Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greatest of the Merina kings was Andrianampoinimerina ("The Prince desired by the Merina"), who ruled from 1787 until 1810. Riding in state about his kingdom in a purple-draped palanquin, he divided the country up into well-administered provinces, organized a corps of professional civil servants. His warrior son Radama I-a stern disciplinarian who would warn his soldiers, "Better to advance and risk being killed by the enemy than to retreat and be sure of being burned alive"-carried on his work. He imported British soldiers to train his army, welcomed the schools of French and British missionaries...
...problems of old age have been be clouded by misconceptions since ancient times. The psalmist who hymned "The days of our years are threescore years and ten" knew nothing of modern vital statistics; the average life expectancy of an Israelite baby in David's kingdom was probably no more than 30 years. Not until the individual had weathered all the hazards of gestation, birth, childhood illnesses, diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia could he expect to reach threescore...
...last Yeivin found a dim identity for the mysterious tell. In the Israelite stratum he came across 15 pottery jar handles bearing the seal of the Jewish Kingdom of Judah. Two of them had in addition four Hebrew letters spelling Mamshat, the name of a Judean city whose site has never been identified...
Canada has issued no formal statement of policy, nor has it announced any plans for the coming U.N. General Assembly. Washington hopes that the government recalls some clearheaded remarks delivered in the House of Commons last year: "I think the experience of the United Kingdom, which recognized Communist China prior to the Korean war, has added little to the extension or expansion of trade between that country and Communist China . . . Until such time as the Communist government of China expiates its wrongdoing under international law there certainly will be no justification for the granting of recognition.'' The speaker...
...locker rooms), dress in white linen (the powder rooms), visit a small auditorium (Celestial room No. 1) to see slides showing "where we came from, why we are here, where we are going, and the laws which must be obeyed to attain the celestial degree of glory in the Kingdom of God." From there they move to the drawing-room-style Celestial room No. 2 for contemplation before the actual ceremony of "sealing"-in a small room furnished with pale pink brocaded-satin chairs. In the ceremony called baptism of the dead, believers vicariously baptize their ancestors in the Mormon...