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...crucifixion-begin near the site of the Temple in accordance with medieval tradition. Most Biblical scholars, nonetheless, now believe that Jesus' death march began on the other side of the Old City, near the Jaffa Gate. Many of the churches marking the shrines, moreover, have been rebuilt so often that they have tenuous claims to antiquity. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher has been destroyed twice and renovated no fewer than seven times, most recently...
...after a four-year Jewish revolt, Roman legions smashed through the walls, burned the city, and killed or exiled most of its inhabitants. Enough of them remained, however, to organize another insurrection in A.D. 132 under the messianic fanatic Bar Kochba; the legions once again leveled the city, rebuilt it in the form of a Roman camp called Aelia Capitolina. It was not until after A.D. 313, in fact, that Jerusalem won back its old name, when the Emperor Constantine and his Christian mother, Helena, began to build new churches at the shrines marking the major events in Christ...
...that the Soviet Union has rebuilt the cities that were devastated by the German army in World War II, and now that the Cold War tension of the Stalinist era has eased, Russia is becoming an increasingly popular target for tourists. In 1956, fewer than 500,000 foreigners were adventurous enough to travel through the U.S.S.R.-one-eighth the number that visited France the same year-and about three-quarters of them were from the Communist countries of Eastern Eu rope. This year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, Russia expects more than 1,500,000 tourists...
...general store, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, jail, smithy, covered bridge, railroad station, steam locomotive, lighthouse, sawmill, hunting lodge, and the 892-ton Lake Champlain sidewheeler Ticonderoga. Most of the buildings had been dismantled, brick by brick and board by board, transported from their original sites in and near New England, and rebuilt at Shelburne...
Learned Jewish opinion has long debated when and how the Temple can be rebuilt. The great medieval philosopher Maimonides, in his Code of Jewish Law, argued that every generation of Jews was obliged to rebuild the Temple if its site was ever retaken, if a leader descended from David could be found, and if the enemies of Judaism were destroyed. Since Maimonides' time, however, most rabbis have gloomily concluded that the restoration of the Temple would have to wait until the coming of the Messiah. In line with that reasoning, the chief rabbinate of Israel issued a warning after...