Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town that has become a symbol of the problem. Situated in the Judean hills 20 miles southwest of Jerusalem, Hebron is an ancient site revered by both Jews and Muslims. Jews believe it was the burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Muslims also revere Abraham as a prophet and call the town Al-Khalil (Friend of God) after...
...know why people think I'm a prophet. Maybe those bowl game picks did it, or perhaps it happened when I correctly predicted seven of the nine History 1370 (yeah, that's Boats) exam questions...
...naked, sun-baked disc of a stage, designed by John Napier, is shaped like an inverted shield. The prophet Calchas has told King Agamemnon that the thousand ships becalmed in the harbor at Aulis will receive no favoring wind to retrieve Helen and ravage Troy unless he makes a blood sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. With passive fatalism, Agamemnon sends a duplicitous letter to his wife Clytemnestra asking her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis on the pretext that she is to be given in marriage to Achilles, supreme hero-in-arms...
...century British traveler, James Morier, described Iran's religious center as a place in which, "excepting on the subject of religion, and settling who are worthy of salvation, and who are to be damned, no one opens his lips. Every man you meet is either a descendant of the Prophet or a man of the law. All wear long and mortified faces ... These priests will harken to no medium?either you are a true believer...
...Only the Prophet Muhammad and other saints have been infallible. Everybody else makes mistakes...