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McKissic said that all humanity is descended from Noah and his three sons: Ham, Shem and Japheth. Ham and Japheth were ancestors of Africans and Europeans, while Shem's descendants became the Semites, he said...

Author: By David B. Lat, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Speaker Says Africans Related to Bible Figures | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...hours he had orginally promised, and that its aims had shifted from simply clearing out a 25-mile buffer zone to besieging the capital and threatening a bloody assault. "Unlike other wars, this one was one war on the first day and it became a different war," charged Victor Shem-Tov, a leader of Napam, the left-wing ally of the Labor Party, who demanded Sharon's resignation. Outraged, Sharon shot back: "I don't intend to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Beirut Under Siege | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...House of God wildly captured the spirit of interns at Beth Israel Hospital. Paper Chase even scamed its way onto TV. There was little territory left for a writer to snatch, so LeBaron now moves us into the classrooms and anatomy labs of Harvard Medical School or, as Samuel Shem called it in House of God. BMS--Best Medical School...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Harvard Med as Verdun | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

...offered a recipe of ingredients, including human blood and putrefied semen. In 16th century Prague, too, the devout Rabbi Judah Loew was reported to have created out of clay a giant robot known as a golem. This figure, which came to life when a tablet with a divine name, shem, was placed in its mouth, was supposed to protect the Jews from persecution, but some accounts claim that its masters tried to use it for unworthy purposes, and others report that it turned upon its creators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Demons and Monsters | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Yiddish Folk and Art Songs: Norman Janis, tenor, and Jane Myers, accompanist, Ball Shem Suite for Cello and Piano: Three Pictures of Hasidic Life Near Stufberg, pianist, Jacqueline Holfman, cellist Phillips Brooks House Partor...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: MUSIC | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

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