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Lithograph of Lod by David Roberts, 1839. The city was renamed Georgiopolis after local martyr St George, patron saint of England, who was born Lod and buried on the site of the basilica of Georgius, first mentioned about 530 by pilgrim Theodosius. It suffered gravely under pagan Persian border incursions and faded at the advent of Arab Muslims.
The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus of Nazareth written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing David Copperfield. The Life of Our Lord was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens's death. [1]
1997 Solomon, a sequel to David, with Max von Sydow playing an older King David. [173] 2009 Kings, a re-imagining loosely based on the biblical story, with David played by Christopher Egan. [174] King David is the focus of the second episode of History Channel's Battles BC documentary, which detailed all of his military exploits in the bible. [175]
Lod (Hebrew: לוד, or fully vocalized לֹד), also known as Lydda (Ancient Greek: Λύδδα) and Lidd (Arabic: اللِّد, romanized: al-Lidd, or اللُّد, al-Ludd), is a city 15 km (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv and 40 km (25 mi) northwest of Jerusalem in the Central District of Israel.
The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the ancestor of the ibn Yahya family. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see ...
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The movie tells the story of five Mexican American high schoolers — Joe Treviño, Gene Vasquez, Felipe Romero, Mario Lomas and Lupe Felan — who were caddies at a country club in Del Rio, Texas ...
Boris and Gleb (Old East Slavic: Борисъ и Глѣбъ, romanized: Borisŭ i Glěbŭ), [a] respective Christian names Roman (Романъ, Romanŭ) and David (Давꙑдъ, Davydŭ), [citation needed] were the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus' after its Christianization. Their feast day is observed on July 24 (August 6 Gregorian ...