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  • in the Temple, perhaps including the Hillel the Elder himself. ==References== * Buxbaum, Yitzhak. The Life and Teachings of Hillel. Jason Aronson ...
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  • writer—who calls himself simply "The Elder" rather than "John ... more is involved than merely "the Elder's" authority or ...
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  • it was not until his son Cosimo the Elder took over in 1434 as gran ... of the Church of San Lorenzo. Cosimo the Elder's notable artistic associates ...
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  • with Rabban Gamaliel Hazaken (Gamaliel the Elder). The title Rabban was limited ... * Rabban Gamaliel Hazaken (Gamaliel the Elder) * Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel ...
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  • a person identifying himself as "The Elder" and addressed to "The ... Its author calls himself simply "the Elder." He speaks with authority ...
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  • Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher of his day in the first half of the first century C.E. He was the grandson ...
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  • ===The Role of the Elder Brother=== of the "faithful son" or "elder brother." This brother ...
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  • "was never without it" (Pliny the Elder 77 C.E. in Bostock and Riley ... * Pliny the Elder. 77 C.E. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext ...
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  • Wilson not only explored the already known Elder and Lucas Caves but later ... *Elder Cave: Named from the Elder tree, visitors would climb down ...
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  • The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark to succeed ...
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  • Pliny the Elder noted that the cucumber was a favorite of the Emperor ... Pliny the Elder describes the Italian fruit as very small, probably ...
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  • that there once was another Edda—an Elder Edda—which contained the ... Younger Edda together with the Poetic, or Elder Edda, represent the best ...
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  • the Declaration of Independence. The elder Lynch suffered a stroke that ... Unfortunately the elder Lynch was unable to attend when the Declaration ...
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  • Tinctoris must at least have known the elder composer of the Burgundian whereby he began to understand that the energy and openness of the Burgundian ...
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  • his head with oil. At this point, the elder Smith pronounced a special ... Mormon settlement in Nauvoo, Illinois. The elder Smith escaped custody and ...
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  • that many traveled to see them. Pliny the Elder remarked that few people ... * Pliny the Elder. Pliny: Natural History, Volume I, Books 1-2. Loeb ...
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  • father, George Clayton Tennyson, a rector, was the elder of two sons, but was disinherited at an early age by his father, the landowner George Tennyson ...
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  • The Lakota tell of the tribe elder who long, long ago had a vision on a mountaintop. Iktomi, the great teacher, appeared to him in the form of ...
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  • succeeding to the throne, because he had an elder brother, Nicholas, who seemed ... Alexander became heir apparent by the sudden death of his elder brother ...
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  • Hellenistic and Roman times, with Pliny the Elder (77 C.E.) considering it ... Pliny the Elder writes that he considered the turnip one of the most ...
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  • Masako had an elder brother, Hōjō Munetoki (北条宗時), and in ... and Taira clans. In 1180, Masako's elder brother Munetoki was killed ...
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  • to the region's newcomers, Joseph the Elder grew wary when settlers became ... Natives and settlers in 1855. Joseph the Elder and the other Nez Perce chiefs ...
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  • had sent both Prince Gwanghae and his elder brother Imhaegun (Prince ... appointment as Crown Prince, because his elder brother was still alive, ...
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  • was raised largely by the efforts of his elder brother (Ebrey 82). In his ... that took years to overcome, because his elder brother had not been strict ...
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  • Commons. During that time William Pitt the Elder was in opposition and to ... During the time of William Pitt the Elder's ascendancy he took ...
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  • The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States ...
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  • The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" (with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy) ...
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  • pastorate after his marriage. In 1770, the elder Hazlitt accepted yet another ... up their abode at Wem, in Shropshire. The elder son, John, was now old enough ...
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  • he began admitting pilgrims to his hermitage as an Elder. Seraphim soon became extremely popular due to his apparent healing powers and clairvoyance. ...
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  • Payments, influenced William Pitt the Elder in reestablishing the sinking ... to have influenced William Pitt the Elder in reestablishing the sinking ...
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  • piety towards parents, respect towards elder siblings, and benevolence ... piety towards parents, respect towards elder siblings, charity towards ...
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  • first, fifth, seventh and tenth) and genro (elder statesman). ... than working with a handful of genro (elder statemen) who all shared ...
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  • Bragg won an appointment as the "Elder Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide in Australia and began his ...
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  • served as secretary to his father when the elder Adams was posted as minister ... The voluminous correspondence between the elder Adams and Abigail often included ...
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  • Heathcliff is buried with Catherine (the elder), and the story concludes ... has a horrible vision of Catherine (the Elder) as a child, appearing at ...
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  • the emperor’s power. Yoshitune’s elder half-brother, Minamoto Yoritomo ... Emperor Go-Shirakawa to go to war with his elder brother. He allied himself ...
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  • ** The tree European black elder is Sambucus nigra subsp. nigra and the American black elder is Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis. ===Several species ...
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  • of John calls himself simply the presbyter (elder), and numerous theories have ... but refers to himself as the Presbyter (Elder). Eusebius, (Hist. eccl. ...
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  • [[Image:Portrait of archbishop william henry elder thomas eakins.jpeg ... Martinelli (1902), Archbishop William Henry Elder (1903), and Monsignor James ...
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  • Pliny the Elder also matter-of-factly commented on the qualities of ... loading or discharging." - Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturae 6.26 ...
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  • Kong Rong gave up the larger pears to his elder brothers and took the smallest ... every time the siblings ate pears, his elder brothers always took big ...
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  • When King Ladislaus I died, his elder nephew, King Coloman was proclaimed ... King Béla III bequeathed his kingdom unportionedly to his elder son ...
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  • Another translation, and comments on Pliny the Elder's death] – UCSB's Volcano Information Center *[http://romans.etrusia.co.uk/roman_pompeii ...
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  • It is possible he was a pupil of Hans Holbein the Elder. By 1500, he was a 'free master' and settled in the small town of Seligenstadt, where ...
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  • led to its submission to Edward the Elder in return for protection ... Danish King Eohric; this allows Edward the Elder to consolidate power. ...
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  • continued to be a prominent and respected elder statesman until his death ... continued to be a prominent and respected elder statesman until his death ...
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  • tightly-coiled ram's horn. Plinius the Elder (died 79 A.D. near Pompeii ... Pliny the Elder. Natural History http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi ...
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  • store or a vegetable shop. Kinnosuke’s elder sister found that he was ... to call his parents “grandparents.” His elder brother, who frequented geisha ...
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  • line from the hero Aegeus – belonged to the elder nobility of Thebes. It is no doubt due in part to this aristocratic background that Pindar — ...
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  • Chandra had two elder sisters, Rajalakshmi and Balaparvathi. Being ... Chandrasekhar’s elder sisters remember him as a very naughty, mischievous ...
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  • in indigenous folk music of the South. The elder Lomax was the author of the ... In the summer of 1933, the elder Lomax was commissioned by the Library ...
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