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49 matches to Salem Witch Trials
Saladin. 1138-93. Egyptian sultan 1169-. Took Jerusalem, 1187, inciting Third Crusade. Began Ayyubid Dynasty.
Sanhedrin. -70. Jerusalem council of Jewish elders.
Sennacherib. -681BC. Assyrian king. Besieged Jerusalem 701. Destroyed Babylon 689. Rebuilt Nineveh.
Sepulchre, Church of the Holy. c336. Jerusalem.
Six Day War. 1967. Israel wins Sinai, Golan Heights, Gaza, Old Jerusalem, West Bank. Opened Gulf of Aqaba.
Solomon. King of Israel c973-933BC. First Temple at Jerusalem. Biblical writings. Known for wisdom.
Swedenborg, Emanuel. 1688-1772. Swedish scientist, philosopher. Apocalypse Revealed 1743-4. Claimed to have been to hell and heaven. Followers founded Church of New Jerusalem 1788.
Syria. c10000BC Natufians. c2300BC Akkadian. c1900 Amorite. 16C Egypt. 14C Hittite. 8C Assyria. 7C Babylon. 538 Achaemenid. 332 Alexander...301 Seleucid. 64BC Rome...395 Byzantine. 634 Moslem. 877 Egypt. 11C Seljuk 1098 Latin Empire(part). 12C Ayyubid. 1249 Mameluk. 1516 Ottoman. 1920 French League of Nations mandate. 1943 Independent. 1958 +Egypt = United Arab Republic. 1961 -Egypt=Syria. Damascus.
Tasso, Torquato. 1544-95. Italian poet. Jerusalem Liberated 1581.
Temple of Jerusalem. First: 957BC. Solomon. Destroyed 586BC by Nebuchadnezzar. Rebuilt 515BC.
Titus. 39-81. Roman Emperor. Destroyed Jerusalem and Temple. Built Colosseum, 80.
Tyre. c2000BC Phoenicia. 14C Egypt. 9C Founded Carthage. 8C Assyria. 538 Persia. 332 Alexander...Seleucid. 125 Autonomous. 68BC Rome. 636 Moslem. 1124 Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1291 Mameluks destroy.
Zerubbabel. c520BC. Jerusalem governor when 2nd Temple built.
Zion. Originally a hill in Jerusalem. Now, symbol of Promised Land.
Innocent VIII. 1432-92. Pope 1484-. Authorized Inquisition against witchcraft 1484.
Goering, Hermann. 1893-1946. German WWI flying ace, Nazi Prime Minister. Gestapo. Condemned at Nuremberg. Suicide.
Hess. Rudolph. 1894-1987. German Nazi leader. Flew to Scotland, 1941. Sentenced to life at Nuremberg.
Jodl, Alfred. 1890-1946. German general. Signed capitulation at Reims. Condemned at Nuremberg.
Keitel, Wilhelm. 1882-1946. German marshal who signed capitulation 1945. Executed at Nuremberg.
Nuremberg Trials. 1945-6. Trials of 22 Nazi leaders for crimes in WWII. 12 death sentences.
Prairial, Law of 22. 1794. France allowed only acquital or death penalty in trials. Terror.
Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.
Ribbentrop, Joachim von. 1893-1946. German Nazi foreign minister 1933-45. Hanged at Nuremberg.
Vyshinsky, Andrei. 1883-1954. Russian statesman, prosecutor for Purge trials.