Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meir Kahane, founder of the U.S.-based Jewish Defense League. In another raid, Israeli police arrested three fundamentalist Jews who reportedly confessed to involvement in an abortive attempt last January to blow up Jerusalem's two most important Islamic shrines, the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Days later, the police uncovered a major arms cache near Jerusalem, including grenades, antitank weapons and mines, some still in Israel Defense Forces casings. Said a Shin Bet official: "It is impossible to be sure that we have managed to put an end to Jewish terrorism, but we have...
...years older. The Israelis have completed the wall's restoration and built a safe walkway on its ramparts. Strollers can now amble around most of the Old City. The walk is interrupted by the Temple Mount, where Herod's Temple was eventually replaced by the Dome of the Rock, which is under Muslim administration. The wall is surrounded by a national park that is studded with archaeological finds and historic sites. Each of the wall's seven gates will be given special architectural treatment. So far, only Damascus Gate has been fully restored. It has been enhanced...
Another player, who requested anonymity there was no question that "Dome" (a team nickname for the bald coach) was upset with mandated philosophical shifts in his football program...
...their comparatively small brains, dinosaurs were not dumb, floundering brutes. Deinonychus, for instance, was a fleet, two-footed creature with scimitar-like claws on its hind legs, grasping hands and dagger-sharp teeth. It apparently hunted in packs, in the manner of wolves. Stegoceras perhaps employed the thick dome on its skull in sexual combat, as an elk uses its horns. Dinosaurs may even have had nurturing, maternal instincts. The recent discovery in Montana of the fossilized remains of tiny baby dinosaurs only twelve inches long, near an adult of the same species, suggests that females hovered protectively over their...
...noon next day the President sat back in the deep cushions of his big closed car, adjusted his big dark Navy cape. The gravel spattered from the driveway, the car moved off slowly around the south lawn, and up the long clear stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue toward the looming dome of the Capitol...