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In the Hebrew portion of Daniel chapters 8-12, Daniel speaks of this abomination of desolation in the last two chapters.
She further states another tradition that when the last Latin Emperor of Constantinople, Baldwin II, was leaving Constantinople in 1261 he took this original circular portion of the icon with him.
" This name actually refers to a special " ceremony ": the last weekly Torah portion is read from Deuteronomy, completing the annual cycle, and is followed immediately by the reading of the first chapter of Genesis.
This last portion abandons the platforming elements of the previous levels, and resembles a scrolling shooter.
However, in the last chapters of Benjamin Major, written later than the Minor, Richard almost abandons his topic and the discussion of the teaching of mystical theology takes up a good portion of every remaining chapter.
The Romanian royal court, army and administration were subsequently forced to retreat into Moldavia, the last portion of territory still under Romanian control.
A large portion of the Californian sparkling wine industry uses Chardonnay grapes from Carneros, Alexander and Russian River valleys with these areas attracting the attention of Champagne producers like Bollinger, Louis Roederer, Moët et Chandon and the Taittinger family who have opened up wineries in last few decades.
The powered flight portion can last from a few tens of seconds to several minutes and can consist of multiple rocket stages.
Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.
There is general consensus that books two to six form the oldest portion of the epic while the first book Bala Kanda and the last the Uttara Kanda are later additions.
1 Chronicles explains the second Goliath by saying that Elhanan " slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath ", apparently constructing the name Lahmi from the last portion of the word " Bethlehemite " (" beit-ha ’ lahmi ").
The widespread practice is that on the first Sabbath of his thirteenth year, a boy is called up to read from the weekly portion of the Law ( five books of Moses ), either as one of the first seven men or as the last, in which case he will read the closing verses and the Haftarah ( selections from the books of the Prophets ); and if he is unable to read, to recite at least the benediction before and after the reading.
The last Congressional appropriation was made May 25, 1838, and in 1840 Congress voted against completing the unfinished portion of the road, with the deciding vote cast by Henry Clay.
Surgical, chemical, or radiofrequency sympathectomy — interruption of the affected portion of the sympathetic nervous system — can be used as a last resort in patients with impending tissue loss, edema, recurrent infection, or ischemic necrosis.
The small portion of Navarre lying north of the Pyrenees — Lower Navarre — later came under French rule when its Huguenot sovereign became King Henry IV of France ; with the declaration of the French Republic and execution of Louis XVI, the last King of France and Navarre, the kingdom was merged into a unitary French state.
These led to cuts of approximately ten minutes, mainly in the last portion of the film: the carnival sequence and the gondola parade which had been filmed to show off the huge set were heavily cut.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days ; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall (, interpreting the " wall " as the ocean ).
" Lancelot Wilkinson translated the last of these three verses in a too concise manner to convey the full meaning, and skipped the portion combine the two which the modern Hindi commentary has brought to the fore.
Huffy had a Radio Bike from the 1950s which had its radio controls on the imitator " gas tank " portion of the frame, however this was impractical since the controls couldn't be reached easily while riding, alongside the liability of lugging around lead-acid batteries back then, since sealed lead-acid batteries were unavailable at that time and that the carbon-zinc batteries which would power the radio didn't last long.
Johnny and Jones again start the procedure, but find themselves helped by a mysterious artificial intelligence from Pharma-Kon's mainframe, providing the last portion of the password.
A portion of the CSUN campus continues to have one of the last remaining orange groves, which was planted in the roaring 1920s.
# The Hand of Oberon ( abridged October 1992, unabridged 1999 ) ( last portion of the unabridged version read by Bruce Watson )
The last portion completed in San Antonio was the stack interchange at I-35.
The Galveston-Houston Electric Railway began operating an interurban between those cities on December 5, 1911, and last ran on October 31, 1936, though the Houston Electric Company, operator of Houston's city transit system, continued to run trains on the portion between downtown and Park Place.
" He owned his own land of which a portion remained in the family until 1819, when Daniel Boone, Jr. transferred the last 1, 000 acre tract on Meadow Creek to William Strong.

last and Galileo
NASA engineers were able to recover the damaged tape recorder electronics, and Galileo continued to return scientific data until it was deorbited in 2003, performing one last scientific experiment — a measurement of the moon Amalthea's mass as the spacecraft swung by it.
* 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
It was the last planetary satellite to be discovered by direct visual observation ( as opposed to photographically ) and was the first new satellite of Jupiter since Galileo Galilei's discovery of the Galilean satellites in 1610.
This method is used by, among others, the Nordic Optical Telescope, the New Technology Telescope, the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and the Keck telescopes, as well as all of the largest telescopes built in the last decade.
For advancing heliocentric theory Galileo was forced to recant Copernicanism and was put under house arrest for the last few years of his life.
The fascinating arguments in the last conversation would hardly have been accepted as proof by Galileo, had his temperament not got the better of him.
* In the last episode of Galileo ( Japanese television drama ), this substance is said to be " a legendary alloy that reflects 100 % of neutrons " and " an urban legend among scientists ".
Among other well-known works by Piloty are the Battle of the White Mountain near Prague, Nero Dancing upon the Ruins of Rome ( 1861 ), Godfrey of Bouillon on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land ( 1861 ), Galileo in Prison ( 1864 ) and The Death of Alexander the Great ( unfinished ), his last great work.
The Pioneer spacecraft are no longer providing new data ( the last contact having been on 23 January 2003 ) and Galileo was deliberately burned up in Jupiter's atmosphere at the end of its mission.
However, Kirk decides to follow his orders ' to the letter ' - and orders the Enterprise to proceed at space-normal speed, hoping to catch the Galileo at the last moment.
The last also contained features named for Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.
Liceti sent a copy of his book to Galileo, who, in response, wrote a polemical letter to Prince Leopoldo de ' Medici of Tuscany defending his views ; this letter is the last scientific work produced by Galileo before his death.

last and reported
progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Feelers were put out last year to the City of Warwick, as reported in your newspapers, suggesting investigation of a common rubbish disposal area to service the Potowomut and Cowessett areas of Warwick along with East Greenwich.
A weekly newspaper reported a local romance: `` and the couple were married last Saturday, thus ending a friendship which began in their schooldays ''.
In the last eight years, all Presidential appointments, including those of cabinet rank, have been denied immediate action because of a Senate rule requiring at least a 24 hour delay after they are reported to the floor.
Secret Grand Jury indictments were returned against the pair last week, Detective Murray Logan reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kochanek reported the theft at their home on 41 Garden Hills Drive at about 6 last night.
A substantial rise in new orders and sales of durable goods was reported for last month.
The Government reported last week that the index of prices received by farmers rose in the month ended at mid-September for the third consecutive month, reaching 242% of the 1910-14 average compared with 237% at mid-July.
An amazing article in the Manchester Guardian of last November, entitled `` Fate Of Redundant Churches '', states than an Archbishops' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church of England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now, or will be in 20 years' time.
The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.
The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $ 69 billion in 1998, $ 126 billion in 1999, and $ 236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Clinton's presidency.
In the last few decades there has been a rapid decline in the numbers of wild mountain bongo due to poaching and human pressure on their habitat, with local extinctions reported in Cherangani and Chepalungu hills, Kenya.
Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".
Searchers canvassed all of West Memphis, but focused primarily on Robin Hood Hills, where the boys were reported last seen.
Sony's last reported subscription numbers were given as " more than 430, 000 players " on 14 January 2004.
The item, offered as a news story, reported, " A critical friend, who read Melville's last book, ' Ambiguities ," between two steamboat accidents, told us that it appeared to be composed of the ravings and reveries of a madman.
The last reported sighting of the Cuban subspecies ( C. p. bairdii ), after a long interval, was in 1987 ; it has not been seen since.
The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.
As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!
When Kilmer's last scene was completed it was reported that Frankenheimer said, " Now get that bastard off my set.
The 2009 population estimate is 6. 8 % higher than the population reported in the last census from January 1999 ( slightly less than 15 million ).
At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.
Officials in Mazar-e Sharif reported that between 20 to 30 Afghan tribal elders have been assassinated in Balkh Province in the last several years.
Occasional ethnic fightings have been reported in the region in the last couple of decades, mainly between Pashtuns and the other groups.

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