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The Islander, built 1947 - 4 - The Outrigger Story In 2012, Outrigger Enterprises Group celebrates 65 years of hospitality. What is today a top multi-branded, multi-faceted hotel management company in the Asia-Pacific region began as the dream of Roy C. Kelley, who pioneered the concept of family-style hotel rooms in Waikiki.
Tower of David. The Tower of David ( Hebrew: מגדל דוד, romanized : Migdál Davíd ), also known as the Citadel ( Arabic: القلعة, romanized : al-Qala'a ), is an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem . The citadel that stands today dates to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564) was in his early twenties when he was commissioned to create a statue representing the biblical hero of David. He was offered a colossal block of marble which had been previously worked by two other artists, Agostino di Duccio (in 1464) and Antonio Rossellino (in 1475). Both artists had abandoned their ...
Mar 8, 2021 · Camp David was originally built as a camp for federal employees and their families, a project completed in 1938 through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the New Deal. The camp is located east of Hagerstown and north of Frederick in the Catoctin Mountains of western Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg.
Jan 14, 2023 · After David conquered the Jebusite “stronghold of Zion,” he is said to have renamed the area the City of David and fortified it “from the Millo inward” (2 Samuel 5:7–9). The etymology of the Hebrew word “millo” may be derived from the verb ml’, to “fill up.”. Nadav Na’aman suggests that the Stepped Stone Structure, which ...
(11) Hiram king of Tyre. —This is the same Hiram, variously spelt Hirom and Huram, who was afterwards the friend of Solomon (1Kings 5:1; 2Chronicles 2:3),and was still living in the twenty-fourth year of Solomon’s reign (1Kings 9:10-14; comp. 6:1, 38; 7:1); either, therefore, he must have had a reign of some fifty-seven years, or else his embassy to David must have been some time after the ...
Verse 11. - Hiram King of Tyre. At first sight it seems as if the Hiram who so greatly aided Solomon in the building of the temple was the same person as David's friend (1 Kings 5:10; 2 Chronicles 2:3), but this identification is disproved by the express statement in 2 Chronicles 2:13, and by the chronology.
