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147 matches to Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scrolls. 3C BC-1C AD. Old Testament texts of Essenes. Discovered at Qumrum, 1947.
Amritsar Riot. 1919. British Dyer opens fire on unarmed Indians. 379 dead. 1200 injured.
Ananias. Early Christian struck dead for lying to Peter.
Anubis. Jackal-headed Egyptian god of dead.
Black Hundreds. 1905-9. Russian movement. Opposed revolution. Persecuted Jews-50,000 dead.
Bloody Week. 1871. Paris Commune toppled. 20,000 dead.
Book of the Dead. 24-16C BC. Egyptian prayers and spells buried with deceased.
Buchenwald. 1937-45. Nazi concentration camp. Medical research, slave labour. 52,500 dead.
Chaco War. 1932-5. Paraguay defeats Bolivia’s claim on Gran Chaco. 100,000 dead.
Cholula, Massacre. 1519. Cortes razes Mexican town; 3000 dead.
Dieppe. 1942. Unsuccessful Canadian-led experimental assault on French port. 44,000 dead.
Gogol, Nikolai. 1809-52. Russian Realist writer. Dead Souls 1842.
Korean War. 1950-3. China supports Communist invasion of South Korea. Repelled with UN aid-mainly US troops. MacArthur. 38th parallel border reestablished. 5M dead.
Lazarus. Raised from dead by Jesus.
Lucian. c120-80. Greek satirist. Dialogues of the Dead.
Mailer, Norman. 1923-2007. US writer. Naked and the Dead 1948. Executioner’s Song 1979. Harlot’s Ghost 1991.
Mursa, Battle. 351. Roman civil wars. Rebel Magnentius defeated by Constantius II. 54,000 dead.
Orcus. Roman god of underworld and dead. = Hades.
Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.
Resurrection. Key Christian belief that Jesus rose from dead.
Smog Disasters. London. 1952: 4000 dead. 1962: 750 dead.
Solon. 630-560BC. Athenian democratic lawgiver, poet. Equality of all citizens before the law. Trial by jury. -“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
Soweto. 1976 Violent riots in Black South Africa township over compulsory Afrikaans in schools. 236-600 dead.
Spiritualists, Greater World. 1931. Christian sect communicating with the dead.
Thoth. Egyptian god of learning. Kept records of dead. Also messenger god = Hermes. Hermetic Texts.