A Cyrenian named Simon carried the cross of Christ ( Mark 15: 21 and parallels ).

However, the Gospel of Luke refers to Simon carrying the cross after Jesus, in that it states: " they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus ".

Painting by Rubens depicting scene from Luke 23: 26-28: " And as they led him away they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus.

: And they compelled one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

A burial cave in Kidron Valley discovered in 1941 by E. L. Sukenik, belonging to Cyrenian Jews and dating before AD 70, was found to have an ossuary inscribed twice in Greek " Alexander Son of Simon.

Also there is a play about Simon by the poet Ridgely Torrence by the name of Simon the Cyrenian.

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Cyrene's chief local export through much of its early history was the medicinal herb silphium, used to induce an abortion ( referred in the medical community to as an abortifacient ); the herb was pictured on most Cyrenian coins.

See also Acts 2: 10 where Jews from Cyrene heard the disciples speaking in their own language in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost ; 6: 9 where some Cyrenian Jews disputed with a disciple named Stephen ; 11: 20 tells of Jewish Christians originally from Cyrene who ( along with believers from Cyprus ) first preached the Gospel to non-Jews ; 13: 1 names Lucius of Cyrene as one of several to whom the Holy Spirit spoke, instructing them to appoint Barnabas and Saul ( later Paul ) for missionary service.

It was the essential item of trade from the ancient North African city of Cyrene, and was so critical to the Cyrenian economy that most of their coins bore a picture of the plant ( illustration, right ).

After the death of Alexander III of Macedon ( 323 BC ), the Cyrenian republic became subject to the Ptolemaic dynasty.

The Cyrenian Jews had a synagogue in Jerusalem, where many went for annual feasts.

The visitors included Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judaea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Cyrenian Libya, and Rome.

Critic Simon Reynolds described this movement as " a rash of blurry, neo-psychedelic bands ".

As historian Simon Thurley has described, the shifting " functional requirements, patterns of movement, modes of transport, aesthetic taste and standards of comfort " amongst royal circles were also changing the qualities being sought in a successful castle.

Other notable recordings include Deryck Cooke's completion of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10, conducted by Simon Rattle ; Elgar's In the South ( Alassio ) with Constantin Silvestri, Tchaikovsky's 2nd Piano Concerto with Rudolf Barshai and Peter Donohoe as soloist ( with Nigel Kennedy and Steven Isserlis in the slow movement ); Anthony Payne's completion of Elgar's 3rd Symphony with Paul Daniel, and Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Marin Alsop.

* 1832-Joseph Plateau ( Belgium ) and Simon von Stampfer ( Vienna ) introduced simultaneously a scientific demonstration device that creates an optical illusion of movement by mounting drawings on the face of a slotted, spinning disk.

Music journalist Dave Rimmer considered the peak of the movement was the Live Aid concert of July 1985, after which " everyone seemed to take hubristic tumbles ", and Simon Reynolds also notes the " Do They Know Its Christmas " single in late 1984 and Live Aid in 1985 as a turning points, with the movement seen as having become decadent, with " overripe arrangements and bloated videos " for songs like Duran Duran's " The Wild Boys " and Culture Club's " War Song ".

Mr. Simon is commonly acknowledged as a legendary architect of the modern conservative movement.

Simon Rattle's 1980 recording with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra gave the former percussionist an opportunity to make some pointed revisions, most noticeably giving prominence to the military drum in the fifth movement, which is played as loudly as possible without being muffled or dampened.

Criticizing Ehrlich on similar grounds as Simon was Ronald Bailey, a leader in the wise use movement, who wrote a book in 1993 entitled Eco-Scam where he blasted the views of Ehrlich, Lester Brown, Carl Sagan and other environmental theorists.

It is a big tent party, including a range of politicians from conservatives as José Sarney to liberals as Pedro Simon, left-liberals as Roberto Requião, populists as Íris Resende, nationalists as Orestes Quércia as well as the former guerrilla movement MR-8.

The album was very successful and even lent its name to a small movement of musicians in the pop underground ( including acoustic contemporaries such as Turin Brakes ) which took Elliott Smith, Belle & Sebastian and Simon & Garfunkel as their inspiration and focused on more subtle melodies and messages.

His father, Rabbi Simon Greenberg, was the rabbi of Har Zion Temple and one of the most important leaders of the Conservative movement.

The Freedom Association has expressed an interest in establishing a British equivalent of the American Tea Party movement, though its director, Simon Richards, stated in October 2010 that he was worried that such a project could be hijacked by extremist groups such as the English Defence League.

* Arcadia, a mid 1990s London club night, central to the Romo movement, run by Simon Price

The attempt has been to draw connections between these movements in an anti-racist form of social movement unionism ( Black, Simon J.

The BTJ vision was first conceived during the 1920s by Chinese students at the Northwest Bible Institute, however government restrictions and persecution forced the movement to go underground for decades, and its leader Simon Zhao spent 40 years in prison in Kashgar.

The mod revivalists, the Purple Hearts started in 1977, when teenagers Jeff Shadbolt, Simon Stebbing, Bob Manton, and Nick Lake formed the band in Romford, East London as The Sockets, before they even knew how to play their instruments ( taking a cue from the then prevailing DIY aesthetics of the punk rock movement ).

Master teachers, such as Phyllis Curtin, Penelope Bitzas, Sharon Daniels, Simon Estes, and Jerrold Pope have led classes and classes focused on movement and acting have been offered by Lauren Ambrose and Judith Chaffee also offer classes during the program.

* Simon Watson Taylor ( surrealist ) ( 1923 – 2005 ), British actor and translator, associated with the surrealist movement

Fortunately for India's struggle for freedom, the fatal inertia that had practically put an end, after calling off the Non-co-operative movement, to all its outwards activities, was removed by an action of the British government, namely the appointment of Simon Commission in 1928.

Cottet was more explicitly the leader of his own small movement, the Bande noire of the 1890s, which included Lucien Simon and André Dauchez, all influenced by the realism and dark colours of Courbet.

Starring Michael O ' Keefe and Suzzanne Douglas, the 17 hour-long episodes centered on the brash Boston lawyer, Simon MacHeath, who left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own defense practice.

Simon ensures that his team of highly qualified specialists, work in an Interdisciplinary way bringing an applied, player centered support service to Britain ’ s top players and coaches

Ideologically, their violent, anti-intellectual, and ultra-populist views centered chiefly on what historian Simon Schama describes as " an anarchic notion of popular government, always armed to impose the will of the people on its mandatories ," and took the form of support for " unrelenting surveillance, denunciation, indictment, humiliation, and death.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

His father, Arthur Simon ( 1881 – 1948 ), was an electrical engineer who had come to the United States from Germany in 1903 after earning his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt.

However, in early 1972 he faced a new threat in the form of Simon Kapwepwe's decision to leave UNIP and found a rival party, the United Progressive Party, which Kaunda immediately attempted to suppress.

* 9-Paul Simon, 75, United States Senator from Illinois.

Shortly after finishing recording, the duo split and Simon moved to the United Kingdom, where he performed at Les Cousins and the Troubadour in London and toured provincial folk clubs.

Simon immediately returned to the United States and the duo re-formed to record more tracks in a similar style, though neither approved of what Wilson had done with " The Sound of Silence ".

In 2007, Simon Armitage, who grew up near the Gawain poet's purported residence, published a translation which attracted attention in the US and the United Kingdom, and was published in the US by Norton.

The song's success drew Simon back to the United States to reunite with Garfunkel.

Rounding off his 2011 World Tour, which included United States, England, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany, Simon appeared at Ramat Gan Stadium in Israel in July 2011, making his first concert appearance in Israel since 1983.

* Around the same time, in the calf brain, Rabi Simantov and Solomon H. Snyder of the United States found what Eric Simon ( who independently discovered opioid receptors in the brain ) later termed " endorphin " by an abbreviation of " endogenous morphine ", meaning " morphine produced naturally in the body ".

The 2010 United States diplomatic cables leak mentions two unnamed Chinese officials claiming that the younger generation of Chinese leaders is willing to accept the unification of Korea under South Korean rule, on condition that a unified Korea not be hostile to China .< ref > Tisdall, Simon.

The contemporary Christian right became increasingly vocal and organized in reaction to a series of United States Supreme Court decisions ( notably Bob Jones University v. Simon and Bob Jones University v. United States ) and also engaged in battles over pornography, obscenity, abortion, state sanctioned prayer in public schools, textbook contents ( concerning creationism ), homosexuality, and sexual education.

They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.

United States, Simon & Schuster Macmillan.

In an interview with Yorkshire Radio on 8 February 2012, the chairman of English Championship club Leeds United, Ken Bates, revealed that Eriksson had applied for the vacant managerial position at the club after the dismissal of Simon Grayson.

The play began a tour of the United Kingdom in February 2011, with Simon Williams as Sir Humphrey Appleby, Richard McCabe as Jim Hacker and Charlotte Lucas as Claire Sutton.

In 1879, he was posted to the Nautical Almanac Office, Washington ( part of the United States Naval Observatory ), to work with Simon Newcomb.

From 1986 to 1988, Simon served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, working under then-U. S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani.

* William E. Simon ( 1927 – 2000 ), United States Secretary of the Treasury for Nixon and Ford.

Calvin Eugene Simon ( born May 22, 1942 in Beckley, West Virginia, United States ) is a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic.

Simon Weston OBE ( born 8 August 1961 ) is a Welsh veteran of the British Army who became well known throughout the United Kingdom for his recovery and charity work after suffering severe burn injuries during the Falklands War.

Notable people who were born in Epsom include television personalities Jeremy Vine, Mel Giedroyc and Michaela Strachan ( born in Ewell ) as well as artist Simon Starling, actors Tom Felton, Warwick Davis, actress Alex Kingston, and the current Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations, Thomas Mayr-Harting.

In 1975, Elektra released her first greatest-hits album, The Best of Carly Simon, which became Simon's all time best selling disc and eventually reached Triple-Platinum status in the United States.

In January 1982, former United States Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.