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Quail order
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I wonder whether the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, will eat quail again after the shooting incident in south Texas last month, when he ignored the most basic safety rules in shooting at his intended target while unable to see that an elderly gentleman was in his line of fire. The birds that Mr Cheney was trying to shoot would have been either scaled or bobwhite quail, both species which take to the air only reluctantly, when put up by 'bird dogs'.
They never fly very far or very high, making Mr Cheney's negligence -- he was apparently firing into a low, late-afternoon sun -- the more ...
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The game of the name
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Sugartit, Kentucky; Pee Pee, Ohio; Shittim Gulch, Washington; Dunmovin, California...Abate is wrong to include, as he does, Shittim Gulch under the heading 'Indecorous...biblical origin ('And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom...
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News in brief
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...15, of Jerusalem, from Lake Kinneret, not far from the Shittim beach on the eastern shore where she went missing on Sunday...drops to depths of three to six meters. He noted that the Shittim beach is not supervised and there are signs warning that bathing...
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Arava Ashram
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...desert came into existence last autumn in what used to be the Shittim Nahal army outpost in the Arava. Rafeek (Tamir) Kimchi...Last September, Kimchi and a group of friends took over Shittim - half-a- dozen prefabricated houses, storerooms, greenhouses...
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Meetings with Prester John.(Poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly
; ...with human need, like those healing waters that close every wound. It's Shangri-La with salamanders swimming in fire and shittim-wood palaces with jeweled roofs. Father read me the Letter often. Finally the bulb switched on: he wants me to go there...
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Monotheistic violence. (Violence, nonviolence, peace).
Magazine article from: Buddhist-Christian Studies
; While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods...
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 "Capital (Annapolis)")
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Recreation Roundup: May 21
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis)
; ...with a coach. Registration is available online at www.quickstix.com/summerstix.html. For information, contact Sue Shittim, 410-757-9026 or Don Restly, 301-805-8196. SEVERNA PARK SOCCER: The Severna Park Flame U14 WAGS Division 2 soccer...
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Book Bytes
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...years as a furniture restorer, followed the precise building instructions given in Exodus 25 and elsewhere. Unable to obtain shittim wood, he used acacia as a close substitute. After specially treating the wood, he applied gold leaf inside and out. The...
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To Protect the Torah
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...You [second person singular] shall make. The one glaring exception is the Holy Ark, And they shall make an ark out of shittim wood... , third person plural referring to the entire nation of Israel (Exodus 25:10). Why the distinction? Secondly...
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Das Buch Josua: Forschungsgeschichte und Problemfelder
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...early (pp. 243 and 321). Yet such mistakes are rare and are unavoidable when so much material is covered. The spelling of Shittim (pp. 153-59) is a hilarious example of how many different ways you can spell a name. The heart of N.'s survey is clearly...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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KEN KESEY'S TRUE LEGACY IS `SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION'.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...blackberry, the branches crashing into creek, into streams. Finally, in the foothills, through tamarack and sugar pine, shittim bark and silver spruce - and the green and blue mosaic of Douglas fir - the actual river falls 500 feet ... and look: opens...
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