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Who Needs Tear Gas? Seoul Puts Policewomen Out Front
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Don Kirk
International Herald Tribune
02-23-2000
The national police agency has devised what it believes to be a sure-fire way to turn off demonstrations without firing the peppery tear gas that once floated over the center of Seoul and other large cities during the spring riot season. ''We are placing women on the front line,'' Lee Moo Young, commissioner-general of the agency, said Tuesday. ''There is no need for tear gas. Maybe we'll see tear-gas bombs replaced by makeup in our police stations.'' While masks and shields remain the traditional garb of police units rushed to potential ...
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PLOTTING ANTIOCHUS'S PERSECUTION
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; ...customs strange to the land." Antiochus IV's persecution of Jewish religious...the Jews in Jerusalem, including Antiochus s own Seleucid forebears, were...traditions.2 According to Josephus, Antiochus III, whose defeat of the Ptolemaic...
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On Chanukah, We Met the Enemy, And They Was Us
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; ...the scene. Second, Antiochus IV had in fact been educated...from his own father, Antiochus III, who had shown special...held by the pious Onias III, who (unluckily for...Jason, knowing that Antiochus needed huge sums of money...
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The robbery & murder behind the story of Hanukka
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; ...succeeded to the throne of his father Antiochus III, aka Antiochus the Great. Antiochus had wrested...murder and installed himself as Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The matter went...legitimate High Priest Onias III, who had been slandered by Simon...
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The Book of Daniel
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Did the Maccabees betray the Hanukka revolution?
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; ...wished. In 198 BCE, the Jews of Jerusalem assisted Antiochus III - the father of the megalomaniac king of the Hanukka...the Judean capital from the Egyptian Ptolemy dynasty. Antiochus III rewarded the Jews by restoring those parts of Jerusalem...
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; ...Syrian Greek) Kingdom, under Antiochus IV - and the re- establishment...In 200 BCE, the Seleucid King, Antiochus III, conquered the Land of Israel...on the Jews, his second son, Antiochus IV, who acceded to the throne...
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What miracle of the oil?
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...original name Joseph, bribed the Seleucid Emperor Antiochus III to the tune of 360 talents of silver to wrest the position...brother Honia (Onias), the legitimate high priest. Antiochus III had been good to the Jews, as they had opened the gates...
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Hannibal's Place In History
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A Hanukka story... for Purim
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; ...the Seleucids and Ptolemies, between the empires of Antiochus III (the Great) and Ptolemy IV Philopater. The battle...beloved Egypt. The Seleucid army was well organized, Antiochus the Great had a reputation for invincibility. The night...
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Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death.(Review) (book review)
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; ...succession and some reigns proved very long indeed. Antiochus III ruled for thirty-six years, Seleucus I for twenty-four, and Seleucus II and Antiochus II another thirty-five years between them. Four rulers...
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