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  2. Sodom and Gomorrah - Wikipedia

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    Sodom and Gomorrah, or the "cities of the plain", have been used historically and in modern discourse as metaphors for homosexuality, and are the origin of the English words sodomite, a pejorative term for male homosexuals, "sod", a British vulgar slang term for male homosexuals, and sodomy, which is used in a legal context under the label ...

  3. Numeira - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] This is 200 years earlier than the current assumed date for the destruction of Sodom. [10] Excavations indicate Numeira was a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) walled settlement, though it may have been twice the size we see today. [11] Though only 30% of the site was excavated (c. 1500 m 2) between 1979 and 1983. [12]

  4. Lot's wife - Wikipedia

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    Lot's wife (center) turned into a pillar of salt during Sodom's destruction (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493). The story appears to be based in part on a folk legend explaining a geographic feature. [3] A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4]

  5. Lot (biblical person) - Wikipedia

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    As the angels continued to walk toward Sodom, Abraham pled to God on behalf of the people of Sodom, where Lot dwelt. God assured him that the city would not be destroyed if fifty righteous people were found there. He continued inquiring, reducing the minimum number for sparing the city to forty five, forty, thirty, twenty, and finally, ten. [10]

  6. Bab edh-Dhra - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of the Southern Sodom theory have put forward various hypotheses to explain the causes of its abandonment. Rast suggested an earthquake or an external attack. [ 6 ] Bitumen and petroleum deposits have been found in the area, which contain sulfur and natural gas (as such deposits normally do), and one theory suggests that a pocket of ...

  7. Tumbling Dice - AOL

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    A pastor friend has framed the situation as such: While Old Testament God, the fiery vindicator, obliterated cities of sin Sodom and Gomorrah with sudden acts of nature, patient New Testament God ...

  8. Michael Sinclair Sanders - Wikipedia

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    He is known for having searched for famous biblical sites, such as Sodom and Gomorrah, [1] [2] [3] and famous objects, like the Lost Ark of the Covenant. [4] [5]

  9. In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

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    Sodom and Gomorrah (Sodome et Gomorrhe, sometimes translated as Cities of the Plain) was published in 1921 and 1922 and was also split into two volumes. The first forty pages of Sodome et Gomorrhe initially appeared at the end of Le Côté de Guermantes II ( Bouillaguet and Rogers , 942), the remainder appearing as Sodome et Gomorrhe I (1921 ...