one of the ancient Yemeni kingdoms which thrived in the Beihan valley. Like the other Southern Arabian kingdoms, it gained great wealth from the trade of frankincense and myrrh incense, which were burned at altars. The capital of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through the other kingdoms of Hadramaut, Saba and Ma'in. The chief deity of the Qatabanians was Amm, or "Uncle" and the people called themselves the "children of Amm".
Kingdom of Himyar (2nd century BCE – 525 CE)[edit]
The Himyarites rebelled against Qataban and eventually united Southwestern Arabia, controlling the Red Sea as well as the coasts of the Gulf of Aden. From their capital city, Zafar (Thifar), the Himyarite kings launched successful military campaigns, and had stretched its domain at times as far east to the Persian Gulf and as far north to the Arabian Desert.
During the 3rd century CE, the South Arabian kingdoms were in continuous conflict with one another. Gadarat (GDRT) of Axum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs, signing an alliance with Saba, and a Himyarite text notes that Hadramaut and Qataban were also all allied against the kingdom. As a result of this, the Aksumite Empire was able to capture the Himyarite capital of Thifar in the first quarter of the 3rd century. However, the alliances did not last, and Sha`ir Awtar of Saba unexpectedly turned on Hadramaut, allying again with Aksum and taking its capital in 225. Himyar then allied with Saba and invaded the newly taken Aksumite territories, retaking Thifar, which had been under the control of Gadarat's son Beygat, and pushing Aksum back into the Tihama.[9][10]
Aksumite occupation of Yemen (525 – 570 CE)[edit]
The Aksumite intervention is connected with Dhu Nuwas, a Himyarite king who changed the state religion to Judaism and began to persecute the Christians in Yemen. Outraged, Kaleb, the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Emperor Justin I invaded and annexed Yemen. The Aksumites controlled Himyar and attempted to invade Mecca in the year 570 CE. Eastern Yemen remained allied to the Sassanids via tribal alliances with the Lakhmids, which later brought the Sassanid army into Yemen, ending the Aksumite period.
Sassanid period (570 – 630 CE)[edit]
The Persian king Khosrau I sent troops under the command of Vahriz (Persian: اسپهبد وهرز), who helped the semi-legendary Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan to drive the Ethiopian Aksumites out of Yemen. Southern Arabia became a Persian dominion under a Yemenite vassal and thus came within the sphere of influence of the Sassanid Empire. After the demise of the Lakhmids, another army was sent to Yemen, making it a province of the Sassanid Empire under a Persian satrap. Following the death of Khosrau II in 628, the Persian governor in Southern Arabia, Badhan, converted to Islam and Yemen followed the new religion.
North Arabian Kingdoms[edit]
Kingdom of Qedar (8th century BCE – ?)[edit]
The most organized of the Northern Arabian tribes, at the height of their rule in the 6th century BCE, the Kingdom of Qedar spanned a large area between the Persian Gulf and the Sinai.[11] An influential force between the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, Qedarite monarchs are first mentioned in inscriptions from the Assyrian Empire. Some early Qedarite rulers were vassals of that empire, with revolts against Assyria becoming more common in the 7th century BCE. It is thought that the Qedarites were eventually subsumed into the Nabataean state after their rise to prominence in the 2nd century CE.
The Achaemenids in Northern Arabia[edit]
Achaemenid Arabia corresponded to the lands between Egypt and Mesopotamia, later known as Arabia Petraea. According to Herodotus, Cambyses did not subdue the Arabs when he attacked Egypt in 525 BCE. His successor Darius the Great does not mention the Arabs in the Behistun Inscription from the first years of his reign, but mentions them in later texts. This suggests that Darius conquered this part of Arabia.[12][13]
The Nabataeans are not to be found among the tribes that are listed in Arab genealogies because the Nabatean kingdom ended a long time before the coming of Islam. They settled east of the Syro-African rift between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea, that is, in the land that had once been Edom. And although the first sure reference to them dates from 312 BCE, it is possible that they were present much earlier.
Petra (from the Latin petrae, meaning 'of rock') lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, east of Wadi `Araba in Jordan about 80 km (50 mi) south of the Dead Sea. It came into prominence in the late 1st century BCE through the success of the spice trade. The city was the principal city of ancient Nabataea and was famous above all for two things: its trade and its hydraulic engineering systems. It was locally autonomous until the reign of Trajan, but it flourished under Roman rule. The town grew up around its Colonnaded Street in the 1st century and by the middle of the 1st century had witnessed rapid urbanization. The quarries were probably opened in this period, and there followed virtually continuous building through the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.
Palmyra and Roman Arabia[edit]
There is evidence of Roman rule in northern Arabia dating to the reign of Caesar Augustus (27 BCE – 14 CE). During the reign of Tiberius (14–37 CE), the already wealthy and elegant north Arabian city of Palmyra, located along the caravan routes linking Persia with the Mediterranean ports of Roman Syria and Phoenicia, was made part of the Roman province of Syria. The area steadily grew further in importance as a trade route linking Persia, India, China, and the Roman Empire. During the following period of great prosperity, the Arab citizens of Palmyra adopted customs and modes of dress from both the Iranian Parthian world to the east and the Graeco-Roman west. In 129, Hadrian visited the city and was so enthralled by it that he proclaimed it a free city and renamed it Palmyra Hadriana.
The Roman province of Arabia Petraea was created at the beginning of the 2nd century by emperor Trajan. It was centered on Petra, but included even areas of northern Arabia under Nabatean control.
Recently has been discovered evidence that Roman legions occupied Mada'in Saleh in the Hijaz mountains area of northwestern Arabia, increasing the extension of the "Arabia Petraea" province.[14]
The desert frontier of Arabia Petraea was called by the Romans the Limes Arabicus. As a frontier province, it included a desert area of northeastern Arabia populated by the nomadic Saraceni.
In Sassanid times, Arabia Petraea was a border province between the Roman and Persian empires, and from the early centuries CE was increasingly affected by South Arabian influence, notably with the Ghassanids migrating north from the 3rd century.
The Ghassanids, Lakhmids and Kindites were the last major migration of non-Muslims out of Yemen to the north and southwestern borders.
- The Ghassanids revived the Semitic presence in the then Hellenized Syria. They mainly settled the Hauran region and spread to modern Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan. The Ghassanids held Syria until engulfed by the expansion of Islam.
Greeks and Romans referred to all the nomadic population of the desert in the Near East as Arabi. The Greeks called Yemen "Arabia Felix" (Happy Arabia). The Romans called the vassal nomadic states within the Roman Empire "Arabia Petraea" after the city of Petra, and called unconquered deserts bordering the empire to the south and east Arabia Magna (Larger Arabia).
- The Lakhmids settled the mid Tigris region around their capital Al-Hirah they ended up allying with the Sassanid against the Ghassanids and the Byzantine Empire. The Lakhmids contested control of the central Arabian tribes with the Kindites, eventually destroying Kindah in 540 after the fall of Kindah's main ally at the time, Himyar. The Sassanids dissolved the Lakhmid kingdom in 602.
- The Kindites migrated from Yemen along with the Ghassanids and Lakhmids, but were turned back in Bahrain by the Abdul Qais Rabi'a tribe. They returned to Yemen and allied themselves with the Himyarites who installed them as a vassal kingdom that ruled Central Arabia from Qaryah dhat Kahl (the present-day Qaryat al-Fāw) in Central Arabia. They ruled much of the Northern/Central Arabian Peninsula until the fall of the Himyarites in 525 CE.
Bedouin tribes[edit]
Consisted of major clans and the tribes were nomadic. The lineage followed through males, since the tribes were named after the males ancestors.
Much of the information available relating to the early lineages of the predominantly desert-dwelling Bedouin Arabs is based on biblical genealogy. The general consensus among 14th-century Arabic genealogists was that Arabs are of three kinds:
- "Perishing Arabs": These are the ancients of whose history little is known. They include ʿĀd, Thamud, Tasm, Jadis, Imlaq and others. Jadis and Tasm perished because of genocide. ʿĀd and Thamud perished because of their decadence. Some people in the past doubted their existence, but Imlaq is the singular form of 'Amaleeq and is probably synonymous to the biblical Amalek.
- "Pure Arabs": They allegedly originated from the progeny of Ya'rub bin Yashjub bin Qahtan so were also called Qahtanite Arabs.
- "Arabized Arabs": They allegedly originated from the progeny of Ishmael (Ismā'īl), son of the biblical patriarch and Islamic prophet, Abraham (Ibrāhīm), and were also called Adnan[citation needed].
The several different Bedouin tribes throughout Arabian history are traditionally regarded as having emerged from two main branches: the Rabi`ah, from which amongst others the Banu Hanifa emerged, and the Mudhar, from which amongst others the Banu Kinanah (and later Muhammad's own tribe, the Quraysh) emerged.
There are some materials on which to base a description of pre-Islamic religion, particularly in Mecca and the Hejaz. The book originally compiled by Ibn Ishaq around 740 A.D "The biography of the Prophet" passed on through notable transmitter Ibn Hisham translated by A. Guillaume 1st edition in 1955 gives an insight into the conditions pervailing in Mecca around Prophet's time. The Qur'an and the hadith, or recorded oral traditions, give some hints as to this religion. Islamic commentators have elaborated these hints into an account that, while coherent, is doubted by academics in part or in whole.
Many of the tribes in Arabia had practiced Judaism. Christianity is known to have been active in the region before the rise of Islam, especially unorthodox, possibly gnostic forms of it.[15]
Late Antiquity[edit]
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The early 7th century in Arabia began with the longest and most destructive period of the Byzantine–Sassanid Wars. It left both empires exhausted and susceptible to third-party attacks, particularly from nomadic Arabs united under a newly formed religion. According to historian George Liska, the "unnecessarily prolonged Byzantine–Persian conflict opened the way for Islam" [16]
Fall of the Empires[edit]
Before the Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628, the Plague of Justinian erupted, spreading through Persia and into Byzantine territory. Procopius; Constantinople's local historian that lived to witness the plague, documented that citizens were dying at a rate of 10,000 per day.[17] The exact number; however, is often disputed by contemporary historians. Both empires were permanently weakened by the pandemic as their citizens struggled to deal with death as well as heavy taxation, which increased as both empires campaigned for more territory.
Despite almost succumbing to the plague, Byzantine emperor Justinian I attempted to resurrect the might of the Roman Empire by expanding into Arabia. The Arabian Peninsula had a long coastline for merchant ships and an area of lush vegetation known as the Fertile Crescent which could help fund his expansion into Europe and North Africa. The drive into Persian territory would also put an end to tribute payments to the Sasanians, which resulted in an agreement to give 11,000 lb (5,000 kg) of tribute to the Persians annually in exchange for a ceasefire.[18]
However, Justinian could not afford further losses in Arabia. The Byzantines and the Sasanians sponsored powerful nomadic mercenaries from the desert with enough power to trump the possibility of aggression in Arabia. Justinian viewed his mercenaries as so valued for preventing conflict that he awarded their chief with the titles of patrician, phylarch, and king – the highest honours that he could bestow on anyone.[19] By the late 6th century, an uneasy peace remained until disagreements erupted between the mercenaries and their client empires.
The Byzantines' ally was a Christian Arabic tribe from the frontiers of the desert known as the Ghassanids. The Sasanians' ally; the Lakhmids, were also Christian Arabs, but from what is now Iraq. However, denominational disagreements about God forced a schism in the alliances. The Byzantines' official religion was Orthodox Christianity, which believed that Jesus Christ and God were two natures within one entity.[20] The Ghassanids were Monophysite Christians from Iraq, who believed that God and Jesus Christ were only one nature.[21] This disagreement was unforgivable and resulted in a permanent break in the alliance.
Meanwhile, the Sassanid Empire broke their alliance with the Lakhmids due to false accusations that the Lakhmid's leader committed treason and the Lakhmid kingdom was destroyed.[22] The fertile lands and important trade routes of Iraq were now open ground for upheaval.
Rise of Islam[edit]
When the stalemate was finally broken and it seemed like Byzantium had finally gained the upper hand in battle, nomadic Arabs invaded from the desert frontiers bringing with them a new social order that emphasized religious devotion over tribal membership.
By the time the last Byzantine-Sassanid war came to an end in 628, Islam was already united under the power of the religious-politico Caliphate (or leader). The Muslims were able to launch attacks against both empires which resulted in destruction of the Sassanid Empire and the overthrowing of Byzantium's territories in the Levant, the Caucasus, Egypt, Syria and North Africa.[23] Over the following centuries, most of the Byzantine Empire and the entirety of the Sassanid Empire came under Muslim rule.
"Within the lifetime of some of the children who met Muhammad and sat on the Prophet's knees, Arab armies controlled the land mass that extended from the Pyrenees Mountains in Europe to the Indus River valley in South Asia. In less than a century, Arabs had come to rule over an area that spanned five thousand miles."[24]
See also[edit]
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- History of Saudi Arabia
- History of the United Arab Emirates
- Women in Arab societies#Arab women before Islam
- Incense Route
- Arab (etymology)
- History of the Arabic alphabet
- Ancient Near East
- Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam
- Solluba, pre-Semitic inhabitants of Arabia
- ^ http://bibliotecadigital.uca.edu.ar/repositorio/revistas/timna-revisited-egyptian-chronology.pdf
- ^ http://www.pnas.org/content/105/43/16460.full
- ^ Nebes, Norbert. "Epigraphic South Arabian", Encyclopaedia: D-Ha pp. 334; Leonid Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: Ṣayhadic Languages (Epigraphic South Arabian) // Semitic Languages. London: Routledge, 1997, p. 157–183.
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- ^ Munro-Hay, Stuart. Aksum: A Civilization of Late Antiquity, (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), pp. 58.
- ^ Culture of Yemen – History and ethnic relations, Urbanism, architecture, and the use of space
- ^ Müller, Walter W. "Ḥaḍramawt"Encyclopaedia: D-Ha, pp. 965–66.
- ^ Sima, Alexander. "GDR(T)", Encyclopaedia: D-Ha, p. 718–9.
- ^ Munro-Hay, Aksum, p. 72.
- ^ Stearns, Peter N.; Langer, William Leonard (2001), The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged (6th, illustrated ed.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 41, ISBN 978-0-395-65237-4
- ^ Arabia
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- ^ Romans at Madain Salih, in northeastern Arabian peninsula
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- ^ "Bury, John.", "A history of the later Roman empire: from Arcadius to Irene.", "(New York: 1889)", "401"
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- ^ "Egger, Vernon", "Origins" in A History of the Muslim World to 1405: The Making of a Civilization", "(New Jersey: 2005)", "10"
- ^ "Ware, Timothy", "The Orthodox Church", "(New York:1997)", "67 – 69"
- ^ "Bowersock", "Brown", and "Grabar", ""Alphabetical Guide" in Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Post-Classical World", "(Cambridge: 2000)", "469".
- ^ "Singh, Nagendra", "International encyclopaedia of Islamic dynasties", "(India: 2005)", "75"
- ^ "Liska", "1998", "170"
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Further reading[edit]
- Berkey, Jonathan P. (2003), The Formation of Islam, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-58813-3
- Bulliet, Richard W. (1975), The Camel and the Wheel, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-09130-2
- Crone, Patricia (2004) [1987], Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Blackwell Publishing, republished by Gorgias Press, ISBN 1-59333-102-9
- Donner, Fred (1981), The Early Islamic Conquests, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-10182-5
- Hawting, G. R. (1999), The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-65165-3
- Hoyland, Robert G. (2001), Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-19535-5
- Korotayev, Andrey (1995), Ancient Yemen, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-922237-1
- Korotayev, Andrey (1996), Pre-Islamic Yemen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, ISBN 3-447-03679-6
- Yule, Paul Alan (2007), Himyar–Die Spätantike im Jemen/Himyar Late Antique Yemen, Aichwald: Linden, ISBN 978-3-929290-35-6
- Arabia Antica: Portal of Pre-Islamic Arabian Studies, University of Pisa - Dipartimento Civiltà e Forme del Sapere


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As the East Coast braces for Hurricane Sandy, many residents in Connecticut are already anticipating losing power, which caused a run on generators at local hardware stores and fire departments across the state making sure those buying them know how to use them.
At the Mid-state Tractor and Equipment Company in Middletown, customers are grabbing generators off the shelves.
"We try to fill in everyone that buys a generator, how they hook it up. Do they have an electrician or we'll tell them what they can do temporarily," said Jim Dumas of Mid-state Tractor and Equipment Company.
During Snowstorm Alfred, there was "one of the largest outbreaks of carbon monoxide poisoning ever seen in the nation with 143 cases of CO poisoning and five CO-related deaths," according to Connecticut Department of Public Health. Many of the problems were caused by improperly used or ventilated generators.
"Safety is a big topic," said South Fire District Ca pt. Michael Howley.
Middletown's South Fire District crews were called to several calls where people were running their generators inside their garages after Snowstorm Alfred. However, Howley said generators must always be run outside and need to be roughly 25 feet away from your home with the exhaust running away from your windows.
"Anytime you're running a generator, it's a gas engine and you've got to be cognizant of the fumes and where it's going," said Peter Tobey of Middletown Ace Hardware.
Employees at Mid-state Tractor and Equipment Company are also seeing a run of CO detectors. The CO detectors with battery backups should be installed in homes relative to where people sleep.
"It's a hazard you cannot see, you cannot smell, you cannot taste and the symptoms are very much like having a flu, headache nausea, dizziness," Howley said. "If it's at night and you're sleeping, and you don't have a detector, you're not going to know it."
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In the aftermath of Milli Vanilli's lip-synching scandal, in 1990, front men Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan went from international superstars to being known worldwide as frauds. In the eight years that followed, the men attempted to make a comeback, both as a duo and as solo artists, but after a prolonged struggle with addiction, Rob died at the age of 33 from an overdose of alcohol and pills. Watch as Milli Vanilli's vocalists remember the troubled performer and the challenges he had to face.
The pop group Milli Vanilli will most likely remain synonymous with one of the biggest scandals in Grammy history. The two front men, Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, returned the award when it was revealed that they were merely the face of the group and that the voices their fans heard weren't their own. Meanwhile, the actual male leads and female backup singers behind hits like 1989's 'Girl You Know It's True' watched on as their music climbed the charts and then as the controversy dominated the news. Watch as the group members reveal the pressure they faced from the producer to stay quiet. Plus, hear about the emotional toll they endured after receiving no recognition for the group's success.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - What's important to know about the upcoming college football landscape is that the days of unbeaten and maybe even one-loss teams competing for a national title may be finished.
"Everyone seems to be moving down a path where a college schedule resembles much more of a NFL schedule than a college schedule," West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck said. "When I say NFL schedule, I mean pretty much every game is a tough game. Hardly anybody is going to go undefeated anymore."
If the playoff is going to make sense and judge teams evenly, it has to force everyone to play the same number of conference and non-conference games. The prevailing theory, especially with television partners sinking enormous sums of money into contracts with conferences, is to insist on a nine-game conference schedule.
That allows for three non-conference games, and everybody thinks the strength of a non-conference schedule will be weighed heavily by the playoff's selection committee. Schools are filling schedules with big-time competition.
"I think college football is great in October and November," Luck said. "I think there's some stuff in September that needs to be changed."
WVU is making those changes as if it knows they're coming. Over the summer, the Mountaineers have agreed to series with Virginia Tech (officially) and Penn State (unofficially). Luck said conversations with Pitt continue. It's beyond likely the Mountaineers will have years they play two of those three schools, or at least do something similarly bold that wouldn't have been planned in the BCS era.
WVU Coach Dana Holgorsen believes schools will do away with games against FCS teams. He said the Mountaineers want to do that and that their non-conference schedule will feature a game against a regional opponent like the aforementioned teams as part of a brief contract, plus a game at a neutral site for exposure and revenue.
Ideally, that would be against a team from a "power five" conference, but it's not a necessity. The Mountaineers open with Alabama in Atlanta next season, but they also have BYU at FedEx Field in 2016.
"Something is going to happen with East Carolina that's going to make it more attractive for us - something possibly along the lines of a home-and-home with ECU and a neutral site game," Holgorsen said.
That's not yet done, but it's being considered, perhaps with Charlotte as the neutral site. Holgorsen speaks excitedly and openly about other possibilities he'd like to make realities to fit his vision and to position his team for a spot in the playoff.
"I'd be in favor of us and Pitt playing once in Pittsburgh (at Heinz Field) because it's a big venue and because we'd have more people than they would," Holgorsen said. "Us and Penn State in Philadelphia. If you can do a home-and-home, great. If you can't, then do one game in a bigger venue. The home-and-home with (Virginia) Tech was already announced. A home-and-home with Virginia, or a neutral-site game with Virginia in (Washington, D.C.)?"


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WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters Breakingviews) - As appealing as it may be to see America's Big Labor and Big Business lobbies come together, the immigration deal they struck looks a little too clever. The compromise, designed to give Congress a way to allow lesser-skilled foreign workers into the country, is predicated on rules and conditions that may be too expensive and cumbersome to implement.
The headlines look good, of course, as two important groups often at loggerheads spearheaded the plan: the Chamber of Commerce, a mouthpiece for big business; and the AFL-CIO, a huge trade union. One group wants more flexibility to hire lower-skilled foreign workers, while the other wants to protect its members' wages and jobs.
Their solution is to allow companies to hire foreigners on so-called 'W Visas' if there aren't any Americans to fill job openings, while providing safeguards to ensure wages don't fall.
Economic statistics like the unemployment rate and job vacancies would dictate how many W Visas are available. Companies must prove that they exhaustively tried hiring Americans, aren't in the midst of a strike and haven't laid workers off recently. They would also need to ensure that those new workers' wages resemble those of other employees or the industry.
This all makes sense, but creates a pretty high bar for companies wanting to hire W Visa workers. Compliance might be an endurable burden for big corporations, but small businesses - where most U.S. job growth originates - may find the rules too costly, or worry about lawsuits if they miss checking a box.
To track the economic statistics that the W Visa relies on would require the creation of an entirely new Bureau of Immigration and Labor Market Research. Adding another agency to a federal government obsessed with deficit-cutting isn't desirable. Without such specialist statisticians, the foundation beneath the W Visa would be unworkable.
Finally, the program may be too small to have much economic impact. By mid-2019, it would have only provided up to 185,000 visas. That slow trickle, in conjunction with the compliance obstacles and taxpayer cost, could make the W Visa an idea that sounds brilliant to policymakers today, but makes little economic difference in years to come.
- In an effort to reform the U.S. immigration system, congressional leaders turned to two key business groups to compromise on a program for lower-skilled workers. Those groups are the Chamber of Commerce, a lobbying organization that acts on behalf of businesses, and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a large trade union.
- Businesses want more flexibility to hire lower-skilled foreign workers when they cannot find enough domestic workers to fill job openings, while unions worry that this could lead to lower wages and lost American jobs. The solution that the Chamber and AFL-CIO have agreed on would create a new 'W Visa' program.
- The new program would allow for companies to hire lower-skilled foreign workers and put them on the path to citizenship if certain criteria are present. The program would begin as of April 1, 2015 with 20,000 visas available. That number would gradually grow to 75,000 in its fourth year.
- After that time, the number of visas available would rise or fall depending on economic statistics like the unemployment rate and job openings, but would not exceed 200,000 annually. These statistics would be monitored by a new government agency, the Bureau of Immigration and Labor Market Research.
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A therapeutic or parenting technique in which an adult engages in creative play with a child, often including getting down on the floor with the child. adj.
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Autism is believed to involve between ten and fifteen genes. There is currently no in-utero test for autism, as there is for Down syndrome. There is no simple dietary intervention for autism. Every few years, new miracle treatments for autism have been touted-and subsequently discredited. Some parents are proponents of "floortime" (getting down on the floor and playing with the child, letting the child take the lead in playing) and others of having the child swim with dolphins, but no studies on the efficacy of such treatments have been published.
Susan Sheehan, "The autism fight," The New Yorker, December 1, 2003
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"I think many families are much too focused on trying to teach children concrete memory-based things, like their letters or numbers," said Stanley Greenspan, child development expert and author of "Playground Politics" and "The Secure Child."
"Those things are important, but memorizing doesn't teach you to think. Play what we call 'floortime,' which is getting on the floor and being imaginative with your children that is what teaches your child to be creative. It teaches them to think."
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The "Floortime" approach contends that the best way to facilitate communication with a child is to enter their world. For example, if a child is interested in rolling cars back and forth, a parent must get down on the floor with him, begin rolling cars together in patterns and sequences, and then start creating traffic jams and road accidents - creating situations that will generate communication between parent and child. It sounds simple, but in order to be effective, families must devote a tremendous amount of their time and energy into engaging their child and encouraging him to communicate.
Allison Kaplan Sommer, "A Cry for Help," The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2000
Allison Kaplan Sommer, "A Cry for Help," The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2000
Floortime therapy also known as floor play (1989) was invented by child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who remains the technique's most forceful advocate. So associated is this technique with its inventor that many professionals refer to it as Greenspan therapy.
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This is the first CD reissue for Hardwater's highly-rated psychedelic rock album, produced by the legendary David Axelrod (Electric Prunes et al).The LA-based band recorded their sole album for Capitol back in 1968. Hardwater had evolved out of Denver Colorado's premier surf band the Astronauts.Combining elements of psychedelia and ountry rock, they explore the same dusty roads as The Byrds and the Buffalo Springfield. Alongside their original compositions, they seamlessly fitted in interpretations of three tracks written by John Carter and Tim Gilbert of fellow Denver band the Rainy Daze.The complete album from the master tapes for the first time on CD with copious liner notes and a plethora of rare photographs.
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Ratings: 117 | Reviews: 48 | Show All Ratings:
4.03/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On-tap at Stub & Herb's in Minneapolis. I love the concept behind this beer, so when I saw it on tap, I had to try it. Poured into a goblet.
Clear yellow-orange, with the lightest touch of haze. Brought with no head, but some stellar map-like lacing. Quite a nice-looking beer.
Smell is kinda hoppy, kinda malty, and generally hard to pin down. Really nice grassy hops (I rarely say that), buoyed by a lightly sweet malt base. Hard to describe, as there isn't anything that really jumps out, but I like it.
Flavor is warm, slightly sweet, and mildly hoppy. A blend of all things light and good in beer. Finish wavers between light bitterness and slightly sweet. Once again, it's difficult to describe. But it's good.
Medium-bodied with ample carbonation. Long finish, maintaining the tingling feeling on the tongue much longer than I expect it to.
Everything about this beer is difficult to classify, but good. It's a beer of halves - half this, half that, half this other thing, half some of this other thing. Definitely belongs in the boundary-less category of "other strong ale". And it's a good one.
Serving type: on-tap
04-26-2012 21:57:25 | More by zeledonia
3.88/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Had this beer last night, 2011 printed on bottle (a 2012 release?)
The beer pours a relatively clear golden honey yellow, free from any large sediment, and is topped by a fluffy white head. The nose is dominated by honey/grain sweetness with no familiar notes from the adjuncts I thought would have a greater presence (cactus, chilies, oak, etc). The taste drinks like a honey-forward golden strong ale with a touch of bitterness and is once again not highlighting any of the unusual adjuncts. However, the 9.5% alcohol is well hidden within the beer's sweet, medium bodied, effervescent mouthfeel. I was hoping for a pang of heat on the palate from the green chilies or perhaps a suckling dry finish from the honey, but was left disappointed. This bottle was worth a try, but may have been past its prime for easy detection of most of the regionally sourced specialty items.
Serving type: bottle
01-12-2014 19:31:01 | More by ThePorterSorter
3.95/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Bottle shared at GRG1313's tasting.
Bottle # 8037-2011.
Pours a murky orange with a foamy bone head that settles to a partial film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt, citrus fruit, and citrus zest aromas. Taste is much the same with tea and citrus zest flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of hop bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp and medium bodied mouthfeel. Overall, this is a good beer that is tasty and easy to drink.
Serving type: bottle
05-09-2013 00:57:59 | More by UCLABrewN84
3.44/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Thanks to kubrick215 for sharing.
Pours a hazy dark blood orange color with tangerine edges and a 2.5 finger frothy white head that has excellent retention, only slowly fading into a lasting cap. Streaks and chunks of soapy lacing left behind.
Complex aroma with earthy and citrus hops, light fruit, pine needle, alcohol, oak barrel and spicy peppers. Toasted oak at first with hop oils and resinous pine notes. Slight chalky pepper presence with light fruit, citrus zest, pepper, damp wood and bready yeast.
Medium bodied with dry oak and sticky hop bitterness that lingers throughout. Earthy and resinous pine needle flavor with citrus fruit, pale malts, biscuit, caramel, dry oak and a subtle boozy barrel character. Slight dryness but sweet alcohol and fruit notes balance things out. Pepper presence lingers in the finish but isn't noticeable otherwise. Decent but doesn't really stand out other than having a strange combo of flavors.
Serving type: bottle
03-24-2013 01:17:35 | More by corby112
3.5/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
Pours a hazy gold, slightly viscous with a smallish half finger head. Average retention and nearly no lacing.
Honey, sweet light fruit, muscat, apple, canned pear syrup , sticky sweet malt. No much hops in this perhaps a hint of lemon
Sticky malt, rather sweet with pancake batter dough, lots of fruit in this pear, apple sauce, white grape juice, a bit mellow in the finish with slight grass and lemon. Slick finish with a huge amount of booze.
A touch under carbonated, medium heavy body for the color and huge amounts of alcohol, really doesn't do well here.
I like the creativity that went into this beer but alot of the ingredients are under represented, I didn't get much of the oak or the green chilies and this beer is much too heavy for the rice and wheat components to shine. Interesting but really not a very impressive beer overall it would've hurt to have this one at 6% instead of 9.5%
Serving type: bottle
01-22-2013 02:26:54 | More by rawfish
3.98/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured a golden honey color. Smelled of citrus, toffee, malt and booze.
You can definitely taste the citrus as well as the honey and a hint of spice, the alcohol presence is there but not overpowering. Alot of complex other flavors mingling in. Never had anything quite like it before, but I like it! Would definitely buy another bottle.
Serving type: bottle
01-07-2013 19:50:11 | More by Archimedes
District of Columbia
3.53/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Shared by raveskdr. Thanks Chris.
The beer is golden orange hued and mildly hazy with a quarter inch of head. The aroma brings citrus, toffee, malt, booze. A bit sweet with a touch of honey perhaps. Alcohol presence is there throughout. Medium bodied with appropriate carbonation. Overall, I thought this was ok.
Serving type: bottle
11-05-2012 18:59:36 | More by Huhzubendah
4.1/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from 750ml corked and caged bottle into Globe glass.
A. Pours a 4 finger head. Thick lacing. Solid retention. Color is a hazy golden yellow.
S. Yeast, honey, sweet malt, candied fruit, oak, earthiness. Really delicous smelling beer. Really quite a bit of smells going on in the aroma of this beer. Overall a pretty sweet yeasty smelling beer.
T. A vast array of flavors. Sweet and dry malt flavors. You get a full depth of flavor all the way across the tongue, from intial sip to swallow the flavors change. Light fruit, crystal malt, honey, oak, wood, a hint of vanilla. Pretty cool to have a beer that is sweet and dry at the same time.
M. Medium bodied. Meidum carbonation. Finishes pretty dry.
O. Interesting beer. I liked this quite a bit. Its pretty hard to describe all of the individual componets, but the beer as a whole is really good. Interested to see how this one might develop over time.
Serving type: bottle
09-28-2012 00:16:55 | More by siradmiralnelson
3.83/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
A: no head on a golden with brownish hues body.
S: aroma is very light with oak, pineapple, orange and belgian yeast.
T: palate follows the nose with light oak, caramel, belgian yeats, light corriander and other herbs, hints of chardonnay and corn with very light grass notes mostly from the hops.
M: medium to high carbonation and light to medium body.
Overall: nice belgian character. strangely this one is so complex that it is hard to pick out all of the flavors with some running together making it seem simple. This is a great brewery though, one of the best.
Serving type: bottle
09-27-2012 03:51:53 | More by kylehay2004
3.98/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A - Pours with a small head of white foam on top of a slightly hazy, golden body. The foam settles fairly quickly and leaves light traces of lace on the glass.
S - fruity and spicy notes of licorice, pepper, red apple and pine with a touch of vanilla.
T - thick, bready malt up front with notes of plum and red apple. Some licorice character in the middle and a finish of graham cracker, dark fruit, vanilla, and more black licorice.
M - a fairly thick body, moderately low carbonation, and a somewhat sweet finish.
D - interesting and complex (as a beer that is apparently made of five different beers blended together should be). They character of the various barrels and casks barley asserts itself, but the base beer is well made and has an excellent spicy yeast character that carries everything else. Overall it is worth a try, but it is no tragedy that this is a one time brew.
Serving type: bottle
09-27-2012 03:47:17 | More by nickfl
Ontario (Canada)
4.13/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
A - Pours a slightly hazy golden colour, thumb of head with solid retention and chunky lacing.
S - Sweet citrus, cloves, pineapple and mango with a hint of musty wooden oak.
T - A sweet pineapple hop flavour,the barrel aging comes through nicely with wooden flavors complementing ripe fruit flavors, citrus notes and a touch of honey on the finish. Hints of peppery spice linger alongside a bready malt. The ABV is almost undetected, offering up a touch of sweetness.
M - Lighter bodied ale that goes down smooth and finishes with a touc of dryness.
O - A tasty brew well worth indulging in. Complex flavour profile that lets you discover a plethora of flavors throughout the experience. Glad they had one of these left on the shelf.
Serving type: bottle
09-15-2012 23:54:31 | More by andrenaline
4.08/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a 750ml bottle into a Sam Adams perfect pint.
This guy's traveled quite away out of Odell's regional footpoint, let's see how it holds up. RegionAle pours a briskly carbonated yellow-orange color with a finger of head. The aroma is very citrus-dominant, it almost smells like a more citrus heavy IPA, even this long after bottling. There's also oak, wheat, and a bit of spice. The taste is rather complex while remaining citrus heavy. A decent amount of hops still remain. There's some fruits and honey in here, as well as plenty of adjuncts. Chilis hang out in the back, providing just a little spice. The late finish is woody with a bit of booze. Sweet, but not too sweet. The mouthfeel is rather light and crisp for the ABV, and the drinkability is good. Overall, this is a solid and complex ale, especially for those looking for some "lighter" flavors in a strong ale. It kind of reminds me of Lagunitas' Lucky 13.alt in that way, even if their flavor profiles are rather different.
Serving type: bottle
09-10-2012 00:44:14 | More by shand
4.4/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Finally got around to opening this one after sitting in the back of the fridge for the last couple months. Poured from bottle into large 25oz glass
A - Lots of fluffy white head on this one. Had to wait Great clarity with a brown orange.
S - Pineapple upside down cake comes first and strong. Get some citrus and crispness
T - Refreshing tropical crispness up front. Booze is present on back end, but not overpowering. Honey flavors come through somewhere in the middle, and blends in with the booze at the back
M - Medium Heavy Mouthfeel does well to cover up a lot of the booze. Medium levels of carbonation
O - Kind of has flavors all over the place, and has quite a bit more citrus than I was expecting here for a strong ale, but I would say overall I enjoyed the experience.
Serving type: bottle
09-06-2012 02:39:25 | More by bjohn84
Quebec (Canada)
4.1/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Poured a full finger white bubbly head. Color is a burnt orange with good visibility. Lacing and glass retention are great.
S: Pineapple, navel orange, molasses, yeast, malt. Clean and crisp.
T: Complex. Pineapple bundt cake coupled with apples soaked in alcohol. I pick up toffee, creme brulee and cherry.
M: Mouth massage. Great carbonation, mouthfeel. Crispy yet smooth. Sticky.
O: Sitting on my back porch on this abnormally cool summer day, this beer delivers. So complex yet refreshing, I'm suprised not to see higher scores.
Serving type: bottle
08-11-2012 01:30:00 | More by cooler4life
3.58/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
750ml caged and corked bottle. This was released Spring '11. Poured this into my Philly Beer Scene chalice
A: Hazy, golden yellow color. Full finger of bright white head. Tons of carbonation streaming off the bottom of the glass. Swirl adds to the head. Sticky lacing. Some ABV feet.
S: It's very cold, but I get some booze actually. Smells of grassy wheat grains. Mild citrus. Maybe some fruit.
T: Up front, there's a touch of hop bitterness. Citrus like. In the middle of the mouth, some vinous like notes (maybe from the barreling). It does have a feel of a wheat beer minus the spice. I don't get the chilies at all. No spice. The finish is crisp and dry.
M: It's medium but not overly big or anything.
Serving type: bottle
07-11-2012 19:57:18 | More by inlimbo77
3.4/5 rDev -12.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Poured into a tulip glass from a 750ml bottle.
Pours a slight clear rich honey golden color with a 1 inch thin white head that is very dense. there are some medium sized bubbles intermingled around.
Sweet corn notes and light fruit sweetness comes up quick. Notes of apple and some pear mix in with a nice grainy and earthy backed malt note. There is also a grassy undertone on the back end.
Starts off with a grainy note, maybe corn, then with some nice slight fruit sweetness and some underlain honey notes. Taste is interesting. Lots of different flavors that are amalgamated together but don't really offer any uniformity. It just seems all over the place. Some woody notes are perceived as well as some astringent and some alcoholic burn notes. It is not bad but not my favorite. Mouthfeel is on the slick side with some medium notes.
Overall. A good attempt but comes up short. No real rhyme or reason to the flavors. Just a big amalgamation of them.
Serving type: bottle
06-20-2012 02:01:27 | More by JoEBoBpr
3.48/5 rDev -10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Beer pours a hazy golden yellow color with a very fluffy white head that sits nicely atop the beer.
The aroma is of malt, citrus fruits, and is very crisp. It is a well balanced aroma with nothing too overpowering.
The beer tastes malty with a bitter finish. That is a pretty sad review but there is just not a lot going on in this beer.
The mouthfeel is smooth with a lower level of carbonation.
Overall this beer is refreshing, which is surprising for how much alcohol it contains. Although a unique concept the flavors that are supposed to be present in this beer are absent and it comes across as somewhat bland.
Serving type: bottle
06-18-2012 13:57:35 | More by LeeryLeprechaun
3.65/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Amber color with a 3 finger foamy white head with very good retention and lacing. The aroma has citrus, peaches, oak, and some spices. Smells nice.
The taste is mostly sweet. Citrus, peaches, oak, chilies, and the rest is too difficult to pick out. This is a nicely flavored beer, but clearly not everything should have been included. Especially the chilies. They don't work well with the other ingredients.
Medium bodied with average carbonation. Smooth and easy to drink. There is a bit of an aftertaste from the chilies which is a negative for me. Too bad there couldn't have been a different contribution from New Mexico. Overall a pretty good effort.
Serving type: bottle
06-12-2012 02:47:07 | More by hardy008
3.2/5 rDev -17.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
750 ml brown glass bottle with standard pressure cap served into a New Belgium pilsner glass in me friend's gaff in high altitude Fort Collins, Colorado. Reviewed live. Expectations are average.
Served refrigerator cold and allowed to warm over the course of consumption. Side-poured with standard vigor as no carbonation issues are anticipated.
A: Pours a two finger head of beige colour, slight cream, okay thickness, and good retention for the high ABV. Colour is a nontransparent hazy copper. No yeast particles are visible. No bubble show.
Sm: Cream, clean malts, light citrus malts, strange unique local hops, and pleasant orange and lemon citrus esters. Even hints of wheat. Some toasted malt. A mild to moderate strength aroma.
T: Cream on the open, a clean malt foundation, backgrounded somewhat floral/citrus hops, clean barley, slight vague hints of yeast, and some orange peel. Maybe lemon, but if so it's restrained. A nicely built beer for the style that hides its ABV quite well. Decently balanced. Fairly fresh. I like it, but its simplicity and lack of sufficient subtlety hold it back.
Mf: Smooth and wet. Adequate carbonation. Moderately heavy on the palate. Suits the flavours decently.
Dr: Drinkable and enjoyable, but lacking subtlety and complexity to its detriment. An interesting brew from Odell - and I applaud the experimentation. But it's far from great. I might try it on-draught, but it's underwhelming from the bottle. I expected better. Somewhat pricey. Fresh and refreshing.
Best served warmer than refrigerator cold.
A poor candidate for aging.
Serving type: bottle
06-07-2012 05:37:03 | More by kojevergas
4.28/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A: Cloudy apricot hue with a large, thick, and foamy, and creamy head that eventually fades to a 1/4 inch head; lacing is fantastic
S: It's difficult to tell for sure what I actually pick up from what I've just read about is in here but it's definitely grainy and a touch boozy and a touch spicy; pineapples, prickly pears, chilies, apples, black pepper, booze; this smells complex and awesome
T: This is grainy and fruity; hops and yeast are the stars here and although there is a subtle spice; the pineapple from the hops and the bready grains shine through; I also taste a boozy sweet-honey presence in the finish
F: Creamy, medium body--the yeast really creates a nice mouth feel
O: Such an amazing, complex beer; the alcohol is present but it isn't over powering; fantastic job O'Dell!
Serving type: bottle
06-04-2012 22:45:52 | More by dbossman
3.83/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
A- hazy golden color with thick white head that last for a while.
S- slight citrus, bready, malty, some Belgian like yeast smell.
T- almost bready, caramel, hoppy dipa like. But then it has some Belgian like yeast flavor and the very back end has some of the slightest amount of heat from the peppers.
M- high carbonation and medium bodied.
O- its a very unique beer. Glad I tried it but not sure what I think of it yet.
Serving type: bottle
05-25-2012 03:39:10 | More by vobr0002
4.5/5 rDev +16.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A" Great clear orange color with a moderate amount of white head that stays for awhile and a good amount of lacing.
S: Great smelling beer. Smells like a DIPA with an underlying banana smell included in the malt. Smells of oranges and lemons. Canmt wait to taste!
T: Good taste. Initally tastes like a DIPA with a strong cascde hop flavors followed by lemons, followed by pear and finishes with a malty banana taste. GREAT!
M: Good moderate mouthfeel with mediumj carb.
O: OVerall, love it!
Serving type: bottle
05-25-2012 03:35:41 | More by TVolt1
4.2/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Pours honey colored with 3+ fingers of ivory colored head. Hazes a bit as this warms, sticky lacing, great head retention
S: Bready notes, grassyness, some lemon,
T: Honey malt & bready notes, along with lemony & grassy notes up front, nice wheat crispness for a beer this big, along with some grapefruit. Loads of grapefruit & bit wheat tartness as this warms, with plenty of honey malt as well, nice pinapple notes. Big citrus explosion in the finish, nice tartness, a bit of pepperyness (chiles & prickly pear???) & little bit of yeasty twang
MF: Chewy with light carbonation, nice balance
An interesting beer for the style, drinkable enough. Seems more like a DIPA or amped up wheatbeer to me. Minor deduction for being off style
Serving type: bottle
05-22-2012 02:30:07 | More by russpowell
1.93/5 rDev -50.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1
Ugh... Great idea, not my type of beer.
A- Tons of fluffy white froth develops over this warmed honey color... wildflower honey, not that cheap stuff. Minor lacing, not much stickiness, great amounts of carbonation hidden in the beverage.
S- Smells of clover, wildflowers, bits of vegetation, spicy phenols, and cheap rice. There is a mild plastic background and the lingering power is minor.
T- Lots of plastic phenols, vegetation, an ethanolic burn, bandaids, some minor sweetness, an acrid bitterness that cloys the back of the palate with a bit of tannins. \
M- Too crisp, too much carbonation, Full bodied, sticky on the palate with those awful phenols and tannins. The alcohol is disruptive and oppressive in the middle as well.
It is a drainpour unfortunately.
Serving type: bottle
05-11-2012 17:11:14 | More by Khazadum
3.7/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
No known freshness dating... Maybe the 7476-2011 is some type of freshness dating.
A= Pours a bright orange color with a nice thick off white head on it that holds great retention and lacing on the side of the glass. I really like the color on this one.
S= Smells unlike any beers I've ever had. Really a unique mix. I was expecting a lot going on with the ingredient listings and it doesn't let down. I can pick up a little wood character and I would even venture to say there is a little wine character to it. The hops come through in a definitive way for sure and there's a slight alcohol character to it.
T= The flavor is really different. I almost wanna say it tastes like a kitchen sink beer but it's not bad. There is a nice oak wood character that I notice first. The wine character is there for sure as well. The hops are there overlying the entire beer until the finish with a nice biscuit note. Wheaty is a good way describe the finish. After I take another sip I get more of the wine barrel notes and a little malty sweetness to back it all up. Really unique. The finish is suprisingly dry and long.
M= Nice bit of fuzz.
O= A really solid beer for being a "kitchen sink" as I would describe it. The characters are all there and enjoyable. The idea of this beer is very novel and great. Trying to make it work is no doubt a difficult task but I think they did pretty well in that each ingredient has a position and it works. It's not the most outstanding beer I've ever had but it works. Well thought out and a tasty beer.
Serving type: bottle
05-09-2012 01:02:34 | More by jjanega08
Footprint RegionAle from Odell Brewing Company
out of 100
based on 117 ratings.


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love your show, my mum loves your show she always ask me "when is Ellen coming on. She ask me ten time in a day.
Hello Fave TV Person!!!
If I remember correctly, at the start of season 10 or 11 (can't recall) I thght the plan was after your daily monologue, for you to dance DIFFERENTLY & not the same way every day. I remember you did for a for few episodes but then what happened? Has nobody else noticed it stopped? Just being a helper. Your welcome :)
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I love when you laugh Ellen, you always put some sort of smile on my face. I love you Ellen!!
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