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Emperor of the first holocaust; Vengeful: Hadrians reign ended in brutal suppression.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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July 23, 2008
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Byline: WILLIAM NAPIER
THE elderly, distinguished-looking Israelite is thrown to the ground by a group of hard-faced soldiers who spit on him, kick him and call him a filthy old Jew.
His name is Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph, one of the greatest scholars of his day. But that means nothing to these ruthless military men who continue to beat and insult him as their senior officer looks on approvingly.
An appalling scene from Nazi Germany, perhaps? No. The attack took place in the Roman Province of Judea, in AD135. And the senior officer is none other than ...
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Who salted the sample? (Benjamin Silliman, Jr.'s analysis of a Californian oil sample)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...Company about the eminent chemist Professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr. These irate investors had been lured...chemical-based industries. Born in 1816, Silliman was the second son of Benjamin Silliman, professor of chemistry at Yale College...
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The Peabody Museum collection Yale University
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record
; ...the American Revolution. When Benjamin Silliman took over the mineral collection...collection of Connecticut minerals. BENJAMIN SILLIMAN The founding father of this...predates even the Danas. He was Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), who, without...
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The Peabody Museum Collection: Yale University.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; ...collection of Connecticut minerals. BENJAMIN SILLIMAN The founding father of this...predates even the Danas. He was Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), who, without...the post to 22-year-old Benjamin Silliman. The choice was politically...
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Old soldiers never die: the improbable life and times of Henry Francisco.(Brief biography)
Magazine article from: Military History
; ...One day in the autumn of 1819, Benjamin Silliman had a few hours to kill as he waited...bound for St. Johns, Canada. Silliman, a Yale scholar and one of the...to visit the man. According to Silliman, at the time Francisco was living...
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the Oil Age
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering
; ...the analysis to a Yale chemistry professor, Benjamin Silliman Jr. His father, Benjamin Sr., also a Yale professor, was recognized as a leading American scientist and chemist. Silliman heated the raw material and found different...
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The oil age: it began 150 years ago this month in Pennsylvania. Some forecasts say that it has only decades left to go.
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME
; ...the analysis to a Yale chemistry professor, Benjamin Silliman Jr. His father, Benjamin Sr., also a Yale professor, was recognized as a leading American scientist and chemist. Silliman heated the raw material and found different...
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Biologists and the Promise of American Life from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey
Magazine article from: Human Biology
; ...particularly in the wrangles over Darwin between Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz, its founding editor, Benjamin Silliman, and his son and successor, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., are entirely absent from this account (Brown 1989). The increasingly acrimonious...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Fire from heaven; Meteorites.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...That was part of the report of Benjamin Silliman who, together with James Kingsley...investigate. The following March, Silliman presented what they had found to...classified by the successors of Silliman and Kingsley as chondrites. That...
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George Gibbs. (1776-1833)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; ...Gibbs mansion in Newport. An inquisitive Benjamin Silliman, professor at Yale, prevailed upon...collection on exhibit at Yale, much to Silliman's joy. "It was a delightful recreation," Silliman later wrote, "to lift the covers and...
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Famous mineral localities: The Bristol Copper Mine Connecticut
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record
; ...ownership and operation of the mine. These included Benjamin Silliman Sr. and Jr., James Dana Whitney, and John M...were about to be discovered. Wheatley, Whitney and Benjamin Silliman Jr. all protested vehemently against the mine owners...
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