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unusual facts about The Promised Land



Wojciech Pszoniak

Pszoniak gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film The Promised Land, in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters.


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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.

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).

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.