Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they walk out of their locker this afternoon, the Elis will have only one meet, a 47-48 fall to Navy unexpectedly brought their 201 dual-swimming streak to its Armageddon...
Standing at the western end of the Valley of Jezreel, 18 miles southeast of Haifa, Megiddo (the Armageddon of the Book of Revelation) dominates the best route from Egypt to Mesopotamia and has been important strategically for more than 4,000 years. Today it is mostly a ruined city wall. Stables for 450 horses show that it had an important garrison of chariots, which were then the decisive military weapon. The Old Testament says that Solomon built Megiddo, and archaeologists who excavated the city before World War II decided that the Bible was essentially right...