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The Samaritans (/ s ə ˈ m ær ɪ t ən z /; Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠠࠌࠝࠓࠩࠉࠌ Šā̊merīm; Hebrew: שומרונים Šōmrōnīm; Arabic: السامريون as-Sāmiriyyūn), often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. [2]
Writer, critic, and a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group [1] [4] Michael Straight: Trinity: Magazine publisher, novelist, and Soviet spy [3] Saxon Sydney-Turner: early 1900s Trinity: British civil servant and a member of Bloomsbury Group [6] Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Trinity: Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom [4] [8] George Derwent Thomson ...
Archaeological excavations have revealed that the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim was constructed during the 5th century BCE, when the region was under Persian rule. [7] Built at the mountain's highest point, it was the first structure erected at this sacred site [7] [13] and was seemingly completed around 400 BCE.
Alfred McAlpine plc was a British construction firm headquartered in Hooton, Cheshire. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Carillion in 2008. The origins of Alfred McAlpine are strongly associated with the businessman Alfred McAlpine , a son of 'Concrete' Bob McAlpine , and the north western operations of Sir ...
It was founded in 1903 by a group of prominent men who belonged to other New York City private clubs, such as the Knickerbocker Club and the Union Club. [1] The name is derived from the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem The Brook , whose lines "For men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever" were consistent with the intention that the club would ...
Pauline Stafford comments that "Alfred's dominance in the 890s over Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, was as debatable at the time as it still is." [ 56 ] In the view of Ann Williams , "though he accepted West Saxon overlordship, Æthelred behaved rather as a king of Mercia than an ealdorman", [ 52 ] and Charles Insley states that Mercia ...
Pithos A shows five figures. There are a bull and calf. [1] A seated musician or weaver is to one side. An inscription in the pithos mentions "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah."
Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (3 January 1938 – 16 June 2021) was a British educator, hereditary peer, and Crossbench member of the House of Lords. [ 2 ] Early life and education