: Massada, for all its heroism, was a disaster in our history ; It is not our purpose or our right to plunge to destruction in order to bequeath a legend of martyrdom to posterity ; Zionism was to mark the end of our glorious deaths and the beginning of a new path leading to life.

* The mass suicide by the zealots and followers of Jon Bodan may refer to the mass suicide committed by the Jews of Qumran at Massada during a Jewish revolt against the occupying Romans.

* S. Blass, Water in Strife and Action ( Hebrew ), published by Massada limited, Israel, 1973

Large pieces of debris from Massada, a mountaintop-fortress in Israel, whose Jewish inhabitants killed themselves to avoid being captured or killed by the Roman soldiers rushing in, would be spread over the concrete plate.

Known alternatively as the " Northern Program ," " The Carmel Plan ," " The Massada Plan ,” and the " Musa Dagh Plan ,” it was envisioned as a bastion against Nazi incursions and to hold out against them for at least three to four months.

In the 1980s, bands like Massada were popular.

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* Massada ( band ), a Dutch-Moluccan percussion-rock band.

According to a 1949 book by the Jewish National Fund, the village was destroyed following attacks on the neighboring Jewish villages of Shaar Hagolan and Massada.

Among his novels are Michel Ezra Safra and Sons, My Sister the Bride ( published 1979 in English by Massada Press ), The Great Confession, and The Cedars of Lebanon.

Among his books of stories and essays are With Me from Lebanon, Marrano Mountain ( published 1992 in English by Massada Press ), Calamus and Cinnamon, A Kibbutz is a Kibbutz is a Kibbutz, From the Source, and Autumn Stories, Fall Colors.

Glenside also contains one of Adelaide's two synagogues, and a large number of Adelaide's Jewish community lives around the area, which also contains the Jewish Massada College.

Established in the 1980s, Vardia is located in the upper Carmel, between the Hadar Hacarmel and Romema.

The only available field that could be used near flood-ravaged Montpelier was on the Towne farm off upper Main Street, a narrow hillside where takeoffs and landings could be safely made only under light wind conditions.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.

In general, the guitar's soundbox can be thought of as composed of two connected chambers: the upper bouts and lower bouts ( a bout being the rounded corner of an instrument body ), which meet at the waist, or the narrowest part of the body face near the soundhole.

Other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek.

The invitation to cut is made by placing the pack, face downward, on the table near the player who is to cut: who then lifts the upper portion of the pack clear of the lower portion and places it alongside.

These frequencies are at the upper range of human hearing and are inaudible to many people ; however, some people ( especially children ) will perceive a high-pitched tone near an operating television CRT.

The Casiquiare canal connects the upper Orinoco, 9 miles below the mission of Esmeraldas, with the Rio Negro affluent of the Amazon River near the town of San Carlos.

The upper strap button is usually located near or at the top ( neck end ) of the body: on the upper body curve, at the tip of the upper " horn " ( on a double cutaway ), or at the neck joint ( heel ).

At the upper end of the Gallery on the right-hand side there is a hole near the roof which opens into a short tunnel by which access can be gained to the lowest of the Relieving Chambers.

Widest at its northern end near San Pedro Sula, the depression narrows as it follows the upper course of the Río Humuya.

At the instant when the flow is “ turned on ”, the flow is undeflected downstream of the airfoil and there are two stagnation points on the airfoil ( where the flow velocity is zero ): one near the leading edge on the bottom surface, and another on the upper surface near the trailing edge.

In the upper jaw, a compressed, sharp, pointed laniariform incisor near the hinder edge of the premaxilla is followed in the male at least by a moderate-sized, pointed, curved true canine in the anterior part of the maxilla.

The upper Karnali rises inside Tibet near sacred Lake Manasarovar and Mount Kailash.

The upper Niger, from the source past the trading city of Timbuktu to the bend in the current river, once emptied into a now-gone lake, while the lower Niger started in hills near that lake and flowed south into the Gulf of Guinea.

The salute is performed with a flat hand, palm facing forwards ; the upper arm is horizontal and the tip of the fingers come near the corner of the eyes.

In 1851 he started his famous exploration of the upper Zambezi River, and in 1855 he became the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya, the waterfalls on the Zambezi River, which he named after Queen Victoria, and the Zambian town near the falls is named after him.

Still, the lower thrust-to-weight ratio of nuclear thermal rockets versus chemical rockets ( which have thrust-to-weight ratios of 70: 1 ) and the large tanks necessary for liquid hydrogen storage mean that solid-core engines are best used in upper stages where vehicle velocity is already near orbital, in space " tugs " used to take payloads between gravity wells, or in launches from a lower gravity planet, moon or minor planet where the required thrust is lower.

They conducted a survey of the upper Yangtze River in the spring of 1945 and, disguised as coolies, conducted a detailed three-month survey of the Chinese coast from Shanghai to Kitchioh Wan, near Hong Kong.

It is thick near the grip and measures in length along its upper edge.

In 4 CE, Tiberius entered Germania and subjugated the Cananefates in Germania Inferior, the Chatti near the upper Weser River, and the Bructeri south of the Teutoburg Forest and led his army across the Weser.

The 300 Hz lower band edge in this case is treated as " near zero ", being a small fraction of the upper band edge.

This neighborhood had its greatest development in the Nasrid era, and therefore largely maintains the urban fabric of this period, with narrow streets arranged in an intricate network that extends from the upper area, called San Nicolás, to the river Darro and Calle Elvira, located in Plaza Nueva.

In the upper part of the town are the cathedral, the town hall and the Medici Fortress ( Fortezza Medicea ), from which the main streets branch off towards the lower part as far as the gates.

In mid-century the rich, temporarily, and the upper middle class more permanently filled the brownstone row houses that filled Murray Hill's streets, the Brick Presbyterian Church followed its congregation ; selling its site facing City Hall Park, it rebuilt in 1857 closer to its congregation, on the smoothed brow of Murray Hill, at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street.

The picturesque narrow streets up the hill lead to the so-called " upper town " where the Lauenburg castle is located.

Another theory has it that Lady Godiva's " nakedness " might refer to her riding through the streets stripped of her jewellery, the trademark of her upper class rank.

Piedmont's major streets include Oakland Avenue, which runs from Piedmont's small city center down into Oakland ; Highland Avenue, which divides Piedmont into upper and lower sections ; Moraga Avenue, which runs near the city's northern border ; and Grand Avenue, which runs near Piedmont's western border.

The interiors were made to mimic streets of a city, with wide hallways and balconies on upper floors.

Paving stones, roof tiles, and flowerpots from the upper windows ... began to rain down on the soldiers in the streets ".

In the place of the garage and of a vacant development site on the southeast corner of Dundas and Bay streets, a new wing of the Eaton Centre was opened in 2006, containing Canadian Tire and Best Buy, with Ryerson University's Faculty of Business and a new parking garage with 574 spaces on the upper levels.

The square is one of London's largest and is divided into six compartments by the upper end of Kings Road ( northeast of Sloane Square ), a main road, now busy with traffic, that occupies its long axis, and two smaller cross streets.

Current plans are for new upper level streets in the area as part of the Lakeshore East development.

In the marble streets were marble pillars, the upper parts of which were carven into the images of grave bearded men.

Originally, travel agencies largely catered to middle and upper class customers, but the post-war boom in mass-market package holidays resulted in travel agencies on the main streets of most British towns, catering to a working-class clientele, looking for a convenient way to book overseas beach holidays.

Remnants of these two Roman viæ still exist under the modern roads Rua do António Ricardo Rodrigues and Rua do José Luís de Morais ( the town's two main streets during the Middle Ages, which connected the upper and lower districts of Sacavém ).

Urban development continued, including the marking out of more streets in the newer " upper town " and its integration with the old town, and demolition of the walls and gates of the old town ( several churches were also demolished ).

Developed by Walter H. Leimert ( for whom it is named ) beginning in 1928 and designed by the Olmsted brothers ( sons of New York Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted ), Leimert Park was one of the first comprehensively planned communities in Southern California designed for upper and middle-income families, and was considered a model of urban planning for its time: automobile traffic near schools and churches was minimized, utility wires were buried or hidden from view in alleys, and densely planted trees lined its streets.

The A45 road divides the upper part of the village from several older, lower streets.

The upper part was profoundly impacted by Turkish influence, with narrow streets ; whereas the lower part retained its Macedonian roots, crossed with wide streets and modern public buildings.

The British Benzol coke ovens, which closed on Christmas Eve 1986, at the top of upper Navigation street, next to Tynywern Terraces, aptly named ' The White City ' mainly because the streets and houses were always dirty due to the coke ovens being so close and the coal dust stirred up by the emptying of the wagons into the hoppers.

Student parking is available in both upper and lower parking lots and along campus streets.

Generally, the upper levels of the multi-level streets usually serve local traffic.

When the Illinois Center development was built on the east side of downtown, a new upper level was built, making most streets in that area three levels.

Elsewhere in Chicago, some streets have two levels, with the lower level for through traffic and service vehicles and the upper level for other local traffic.