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Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ βɨˈlɐ̃j]; literally: Bethlehem Tower), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.
In The Tower, people don’t speak up, they don’t say "No", and we know historically, in any place where bad things are happening, good people need to speak up, and when they don’t, catastrophe ensues. The Tower is a story. Saying all police are like the police in The Tower is like saying all kings are like Lear. But there do need to be ...
The biblical record locates it near the present-day city of Bethlehem. So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), and Jacob set up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day. Israel [Jacob] journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. (Gen 35:19-21 NRSV)
Love Is Gone" is a 2007 song by David Guetta and Chris Willis Love Is Gone may also refer to: "Love Is Gone", a song by Slander (DJs) and Dylan Matthew, from the 2022 album Thrive "Love Is Gone", a song by G-Eazy from the 2017 album The Beautiful & Damned; Love Is Gone by Dommin, 2010
'"Mountain of the Little Paradise"') is an ancient fortress located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Jerusalem and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southeast of Bethlehem. It is located between the villages of Beit Ta'mir, Za'atara and Jannatah. It is identified with the site of Herodium, built by King of Judea Herod the Great between 23 and 15 BCE.
Additionally, the phrase "slouches towards Bethlehem" in the last line is referenced in the title of Joan Didion's collection of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), [1] Joni Mitchell's musical adaptation of the poem "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1991), [21] Robert Bork's non-fiction work Slouching Towards Gomorrah (1996), Daniel ...
Control Tower – Robert P. Davis; Volume 131 – #4. Sadie Shapiro, Matchmaker – Robert Kimmel Smith; The Cradle Will Fall – Mary Higgins Clark; Man, Woman and Child – Erich Segal; Bess and Harry: An American Love Story – Jhan Robbins; The Wolf and the Buffalo – Elmer Kelton; Volume 132 – #5. No Job for a Lady – Phyllis Lose, V.M.D.
The setting is mostly historical, with some historical characters and descriptions of particular locations. Fantasy elements include occasional magical feats, artifacts, and non-human characters. The German word Narrenturm means "the Tower of Fools", a tower in which, in the Middle Ages, people suffering from rare mental diseases were isolated.