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Word: nebuchadnezzar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anointed by God; Most Holy American Emperor, Imperial King Tom I, Of The Royal Raphia Family, of ancient Babylon on the great river Euphrates. AmRaphael being the First King mentioned in the Bible, Book of Genesis, 14th Chapter, Verse I 'Amraphael, King of Babylon' and his descendant Nebuchadnezzar being the First World King; whose wonderful Irish-Phonecian Sailors, rounded Arabia; founded the great City of Raphia. on the Mediterranean; Sailed through the Pillars of Hercules and discovered 'New Raphia' the America of today, the 'Atlantis' of the ancient Greeks; Our Greater General Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nay | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...expedition members, with Sir Charles off attending to other matters, did not feel like withholding. One was a seal inscribed in Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...more than a year an expedition headed by Dr. J. L. Starkey of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, has been working at Tel ad-Duwair, southwest of Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Palestine Potsherds | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...three weeks' mourning period to commemorate both destructions of The Temple, by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B. C., by Titus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tisha b'Ab Without Mats | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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