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Coba (Spanish: Cobá) is an ancient Maya city on the Yucatán Peninsula, located in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.The site is the nexus of the largest network of stone causeways of the ancient Maya world, and it contains many engraved and sculpted stelae that document ceremonial life and important events of the Late Classic Period (AD 600–900) of Mesoamerican civilization. [1]
The Correction Officers' Benevolent Association (COBA) is the second largest trade union for law enforcement in New York. COBA is also the largest municipal jail union in the United States. [2] It represents corrections staff within the New York City Department of Correction run by the New York City Department of Correction. It has a membership ...
A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico might not be a treasure map to a lost city, but it comes incredibly close.. The discovery ...
Archeological evidence appear to attest to a ruling queen, also named Lady Kʼawiil Ajaw (I) and with the title kaloomteʼ, ruling as the founder of the Coba dynasty in the late 5th- or early 6th-century. [1] Monuments of a second woman, who ruled around the year 600 , has been found at Coba. Lady Kʼawiil Ajaw (II), therefore, appear to have ...
Yasuhiro Kobayashi (小林 靖宏, Kobayashi Yasuhiro, born April 29, 1959), known professionally as coba, is a Japanese musician, accordionist, composer and arranger, born in Matsushiro, Nagano and brought up in Niigata, Niigata. His music has sold over 1,000,000 CDs.
Some of the larger pyramids were remodeled during the Early Classic, and held royal tombs. In the Late Classic (ca. 600–800), the city-state of Coba conquered Yaxuna and built a 100 km Sacbe, or raised road, to connect the two cities. This was the longest the Maya ever built. [2]
Seabrook became a corrections officer in 1985. [2] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Empire State College. [3] As leader of COBA, which represents more than 9,000 officers within the New York City Department of Correction, Seabrook was known for his strong defense for union members, and was said by The New York Times to be a "roadblock to reform". [4]
Barbara Jean Blank Coba (née Blank; January 15, 1987), [5] known professionally as Barbie Blank and by her ring name Kelly Kelly, is an American model and retired professional wrestler. Blank has a background in gymnastics and cheerleading, and worked as a model for Venus Swimwear and Hawaiian Tropic .