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Kidron was originally settled in 1819 by a group of Swiss Mennonites wishing to escape religious persecution and poor farming conditions in their homeland in the Sonnenberg area of Switzerland near the Jura Mountains. In Switzerland, the Swiss Mennonites were referred to as "Die Stillen im Lande" meaning "the quiet people in the country." They ...
Like the founders of Kidron, the early settlers of Sugarcreek, Ohio, 20 miles from Sugar Creek township, in Tuscarawas County, also came from the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The settlers of Sugarcreek, however, arrived probably a decade or two later than their Kidron neighbors in the 1830s and 1840s, and were part of the Reformed Church ...
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBE (born 2 May 1961), [citation needed] is a British politician. She is an advocate for children's rights in the digital world [ 1 ] and has played a role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world.
Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the ...
Kidron may refer to: Kidron (surname) Qatra, thought to be the biblical site of Kidron mentioned in the first Book of Maccabees; Kidron Valley, a valley near Jerusalem. Kidron, Israel, a moshav near Gedera, which is named after a biblical settlement. Kidron, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Ohio, United States
Michael Kidron (20 September 1930 – 25 March 2003) [1] was a British cartographer. He was one of the early founders of the International Socialists (forerunners of the Socialist Workers Party ; SWP) through the 1960s and 1970s, and the first editor of International Socialism journal. [ 2 ]
A source of confusion is the fact that the modern name "Kidron Valley" (Nahal Kidron in Hebrew) applies to the entire length of a long wadi, which starts north of the Old City of Jerusalem and ends at the Dead Sea, while the biblical names Nahal Kidron, Emek Yehoshafat, King’s Valley etc. might refer to certain parts of this valley located in ...
Yverdon-les-Bains is a university town, hosting the School of Business and Engineering Vaud, a public university with over 2000 students and largest branch of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, distributed over three adjacent sites at Yverdon: Route de Cheseaux, Centre St-Roch, and Centre Y-Parc.