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3 days ago · Western Wall. The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق, Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq ['ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ'raːq]), is a portion of ancient limestone wall in the Old ...
3 days ago · Stella was the daughter of famous Yiddish tragedian, Jacob Adler and actress Sarah Adler. The exhibit features film clips of various theatrical performances. Yiddish Theater was so popular in NYC ...
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3 days ago · Warren's Gate; western wall, now only visible from the Western Wall Tunnel; Bab an-Nabi (Gate of the Prophet) or Barclay's Gate; western wall, visible from al-Buraq Mosque inside the Haram, and from the Western Wall plaza (women's section) and the adjacent building (the so-called house of Abu Sa'ud)
3 days ago · The term Al-Aqsa Mosque is often extended to denote the entirety of the plaza on which the mosque and the Dome of the Rock stand, although the plaza is known formally as Al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf (“the Noble Sanctuary”). In modern times the mosque and the plaza have become a particular point of tension in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
3 days ago · And so they granted that corner of northeastern Beijing, inside the city wall, to be the Eastern Orthodox Church. And then in ’53, they confiscated the land so that it would be the Soviet Embassy. Kaiser: Ah, did not know that. Ed: I got to be in there once, too. It’s so park-like. There’s no structures left from the original times.
3 days ago · The original Preamble of 1949 stresses that not all Germans were allowed to participate in the process of constitution making and therefore “the entire German People remains obliged to fulfill the unity and freedom of Germany in free self-determination.” 40 years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, work began on ...
3 days ago · The Nahuatl text of Aesop thus reflects two defining features of the College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco: a culture of humanist translation into the Mexican language and the institution’s official function of training native principals for positions of leadership.
