Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jerusalem's police have bigger things to worry about than the Y2K bug - the Holy City's gendarmes are concerned about their precinct playing ground zero in some attempt to hasten a New Year's Eve Armageddon...
...Aqsa and the neighboring Dome of the Rock. Now, Israeli authorities fear a millennial convergence between the messianic visions of some evangelical Christian groups and those Jewish extremists. "Israeli police are most worried about Christian end-timers who believe that before Christ can return there has to be Armageddon," says Beyer. "Their intelligence suggests that some groups want to hasten the apocalypse by blowing up the Islamic holy sites on the Temple Mount in the hope that this would provoke a holy war between Muslims and Jews...
...that number is $206,000. Republican freshmen, likewise, had banked an average of $109,000; this year, it?s $203,000. "We're raising record numbers, they're raising record numbers," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who heads the House Republicans? campaign arm. "It's Armageddon...
...idea that a comet or asteroid might be bearing down on Earth--as in Deep Impact and Armageddon--can be traced to this crusading geologist. Probing Arizona's Meteor Crater in 1956, Shoemaker found a form of quartz that is created only by tremendous impacts. Finding the same telltale mineral in other craters, he concluded that they had been formed not by volcanoes, as most scientists thought, but by large objects hitting Earth. It was only a matter of time, he said, before Earth would be struck again. So he launched the first organized search for big incoming objects, recruiting...
There are definite moments where it's painful to watch Ben being side-tracked en route to Bridget, especially because she's so anxious for his arrival. A few of these scenes serve to highlight the few qualities we hoped Affleck had left behind with Shakespeare In Love and Armageddon, but overall, Ben's not bad. As for his bride, one does doubt the decision to continue wedding preparations a few minutes before the ceremony without the presence of a groom, but the scenery is definitely a worthy distraction from her irritating parents...