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May 10, 2024 · The Decapolis was a ten-city Greco-Roman federation, or league, occupying all of Bashan and mentioned three times in the New Testament.
May 2, 2024 · A pivotal moment in the history of the Decapolis involves the city of Pella, a member of this league located in the mountainous region of Gilead. Eusebius, a historian of the early Christian Church, records that prior to the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., Christians from Judea fled to Pella, heeding Jesus’ prophetic warning to ...
1 day ago · By mid-May 2021, there were 10 mass shootings per week on average; by mid-May 2022, there was a total of 198 mass shootings in the first 19 weeks of the year, which represents 11 mass shootings a week. The FBI designated 61 active shooter incidents. There were ten mass shootings in 2019, two in 2020, and six in 2021.
1 day ago · Since 2006, there have been 589 mass killings in the U.S. with a total of 3,057 victims, according to the mass killing database. Texas alone has had 51 mass killing incidents since 2006, resulting ...
3 days ago · Massachusetts: 1 5 6: Six people were wounded in an evening shooting. One of the victims later died at the hospital. December 26: Rockford (5) Illinois: 3 3 6: Don Carter Lanes shooting: Three people are killed and three others injured in a shooting at a bowling alley. The shooter is believed to have selected his victims at random.
2 days ago · The majority of these belonged to the AR family of semiautomatic rifles, and many of them were modified with “bump stocks,” which allowed the shooter to approximate fully automatic fire. Over the course of 11 minutes, Paddock fired more than 1,000 rounds into the crowd, killing 58 and wounding as many as 850.
May 14, 2024 · The analysis revealed that gun deaths spread into new neighborhoods during the pandemic: An additional 8.7 million Americans now live on a block near a gun homicide — a 23 percent increase from ...
