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16 unusual facts about Zion


Arthur Booth-Clibborn

At her husband's wish, Katie and the children travelled with him to the religious leader John Alexander Dowie's Zion City, a township about 40 miles north of Chicago.

Caravan 841

At the beginning of the film, one of Moshe's few friends sings Bob Marley's lyrics, as he dances about, “I've gotta run like a fugitive to live the life I live...I'm going to be iron, like a lion in Zion.”

Ethiopia national cricket team

The game is almost non-existent in Ethiopia at present, and only played by the minor Rastafarian community in Shashamane and Zion in southern Ethiopia.

Kate Booth

At her husband's wish, Katie and the children travelled with him to the cult leader John Alexander Dowie's Zion City, a township about 40 miles north of Chicago.

Lake County Discovery Museum

In addition to a compilation of Lake County one-room school narratives, the museum also preserves a selection of materials relating to Zion, Illinois social and civic organization for minorities, the Booker T. Washington Club.

Meir Har-Zion

Sharett, who suspected that Dayan had advanced knowledge of the raid, and who deplored such actions, noted critically in his diary: "The dark soul of the Bible has come alive among the sons of Nahalal and 'Ein Harod".

On 31 July – 1 August 1954 Har-Zion led a group of ten raiders who attacked two policemen near Jenin, taking one of them prisoner.

At the age of 18, Meir and his girlfriend managed to reach Petra at night, after three days of hiking, and crossing the Wadi Musa and climbing Mount Hor and bypassing an unpassable waterfall: they apparently slipped into the ancient city unnoticed, under the cover of darkness, before exploring the Nabatean palaces.

Sverresborg

Sverresborg (Norwegian:Sverresborg i Trondheim) or Sverre Sigurdsson's castle (also named Zion after King David’s castle in Jerusalem) was a fortification built in the medieval city of Nidaros (later Trondheim) by Sverre Sigurdsson.

The Guns of Avalon

The poem about Avalon that Corwin quotes to Ganelon alludes to both Psalm 137 ("By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion") as well as to a classic nursery rhyme ("How many miles to Babylon? Threescore miles and ten").

Zion, Missouri

The community was founded in 1886 and is named after Zion church, which in turn was named after Zion in Israel.

Zion, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Zion is a settlement in the southeast of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

It is located inland from the coast, to the northwest of Market Shop.

Zion's Daughter

The single featured a manipulated photo from 1978 with new male singer Reggie Tsiboe inserted in place of original member Bobby Farrell.

The tune of the German advent carol is well-known in England as part of Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs performed every year at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms concert.

Zion's Order, Inc.

He moved to Bicknell, Utah, where he and another member of the Aaronic Order left that church and formed Zion's Order of the Sons of Levi.


Acristavus

The Wahweap Formation is part of the Grand Staircase region, an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon.

Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri

But first, through the Prior of Zion, he threatened the Pope that if he did not check Ferdinand and Manuel I of Portugal in their depredations on the Indian Seas, he would destroy all Christian holy places, and treat Christians as they were treating the followers of Islam.

Binjamin W. Segel

Richard S. Levy: A Lie and a Libel, The History of the Elders of Zion (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995)

Buildings and architecture of Allentown, Pennsylvania

Zion's also hosts the Liberty Bell Museum, due the special role the church played in protecting the Liberty Bell from capture by British forces in 1777.

Burgess, South Carolina

Burgess also has a community center called Burgess Community Center located on South Carolina Highway 707 near Mt. Zion Church and St. James Middle School and just down the street from St. James High School.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The novel takes its title from the incipit of the famous Psalm 137: By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion (KJV).

C. Terry Warner

The permanent exhibition, Education in Zion, tells the history of education in the LDS Church, beginning with the spiritual and secular education of Joseph Smith, and continuing through the foundation of educational institutions throughout Church's Kirtland and Nauvoo years, its migration to the Mountain West, and its ultimate worldwide expansion.

Cornerstone Community Church

Cornerstone is part of a network called Zion Fellowship, under the leadership of Dr. Brian Bailey, based in Waverly, New York.

Daniel Zion

After emigrating to Israel Rabbi Zion was accused of having an interest in Dunovism, a Bulgarian mystical Christian teaching which combined Orthodox Christianity with local Bulgarian religious practices led Peter Deunov, and calling for a retrial of Jesus.

David Zaffiro

Artists that he has worked with include Acquire the Fire, Andy Chrisman, A Worship House, Brett Williams, Broken Silence, Eli, End Time Warriors, Holy Soldier, Julie Miller, Kate Miner, Kim Hill, Little Big Town, The Passion Worship Band, Paul Q-Pek, Point of Grace, Whitecross, Zion.

Elaine Stuhr

She was also a former assistant instructor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, teacher in Henderson, Nebraska and Hampton, Nebraska and member of Zion Lutheran Church in Hampton.

Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo

The college changed its name to Zion College and relocated to Keta; Fiawoo remained chairman of the college's Board of Governors from 1954 until his death in 1969.

Returning to the Gold Coast in November 1933, Fiawoo was appointed a Superintendent of the AME Zion Church in East Gold Coast, and General Manager of the Zion Education Unit at Keta.

Festivals of Thessaloniki

THHF has hosted world famous artists as RA The Rugged Man (USA), DJ Vadim & Yarah Bravo (UK), Afu-Ra (USA), Foreign Beggars (UK), Snowgoons Soundsystem (DE), Freestyle (The Arsonists), Lerroy of the Saian Supa Crew (France), Wax Tailor (France), DJ Flip (ITF world), Zion I (USA), Zontanoi Nekroi, FF.C, Razastarr, Eisvoleas, Voreia Asteria, Ladose, Apexeis, Phase 3, Orthologistes, Psychodrama07, RNS, Sifu VERSUS, Sugahspank!

George Carleton Lacy

During that time he also served as China correspondent for Zion's Herald and The Christian Century.

Goapele

Apart from her solo work, she has collaborated with West Coast MCs such as Aceyalone, E-40, Zion-I, Mac Mall, and those involved in the Hieroglyphics Crew, Detroit based vocalist Dwele as well as Clyde Carson and Mos Def on the track “Different.”

Grand Lodge of Michigan

The members of Zion Lodge sponsored and supported additional Lodges in Upper Canada and Michigan including Detroit Lodge No. 337 (now No. 2), Oakland Lodge No. 343 in Pontiac, Menomenie Lodge No. 374 in Green Bay (then a part of the Territory) and Monroe Lodge No. 375 in Monroe.

James Varick

In 1820, as Zion was engaged in erecting its new church, the congregation was scattered across a number of temporary meeting places, a competing black denomination appeared in Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church, that was trying to build a national organization from its Philadelphia base.

John Dowie

John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), Scottish clergyman who founded Zion, Illinois

Macon County, Illinois

Milam (former, now defunct, after merger with Mount Zion Township)

Molly Millions

She is referred to as a "razor girl" throughout his stories and also as "Steppin' Razor" by the residents of Zion, a Rastafarian enclave aboard a space station.

Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology

Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology (MZCET) was established in the year 2001 at Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu, India.

New Lamka

The community started out as neighborhoods known as vengs, such as College Veng, Dorcas Veng, Elim Veng, Go Cin Khup Veng, Hebron Veng, Sim Veng, Zion Veng, Veng Nuam and Khomin thang, and today it is one of the most rapidly expanding parts of the city.

Oggi Tomic

Also, Oggi was involved in covering the annual Plymouth Volksfest music festival held at Newnham Park, filming performing artist's such as Hard-Fi, Toploader, Goldie Lookin Chain, Kid Creole, The Blockheads, The Ramones, Dreadzone, Gentleman's Dub Club, Dub Pistols, Two Spot Gobi, Zion Train and Comedian Rufus Hound were performing.

Old Hansen Planetarium

Instead of simply demolishing the dome, however, it was systematically dismantled and donated to the Zion's Gateway to the Stars planetarium in Orderville, Utah.

Samuel Mohilever

After the pogroms following the May Laws, he helped found the Hovevei Zion in Warsaw, and convinced Baron Edmond James de Rothschild to financially support a settlement called Ekron (now Qiryat Ekron).

Si No Le Contesto

In the music video's remix it has Plan B, Tony Dize and Zion & Lennox sing during the music video and starts with a sign of "House of Pleasure" which is like their album, House of Pleasure.

Simon Frug

Shaken by the pogroms of 1881–1882, he joined the Hibbat Zion (Love of Zion) movement, and his poem Jewish Melody became an anthem to Russians seeking a Jewish state in Israel.

Syro-Ephraimite War

Isaiah concludes these prophecies concerning his children (Shear-Jashub (meaning 'a remnant returns', Isaiah 7.3), Immanuel (meaning 'God is with us'), and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (meaning 'quick to plunder, speedy to spoil') by saying, 'Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.' (Isaiah 8.18 NIV) Interestingly enough, the context continues into chapter 9 which also uses a birth of a child as its object.

UCSF Medical Center

With campuses located at Parnassus Heights and Mount Zion, UCSF Medical Center is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco.

WDDZ

WPJX, a radio station (1500 AM) licensed to Zion, Illinois, United States, which used the call sign WDDZ from 1998 to 2001

William Drew Robeson I

In 1910 Robeson moved to Somerville, New Jersey, where he led the congregation at the Saint Thomas AME Zion Church.

William Lovell Hull

After working in Winnipeg for some years, and being ordained to the ministry, he moved to Jerusalem, Palestine in 1935 having received a "call from God" during a service at Zion Apostolic Church.

Wilma Webb

She is a member of Zion Baptist Church of Denver, Colorado, and of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery

Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery is a national historic district comprising a historic Episcopal church complex and cemetery located at Morris in Otsego County, New York.