Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard that Boston's supposed to be the medical Mecca of the world". Martin S. Bander, deputy to the director of MGH and spokesman for many of the Harvard hospitals, said last week. "It's nice to see 250 experts confirm this belief...
...canyon some 45 miles south of Kabul. "Life was good," recalls Haji Jumah Gul. "We had wheat, corn, rice, melons, apples, cherries, pears and mulberries. Almost everyone had cattle and sheep." Many of the villagers were prosperous enough to be able to afford a pilgrimage each year to Mecca...
Parliamentary Leader Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had indicated earlier that he was giving serious consideration to an invitation from Saudi Arabia to go on hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. A Rafsanjani trip to Saudi Arabia would be an important symbolic step toward relieving tensions between the two nations, which were exacerbated when Saudi air force warplanes shot down an Iranian fighter over the gulf in June...
...George Papalimberis, a Greek immigrant and owner of the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle Street, a mecca for area professors and politicians, says he has never pulled a customer's tooth...
...heritage and geography, Jerusalem is like no other place in the world. For Jews and many Christians, it is the holiest city; for Muslims, only Mecca and Medina, both in Saudi Arabia, are more sacred. In its 4,000-year history, Jerusalem has been the focus of national and religious wars, from the Roman conquest to the Crusades to the struggle between Arab and Jewish communities during the British mandate of 1919-48. Israel established its modern capital in the western part of the divided city in 1950, two years after the country's founding. During...