Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Javits' three children are Joy, 17, a Riverdale Country School senior; Joshua, 16, a Riverdale junior; and Carla, 10, a fifth-grader at Dalton School...
...excess baggage of war has always included women. Strumpets trailed the trumpets of Joshua at Jericho and marched with the legions of Rome. Sir Gawaine was not the only knight-errant; in one year alone, the Crusaders counted the aid of 13,000 camp followers in their quest for the Holy Sepulcher. In World War I, they were the vivandieres; in Saigon today, the B-girls are called tea girls. Wherever two or three soldiers gather together, prostitutes are sure to flock, adding to the disorder that follows in the wake of armies everywhere...
...most important agent in the secularizing process was science. The Copernican revolution was a shattering blow to faith in a Bible that assumed the sun went round the earth and could be stopped in its tracks by divine intervention, as Joshua claimed. And while many of the pioneers of modern science ?Newton and Descartes, for example ?were devout men, they assiduously explained much of nature that previously seemed godly mysteries. Others saw no need for such reverential lip service. When he was asked by Napoleon why there was no mention of God in his new book about...
...after three years of marriage; no children; in Juarez, Mexico. He gave Zsa Zsa two pearl necklaces; she gave him her Rolls plus a whistle "in the event he ever needs me," then flew to Santa Monica to take out a marriage license with prospective No. 5, Dallas Oilman Joshua Cosden...
...Copley painted a portrait of his step-brother Henry Pelham and sent it to the Society of Artists in London. Such leading artists as Joshua Reynolds and the American ex-patriate Benjamin West saw the work and extravagantly praised it, but both men criticized Copley's flat areas of isolated color and Reynolds objected further to the colors' harshness...