Beirut Hippodrome of Lebanese Heritage (APLH), the court suspended on May 31, 2012 the Culture Ministry's decision, N˚ 849, to dismantle the Roman Hippodrome that would have allowed for the construction of a building project on the site. The site is protected for now. The current Beirut Hippodrome, officially called Hippodrome du parc de Beyrouth, is a horse-racing facility in Beirut's Horsh district adjacent to Badaro. In 1893 the “al-Marmah” hippodrome was founded, in the town of Bir Hassan. Wealthy Beirutis wished to create a club-complex that included a western style hippodrome and casino. In 1916, the wali of Beirut Azmi Bey,
The Meaning of Liff Meaning of Liff" appears before a lightning bolt strikes the last F and converts it to an E. A revised and expanded edition of the original book, with about twice as many definitions, was published in 1990 as The Deeper Meaning of Liff (UK Edition: , US Edition: ), though the original remains in print. Some of the new words in "Deeper" had previously appeared in a Liff piece by Adams, Lloyd and Stephen Fry in "The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book" (1986). The main differences between the two editions (for either version of the book) are those