At length, branching off from Solomon's Great Road, we came to the wide fosse surrounding the kraal, which is at least a mile round, and fenced with a strong palisade of piles formed of the trunks of trees. At the gateway this fosse is spanned by a primitive drawbridge, which was let...
Throughout history, we have witnessed kings and queens who have reigned with wisdom, compassion, and courage, leaving behind a legacy that is remembered and revered. King Solomon, renowned for his wisdom, built a kingdom that flourished under his reign, known for its prosperity and cultural ad...
1.died c970 B.C., the second king of Israel, reigned c1010–c970, successor to Saul. 2.Saint,A.D. c510–601?, Welsh bishop: patron saint of Wales. 3.Jacques Louis,1748–1825, French painter. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright...
1885 KING SOLOMON'S MINES H. Rider Haggard Haggard, Henry Rider (1856-1925) - English novelist best known for his romantic adventure novels written against South African backgrounds. King Solomon's Mines (1885) - Haggard's first successful novel, it made him immediately famous. Allan Quatermain...
King Hezekiah (who reigned from 727 to 698 B.C.) carried out, under the influence of the prophet Isaiah, a number of military, economic, social, religious, and ritual reforms aimed at strengthening the country against the possibility of war with Assyria. Hezekiah’s foreign policy was at ...
At length, branching off from Solomon’s Great Road, we came to the wide fosse surrounding the kraal, which is at least a mile round, and fenced with a strong palisade of piles formed of the trunks of trees. At the gateway this fosse is spanned by a primitive drawbridge, which was ...
That the practice of thus preserving their kings must have been an ancient one is evident from the number, which, allowing for an average reign of fifteen years, supposing that every king who reigned was placed here—an improbable thing, as some are sure to have perished in battle far ...
7 For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would ...
Thus runs the prophecy of my people: ‘If the king offer not a sacrifice of a fair girl, on the day of the dance of maidens, to the Old Ones who sit and watch on the mountains, then shall he fall, and his house.’ Look ye, white men, my brother who reigned before me offered...
Spanish InquisitionSpanish Jews pleading before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, while grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada argues for their expulsion from Spain, in a painting by Solomon A. Hart.(more) The kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Portugal spent the next century consolidating their holdin...