CAVE People — (an acronym for Citizens Against Virtually Everything) is a pejorative acronym for citizen activists who regularly oppose any changes within a community. The phenomenon is linked to the so called NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) phenomenon in which… … Wikipedia
Letters from Iwo Jima — Infobox Film name = Letters from Iwo Jima caption = director = Clint Eastwood producer = Clint Eastwood Paul Haggis Robert Lorenz Steven Spielberg writer = Screenplay: Iris Yamashita Story: Iris Yamashita Paul Haggis Book: Tadamichi Kuribayashi… … Wikipedia
Gorham's Cave — View of Gorham s Cave on the east face of the Rock of Gibraltar. Location South east facing face of the Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar … Wikipedia
Shuilian Cave — (Chinese: 水帘洞; Pinyin: Shuǐlián Dòng), literally meaning Water Curtain Cave, is an area featured within the famed Chinese novel Journey to the West . Shuilian Cave had been featured since the first chapter of this novel. Very early on, Sun Wukong … Wikipedia
Copper Scroll — The Copper Scroll (3Q15) is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 3 near Khirbet Qumran, but differs significantly from the others. Whereas the other scrolls are written on parchment or papyrus, this scroll is written on metal: copper mixed… … Wikipedia
BAR KOKHBA — (d. 135 C.E.), leader of the revolt in Judea against Rome (132–135 C.E.). The Man and the Leader Bar Kokhba is known in talmudic sources as Ben Kozevah, Bar Kozevah, or Ben Koziva (Heb. בן כוזבה, בר כוסבא, בן כוזיבא; Sanh. 93b; BK 97b; TJ, Ta an … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Dead Sea Scrolls — a number of leather, papyrus, and copper scrolls dating from c100 B.C. to A.D. 135, containing partial texts of some of the books of the Old Testament and some non Biblical scrolls, in Hebrew and Aramaic, and including apocryphal writings,… … Universalium
DEAD SEA SCROLLS — DEAD SEA SCROLLS, the popular designation given to collections of manuscript material found in 1947 and the following years in various caves west of the Dead Sea, notably at qumran , Murabbaʿāt , Khirbat Mird, together with en gedi and masada .… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Bar-Kochba — (Shimeon bar Kosiba) (1–2 century) Leader of second Jewish revolt, 132–5. Bar Kochba survives in the collective Jewish memory as a national hero and, next to Judas Maccabeus, a symbol of the constant struggle for liberation from imperial… … Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
JUDEAN DESERT CAVES — Following the discovery of the dead sea scrolls in the qumran caves, frantic searches for additional documents were carried out by Bedouin in all the caves of the valleys in the area of the Dead Sea. As a result of evidence of such activities by… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
