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Lord of the gadflies; the Nation is pushy and obnoxious. That's why it's so great. (periodical)
Washington Monthly
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May 1, 1991|
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Lord of the Gadflies
In some ways, The Nation, 1865-1990 (*) is a typical venerable old magazine collection. Its big literary guns of days gone by--Henry James, Mark Twain, D. H. Lawrence, H. L. Mencken--could all be expected to appear in a best of The Atlantic. In fact, they do (see Louise Desaulniers's 119 Years of The Atlantic). The two omnibuses also share a number of America's greatest poets.
So what exactly distinguishes the fiery, self-styled troublemaking weekly from America's oldest and most respectable Boston Brahmin journal? It's not the ...
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The Damascus massacre. (effect of modernity on old buildings in Syria)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...millennium BC, it was integrated in 732 BC within the Assyrian Empire, losing political independence which it only began...built on the site of the old temple of the Aramaean god Hadad, was one of the largest in the whole of the East and...
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Shard May Be Piece of House of David
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Israel from the north. The word "Hadad" also appears on the roughly...king of Aram or to one of the gods of Aram, also named Hadad. In either case, its appearance...following their conquest by the Assyrians in 722 B.C. Modern Jews trace...
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Whale of a tale
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...acknowledge the Hebrew God and, even if they do...is the "evil" of the Assyrian army, whose capital...northern Israel, by Ben-Hadad of Aram (Syria) in...This was a time when the Assyrian army was holed up in...at the mercy of Ben-Hadad of Aram. Enter the young...
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Ahab and Jezebel, one of the Bible's most 'colorful' couples
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts
; ...the Syrian king Ben-hadad, and in a later battle...a common enemy, the Assyrians. Assyrian chronicles tell us that...worshiped the Canaanite god Baal, for whom he was...truly devoted to the god. "Baal" means "master...to a number of pagan gods, collectively known...chief Canaanite ...
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