During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem — Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion — emigrate to the nearby country of Moab.

In an appendix, Kepler also discussed the recent chronology work of the Polish historian Laurentius Suslyga ; he calculated that, if Suslyga was correct that accepted timelines were four years behind, then the Star of Bethlehem — analogous to the present new star — would have coincided with the first great conjunction of the earlier 800-year cycle.

His remains, originally buried at Bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, though other places in the West claim some relics — the cathedral at Nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the Escorial.

Schwab resigned from U. S. Steel in 1903 to form Bethlehem Steel, which became the second largest U. S. producer on the strength of such innovations as the wide flange " H " beam — precursor to the I-beam — widely used in construction.

The Reservation was originally home to two Scout camps — the Easton Council's Camp Weygadt on the southern part of the reservation and the Bethlehem Area Council's Camp Minsi on the northern section of the reservation.

At the point in the later fifth century when the earliest Dormition traditions surface in manuscripts, Stephen Shoemaker has detected the sudden appearance of three distinct narrative traditions describing the end of Mary's life: he has characterised them as the " Palm of the Tree of Life " narratives, the " Bethlehem " narratives, and the " Coptic " narratives — aside from a handful of atypical narratives.

In 1887, he joined Frederick W. Taylor in applying scientific management principles to their work at Midvale Steel and Bethlehem Steel — working there with Taylor until 1893.

In early 2012, Jobson confirmed that he re-formed the U. K. trio lineup — Jobson, John Wetton, and Terry Bozzio -- for a one-off world tour, which took place from from May – June 2012, with the trio playing dates in North America and Japan and Alex Machacek ( guitar ) and Gary Husband ( drums ) substituting for Bozzio in the band lineup during the European dates and a final added show in which the band played at NEARFest Apocalypse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as the Sunday headliner.

#" O Little Town of Bethlehem " – Young Fresh Fellows — 2: 55

The so-called " Star of Bethlehem " — thought to have appeared c. 7 BC — was theorized to be a greatest conjunction ; and some went so far as to assert that it was an occultation of Saturn by Jupiter, with the two planets appearing to merge into a single object as seen from Earth.

The low capital cost for a mini-mill — around US $ 140 – 200 per ton of annual installed capacity, compared with US $ 1, 000 per ton of annual installed capacity for an integrated steel mill — allowed mills to be quickly established in war-ravaged Europe, and also allowed them to successfully compete with the big United States steelmakers, such as Bethlehem Steel and U. S. Steel, for low-cost, carbon steel " long products " ( structural steel, rod and bar, wire, and fasteners ) in the U. S. market.

Inspired by the City Beautiful movement, he used his combined interests to promote city planning — turning Allentown into a model of balanced development ( a dramatic contrast to industrially ravaged Bethlehem and Easton ) ( City Planning 1963 ; Hall 1981 ; Friede 1974, 1978 ).

* 23 April — Andries Jacobus Bester, the Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando, is born in Bloemfontein

Asterix and Obelix spend the night in a stable in Bethlehem, and Saul ben Ephishul mentions the story of David and Goliath and the Roman procurator — known as " Pontius Pirate " ( a reference to Pontius Pilate ) — is constantly washing his hands.

Hart's vision was to meet the abbey's needs — development and expansion of its open-air theater and arts program for the Bethlehem community.

On June 22, 1871, they branched off, with First Baptist ’ s blessing, and founded Bethlehem — originally as the First Swedish Baptist Church of Minneapolis.

Jordan retained control of the city until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Bethlehem was occupied by Israel, along with the rest of the West Bank.

The diversion held an added advantage ; due to the holy places that lay along the way, including Hebron, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem, the Mamluk authorities spared no efforts in keeping the route safe for pilgrims.

In 1917 Meadville, State College and Bethlehem were granted charters by the National Office, along with nine other councils.

Noel is one of a few " Christmas Cities " in America, along with North Pole, Alaska, Christmas, Michigan, Santa Claus, Indiana and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Currently as of the end of 2009, unmarked freight cars particularly covered hoppers are now parked and being stored along the southbound track in Perkasie between Market Street and Park Avenue, from Park Avenue to the Old Bethlehem Pike Bridge, and so on to Meetinghouse Road in Telford.

The center of town still runs along Bethlehem Pike which is now called Old Route 309.

The extensive works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, later operated by Bethlehem Steel, are located along the Susquehanna River in Steelton.

On Christmas Eve in 1741, David Nitschmann and Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, leading a small group of Moravians, founded the mission community of Bethlehem along the banks of the Monocacy Creek by the Lehigh River in the colony of Pennsylvania.

The National Museum of Industrial History, in association with the Smithsonian Institution and the Bethlehem Commerce Center, consisting of 1, 600 acres ( 6. 5 km² ) of prime industrial property, would be erected on the site along with a casino and large retail and entertainment complex.

Subsequently, he was reassigned to work among the Delaware Indians along the Delaware River northeast of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he remained for another year, during which he was ordained by the Newark Presbytery.

In November 2008, the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation ( LVEDC ), along with both Lehigh and Northampton counties, commissioned a study to explore expanding the Raritan Valley Line to the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, which would potentially include stops in Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton.

It suggested the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, with the British mandate governing over Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem along with a corridor from Jerusalem to the coast.

It flows north from the Roxhill Park neighborhood for several miles along the valley of the Delridge neighborhoods of West Seattle, turning east to reach the Duwamish Waterway via a 3, 300 ft ( 1006 m ) pipe beneath the Nucor plant ( formerly Bethlehem Steel ).

From the Lehigh Gap, the river flows southeast to Allentown, where it is joined by Little Lehigh Creek, then northeast past Bethlehem, where it joins the Delaware River in Easton, along Pennsylvania's border with New Jersey.

Mariners Harbor was home to large shipping and dry dock companies in the first half of the 20th century, including Bethlehem Steel, which owned a considerable portion of land in the area with headquarters along the waterfront on Richmond Terrace across from Mersereau Avenue and Brewers Dry Dock.

These actions, part of the 1928-1929 " Soccer Wars ", along with the Great Depression, financially devastated the ASL, ESL and Bethlehem Steel.

Other structures along the thruway include a dual-span drawbridge over Curtis Creek and two parallel bridge structures that carry traffic over Bear Creek, near the former Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point plant, this portion of the project not being fully complete until the late 1990s.

During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America established Camp Boone at St. Bethlehem in 1861, along the Guthrie-Russellville road ( today SR 79 ) as a camp for the recruitment of Kentucky soldiers into the Confederate Army.

Their homes ran along two parallel streets that would become Emek Refaim and Bethlehem Road.

As the neighborhood expanded south along the valley, many of the lots were purchased by well-to-do Christian Arab families attracted by its location between the road to Bethlehem and the developing neighborhoods of Katamon, Talbiya, and Baka, which were populated by some of Jerusalem's wealthiest Arabs.

Bethlehem is a town in the eastern Free State province of South Africa that is situated on the Liebenbergs river ( also called Liebenbergs Vlei ) along a fertile valley just south of the Rooiberg Mountains on the N5 highway.

Most of these do so along the lines of urging the listener to come to Bethlehem.

The main sights of Guarapuava are: the Cathedral of Our Lady of Bethlehem, the Province of Entre Rios District, the Lake of Tears, the Park Lake, the Museum Entomological Hipólito Schneider, along with the Museum of Natural Science's collection of prof. João José Bigarella the Municipal Museum of Viscount Guarapuava the Jordan Recreation Park, the Municipal Park of Araucárias the San Francisco Municipal Park of Hope ( Salto San Francisco ), the Salto Curucacas the square of the Faith, the Teal Indian Reservation, the Teal and jump to Schoenstatt Shrine.

Bethlehem ( or, lit " House of Meat ";,,, lit " House of Bread ;", Vithleém ) is a city located in the central West Bank and approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30, 000 people.

In 1099, Crusaders captured and fortified Bethlehem and replaced its Greek Orthodox clergy with a Latin one.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

Beit Jala and the latter form an agglomeration with Bethlehem and the Aida and Azza refugee camps are located within the city limits.

Bethlehem has a Mediterranean climate, with hot and dry summers and cold winters.

There is a parallel with the entry of Mary and Joseph, homeless, into the same town, Bethlehem, before the birth of Jesus.

The doors of the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem ( 6th century ) are covered with plates of bronze, cut out in patterns.

* 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

Frederick's presence alone was sufficient to regain Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and a number of surrounding castles without a fight: these were recovered in February 1229, in return for a ten-year truce with the Ayyubids and freedom of worship for Jerusalem's Muslim inhabitants.

Among his famous drawings are the Vitruvian Man, a study of the proportions of the human body, the Head of an Angel, for The Virgin of the Rocks in the Louvre, a botanical study of Star of Bethlehem and a large drawing ( 160 × 100 cm ) in black chalk on coloured paper of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist in the National Gallery, London.

Today, the majority of Palestinian Christians live outside of the former Mandate Palestine because of emigration in response to the 1948 War, and the Six-Day War in 1967, occupation by Jordan, Egypt, and most recently Israel, with 78 % of Christians blaming the ongoing exodus of Christians from Bethlehem on the Israeli occupation and travel restrictions on the area ..

Passages such as: " And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, YHWH with you.

* February 18 – Sixth Crusade: Frederick II signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

In the eighteenth century, some of the Mohican developed strong ties with missionaries of the Moravian Church from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who founded a mission at their village of Shekomeko in Dutchess County, New York.

The lower platform also houses a fountain ( known as al-Kas ), originally supplied with water via a long narrow aqueduct leading from pools at Bethlehem ( colloquially known as Solomon's Pools ), but now supplied from Jerusalem's water mains.

" When Herod realised that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.

Taking the narrative literally and judging from the estimated population of Bethlehem, the Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1910 ) more soberly suggested that these numbers were inflated, and that probably only between six and twenty children were killed in the town, with a dozen or so more in the surrounding areas.

Of the nineteen proper names that the book of Joshua gives to guide us, only Bethlehem ( Beit lahm, seven miles northwest of Nazareth ) can be identified with certainty, although the archaeological site Tel Hanaton is associated with the city Hanaton listed as the boundary with Asher.