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Photograph of the face of the seal, and drawing illustrating its construction from black and white onyx. The name Jaazaniah appears on a sixth-century BC onyx seal discovered during the excavation of the Tell en-Nasbeh site, likely the biblical city of Mizpah in Benjamin, near Jerusalem, [4] conducted between 1926 and 1935 by William Frederic Badè of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley ...
Gonatus onyx is in the class Cephalopoda and in the phylum Mollusca. It is also known as the clawed arm hook squid or the black-eyed squid . It got these names from the characteristic black eye and from its two arms with clawed hooks on the end that extend a bit further than the other arms.
Onyx International Inc, a company producing the Onyx Boox ebook readers; Onyx (satellite), a code name often associated with newer variants of the Lacrosse satellite; Onyx (interception system), a Swiss intelligence gathering system; Onyx-015, an adenovirus being researched for cancer treatment
Onycha is a play on the word onyx which was a gem. The onyx most esteemed by the ancients was the black gem. [30] The Hebrew word for onyx was shoham and “Braun traces shoham to the Arabic sachma,'blackness:' 'Of such a color,' says he, 'are the Arabian [onyxes], which have a black ground-color.'
The Chinese classic Book of Rites mentions the Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise (Dark Warrior), Azure Dragon, and White Tiger as heraldic animals on war flags; [3] they were the names of asterisms associated with the four cardinal directions: South, North, East, and West, respectively.
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
The tattooed corpse of a woman was found bizarrely stuffed in a refrigerator dumped in some New Jersey woods — and cops say they need the public’s help identifying her.
The new off-campus lessons provide an alternative to Bible study that's offered through the religious release program and was prompted by the wishes of local parents, leaders of the Satanic Temple ...