He was closely pursued by Asahel, brother of Joab, who is said to have been " light of foot as a wild roe " ( 2 Samuel 2: 18 ).

As Asahel would not desist from the pursuit, though warned, Abner was compelled to slay him in self-defence.

This originated a deadly feud between the leaders of the opposite parties, for Joab, as next of kin to Asahel, was by the law and custom of the country the avenger of his blood.

The ostensible motive for the assassination was a desire to avenge Asahel, and this would be a sufficient justification for the deed according to the moral standard of the time.

Asahel was killed by Abner, for which Joab took revenge by murdering Abner against David's wishes ( 2 Samuel 2: 13-32 ; 3: 27 ).

The village of Gridley was founded in 1869 and named after General Asahel Gridley ( or Ashael Gridley ), a noted early Republican, land investor, political backer and client of Abraham Lincoln, and a descendant of a Colonel Gridley who served at the Battle of Lexington.

After considering the names Kent, Carlyle, and Gardner, for the governor of Massachusetts, it was decided to name named the town for Bloomington banker, lawyer, and land developer Asahel Gridley ( 1810 – 1881 ).

Dodgetown was named after its founding settler, Asahel Dodge, who immigrated to the area from Cape Cod.

Curtis ' father, the Reverend Johnson Asahel Curtis ( 1840 – 1887 ), was a minister and an American Civil War veteran.

Asahel Curtis ( 1874 – 1941 ) was a Pacific Northwest photographer.

Asahel Curtis was born in 1874 in Minnesota to Johnson Asahel Curtis ( 1840 – 1887 ), a reverend ; and Ellen Sheriff ( 1844 – 1912 ).

Asahel's father was Johnson Asahel Curtis ( 1840 – 1887 ) who was a reverend, and an American Civil War veteran.

When Edward and Asahel were just teenagers, a homemade camera was the only suggestion of what their future professions would be when they moved to Washington Territory.

Charles Ainsworth, his mining partner, was among the many gold-seeking miners Asahel photographed between 1897 and 1899.

Asahel was a keen observer of people, places and events, Asahel documented the Washington timber, agriculture, fishing and mining industries.

Records indicate that the name of his wife was Hester Hurd ( found in some documents to be listed as Eester, Estar, and Ester ), with whom he had three children: Seth, Asahel, and Abigail.

Arthur Asahel Shurcliff ( 1870 – 1957 ) was a noted American landscape architect.

The Oregon Statesman was founded on March 28, 1851, by Asahel Bush, a Democrat, in response to the Whig-controlled Portland-based paper, The Oregonian.

The Bates Cobblestone Farmhouse, John Carr House, Asahel Green Farm, Middlesex Center Methodist Church, Overackers Corners Schoolhouse, and Vine Valley Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Of the simplest mode of life, inured to hardship from his earliest years, tolerant of the extremities of hunger and fatigue, " a second Asahel for fleetness of foot ", fired with an unquenchable zeal for what he regarded as the true faith, with a dauntless courage that despised all dangers, Jacobus, in his tattered beggar's disguise, traversed on foot the whole of Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia and the adjacent provinces, even to the borders of Persia, everywhere ordaining bishops and clergy, encouraging his demoralized co-religionists to courageously maintain their faith against the advocates of the two natures, and organizing them into a compact spiritual body.

* A Virtual Exhibition on Orotone Photographs, with information on Asahel Curtis ' orotone / goldtone photograph production.

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

* 1851 – Edward Asahel Birge, American academic ( d. 1950 )

There were many names suggested and even after the change to Salem, some people, such as Asahel Bush ( editor of the Oregon Statesman ), believed the name should be changed back to Chemeketa.

* A son of Asahel, Joab's brother ( 1 Chr.

He had two brothers, Abishai and Asahel.

According to Josephus, Joab did not kill Abner out of revenge, because he had forgiven him for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had twice warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

* Asahel Langworthy A Biographical Sketch of Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky.

* Asahel Finch, Jr. ( 1809-1883 ), politician and lawyer, Michigan and Wisconsin

( Leavitt and Suffield businessmen Oliver Phelps, Gideon Granger, Luther Loomis and Asahel Hatheway owned between them one-quarter of all the lands in the Western Reserve assigned to Connecticut.

In 1849, Bird ’ s Ruins became Hanchettville to recognize Asahel Hanchett for luring several needed businesses to the village.

Howard City did not prosper, so Asahel Hanchett sold his land holdings to Madison real estate brokers William F. Porter and Samuel Marshall in 1860.

Image: Chipping Norton Homestead 1. JPG | The Homestead

Image: Chipping Norton Homestead 2. JPG | The Homestead windmill

Chipping Norton Lakes has a magnificent regional park located along the Georges River on Homestead Avenue at Chipping Norton providing cycleways, barbecue facilities, picnic areas, playground equipment, boat ramps, sporting fields and the Georges River Environment Education Centre, the lakes are an important recreational area for Liverpool.

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

" Ten Thousand Dollars A Page " was filmed at the Pasadena Art Museum, later known as the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art and now the Norton Simon Museum of Art.

The town was an ancient borough, incorporated by Edward III, known formally as Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, and consisting of the three parishes of St Petrox, St Saviour and Townstall, and incorporating the hamlets of Ford, Old Mill and Norton.

In 1847, at the request of Prof. Andrews Norton, he went to Cambridge, where he was principal of a public school until 1856.

Developers create applications that duplicate and extend the interface that was introduced by PathMinder and John Socha's famous Norton Commander for DOS.

The concept is more than twenty five years old — PathMinder was released in 1984, and Norton Commander version 1. 0 was released in 1986.

Williams was pitcher for the Nationals and Frank Norton catcher.

Norton produced their second full album, Doolittle, which was recorded in the last six weeks of 1988 and seen as a departure from the raw sound of Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa.

Doolittle had a much cleaner sound, largely due to Norton and the production budget of US $ 40, 000, which was quadruple that of Surfer Rosa.

His mother, Harriet May Norton, a 1921 graduate of Oberlin College, was the daughter of the Rev.

Though Balto is the more famous of the two, and was the dog to deliver the serum to Nome after running the final 53-mile leg, it was Togo who made the longest run of the relay, guiding his musher Leonhard Seppala on a 91-mile journey that included crossing the deadly Norton Sound to Golovin.

In 2007, Simon Armitage, who grew up near the Gawain poet's purported residence, published a translation which attracted attention in the US and the United Kingdom, and was published in the US by Norton.

While Norton anchored the linebacking core, the team's solid secondary was led by defensive backs Kenneth Gant and James Washington, who both recorded 3 interceptions each.

The Cowboys ' defense was anchored by such Pro Bowlers as lineman Russell Maryland, linebacker Ken Norton Jr., along with defensive backs Thomas Everett and Kevin Smith, who picked off 6 passes during the season.