Word: jerichos
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...stories in the Bible and the Talmud are not just myth, but are about real people. They have discovered a golden calf similar to the one Moses got angry about when he came down from the mountain with the ten commandments. They have found evidence that the walls of Jericho did indeed come tumbling down. They've found evidence of the existence of King David. This new find, of course, does not prove that the miracle which helped them defeat the Syrians happened, but it does prove that the people it supposedly happened to were real...
...stories in the Bible and the Talmud are not just myth, but are about real people. They have discovered a golden calf similar to the one Moses got angry about when he came down from the mountain with the ten commandments. They have found evidence that the walls of Jericho did indeed come tumbling down. They've found evidence of the existence of King David. This new find, of course, does not prove that the miracle which helped them defeat the Syrians happened, but it does prove that the people it supposedly happened to were real...
Harris takes for his hero a neurasthenic mathematician named Tom Jericho, frail, distracted, fluky even by the measure of other code breakers at Bletchley, a town west of Cambridge where the secret intelligence unit has its warren. As the drama starts, Jericho has been furloughed from Bletchley because of instability, but is brought back again because his eerily acute mind is needed even if it is haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space...
...road to reconciliation had to overcome dark disillusion among Arabs and Israelis alike. After the euphoria following the 1993 agreement, the peace process seemed mired in blood as Palestinian terrorists tested Israel's patience and Israelis cracked down with chokehold security arrangements over the Palestinians' newly autonomous enclaves of Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Yet two nearly uninterrupted months of living and working in the same hotel enabled more than 100 negotiators from each side not only to bridge these differences but also to develop a grudging respect, even affection, for one another. The encyclopedic document that resulted takes...
During his stay in Jericho and the Gaza Strip, Alherinai said he saw human rights violations committed by Palestinian authorities against other Palestinians...