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Absalon, with only Bishop Sweyn of Aarhus, and twelve " housecarls " thereupon disembarked, passed between a double row of Wendish warriors, 6000 strong, along the narrow path winding among the morasses, to the gates of the fortress, and, proceeding to the temple of the seven-headed god Rugievit, caused the idol to be hewn down, dragged forth and burnt.
In Revelation 21-23, as in the closing visions of Ezekiel, the prophet is transported to a high mountain, where a heavenly messenger measures the symmetrical new Jerusalem, complete with high walls and twelve gates, the dwelling-place of God, producing a state of perfect well-being for his people.
The city itself has a large wall with twelve gates in it which are never shut, and which have the names of the twelve tribes of Israel written on them.
" And the twelve gates were twelve pearls ; every gate was of one pearl: and the streets of the city were pure gold, as if transparent glass.
The ground's wrought iron gates and twelve tombs are Grade II listed.
Around 970 Ibrāhīm ibn Ya ` qūb, envoy of the Caliph of Córdoba, reported that in Pomerania was a large port " with twelve gates ", whose armed force is superior to " all peoples of the north ".
* The Brusselpoort, last remaining of the city's twelve gates, 13th century ; the Schepenhuis, oldest stone-built city hall in Flanders, historical seat of the ' Grote Raad ' ( Great Council or Supreme Court ), 13th century ; the gothic-renaissance Hof van Busleyden where Jeroen alias Hiëronymus van Busleyden received Erasmus, Thomas More, and the later Pope Adrian VI.
The stone perimeter wall has twelve gates, including seven major gates with vaulted entrances.
It w has added twelve new gates able to hold wide-body jets, which can be converted to sixteen narrow-body gates, as well as new check-in desks and a baggage claim area solely for international carriers.
The twelve international gates are capable of dual jet bridge loading and unloading.
It also added 30 new gates, twelve of which are Airbus A380 compatible.
Turning to the left of the gates to the Founders ’ Vault, in the thick east foundation wall of the church are twelve longitudinal recessed niches built in the 1960s containing sarcophagi of 12 children.
The annual ritual cycle consists of nine or twelve ancestor offerings, rice rituals, and other rites such as the building of the village gates.
Chapter 48: 30-35 contains a list of twelve Temple gates named for the Israel ’ s tribes.
The surviving New Jerusalem texts in Qumran literature focus specifically on the twelve city gates, and on the dimensions of the entire new city.
For the author of this fragment, the New Jerusalem ’ s twelve gates signify the reunification of the twelve tribes of Israel.
There are twelve gates in the wall oriented to the compass with three each on the east, north, south, and west sides.
The names of the twelve tribes of Israel are written on these gates.
Note the Lamb of God and the twelve sets of figures, gates, and stones.

twelve and New
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
No more than twelve months passed before the British and Irish team ventured to Australia and New Zealand in 1904.
The New Testament mentions several resurrection appearances of Jesus on different occasions to his twelve apostles and disciples, including " more than five hundred brethren at once ", before Jesus ' Ascension to heaven.
Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".
It also reached number three in New Zealand and number twelve on the US Billboard 200 album chart.
* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews
They left Rotterdam on January 14, 1905, and arrived at Ellis Island in New York harbor twelve days later as Peter, Elisabeth and Johann Weissmüller.
* 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
Eight of the twelve biggest Eastern Orthodox Churches which have adopted the Revised Julian calendar – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Syria, and Turkey – also celebrate 1 January as the New Year.
In Carruth p. 404 </ ref > " Nazaréth " is named twelve times in surviving Greek manuscript versions of the New Testament, 10 times as Nazaréth or Nazarét, and twice as Nazará.
She was listed as one of twelve " Promising New Actors of 1986 " in John Willis ' Screen World, Vol.
Also associated with the Chinese New Year ( or Lunar New Year ), rabbits are also one of the twelve celestial animals in the Chinese Zodiac for the Chinese calendar.
The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years or so of chance encounters in New York City.
Having continued twelve years at Franeker ( where he was rector in 1626 ), his health gave way, and he contemplated a move to New England.
In 1683, they reorganized the Province of New York into twelve counties, each of which was sub-divided into towns.
Westchester County was an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created by an act of the New York General Assembly in 1683.
In 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them.
When New York Colony established its twelve counties in 1683, the present Putnam County was part of Dutchess County.
Orange County was one of the first twelve counties established by the Province of New York in 1683.
When the Duke of York ( who became King James II of England ) established the first twelve counties of New York in 1683, present-day Rockland County was part of Orange County.
When the colony that is now New York State established its first twelve counties in 1683, the present Sullivan County was part of Ulster County.
He told the Modesto Bee in 1986, for example, that when he was twelve and a half years old, his mother sent him to New Mexico for a year to work as a ranch hand.

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