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The attribution of this particular monument to Absalom was quite persistent, although the Book of Samuel reports that Absalom's body was covered over with stones in a pit in the Wood of Ephraim (2 Samuel 18:17). For centuries, it was the custom among passersby—Jews, Christians and Muslims—to throw stones at the monument. Residents of ...
Tenth Street Historic District may identify either a Dallas Landmark District or a National Register Historic District encompassing parts of the Tenth Street Freedman's Town. Only a portion of the original nucleus and subsequent expansion of the Tenth Street Freedman's Town prior to the Second World War is protected by the local historic ...
Tenth Street Studio Building at 51 West 10th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in New York City, photographed in 1870 Tenth Street Studio Building photographed in 1938. The Tenth Street Studio Building, constructed in New York City in 1857, was the first modern facility designed solely to serve the needs of artists. It became the center of ...
The inscription on the monument mentions the "sons of Hezir", meaning: the descendants of Hezir. The Hebrew term is bnei Hezir, usually written in English as Benei Hazir. The common misspelling Hazir is clearly wrong, since that means pig in Hebrew. In the 19th century Westerners still identified the monument with the tomb of St. James the Apostle.
The Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library, once known as the Jefferson Market Courthouse, is a National Historic Landmark located at 425 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), on the southwest corner of West 10th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, on a triangular plot formed by Greenwich Avenue and West 10th Street.
The North Country Honors the Mountain Committee designed the monument and gave instruction to Grant Raymond, who has a history with the 10th Mountain Division. The monument has become a symbol for ...
Absalom's dead body was thrown into a pit by the troops and they heaped stones over him; this was not a respectable burial (cf. Joshua 7:26; 8:29), but Absalom had during his lifetime erected a memorial for himself in the Jerusalem area (verse 18) and this monument could be the one related to the Tomb of Absalom in the Kidron Valley. [17]
War memorial honouring Britain’s fallen soldiers designed by Sir Edward Lutyens in 1920 and has stood as centrepiece of National Service of Remembrance ever since