* Old Sarum, England – population moved to nearby Salisbury although the owners of the archaeological site retained the right to elect a Member of Parliament to represent Old Sarum until the nineteenth century ( see William Pitt ).

During the 1920 restoration William Hawley, who had excavated nearby Old Sarum, excavated the base of six stones and the outer ditch.

He made further purchases and became one of the dominant political figures in the West Country controlling seats such as the rotten borough of Old Sarum.

His older brother Thomas was returned at the general election of 1734 for two separate seats Okehampton and Old Sarum and chose to sit for Okehampton, passing the vacant seat to William.

Accordingly, in February 1735, William Pitt entered parliament as member Old Sarum.

A later thrust by the West Saxons up the Avon towards Old Sarum in 519 appears to have been checked by the Britons at Charford.

* Cynric, king of Wessex, captures the fort at Old Sarum.

The most famous rotten borough was Old Sarum, which had 13 burgage plots that could be used to " manufacture " electors if necessary — usually around half a dozen was thought sufficient.

Constituency boundaries were out of date, and the so-called " rotten boroughs " had a hugely disproportionate influence on the membership of the Parliament of the United Kingdom compared to the size of their populations: Old Sarum in Wiltshire, with one voter, elected two MPs, as did Dunwich in Suffolk, which by the early 19th century had almost completely disappeared into the sea.

It has also been called New Sarum to distinguish it from the original site of settlement to the north of the city at Old Sarum, but this alternative name is not in common use.

There is evidence of Neolithic settlement on the hilltop of Old Sarum, which became a hill fort in the Iron Age.

However, deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum led to the decision to re-site the cathedral elsewhere.

Some stones which make up the cathedral came from Old Sarum, others from the Chilmark Quarries from where they were most likely moved to the cathedral building site by ox-cart.

The cathedral is built on a gravel bed with unusually shallow foundations of upon wooden faggots: the site is supposed to have been selected by shooting an arrow from Old Sarum, although this can only be legend as the distance is over.

The original site of the city at Old Sarum fell into disuse.

Old Sarum was a rotten borough that was abolished in 1832 as at the time, one MP represented three households.

In 1219 Richard Poore, the then Bishop of Sarum, decided to establish a new town and cathedral on an estate in his possession ( confusingly known as Veteres Sarisberias — Old Salisburys ) in the valley, on the banks of the River Avon.

There are civil airfields at Old Sarum ( where the experimental aircraft the Edgley Optica was developed and tested ) and at Thruxton near Andover.

The city itself, Old Sarum and the original cathedral also attract visitors.

As a response to deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum, the decision was taken to resite the cathedral and the bishopric was moved to its present place in Salisbury.

Legend has it that the Bishop of Old Sarum shot an arrow in the direction he would build the cathedral ; the arrow hit a deer and the deer finally died in the place where Salisbury Cathedral is now.

The Book of Joshua () is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament.

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The word nation came to English from the Old French word nacion, which in turn originates from the Latin word natio () literally meaning " that which has been born ".

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Pool of Siloam () ( Breikhat Hashiloah ) is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast.

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Unas () or Oenas (; also spelled Unis or Wenis ) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, and the last ruler of the Fifth dynasty from the Old Kingdom.

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He also observes that in the Old Testament, images and statues were not absolutely condemned in themselves: examples include the images of cherubim over the Ark of the Covenant () which God instructed Moses to make, the embroidered figures of cherubim angels which God told Moses to make on the curtain which separated the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle tent (), or the bronze serpent mentioned in the book of Numbers.

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