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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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sweetest from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar proverbial saying, late 16th century; used to mean that the strongest hate comes from former love.
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Countdown to Armageddon.(Gentle Breeze)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 6/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...Hebrew word Har Megido, meaning "Hill (Mount) of Megiddo." From Biblical account, the Valley of Jezreel and the Plain of Esdraelon at the foot of Mt. Megiddo were the scenes of many decisive battles and other bloody encounters in the history of Israel...
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Raising of the widow's son.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 9/13/2005; 554 words
; ...here in the Bible. The name survives today in the modern Arab village of Nein. The town has a fine view of the Plain of Esdraelon which may explain its Hebrew form naim which means "pleasant" or "delightful." But the scene that Jesus finds in today...
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60 years on, can Israel find peace? REALPOLITIK TREVOR ROYLE
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 5/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...given the Jewish population the lion's share, including the fertile coastal strip between Haifa and Jaffa, the Plain of Esdraelon and eastern Galilee. At the same time, the majority Arab population had been granted western and central Galilee, Samaria...
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ARMAGEDDON IN POLITICS.
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...holocaust on this earth, because [the Bible] says that blood shall flow up to the bridles of the horses in the Valley of Esdraelon for some 200 miles. And it speaks of horrible happenings that one can only relate, in Second Peter 3, to the melting of...
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The presentation in the temple; Luke 2:22-40 or 2:22, 39-40.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 12/30/2005; 566 words
; ...To guard" and "to blossom." The first fits Nazarethas location atop a hill, seemingly guarding the vast plains of Esdraelon. The second, on the other hand, has a messianic connotation: The long-expected Messiah is the "blossom" or "shoot...
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Gardner adds surprise to summer of Sargent
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...patterning of the latter than to the sublime, God-in-nature majesty of the former. Sargent's 1905 "The Plains of Esdraelon," a patchwork desert, is very like Coburn's expansive but flattened black-and-white landscape photograph "The Dragon...
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Gold Fever
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/25/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Meanwhile, the British Fourth Cavalry Division swept past Megiddo and thundered down the fields of Armageddon across the Plain of Esdraelon. At the other end of the Valley of Jezreel, a company of German engineers near the West Bank town of Jenin began their hasty...
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'And the Sphinx smiled' Aubrey and Hilda Abbott, Darwin, 1937-46.
Magazine article from: Sabretache; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Mounted Corps Memorial in Canberra on 19 April 1968 (5), Abbott's prime memory was of the 12th Light Horse out on the Esdraelon Plain just after the breakthrough of September 19th: In clear sunshine, between us and the sea, a whole division of cavalry...
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Armageddon: Will It Happen This Year?
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx; 5/5/1999; 700+ words
; ...Armageddon," is a corruption of the Hebrew "Har Megiddo," with Har meaning "hill" or "mount." Dominating the Plain of Esdraelon, a green, fertile valley of about 15 by 5 miles, the ancient city of Megiddo existed as early as the fourth millennium...
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The Middle Paleolithic: Early modern humans and Neandertals in the Levant
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Galilee (Meighen 1998). Qafzeh Cave is perched on a steep mountain slope southeast of Nazareth overlooking the central Esdraelon Plain (Hovers 1997). The Amud Valley, northwest of the Sea of Galilee, contains three important MP cave sites, Zuttiyeh...
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Esdraelon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Esdraelon [Gr. for Jezreel ], fertile plain...Once a swampy, malarial lowland, Esdraelon has been drained and turned into one...battleground, especially around Megiddo . Esdraelon is also called the plain of Jezreel or...
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Palestine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...In N Palestine the ridge is interrupted by the Plain of Esdraelon (Jezreel) and the connecting valley of Bet Shean (Beisan...near which rises Mt. Tabor. To the south of the Plain of Esdraelon the broad ridge stretches unbroken to the Negev. First there...
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Gilboa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Gilboa , Arabic Jabal Faqquah, range of hills, eastern spur of the Samarian Hills, located at the southeastern edge of the Esdraelon plain, NE Israel; rising to 1,630 ft (497 m) at Mt. Gilboa. In the Bible, Saul was defeated and severely wounded...
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Galilee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Galilee , region, N Israel, roughly the portion north of the plain of Esdraelon . Galilee was the chief scene of the ministry of Jesus. The Sea of Galilee (see Galilee, Sea of ), the countryside, and the...
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Mount Carmel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mount Carmel [Heb.,=garden land], mountain ridge, NW Israel, extending 13 mi (21 km) NW from the plain of Esdraelon to the Mediterranean Sea, where it ends in a promontory marking the southern limit of the Bay of Haifa. Its highest...
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