Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

* 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.

* In episode 13, season 2 of 30 Rock entitled Succession Tracey Jordan says that he is Mozart and Frank is the guy who was always jealous of Mozart.

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

Other scholars, including C. C. Torrey, Kline and Jordan argue that the word is derived from the Hebrew moed (), meaning " assembly ".

Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.

The city is located northeast of Gaza and the Mediterranean Sea, west of Amman, Jordan, southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel and south of Jerusalem.

( God's speech foreshadows major themes of the book: the crossing of the Jordan and conquest of the land, its distribution, and the imperative need for obedience to the Law ; Joshua's own immediate obedience is seen in his speeches to the Israelite commanders and to the Transjordanian tribes, and the Transjordanians ' affirmation of Joshua's leadership echoes Yahweh's assurances of victory ).

The Israelites cross the Jordan through the miraculous intervention of God and his ark and are circumcised at Gibeath-Haaraloth ( translated as hill of foreskins ), renamed Gilgal in memory ( Gilgal sounds like Gallothi, I have removed, but is more likely to translate as circle of standing stones ).

The potential disunity of Israel is a constant theme, the greatest threat of disunity coming from the tribes east of the Jordan, and there is even a hint in chapter 22: 19 that the land across the Jordan is unclean and the tribes who live there are of secondary status.

The land east of the Jordan is divided among the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Ironically, by today's standard, Gauss's own attempt is not acceptable, owing to implicit use of the Jordan curve theorem.

" Writer June Jordan described Alston as " an American artist of first magnitude, and he is a Black American artist of undisturbed integrity.

In a few countries such as Jordan and Singapore ( see Singapore Civil Defence Force ), civil defense is essentially the same organisation as the fire brigade.

The Jordan – Hölder theorem is a more precise way of stating this fact about finite groups.

The Dead Sea (,,, " Sea of Salt ", also,, " The Sea of Death "), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.

It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

Jordan is a member of the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement, the Euro-Mediterranean free trade agreement, the Agadir Agreement, and also enjoys advanced status with the EU.

Jordan is an active member of the UN and several of its specialized and related agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), and World Health Organization ( WHO ).

' Jordan is also a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and has thus forged close relations with India

With the help of Munib Masri, a pro-Palestinian Jordanian cabinet member, and Fahd al-Khomeimi, the Saudi ambassador to Jordan, Arafat managed to enter Syria with nearly two thousand of his fighters.

Stanley Jordan abandoned his management team and went into deep study of music therapy and is now a member and spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association.

Jordan and Pippen, along with Robert Parish, who was a member of the Bulls at the time, were also honored as members of the 50 greatest players of all-time with the NBA celebrating its 50th season.

Green Lantern Corps member Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of sector 2814 ( which includes Earth ), under the influence of the evil entity Parallax, kills all but one of the Guardians and most of the Corps before draining Oa's Central Power Battery of its energy.

* Jordan Stroup, Former member of the O. C.

, members of the Manalapan Township Committee are Mayor Susan Cohen ( term as mayor ends December 31, 2012 ; term as committee member ends December 31, 2014 ), Deputy Mayor Donald Holland ( 2014 ), Ryan Green ( 2012 ), Andrew Lucas ( 2013 ) and Jordan Maskowitz ( 2013 ).

Group member Jordan Knight announced a new concert cruise for 2010.

Brad Terrence Jordan ( born November 9, 1970 ), better known by his stage name Scarface, is an African-American rapper and recording artist from Houston, Texas and a member of the Geto Boys.

War was also subject to many line-up changes over the course of its formation, leaving member Leroy " Lonnie " Jordan as the only original member in the current line-up.

Lonnie Jordan opted to remain with Goldstein and create a new version of War with himself as the only original member.

Jordan was admitted as a member state of the United Nations on 14 December 1955.

His son, Hamilton Jordan Jr., is a member of the experimental metal band Genghis Tron.

Robert " Bobby " Jordan ( April 1, 1923 – September 10, 1965 ) was an American actor, born in Harrison, New York, most notable for being a member of the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.

Rice peaked as a member of the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996-1997 season when he was third in the league in scoring behind only Michael Jordan and Karl Malone averaging 26. 8 points per game.

Taylor Hanson ( full name Jordan Taylor Hanson ), born March 14, 1983 is an American musician best known as a member of the pop rock band Hanson.

Beginning in 2001, former Massachusetts acting Governor Jane Swift ( Republican ) attempted to fire Christy Mihos, a former Turnpike board member and Jordan Levy, the current Vice Chairman of the board.

* Brad Jordan ( Scarface ), a member of the Geto Boys

In early 2000s versions, Michael Jordan is included as a member of the Washington Wizards.

Jordan, a member of the Kentucky General Assembly who began her adult life as an unwed mother on welfare, was trying to become Kentucky's first black member of Congress.

In May 2009 at the World Economic Forum, Jordan announced its plans to construct the " Jordan National Red Sea Development Project " ( JRSP ).

After the sale of Virtual World, Jordan turned his attention to the founding of a new games venture called WizKids.

In January 2010, King Abdullah of Jordan, after a meeting with the Israeli president Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos, declared that his country does not want to rule the West Bank and that " the two-state solution " to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the only viable option.

After World War II, Jamaicans purchased radios in increasing numbers and were able to hear rhythm and blues music from Southern United States cities such as New Orleans by artists such as Fats Domino and Louis Jordan.

Jordan began writing the first volume, The Eye of the World, in 1984 and it was published in January 1990.

In a 2000 chat on CNN. com, Robert Jordan mentioned that NBC had purchased an option to do a miniseries of The Eye of the World.

The Eye of the World ( abbreviated as tEotW or EotW by fans ) is the first book of The Wheel of Time ( WoT ) fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan.

Robert Jordan has stated that he consciously intended the early chapters of The Eye of the World to evoke the Shire of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Category: World Heritage Sites in Jordan

After the decline of the Abbasids, parts of Jordan were ruled by various powers and empires including the Mongols, the Crusaders, the Ayyubids, the Mamlukes as well as the Ottomans, who captured major parts of the Arab World around 1517.

Jordan had one of the freest and most liberal societies in the Middle East and in the Greater Arab World during the 1950s and early 1960s.

* Goda, Norman " Black Marks Hitler's Bribery of his Senior Officers During World War II " pages 96 – 137 from Corrupt Histories edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Jordan, University of Rochester Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58046-173-3.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

The Guardians eventually returned to Oa and began the reconstruction of the Corps, assigning Guy Gardner to Earth, John Stewart to the Mosaic World, and Hal Jordan to recruit new members.

Also during May, Royal Jordanian was the sponsor of the World Economic Forum, which was held at the Dead Sea, Jordan.

" Butch " Jordan, holds the World Record for being the longest serving elected police chief, which he has been since 1962.

Five years later, C. C. Jordan gambled on the boom caused by World War I and opened the Treasure State Bank.

* 1st Lieutenant Louis John Jordan ( 1890 – 1918 ) The first Texan officer killed in World War I, Battalion C, 149th Field Artillery, 42nd Division, was posthumously in 1924 awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Former standouts from the Nebraska Wrestling Team include 2004 Greco-Roman Olympic Gold Medalist at 120 kg Rulon Gardner and NCAA Champion in 2009 and 2011 Jordan Burroughs who won the 2011 Freestyle World Championships at 74 kg in Istanbul, Turkey.

* The Orient Express plays host to an adventure game by Jordan Mechner: The Last Express is a murder mystery game set around the last ride of the Orient Express before it suspended operations at the start of World War I. Robert Cath, an American doctor wanted by French police as he is suspected of the murder of an Irish police officer, and becomes involved in a maelstrom of treachery, lies, political conspiracies, personal interests, romance and murder.

Some of his noteworthy films include The Front Page ( 1931 ), Trouble in Paradise ( 1932 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Top Hat ( 1935, one of several Astaire / Rogers films in which Horton appeared ), Danger-Love at Work ( 1937 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Toward the end of World War I, he and his wife Emily Jordan Folger began searching for a location for his Shakespeare library.