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Lot's wife (center) turned into a pillar of salt during Sodom's destruction (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493). The story appears to be based in part on a folk legend explaining a geographic feature. [3] A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4]
A sea-stack formation in Marsden Bay, UK, is also called 'Lot's wife' because of the shape and location of the feature. Large amounts of salts were deposited in the shallow tropical Zechstein Sea that extended from the Pennines over to Germany and Poland in Europe during the Permian period.
The "Lot's Wife" pillar on Mount Sodom, Israel, made of halite Salt cave in Mount Sodom Bedded halite at Mount Sodom. Mount Sodom (Hebrew: הר סדום, Har Sedom) is a hill along the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel; it is part of the Judaean Desert Nature Reserve. [1]
John Leuzzi, USA TODAY NETWORK. Updated December 8, 2024 at 2:11 PM. One year after sneaking into the College Football Playoff, Alabama football was left out of the newly formed 12-team CFP.
Martin Short and Melissa McCarthy teamed up for an aggressive approach to getting the last parking spot during a "Saturday Night Live" sketch with Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman.
Hildegarde Lasell married filmmaker, radiologist, and literary editor James Sibley Watson Jr. in 1916. [13] Poet E. E. Cummings was an usher at their wedding. [14] They had two children, Michael (1918–2012), who became a scientist and musician, [15] and Jeanne (1921–1991).
Colin Jost couldn't correctly answer a question about wife Scarlett Johansson when he played a round of "Pop Culture Jeopardy!" on the TODAY Show Dec. 3.
A rock formation nearby venerated as Lot's wife as a pillar of salt. The Monastery of St Lot is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Christians believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). [1]