* Abimélech, Satrap of Gaza is a character ( baritone ) in Saint-Saëns ' opera " Samson et Dalila " ( Weimar, 1877 )

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

His bass signal is sent via a Samson wireless unit to an Avalon U5 DI.

In Deighton's novel, Samson is an unreliable narrator and his words cannot necessarily be taken at face value.

* February 22 – Samson of Dol is ordained as bishop in Brittany on the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter.

If Israel's very existence is threatened, some speculate that she would use a " Samson Option ," a " last resort " deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons, may be initiated should the state of Israel be substantially damaged and / or near destruction.

He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 ( Organ Symphony ).

In several ancient manuscripts this reference to Shamgar occurs after the accounts of Samson rather than immediately after the account of Ehud, in a way that is more narratively consistent ; scholars believe that this latter position is more likely to be the passage's original location.

Beautifully written ( by Lubitsch's favorite writer, Samson Raphaelson ), Shop Around the Corner is a treasury of hopes and anxieties based in the desperate faces of Stewart and Sullavan.

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

This period in Heine's life is not very clear, but it seems that his father Samson's business deteriorated and Samson Heine effectively became the ward of his brother Salomon.

Samson is a city in Geneva County, Alabama, United States.

Samson is located at ( 31. 112574 ,-86. 047865 ).

" Thomas, Jr., winner of Survivor: Tocantins, is from Samson.

In the Tanakh ( also referred to as the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible ), Dagon is particularly the god of the Philistines with temples at Beth-dagon in the tribe of Asher ( Joshua 19. 27 ), in Gaza ( Judges 16. 23, which tells soon after how the temple is destroyed by Samson as his last act ).

The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah found in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament.

Samson et Dalila is a consistent presence in the opera houses of Europe.

Although the libretto of Samson et Dalila is taken from Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges, the opera does not include the accounts of Samson's heroic deeds which earned him both fame and leadership among the Hebrews.

Samson, therefore, is presented as an inspiring leader rather than the almost supernatural hero of the Bible.

* 1759-Native American Samson Occom, direct descendant of the great Mahican chief Uncas, is ordained by the Presbyterians.

Milton Abbey ( fully, the Abbey Church of St Mary, St Samson, and St Branwalader ) in Dorset was a Benedictine foundation, but only part of the church now survives and is used as the Milton Abbey School chapel.

The relevant section is a list of monks of St Mary's ( the cathedral chapter ) at Worcester, which was entered during the time when Samson was bishop of Worcester ( 1096 – 1112 ).

Liszt was highly interested in producing new works by talented composers and persuaded Saint-Saëns to finish Samson and Delilah, even offering to produce the completed work at the grand-ducal opera house in Weimar.

The Samson proved highly successful, prompting the US Navy to purchase some 2, 000 of them during the mid to late 1980s.

Samson François's extravagant lifestyle, good looks, and passionate but highly disciplined playing, gave him a cult status as a pianist, although his passion for nightlife and his reckless behavior ( lavish drinking and drug use ) resulted in a heart attack on the concert stage in 1968.

Prince Namor had been previously disqualified for refusing to stoop to training and Doc Samson had been disqualified for not being sufficiently skilled to qualify as an opponent.

The word Agonistes (), found as an epithet following a person's name, means “ the struggler ” or “ the combatant .” It is most often an allusion to John Milton ’ s, " himself a Christian agonist ", 1671 verse tragedy Samson Agonistes, which recounts the end of Samson's life, when he is a blind captive of the Philistines, described as being “ Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves ”.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

However, Frankel's use of modern methods of historical scholarship in analyzing Jewish texts and developing Jewish law set him apart from neo-Orthodox Judaism, which was concurrently developing under the leadership of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.

Another one appears in Len Deighton's spy novel Berlin Game, published in 1983, which contains the following passage, spoken by Bernard Samson:

* Day of Atonement ( play ), a play by Samson Raphaelson, which became the 1927 film The Jazz Singer

Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus ( libretto by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Dörmann ), which in turn was based on the novel Nur der Prinzgemahl ( Only the Prince Consort ) by Hans Müller-Einigen.

Samson Raphael Hirsch, immediately on the opening of the seminary, addressed an open letter to Frankel, demanding a statement as to the religious principles which would guide the instruction at the new institution.

Like other heroes such as the Biblical Samson, Duryodhana in the Mahabharata and the Welsh Llew Llaw Gyffes, Cú Roí can only be killed in certain contrived circumstances, which vary in different versions of the story.

Samson spent the next twenty years as the head of the high school, which at that time was a private school.

After Lemaire finished the libretto, Saint-Saëns began actively composing act 2 of the opera, producing an aria for Dalila, a duet for Samson and Dalila, and some musical pieces for the chorus ( some of which were later assigned to act 1 ) during 1867 – 1869.

The Paris Opéra finally staged the opera on 23 November 1892 in a performance under the supervision of Saint-Saëns conducted by Édouard Colonne with Blanche Deschamps-Jéhin as Dalila and Edmond Vergnet as Samson, a performance which was lauded by critics and the audience.

The name " Samson " is derived from the Hebrew word " shemesh ", which means the sun, so that Samson bore the name of God, who is called " a sun and shield " in ; and as God protected Israel, so did Samson watch over it in his generation, judging the people even as did God.

It is said that in the twenty years during which Samson judged Israel he never required the least service from an Israelite, and he piously refrained from taking the name of God in vain.

Samson bears many similar traits to the Greek Herakles ( and the Roman Hercules adaptation ), inspired himself partially from the mesopotamian Enkidu tale: Herakles and Samson both battled a Lion bare handed ( Lion of Nemea feat ), Herakles and Samson both had a favorite primitive blunt weapon ( a club for the first, an ass's jaw for the latter ), they were both betrayed by a woman which led them to their ultimate fate ( Herakles by Dejanira, while Samson by Delilah ).

Dr. Zvi Lederman, co-director of the Tel Aviv University Beth Shemesh dig which discovered the seal discussed below, believes that Beth Shemesh, a Canaanite village, was a cultural meeting point on the border of Israelite, Canaanite and Philistine areas and calls the stories " border sagas ", saying that Samson could cross boundaries, seeking a Philistine wife but also fighting and killing Philistines.

Samson is one of the giant figures at the " Ducasse " festivities, which take place at Ath, Belgium.

" Jakob Bernays says of his corrections of the Tristia, " corruptions which had hitherto defied every attempt even of the mightiest, were removed by a touch of the fingers of this British Samson.