John I
John I (John Tzimisces) , c.925-976, Byzantine emperor (969-76). With the aid of Emperor Nicephorus II 's wife, Theophano, John had Nicephorus murdered and himself proclaimed emperor. John gained the favor of the patriarch of Constantinople by revoking his predecessor's anticlerical legislation. He regained E Bulgaria from the Russians and extended Byzantine power in Syria at the expense of the Muslims. He was succeeded by Basil II.
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Mene mene tekel upharsin - beware prophets; ALUN REES ON TV.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 2/9/2002; 700+ words
; ...since Babylonian big cheese Belshazzar spotted "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" (rough translation: "Hard lines, king...words kept drumming through my mind: "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin." The match itself shouldn't have been on...
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ON LANGUAGE; Mene Mene Mystery
Newspaper article from: Forward; 6/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...he writes, "see the writing on the wall-- 'mene, mene, tekel, upharsin,' in the mysterious Aramaic phrase, which the prophet...taxes The big shot of the Babylon-Jerusalem Axis. Mene, mene, tekel, tekel, tekel Mene, mene, tekel...
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The writing of the wall.(Fun With Words)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...nowhere. It scratched four words into the plaster: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN The king's knees rattled together, making his...no one can prevent it. The four words (MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN) are Aramaic for "a mina, a mina, a shekel...
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Public opinion and the chemical industry.
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 2/18/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...animal experimentation to more than four in ten. The transport of chemicals arouses anxiety among 38 per cent.' Mene mene tekel upharsin. Moving forward now to a more recent MORI poll, which was collected from a representative sample of 4177 adults...
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A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society.
Magazine article from: Defense Counsel Journal; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the crack of doom, Llewellyn warned his class of the "handwriting on the wall" in the Book of Daniel: "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," meaning, "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting." As his audience listened in rapt...
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American graffiti a local disgrace
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 3/3/2006; ; 690 words
; ...weather on a handball court at Second Avenue and East 128th Street in Manhattan. And of course, there was "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" — the handwriting on the wall — which, when interpreted by Daniel, brought the grim news...
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Bye bye Labour!
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/21/2008; 645 words
; ...there is hope for usall. My warning to Miss Alexander and her party comes from the Book of Daniel 5:25,'Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.' Which, in Cambuslang translates as, 'Bye, bye!'ALLAN McGREGOR, Cambuslang, Glasgow..
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The lion's den that roared; Sight & Sound tossing 'Daniel' into spectacular peril Saturday.
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA; 3/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ranked Old Testament prophets, not only saw the writing on the wall, he also translated the strange message, "Mene mene tekel upharsin," for corrupt Babylonian King Belshazzar. It meant (roughly): "Your time is up." Shortly thereafter...
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Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century.
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/3/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...than a Harvard Russian Studies course. Long after the impending collapse of the Soviet economy was more than a mene mene tekel upharsin on the Kremlin wall, the CIA was insisting on its soundness. When it was clear that Gorbachev could not survive...
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An old and common story
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/31/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to tolerate the dialysis line. All the alarms off; no point in alarms when the writing is on the wall: not mene, mene, tekel upharsin but its hi- tech equivalent, DNR. You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; Do Not Resuscitate...
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Mene Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mene Mene, Tekel, Upharsin , in the Bible, the mysterious riddle written by a hand on the wall at Belshazzar's feast. These Aramaic words may be translated literally as, "It has been counted and counted, weighed and divided." Daniel interpreted...
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Mene mene tekel upharsin
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Mene mene tekel upharsin Daniel interpreted these words (which were perhaps nouns for several weights or coins), which were written on the wall of Belshazzar's palace. They had baffled the wise men of Babylon (Dan. 5: 25–8...
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writing on the wall, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...foretelling that he would be killed and the city sacked. The words written were said to be Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin ; Daniel interpreted this as Mene ‘God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it’, Tekel ‘...
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Belshazzar
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...relates how Belshazzar organized a great feast during which a disembodied hand wrote upon the wall, “ Mene, mene tekel upharsin ”. Daniel translated it as “Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.”...
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