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...Moriah Freeman, assistant to Dunn, said the eight required trustees--of the 11 total trustees serving on the council--met in late September and discussed who else might be included on the council's membership list...
Funeral services for Deshaun Hill will take place at 10 a.m. today at the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Milwaukee...
Racism and Greed. If ever pop music claimed a child prodigy, it was young Gladys Knight. When she was four, her eager contralto, frequently on key, resonated through the adult ranks of Atlanta's Mt. Moriah Baptist Church choir. Three years later she won the $2,000 first prize on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour with a humid rendition of Too Young. When another cousin, James ("Pip") Wood heard Gladys and the boys sing, he encouraged them to turn professional and gave them his nickname. In 1954 they were booked into Atlanta's Royal Peacock Supper...
...that Jerusalem was settled around 3000 B.C. by Bronze Age Canaanite tribesmen. According to Genesis 14, when Abraham entered Palestine after his victories in Syria, he was greeted near the city by Melchizedek, king and high priest of Salem. It was on a rock atop Jerusalem's Mount Moriah that Abraham, according to tradition, prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac to the Lord...
Holocaust & Diaspora. The First Temple was built by King Solomon as a dwelling place for God on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem around 966 B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in the 6th century B.C., but a Second Temple was erected upon the same site in 515 B.C., after the return from exile. This Temple, in turn, was destroyed by the Romans when they turned Jerusalem into a flaming holocaust and sent its inhabitants into the Diaspora. Although most Jews fled the city, a few remained to bewail the fate of God's people at the Temple site...