Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swaggers and struts before the Lord; calamities confront his house. The music, from a gloating minor, rises steadily with blood-burning cymbals and a strump of drums; David dances, David prances, licks his red-hot lips and glances at Bathsheba. Absalom revolts, is killed. David rides in triumph through Jerusalem to Honegger's march for wind instruments...
Historians have long wrangled about the site of the tomb of Christ. Tradition for some 1,500 years has indicated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and although certain unnecessarily logical scholars of the past century pointed out that the disposition of the walls of that city make it impossible that this could have been the place, popular sentiment has, quite justly, overruled them. It is, at all events, difficult to be sure, because one of the only positive things that is known about the tomb that is thought to be Christ's, is that it was, during...
...Blake, G. '09, Assistant Professor of History, for the purchase of 1000 photostatic prints of the Famulus Type secured from the Greek Patriarchal Library at Jerusalem, Palestine, to permit him to make a text of the Georgian version in Biblical criticism accessible to the scholarly world...
...party of Jerusalem, led by the so-called "iron man," Menahem Ussishkin, a former colleague of Weizmann...
...font at which the present King is said to have been baptized, together with a bottle of water from the River Jordan, was offered to be sold for charity. The water was brought from Jerusalem by the late Dean Stanley of Westminster who accompanied the late King Edward on a visit to the Holy Land...