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  • shore. At Glens Falls, the Hudson turns west to Corinth before continuing north; at Corinth, the Adirondack Railway begins to run along the Hudson ...
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  • Anicetus. Hegesippus also mentions his visit to Corinth and other churches on his way to Rome, finding that "in each city all is according to the ...
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  • The action of the play is concentrated in Corinth, where Jason has brought ... does not know what Medea is going to do in Corinth, but promises to give her ...
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  • dominant in Greek affairs: Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes. Each of them ... the leading commercial power, although Corinth remained a serious rival ...
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  • crossed into Greece, where he took possession of Corinth, Sicyon and Megara (308 B.C.E.). In 306, a great fleet under Demetrius attacked Cyprus, and ...
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  • Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, Delos, Priene Akragas, ... the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Corinth was laid out on three terraces ...
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  • second only to Athena in importance; while in Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia, he was the chief god of the polis. Dillon, 131, 138-139; ...
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  • Lebena (Crete), Pergamon in Asia Minor, and Corinth. Dillon (1997). ... Saint Paul's sermon to the people of Corinth (site of a famed Asclepieion ...
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  • The Epistle to the Romans was probably written at Corinth, and transcribed by Tertius ( |Romans|16:22|KJV ). Phoebe ( |Romans|16:1|KJV ...
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  • of Lepanto, at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth. Byron employed a fire-master ... *The Siege of Corinth (1816) *Parisina (1816) *The Prisoner Of Chillon ...
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  • in Greece, the most notable perhaps being at Corinth and at Thebes. The government of the Roman republic is often described as "oligarchical." ...
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  • the walls of Constantinople and the Isthmus of Corinth. All subsequent attempts to confront the Bulgarian army at Katasyrtai, Aquae Calidae and Pegae ...
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  • that the 2 Thessalonians was probably written from Corinth not many months after 1 Thessalonians. Apparently the first letter was misunderstood, especially ...
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  • from a very restricted area around Corinth (Greece), where fired tiles began to replace thatched roofs at two temples of Apollo and Poseidon ...
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  • Dionysius of Corinth wrote: "Both of them (Peter and Paul) alike planted in our Corinth and taught us; and both alike, teaching similarly ...
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  • 148 or 149 C.E., Galen studied abroad in Smyrna, Corinth and Alexandria. Galen later declared that students should "…look at the human skeleton ...
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  • stopped one of his former students, Menippus of Corinth, from marrying a vampire. Apollonius appeared as a guest at the wedding festivities before the ...
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  • from individual bishops, such as Bakchylus of Corinth. These letters unanimously agreed with Victor that Easter was to be observed on Sunday. ...
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  • winter of 57-58 C.E., during Paul's stay in Corinth (Acts [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2020:2-3;&version=31; 20:2–3 ...
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  • ) as well as Corinth, Macedonia, Ephesus and greater Asia. Timothy was also noted for coming to Paul’s aid when Paul was put into prison ( ...
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