Word: judah
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...price on his head, but the resemblance ended there. Hines was a former Confederate cavalryman from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent and apparently without fear, he had been assigned to espionage work by the Confederacy's Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. In Confederate Agent, Author Horan tries to prove that Captain Hines was the mastermind of a gigantic plot to defeat the North from within. Hines's chief weapon: a vast, fifth-column army of Copperheads whose leaders Hines was to inspire and direct. That the plot...
Ethiopians watched, he 'chuted to within 50 feet of the Lion of Judah's throne at the Addis Ababa airport. "So delighted was the King," Julian recalled, "that he climbed down most unprecedentedly from his throne, slapped me on the back, swore me in as an Ethiopian citizen, made me Colonel of the Air Forces, pinned on my chest the Menelik medal for bravery, and gave me 5,000 bucks in cash...
Emperor Haile Selassie last week celebrated a great day in a career that has known many ups & downs. With golden scissors, Ethiopia's King of Kings, Lion of Judah snipped a ribbon and then drove triumphantly across a frontier to add to his domain the former Italian colony of Eritrea, which the Italians had carved out of old Ethiopia in the late 19th century...
Words to the Darkness. What happened next to Barabbas-whether he retired to the desert of Judah or joined the Samaritans or simply continued his banditry-Novelist Lagerkvist does not attempt to say.* But Lagerkvist does picture him in two final scenes. As an aging slave of the Romans, Barabbas meets a Christian whose piety nearly converts him-but when threatened with death by the Romans he backs out. No, he says, he has no god. It is true that he has inscribed the name "Christos Jesus" on his slave disc, but that is only "because I want to believe...
...honorary office, dating back to Sir Francis Bacon, which entitles a barrister to take precedence in court, prevents him from acting against the Crown without special royal permission. The first American to receive the title: British-born Judah P. Benjamin, onetime Secretary of State of the Confederacy, who fled to England in 1865, reclaimed his birthright as a British subject, and was made Queen's Counsel...