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276 ha. Buffer zone. 28,965 ha. Masada ( Hebrew: מְצָדָה məṣādā, 'fortress'; Arabic: جبل مسعدة) [ 1] is an ancient fortification in southern Israel, situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km (12 mi) east of Arad .
Unknown. The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus, [ 3] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans, in whose service he became a historian.
Markov (telescopic asterisms) (for example: Markov 1 in Hercules) MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image. Mayall — Nicholas Mayall (for example: globular star cluster Mayall II orbiting Messier 31, the Andromeda galaxy) Mayer (open star clusters) McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog. MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies.
July 8, 2024 at 2:15 PM. There might never be a more apt title for a Phish album than “Evolve,” the jam masters' 16th studio album and first in over four years. Just as this boundary-pushing ...
Mama-san. A mama-san or mamasan is usually a woman in a position of authority, especially one in charge of a geisha house or bar or nightclub in East Asia. [ 1] In Southeast Asia a mamasan is a woman who works in a supervisory role in certain establishments, typically those related to drinking places. Papa-san may refer to a man in a similar ...
Mays played with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field in 1948 before he went on to play the majority of his MLB career with the Giants.
In fact, according to estimates from many of the conference’s head football coaches, SEC schools are expected to spend as much as one-quarter of a billion dollars annually as a league on their ...
Masada is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981. Advertised by the network as an "ABC Novel for Television," the TV series' script is based on the 1971 novel The Antagonists by Ernest Gann, with a screenplay written by Joel Oliansky. It tells a fictionalized account of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in ...