These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

Some companies such as Topdeck Travel were set up to specifically use buses to drive the hippie trail or travel to places like north Africa.

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

Cultural practices, like the roda de capoeira, were conducted in far or hidden places and often practitioners would leave someone as sentry, to warn if the police were approaching the area.

Odds can also be placed on a don't come-bet just like a pass line bet ; in this case the dealer ( not the player ) places the odds bet on top of the bet in the box, because of limited space, slightly offset to signify that it is an odds bet and not part of the original don't come bet.

Chiang sent Muslim students abroad to study at places like Al Azhar and Muslim schools throughout China taught loyalty to his regime.

For the 1991 award, the United States Department of Defense ' swept the first six places in the Doublespeak top ten ' for using euphemisms like " servicing the target " ( bombing ) and " force packages " ( warplanes ).

The E 4 is the fastest road to go from Germany / Denmark to areas north of the arctic circle, including places in Norway like Tromsø.

They were round places where the grass had been flattened like a floor.

Flour from Emsworth was transported by ship to places like London and Portsmouth.

Many African Americans, called Exodusters, moved to large northern cities and to places like Kansas.

Due to findings at Mirador Basin in Northern Petén, Hansen suggests the Olmec and Maya cultures developed separately, and merged in some places like Tak ' alik Abaj on the Pacific lowlands.

Furthermore, archeological evidence in places like Los Millares and El Argar, both in the province of Almería, suggests developed cultures existed in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula during the late Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

The earliest known Indian paintings ( see section below ) were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, ( see above ) and some of them are older than 5500 BC.

Emperor Justinian I ensured that his new structure would not be burned down, like its predecessors, by commissioning architects that would build the church mainly out of stone, rather than wood, “ He compacted it of baked brick and mortar, and in many places bound it together with iron, but made no use of wood, so that the church should no longer prove combustible .”

Moderate strains of Islamism have been described as " competing in the democratic public square in places like Turkey and Indonesia.

In other places, like the United States, safe-haven laws allow mothers to anonymously give infants to designated officials.

It attracts deposits from customers outside of the island, seeking the advantages such places offer, like reduced tax burdens.

However, he shifted towards imaginary landscapes in places he had never visited, like Mt Cloubelle of West India or Mt Mowbullan in Dividing Range near Brisbane Australia.

She consciously destroyed the workforces in places like the railways, for example, and the mines, and the steelworks … so that transition from adolescence to adulthood was destroyed, consciously, and knowingly.

Rivers in karst areas may disappear underground a number of times and spring up again in different places, usually under a different name ( like Ljubljanica, the river of seven names ).

After German reunification the Kurfürstendamm had to compete with central places like Potsdamer Platz, Friedrichstraße or Alexanderplatz, which led to the closing of numerous cafés and cinemas.

Christianity spread initially from Jerusalem throughout the Near East, into places such as Syria, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Asia Minor, Jordan and Egypt.

* December 24 – An earthquake shakes many places in northern Syria, and destroys the Old Church of Edessa.

Category: Former populated places in Syria

The account is mainly based on Assyrian, Hittite and Egyptian sources, as well as inscriptions from nearby places in Syria.

He named myriad numbers of places and institutions in Syria after himself, and other members of his family.

Category: Former populated places in Syria

The term is also rejected by some indigenous Semitic minorities such as the Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Syriacs, as they pre-date Arabs in places such as Iraq, Israel / Palestine, and Syria.

: There, following my introduction, as a consequence of marvelous instruction in the art, to the nine digits of the Hindus, the knowledge of the art very much appealed to me before all others, and for it I realized that all its aspects were studied in Egypt, Syria, Greece, Sicily, and Provence, with their varying methods ; and at these places thereafter, while on business.

Syria passed into Turkish possession, an event welcomed in many places as it was seen as deliverance from the Mamelukes.

What the world saw 18 years ago in Buenos Aires it can still see today, be it in Syria, in Lebanon or in other places.

Scholars detect from the Greek that its original was written in Syriac, which places the Acts of Thomas in Syria.

After 1948, the majority of refugees lived at the Wavel refugee camp in Lebanon and other places in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

Category: Former populated places in Syria

Category: Former populated places in Syria

Between 1812 and 1840, representatives of the ABCFM went to the following people and places: Tennessee to the Cherokee people, India ( the Bombay area ), northern Ceylon ( modern day Sri Lanka ), the Sandwich Islands ( Hawaii ); east Asia: China, Singapore and Siam ( Thailand ); the Middle East: ( Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, the Holy Land and Persia ( Iran )); and Africa: Western Africa — Cape Palmas — and Southern Africa — among the Zulus ).

Category: Former populated places in Syria

Category: Populated places in Syria

Category: Former populated places in Syria

Wesley W. Isenberg, the text's translator, places the date " perhaps as late as the 2nd half of the 3rd century " and places its probable origin in Syria due to its references to Syriac words and eastern baptismal practices as well as its ascetic outlook.

Category: Populated coastal places in Syria

Syria passed into Turkish possession, who were welcomed in many places as deliverance from the Mamelukes.

Among the countries and places which he visited were Adharbayajan, the tomb of Bayazid at Bistam, Damascus, Ramla, and Bayt al-Jinn in Syria.

Category: Former populated places in Syria

Converted to Christianity with his brother Venantius, he embarked with him from Marseilles about 368, under the guidance of a holy person named Caprasius, to visit the holy places of Palestine and the lauræ of Syria and Egypt.