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The following is a translation of a portion of an account of the Exilarchy in the Arabic period, written by Nathan ha-Babli in the 10th century, and included in Abraham Zacuto's " Yuhasin " and in Neubauer's " Mediæval Jewish Chronicles ," ii.
Other works he says that he translated include a 2006 annotated translation of Abraham Zacuto's 15th century history of the Jews, Sefer Hayuhasin ( The Book of Lineage ).
According to a manuscript in the possession of the Alliance Israélite Universelle containing those parts of Abraham Zacuto's Sefer Yuḥasin that are omitted in Samuel Shullam's edition, Moses was descended from a Narbonne family distinguished for its erudition, his great-grandfather, Abun, his grandfather, Moses ben Abun, and his father, Jacob ben Moses ben Abun ( called " ha-Navi "), all having been presidents of the Narbonne yeshivah.
Abraham Zacuto ben Samuel was professor of Astronomy at Salamanca, and afterward astronomer-royal to Emmanuel of Portugal, who had previously been advised by a Jewish astronomer, Rabbi Joseph Vecinho, a pupil of Abraham Zacuto, as to the project put before him by Christopher Columbus, who, in carrying it out, made use of Zacuto's " Almanac " and " Tables.

Abraham and principal
Lemaire states in Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple that the principal points of the biblical tradition of Solomon are generally trustworthy.
The school has made headlines several times, most recently when some of its pupils refused to study Shakespeare due to his alleged anti-Semitic views and the school's principal, Rabbi Abraham Pinter saluted the girls for having pride in their beliefs.
* John Bingham-Republican congressman, judge advocate in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination, prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson, principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The list also includes Rabbis Shlomo Teichman ( mathematics ) founder and dean of Bais Yaakov Academy, Shlomo Braunstein ( statistics ) rosh yeshiva and principal, Shlomo Ribner ( psychology ) psychologist and rosh yeshiva, Moshe Homnick ( psychology ), Ahron Soloveichik ( law ) rosh yeshiva, Zecharia Dor-Shav ( Dershowitz ) ( psychology ) educator, Aharon Lichtenstein ( literature ) rosh yeshiva, Dr Abraham J. Tannenbaum ( education ), Joseph Thurm ( information technology ), Naftoli Meir Langsam ( education ), Yedidyah Langsam ( chemistry & computer science ), Chaim Feuerman ( education ), Zvhil-Mezbuz Rebbe Grand Rabbi Yitzhak Aharon Korff ( law, international law and diplomacy ).
André Lemaire states in Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple that the principal points of the biblical tradition with Solomon as generally trustworthy, as does Kenneth Kitchen, who argue that Solomon ruled over a comparatively wealthy " mini-empire ", rather than a small city-state.
* The comic book series The Tomb of Dracula featured Rachel van Helsing, granddaughter of Abraham, as a major member of the principal hunters.
He was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison ( 1840 ), Henry Clay ( 1844 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1848 ), Winfield Scott ( 1852 ), John Charles Frémont ( 1856 ) and Abraham Lincoln ( 1860 ).
Other principal works include: the Lincoln Tomb, a sepulchral monument to President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois ; Ethan Allen ( 1876 ), National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, Washington, DC ; a heroic marble, Mississippi – The Father of Waters, Minneapolis City Hall ; Triumph of Ceres, made for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 ; and a large bust of Lincoln in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont Statehouse.
President Abraham Lincoln had long advocated this strategy for his generals, recognizing that the city would certainly fall after the loss of its principal defensive army.
His principal teacher was Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg ; he was also taught by Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil, Ephraim ben Nathan, Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin ( Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi ), Abraham b. Baruch ( Meir of Rothenburg's brother ), and Dan Ashkenazi.
The public Dr. Abraham Piñeyro Emergency Hospital, opened in 1930, serves as the city's principal health care establishment ; a new wing was added to the facility in 1997.

Abraham and claim
Both religions claim to arise from the patriarch Abraham, and are therefore considered Abrahamic religions.
The celebration was organized by Abraham de Vries, a Coster fan who became Haarlem's first librarian in 1821 and who received a commission from the city fathers to acquire Costeriana, or material relating to Coster's claim to fame.
Some authorities regard him as a contemporary of Abraham, and some Jewish traditions go so far as to claim that Abraham acquired a portion of his mystical knowledge from Hermes himself ( Kybalion ).
In the study of comparative religion, the category of Abrahamic religions consists of the three monotheistic religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, which claim Abraham ( Hebrew Avraham א ַ ב ְ ר ָ ה ָ ם ; Arabic Ibrahim إبراهيم ) as a part of their sacred history.
Under Mesopotamian law, their freedom enjoined them from laying claim to any inheritance that Abraham and Sarah had.
Abraham is not a tragic hero, for he cannot claim, like Jephtah or the Roman consul, a higher ethical justification for his deed.
However, some historians and archaeologists claim the city of Ur is in southern Iraq, and the true birthplace of Abraham is still in question.
Under Mesopotamian law, their freedom absolved them from laying claim to any inheritance that Abraham and Sarah had.
Modern Kohanim claim descent from a biblical person, Aaron, brother of Moses, in the direct lineage from Levi, the patriarch of the Tribe of Levi, great grandson of Abraham, according to the tradition codified in the Tanakh ( שמות / Sh ' mot / Exodus 6 ).
During the 1880s his conspiracy theories included the claim to have exposed the Jesuits as the assassins of President Abraham Lincoln, and that, if unchecked, the Jesuits could eventually politically rule the United States.
Part one addresses the claim that God made a promise Abraham that his descendants would become many nations.
Abraham Lincoln used judicial notice in the trial of William Armstrong to establish that a claim by a witness to have used moonlight to see events could not have taken place since there was no visible moon that evening.
The mystery of such an accident, since the invitation to California was shown to be untrue later on, besides the vanishing of the car driver who jumped from the car just before it rushed down, made some people believe it was a planned assassination, voices claim that the Israeli Mossad was behind Sameera's murder by a Judeo-Egyptian actress, Raqya Ibrahim ( Rachael Abraham ).
However, modern historians of science argue that Minkowski's claim for priority was unjustified, because Minkowski ( like Wien or Abraham ) adhered to the electromagnetic world-picture and apparently didn't fully understand the difference between Lorentz's electron theory and Einstein's kinematics.
Among his photographs of Abraham Lincoln were some considered to be the last to be taken of the President, four days before his assassination, although later this claim was found to be incorrect, while the pictures were actually taken in February 1865.
Some claim that Japan is the Garden of Eden, that Abraham, Moses, and Jesus were Japanese and are buried there, or that the Japanese people are descended from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
Among the candidates for a living descendant of the Adamic language were: Gaelic ( see Auraicept na n-Éces ); Tuscan ( Giovanni Battista Gelli, 1542, Piero Francesco Giambullari, 1564 ); Dutch ( Goropius Becanus, 1569, Abraham Mylius, 1612 ); Swedish ( Olaus Rudbeck, 1675 ); German ( Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, 1641, Schottel, 1641 ) The Swedish physician Andreas Kempe wrote a satirical tract in 1688, where he made fun of the contest between the European nationalists to claim their native tongue as the Adamic language.
Due to the Homestead Act of 1862, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, legal settlers could claim lots up to in size.
As an angel of mercy, some texts claim that Zadkiel is the unnamed Biblical Angel of the Lord who holds back Abraham to prevent the patriarch from sacrificing his son, and because of this is usually shown holding a dagger.

Abraham and fame
He achieved fame by his unauthorized 1862 order ( immediately rescinded ) emancipating slaves in three Southern states and as the president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
In a similar fashion, local residents named local streets after renowned Frenchmen including Samuel de Champlain, the original founder of the region, and General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-the French general who gained fame defeating incredible numerical odds in multiple battles throughout both the Oswego and Hudson River Valley areas before going on to organize the last French defense of Québec at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
But Abraham Lincoln, a former one-term House member who gained fame amid the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, had fewer political opponents within the party and outmaneuvered the other contenders.
The stunning Union victory aided the reelection of Abraham Lincoln and Sheridan won lasting fame.
Most Ecuadorians consider the shamans of the Tsachilas holders of secrets of the rain forest and of healing powers that would heal whenever the western medicine had failed, for the most, this country legend was generated by the fame of Abraham Calazacom a tribal chief of the Tsachilas that lead his tribe in the fifties and sixties.
This double Platinum selling album was produced by Josh Abraham, of 30 Seconds to Mars / Michelle Branch / Weezer fame.
It was the Tamil film Agraharathil Kazhuthai ( 1977 ) that elevated Abraham to fame.
Abraham Zacuto might have an uncredited appearance in Luís de Camões's 1572 epic poem, The Lusiad, as the unnamed " old man of Restelo beach ", a Cassandra-like character that surges forward just before Vasco da Gama's departure to chide the vanity of fame and warn of the travails that await him ( Canto IV, v. 94-111 ).
It was here that Clemens came to know Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Frederik Ludvig Bradt, Johannes Samuel Lymann and other talented young talents from the Art Academy, some of whom would achieve great fame and position in the years to come.

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