Bedwyn, Great
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Bedwyn, Great & Bedwyn, Little Wilts.
Bedewinde 778,
Bedvinde 1086 (
DB). Probably ‘place where bindweed or convolvulus grows’. OE *
bedwinde.
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Beersheba is king of world chess
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/12/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Jerusalem Post 12-12-2004 Headline: Beersheba is king of world chess Byline: GAVIN...grand masters per capita in the world is Beersheba. Better known as a biblical oasis or...later incarnation, a desert backwater, Beersheba is trading its image of squalid housing...
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Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/28/2006; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/8/1998; ; 700+ words
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Operation: Beersheba
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Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/29/2004; ; 700+ words
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Fed: Governor-general to open Beersheba memorial
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Late goal draws Beersheba with Haifa
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Barcelona humbles Hapoel Beersheba
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Beersheba
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
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Palestine
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
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Negev
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...The gateway from the north is the Negev's largest city, Beersheba, with a population estimated at 181,500 in 2002. To the...and Yehuda, Gradus. Statistical Yearbook of the Negev. Beersheba: Negev Center for Regional Development and Negev Development...
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...and regional development. The university has campuses at Beersheba and Sde Boker. Besides a medical school, there are four faculties...sciences. The student population in 2002 was 15,000. see also beersheba; negev. Miriam Simon
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