Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

A fateful battle was fought in the Wood of Ephraim ( the name suggests a locality west of the Jordan ) and Absalom's army was completely routed.

Ammon (; ), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation described in the Old Testament to be located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan .< ref >

Alfonso Jordan () ( 1103 – 1148 ) was the Count of Tripoli from 1105 until 1109 and thereafter Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso I ) until his death.

He was surnamed Jordan after being baptised in the Jordan River.

When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, water in the river separated, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through ( Josh.

When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).

* 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.

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

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.

By 572 Nebuchadnezzar was in full control of Mesopotamia, Aramea ( Syria ), Phonecia, Israel, Judah, Philistinia, Samarra, Jordan, northern Arabia and parts of Asia Minor.

* Robert Jordan chronology — A Conan Chronology by Robert Jordan ( 1987 ) was a new chronology written by Conan writer Robert Jordan that included all written Conan material up to that point.

Tex Schramm was believed to be a " one-man committee " in choosing inductees and many former Cowboys players and fans felt that Schramm deliberately excluded linebacker Lee Roy Jordan because of a bitter contract dispute the two had during Jordan's playing days.

On " Alone Again, Natura-Diddily ", a Christian rock singer named Rachel Jordan ( played by singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin ) sings that she " was drinking like a Dartmouth boy.

DFLP was badly hit by the 1970 September crack-down in Jordan ( Black September ).

Around three million years ago, what is now the valley of the Jordan River, Dead Sea, and Wadi Arabah was repeatedly inundated by waters from the Mediterranean Sea.

Beginning in the 1960s, water inflow to the Dead Sea from the Jordan River was reduced as a result of large-scale irrigation and generally low rainfall.

The delta of the Jordan River was formerly a veritable jungle of papyrus and palm trees.

Jordan is one of a small number of Arab countries to have named ambassadors to Iraq.

Brigham Young named a tributary of the Great Salt Lake the " Jordan River ".

While Ned Jordan is credited with changing the way advertising was written with his " Somewhere West of Laramie " ads for his Jordan Playboy, Reo's Flying Cloud — a name that provoked evocative images of speed and lightness — changed the way automobiles would be named in the future.

In April 1985, Nike introduced its own brand of basketball shoe which would become popular in its own right, the Air Jordan, named after the then-rookie Chicago Bulls basketball player, Michael Jordan.

In 2007, Friends of the Earth Middle East ( FoEME ) named the Jordan River as one of the world's 100 most endangered ecological sites, due in part to lack of cooperation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.

Route 90, part of which is named after Rehavam Zeevi, connects the northern and southern tips of Israel and parallels the Jordan River on the western side.

In the 1986 – 87 NBA season, Jordan continued his assault on the record books, leading the league in scoring with 37. 1 points per game and becoming the first Bull named to the All-NBA First Team.

However, for his efforts, Jordan was named NBA Most Valuable Player, an award he would win four more times over his career.

Michael Jordan would be named the league MVP for the fifth and final time, and the Bulls went into the playoffs as the number one seed in the Eastern Conference.

Jordan would be named the Finals MVP for the sixth time in his career.

Tim Duncan was named Finals MVP, becoming only the fourth player to win the MVP award three times ( joining Magic Johnson, Shaquille O ' Neal, and Michael Jordan ).

After Joe turns down several unsuitable " candidates ", Mr. Jordan takes him to see the body of a crooked, extremely wealthy banker-investor named Bruce Farnsworth.

Accompanied by Mr. Jordan, Joe finds that his replacement in the prizefight with the champ is a clean-cut, honest fighter named Murdoch, whom Joe knows and respects.

The novel is based on his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, with an American protagonist named Robert Jordan who fights with Spanish soldiers for the Republicans.

In 1619 Samuel Sharpe and Samuel Jordan from City Point, then named Charles City, were burgesses at the first meeting of the House of Burgesses.

" Marian Jordan portrayed both a lady named Marian and a little girl named Teeny, as well as playing musical accompaniment on piano.

This group included six brothers named Jordan.

Since 1956, Winn Parish has had three sheriffs named " Jordan.

It was named Alia ( or Aalya ) after King Hussein's eldest child, Princess Alia bint Al Hussein of Jordan ( born on 13 February 1956 ).

The city was named after Jordan Creek, a tributary of Owyhee River, which runs through the city ; the creek is named for a 19th century prospector, Michael M. Jordan.

In the film, the Holy Grail is discovered in an ancient temple within Hatay, although the location used for the external shots of the temple is the Treasury of the ancient city of Petra, actually located in Jordan.

* Michael Collins is a 1996 movie by Neil Jordan starring Liam Neeson on the life and career of Michael Collins.

* 1936 – Barbara Jordan, American politician ( d. 1996 )

In 1996, the United States added Jordan to their major non-NATO ally agreement.

* 1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountaineer

* 1996 – An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.

* More ... ( Montell Jordan album ), 1996

In 1996, Space Jam, a feature film mixing animation and live-action, was released to theaters starring Bugs Bunny and basketball player Michael Jordan.

The company has also been involved in providing engines to Formula One teams, notably to McLaren in 1994, to Jordan for the 1995, 1996 and 1997 seasons, and to Prost for the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons.

Silverstein's " The Ballad of Lucy Jordan ", first recorded by Dr. Hook in 1975, was re-recorded by Marianne Faithfull ( 1979 ), Belinda Carlisle ( 1996 ), and Bobby Bare ( 2005 ) and later featured in the films Montenegro and Thelma & Louise.

In 1996 the City purchased the old Riverton Elementary School and it ’ s surrounding 9 acres of land from the Jordan School District for $ 225, 000.

Inspired by the success of Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a series of Nike commercials teaming the characters with basketball superstar Michael Jordan, the studio produced the live-action / animation combo Space Jam in 1996.

He won three straight championships with the Bulls from 1996 to 1998 as a teammate of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Toni Kukoč and Dennis Rodman.

* Montana Freemen, a Christian patriot group based near the town of Jordan, Montana, known for their 81-day standoff with U. S. federal marshals in 1996

The record run in October 1997 was preceded by extensive test runs of the vehicle in Autumn 1996 and Spring 1997 in the Al-Jafr desert ( located in Ma ' an Governorate ) in Jordan, a location unknown before for its capabilities as a test range for high speed land vehicles, with numerous advantages compared to the salt deserts of the Western United States.

Barrichello's relationship with team owner Eddie Jordan soured during 1996, and at the end of the year, after being linked to strong teams, he left for the newly formed Stewart Grand Prix.

Space Jam, also known as Looney Tunes: Space Jam is a 1996 family live-action / animated sports comedy film starring Michael Jordan and Wayne Knight, as well as Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes.

Federated also merged its Abraham & Straus / Jordan Marsh division with the new " Macy's East " organization based in New York, renaming the Abraham & Straus stores in metropolitan New York with the Macy's nameplate in 1995, and then erasing the Jordan Marsh moniker in New England in early 1996.

Schumacher then moved on to the Japanese Formula Nippon series in 1996, which he won, earning himself a Formula One drive with Jordan for the following year.

Barbara Charline Jordan ( February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996 ) was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement.

In 1994 and until her death in 1996, Jordan chaired the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform, which advocated increased restriction of immigration, called for all U. S. residents to carry a national identity card and increased penalties on employers that violated U. S. immigration regulations.

The new application, delivered by MuchMusic programmer Denise Donlon on May 8, 1996, incorporated video testimonials by a number of Canadian musicians, including Anne Murray, Bruce Cockburn, Burton Cummings, Celine Dion, David Foster, Lawrence Gowan, Dan Hill, and Marc Jordan, attesting to the need for the channel ; Donlon conceded, in a Canadian Press article, that a number of Canadian musicians were no longer filming music videos because MuchMusic was not able to accommodate every music genre equally.

After Norm Nathan's death on October 29, 1996, his Friday night / Saturday morning show was taken over by Steve LeVeille, and his Saturday night / Sunday morning show went to former WSSH-FM ( 99. 5 FM, now WCRB ) morning host Jordan Rich.

* Michael Jordan ( March 1989, November 1996 )

When he first became a free agent in 1996, Howard was described as versatile enough to play all three front-line positions ( small forward, power forward and center ), and Michael Jordan loved his " game, work ethic and character ".