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Shechem is the first city mentioned in Bible; when Abraham and Jacob visited it, the city was a stronghold of an empire ruled from Egypt. It was during this early era at the very beginning of what is called the "Hyksos" age (13th century B.C.) that Shechem's inhabitants enclosed the sacred place within a large courtyard, with rooms for priests and pilgrims adjoining it. They also erected a fortification wall outside it to put the sacred area within the confines of the city...
Shock Effects. Last week Moscow heard what Shostakovich had composed instead, and the thin jokes vanished in a wave of applause. A masterful 13th Symphony rang through the Moscow Conservatory with a power and daring that proved that 20 years of apologizing for the art-for-art beauty of his early work had not, after all, sapped Shostakovich's strength...
John Pringle and Dave Abramson picked up five first places and three pool records between them Saturday, while leading the varsity swimming team to its 13th consecutive victory, a 53 to 42 win over Navy...
Though his appointment was greeted coolly by Nairobi's Blimps, Kenya's new Governor, its 13th, has a feeling for history and an unaffected sense of equality with Britain's former subjects that has earned him the friendship of native leaders from Bangalore to Brunei. To hold Kenya together, as the East African Standard warned last week, he will also need "the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job and uncommon good luck...
...June 18, 1708, at a Philadelphia banquet for John Marshall, one of the three Commissioners in what became known as the XYZ affair, Harper proposed the 13th toast of the evening: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." The remark was later credited to Pinckney and although he never denied it publicly, he did so privately several times...