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wari

n. (context games English) a board game of the mancala family.

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Wari

Wari may refer to:

  • Wari' people, Amazonian Amerindian nation
    • Wari’ language, spoken by the Wari'
  • Wari culture, Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in Peru
  • Wari Empire, political formation that emerged around AD 500 in Peru
  • Wari ruins, ruins of the capital city of the Wari Empire, located near Quinua, Peru
  • Wari (dance), a typical dance of the Ancash Region in Peru
  • Wari River, a river in Ethiopia
  • Wari, Indonesia, a village on Seram Island
  • Wari (game), or Oware, a board game
  • Wari, an area of Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • WARI-LP, a low-power radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to serve Rochester, New York, United States
WARI (defunct)

WARIwas an A.M. radio station licensed to Abbeville, Alabama. It operated on 1480 kHz from its inception on August 31, 1961 to its license cancellation on September 9, 1996. On February 22, 1968, WARI opened an FM station, WARI-FM. It began and continues to operate on 94.3 MHz/Channel 232 as WIZB.

Wari (dance)

Wari (hispanicized spelling Huari) is a traditional dance of the Ancash Region in Peru. The dancers are accompanied by musicians who play the tinya and the small pinkuyllu.

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Autobiography ISBN 1-86049-853-1 Although Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her.

Virago A Virago Book First published in Great Britain as a paperback original by Virago Press in 2002 Copyright Waris Dirie 2002 The moral right of the author has been asserted.

He would see me, Waris, the daughter he sold to an old man for a few camels who now earned her own money.

Copyright Waris Dirie 1998 Traditional Somali poem on page v reprinted from Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower.

My sister was suspicious of this sudden interest in Waris, thinking perhaps she was being left out of some worthwhile treat.

I tried to stop and remind myself, No, come on, Waris, Haji is like your brother.

I thought, Waris, girl, you have finally arrived: Oddly enough, even though I always liked the black men, it was the white guys who were most interested in me.

I informed them to get their money ut and bet on Waris, because I was going to teach these Moroccan guys a lesson.

And another: I just finished reading your article on Waris Dirie, and am sick to my soul that such torture and mutilation is still endured by little girls.

Another letter addressed to me read: There are a lot of tragic stories that have been told, and there will be more told in the future, but Waris, there are not any more to be told of an entire culture that can be more horrifying than what these people are doing to their children.

He paused for an instant to squeeze more darkness into the cartridges of the rifle Waris carried as the lancer reloaded, then raised his second rifle to aim at the nearest beast.

But they were closing slowly on the scout so that, when Waris reached the foot of the slope, the oncoming rebel lancers were but three hundred yards behind him.

Then he walked partway downhill to an area shaded by the low but broad cedar he had pointed out to Waris and waited for the others to join him.

Alucius and fifth squad rode across the last few hundred yards to the road, passing Waris, standing scout on the trail.