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Minas

mina \mi"na\, n.; pl. L. Min[ae], E. Minas. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

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n. (plural of mina English)

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Minas (bishop)

Minas was a bishop of Aksum.

Category:4th-century bishops Category:Aksumite Empire people Category:Bishops of Axum

MINAS

MINAS is ad database of Metal Ions in Nucleic AcidS.

Minas (band)

Minas is a Philadelphia-based bossa nova jazz band consisting of singer and guitarist Orlando Haddad and singer and pianist Patricia King.

Haddad is noted for bringing Brazilian music and culture to the city of Philadelphia, PA when he and his wife Patricia, after living in Brazil, moved back from Rio de Janeiro to the U.S. in 1984. Minas has performed in all of the area’s main venues and Orlando taught Brazilian Percussion at the University of the Arts, a post he held for 10 years. Minas also created an educational program, “Brazilian Adventure”, which brought assembly programs and residencies to public and independent schools in the tri-state area. This program has been seen by over 500,000 students.

Minas also created PhilaSamba, a samba school in Philadelphia, in 1987, with the help of the city's Latin American Musicians Association and musician Eugene Rausa.

In 2015 Minas 6th studio album 'Symphony in Bossa' received 4 Grammy nominations including Best Latin Jazz album of the year.

Usage examples of "minas".

You could not hide the fact that Boromir did not lead the Company from Moria, and that there was one among you of high honour who was coming to Minas Tirith.

And at least you are free now to move about as you will in Minas Tirith – when you are not on duty.

Boys were playing among the pillars, the only children that Pippin had seen in Minas Tirith, and he stopped to look at them.

And there, I think, he will hear tidings of war, and the Riders of Rohan will go down to Minas Tirith.

A grave peril I saw coming unlooked-for upon Gondor from the South that will draw off great strength from the defence of Minas Tirith.

Is it not true, Hirgon, that the Lord of Minas Tirith knows more than he sets in his message?

For it is before the walls of Minas Tirith that the doom of our time will be decided, and if the tide be not stemmed there, then it will flow over all the fair fields of Rohan, and even in this Hold among the hills there shall be no refuge.

He did not relish the idea of singing any song of the Shire to the Lord of Minas Tirith, certainly not the comic ones that he knew best.

A man rode in haste from the fords, saying that a host had issued from Minas Morgul and was already drawing nigh to Osgiliath.

All day the labour went forward, while the men of Minas Tirith looked on, unable to hinder it.

But soon there were few left in Minas Tirith who had the heart to stand up and defy the hosts of Mordor.

They were less than a day's ride from the out-walls of Minas Tirith that encircled the townlands.

But he thought of Pippin and the flames in Minas Tirith and thrust down his own dread.

But the king sat upon Snowmane, motionless, gazing upon the agony of Minas Tirith, as if stricken suddenly by anguish, or by dread.

Up the climbing streets of Minas Tirith they clattered, while the noise of war rose behind them.