Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIE IN MADRID. Old newsreels recall the tragedy of Spain's disastrous civil war (1936-39) in Producer-Director Frederic Rossif's masterly compilation, narrated by John Gielgud and Irene Worth...
...anti-Christian polemicist, suggested that the Resurrection was a figment of Mary Magdalene's unbalanced mind. Sir James Frazer depicted the Resurrection as a variation of the Osiris, Attis and Adonis legends, symbolizing the death and rebirth of nature. French Author Pierre Nahor wrote that Jesus did not die on the cross but only feigned death by putting himself into a cataleptic trance...
...Palm Sunday, Jesus made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, went to the temple, drove out the money-changers, denounced the religious leaders. This alarmed the priesthood, and sealed his fate. The high priest Caiaphas had already said to the Sanhedrin: "It is in your interest that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation perish...
...Messiah?" He bluntly said, "Yes, I am." Such careful timing assured Jesus that his body would be taken down before the start of the Sabbath, in accordance with Jewish law. Thus, he was on the cross only three hours, though ordinarily it took days for a man to die from agony and exhaustion in that form of execution...
Sims made a short speech before throwing the floor open to questions. "The only thing that a Southern white man respects is another man like him who has a gun and is ready to fight and die." Sim said, explaining why he formed the Deacons last February. The audience took it from there, as Sims proceeded to debunk some myths and perpetuate others about the Negro defense organization...