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unusual facts about Promised Land


Book of Zephaniah

Similarities might be expected to each of these works because the Deuteronomistic history covers an overlapping period of time and because the issues which are dealt with in the book of Zephaniah go straight to the heart of the covenant which is reaffirmed in the book of Deuteronomy before Israel enters into the Promised Land of Canaan.


Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

After the creation of Pakistan,some Ahmadis with the Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad came to Pakistan and constructed their own city which is considered as Promised Land.

Olympia Brewing Company

A neon light Olympia Beer sign can be seen in the roadhouse bar in the vampire cult-classic Near Dark(1987) and in the Matt Damon film Promised Land (2012).

Q2K

"The Right Side of My Mind" was released as the band's first music video since the album Promised Land and has had occasional airplay on VH1 Classic, which also premiered it in a special co-hosted by Geoff Tate.


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Alon Tal

In 1998, Tal was a visiting scholar at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he wrote Pollution in a Promised Land, a comprehensive history of Israel’s environment.

Bryant G. Wood

According to the well-known story in the biblical book of Joshua, Jericho was the first Canaanite city to fall to the Israelites as they began their conquest of the Promised Land - an event which the Bible's internal chronology places at around 1406 BC.

Emperor Ōjin

Ōjin was born (in 200 according to the traditional, but untrustworthy TC date, timetable; realistically sometime in the late 4th century) in Tsukushi on the return of his mother from the invasion of the promised land and named him Prince Hondawake.

Jazz in Germany

In addition to a comparatively wide Dixieland scene in the area and mainstream American-style jazz, free improvisational music developed in a way that Fred Van Hove (later relativated) spoke misguidedly of the, "Promised Land of Improvised Music".

Jobs for Youth-Chicago

This effort resonated with the perspectives shared in Alex Kotlowitz' There Are No Children Here, Nicholas Lemann's 'The Promised Land—both of them best sellers—and MacArthur Genius awardee William Julius Wilson's groundbreaking, The Truly Disadvantaged.

Karim Alrawi

It was followed by three plays, Fire in the Lake, A Child in the Heart and Promised Land for Joint Stock Theatre, then one of Britain's major touring companies.

Khuplam Milui Lenthang

Guided by the spirit of God they had come to Manipur for a third time to seek out the lost tribes of Israel in order to bring them back to the Promised Land.

Little Texas

The Big Time song "God Blessed Texas" featured classic lyrics such as "God blessed Texas with his own hand, brought down angels from the Promised Land, gave 'em a place where they could dance. If you wanna see Heaven, brother here's your chance. I've been sent to spread the message: God blessed Texas."

Mary Antin

-- * Mary Antin, Werner Sollors, ed. The Promised Land. (1914; New York: Penguin Books, 1997 ISBN 0140189858). -->

Montaillou

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error. translated by Barbara Bray.

Pisgah Mountain

At the Mauch Chunk-Bear Mountain Gap east of Jim Thorpe, the range ends rapidly descending to the Lehigh River Valley below the northeastern summit marked on USGS topological maps as Mt. Pisgah, which is named for the biblical mountain in Jordan from which Moses first saw the promised land (as are many Mountains around the world and especially in the United States).

Rakel Liekki

In 2001, Liekki was featured in the music video for the song Hardboiled and Still Hellbound by Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene, in 2007 in the music video Broken Promised Land by Finnish rock band Private Line and in 2008 in the music video Lääke by Finnish metal band Stam1na.

Steve Norman

Their first production was a re-working of Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" featuring Peyton on lead vocals and Shelley Preston on backing vocals.

The Singular Adventures of The Style Council

"Promised Land", a non-album single from 1989, was from the sessions for the band's Modernism: A New Decade album, recorded in 1989 but unreleased due to Polydor's demands (this album was released instead) and not released until 1998.

Tony Hicks

Hicks also co-wrote songs with UK singer Kenny Lynch—for The Hollies, such as "What A Life I've Led", "Look What We've Got", "Promised Land", the US hit single "Long Dark Road" (all 1971) and "Blue in the Morning" (1972) and "Faded Images", recorded by Cilla Black on her 1971 album Images.

United States withdrawal from the United Nations

Recent works that have made this argument include Walter A. McDougall's Promised Land, Crusader State (1997) and John Lewis Gaddis's Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004).

When You Believe

"When You Believe" is sung in the film by characters Tzipporah and Miriam, and a chorus of people departing from the slavery of Egypt to the Red Sea and the Promised Land.

Zoltan Deme

As degreed filmdirector (and former filmdirector of the Hungarian State Television) he stores his completed feature films in his website in divX format for years (having Lucille Bliss, Jennifer Darling, Andre Landzaat, Walker Edmiston, and others appeared in the movies) and discusses the final development of these films with fans and experts before making release (The Beyond, Promised Land).