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Baraka (film)

Baraka is a 1992 non-narrative documentary film directed by Ron Fricke. The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio for which Fricke was cinematographer. Baraka was the first film in over twenty years to be photographed in the 70mm Todd-AO format, and the first film ever to be restored and scanned at 8K resolution.

Baraka

Baraka or Barakah may refer to:

  • Berakhah or Baraka, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
  • Barakah or Baraka, in Islam, the beneficent force from God that flows through the physical and spiritual spheres
  • Baraka, full ḥabbat al-barakah, aka Nigella sativa, a spice with purported health benefits
Baraka (Mortal Kombat)

Baraka is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. Baraka was introduced in Mortal Kombat II in 1993 as an unpredictable warrior in service of Outworld emperor Shao Kahn. He belongs to a race of nomadic mutants called Tarkatan, later revealed in Mortal Kombat: Deception to be a crossbreed between Netherealm demons and denizens of Outworld, apparently populating the vast wastelands of Outworld. Baraka, like most other members of his race, possesses long retractable blades extending from his forearms.

Baraka (novel)

Baraka, or the Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor of Anthony Smith (commonly referred to simply as Baraka Lives) is a novel written by Canadian writer and essayist John Ralston Saul. It was first published in 1983.

Baraka (footballer)

Andres Fernandes Gonçalves (born 21 July 1986) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ceará Sporting Club.

Baraka (album)

Baraka is an album by the DKV Trio, composed of drummer Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler and reedist Ken Vandermark. It was recorded in 1997 and released on Okka Disk.

The DKV Trio was assembled by Vandermak in the summer of 1994 for the recording project Standards. The band's first album was the limited edition CD DKV Live, recorded in December 26, 1996 at the Chicago Lunar Cabaret and also released on Okka Disk.

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And at first, just like the Tyrannosaurus, Colonel Muammar Baraka was afraid of nothing.

Muammar Baraka listened to the endless reports that had been typed in triplicate by British typists on German typewriters with electricity supplied by American generators run by Belgian mechanics.

It had been he who delivered the crucial armored corps at the crucial moment, namely the jeep that worked and could get Colonel Baraka to the radio station.

And not existing, he went where he wanted without being bothered, except when Colonel Baraka wanted to find out what was happening.

Colonel Baraka rose from the table, a trim, immaculately dressed man in light tan battle uniform.

Then Baraka put the gun back in his holster, opened the conference room door and invited back his ministers and their foreign aides.

After the revolution was successful, the first thing Baraka did as president was to call in all oil company presidents and lay down the first of his unalterable laws.

Later, Baraka found these costs were deducted from royalties per barrel paid to Lobynia.

And for the first time, Colonel Baraka wondered how King Adras liked Switzerland, and whether he might enjoy it there himself.

CHAPTER SEVEN Colonel Baraka discovered the real employer of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollar incidentals-two, With a capital European T, on a night that gave him more horror than he had ever felt hi his four years as president of Lobynia.

Colonel Baraka hanged his air minister quietly, in an unused hangar, and did not tell the people that their new planes were inadequate to bomb Tel Aviv the next day.

Out of his entire army, Baraka had found fifty men who would serve as commandoes to make secret night strikes inside Israel.

The French ambassador was there with Baraka to see how the Jews would be slaughtered.

When Colonel Baraka had been offered a nose, he had slapped the Syrian ambassador.

There was silence and then Colonel Baraka ordered doctors up to the man and a hundred voices were shouting orders.