Samaritan
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Samaritan a member of a people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times, or of the modern community claiming descent from them, adhering to a form of Judaism accepting only its own ancient version of the Pentateuch as Scripture.
In the New Testament, the enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans gave especial point to the story (in John ch. 4) of Jesus's asking for water from the woman of Samaria, and to the parable of the
good Samaritan (see below).
In the UK,
the Samaritans (taking their name from the parable) are an organization which counsels the suicidal and others in distress, mainly through a telephone service.
good Samaritan a charitable or helpful person, with reference to the parable told by Jesus in Luke ch. 10 about a man who ‘fell among thieves’ when travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho. He was left lying by the side of the road, and the first two people who saw him, a priest and a Levite, ‘passed by on the other side’. It was the third traveller, a Samaritan, who took pity on him and succoured him.
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Who salted the sample? (Benjamin Silliman, Jr.'s analysis of a Californian oil sample)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 1/1/2010; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...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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Fire from heaven; Meteorites.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/23/2006; 700+ words
; ...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; 11/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...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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Silliman Sr., Benjamin (1779-1864)
Book article from: American Eras
Benjamin Silliman Sr. (1779-1864) Sources Scientist and educator Yale. Benjamin Silliman Sr. was born in Connecticut in 1779...1818. In the 1840s, with his son Benjamin Silliman Jr., he founded a private laboratory...
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Benjamin Silliman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Benjamin Silliman The most prominent and influential...America during the early 19th century, Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was a chemist, naturalist, and editor. Benjamin Silliman was born on Aug. 8, 1779, in what...
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Silliman, Benjamin
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Silliman, Benjamin (1779–1864), educator...Edward Hitchcock, James Dwight Dana, Benjamin Silliman Jr., Oliver P. Hubbard, and Charles...Fulton and and Elizabeth H. Thomson , Benjamin Silliman, 1779–1864: Pathfinder...
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Mineralogy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...colleges shortly before 1800. Benjamin Waterhouse, a Rhode Island Quaker...curricula. The leading figure was Benjamin Silliman, appointed professor of chemistry...natural science at Yale in 1802. Silliman was active as a teacher, editor...
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Norton, John Pitkin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...this end, Norton attended the lectures given by Benjamin Silliman, Sr., Denison Olmsted, and other faculty members...learned experimental chemistry and mineralogy in Benjamin Silliman, Jr. ’ s private laboratory. In 1842...
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