Word: megiddo
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...Premier David Ben-Gurion. Last week Soldier-Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Israel's Chief of Operations in the Palestine war of 1948 and the general who chased the Egyptians out of the Negev by a strategic plan derived from the Old Testament, offered proof that the celebrated ruin at Megiddo was not built by King Solomon, as had been supposed. Instead it was built by the "wicked" King Ahab...
Standing at the western end of the Valley of Jezreel, 18 miles southeast of Haifa, Megiddo (the Armageddon of the Book of Revelation) dominates the best route from Egypt to Mesopotamia and has been important strategically for more than 4,000 years. Today it is mostly a ruined city wall. Stables for 450 horses show that it had an important garrison of chariots, which were then the decisive military weapon. The Old Testament says that Solomon built Megiddo, and archaeologists who excavated the city before World War II decided that the Bible was essentially right...
...north, on the edge of the Plain of Megiddo (Armageddon), Fawzi Bey Ka-wukji's Arab Army of Liberation had attacked the Jewish settlement of Mishmar Haemek. The Jewish Haganah, hoping to smash the Arab army, had thrown about 2,000 men into the battle. Kawukji sent an anxious appeal to the Arab League Political Committee, meeting in Cairo. Ka-wukji's army, it turned out, had suffered less than 100 casualties. But the Jews had driven the Arabs back, seized nearby Arab villages, firmly blocked the road into Arab Haifa from the southeast. Some Jews disguised...
Founder of the Megiddos was a bearded, astute man named L. (for nothing) T. (for nothing) Nichols, who examined many a religion in his youth, found none that he liked. In 1880 he started one for himself, and preached it through the Midwest. In 1901 he launched the steamboat Megiddo, with 95 followers plied up & down the Mississippi and Ohio making new converts. Later he sold the boat, settled his mission at Rochester, N. Y. Founder Nichols died in 1912. Present pastor of the Megiddo Mission is his sister, 83-year-old Ella Maria Skeels...
...celebrate their Christmas, Megiddos went this week to Assistant Pastor Percy J. Thatcher's drama, Pilgrims of Light. Longer than an O'Neill tragedy, it took two nights to perform in the flower-banked, frame mission hall, told the story of brothers who traveled round the world in their search for Truth. For Megiddo children, who do not believe in Santa Claus, there were quantities of useful gifts...