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    alexandria


    1. Two professors chose to remain with the students, John Hudson, 31, a biology and sciences teacher; and Alexandria Grissom, 33, a math and history teacher


    2. They were all talking among themselves when Alexandria entered


    3. ” He went to Alexandria and called the kids over also


    4. “I can"t explain Alexandria to you


    5. Jewish scholars in Alexandria, Egypt, started as early as 250 BC with the translation of the Jewish Scriptures into Greek


    6. We made the crossing to Egypt in three days and we were once again waiting to enter Alexandria harbour as we had done what now seemed a lifetime ago once in we would be ferried ashore and then to hospital


    7. We were eventually transferred to No 19 General Hospital in Alexandria and as luck would have it we were all kept together and put in the same ward


    8. “Well Sir I have just stepped off the hospital ship Asturias and before that I was in hospital in Alexandria and before that I was on Gallipoli


    9. “I was at Gallipoli and have just come back from Alexandria today on a hospital ship


    10. “ The last time I saw Bert was in Alexandria when he told me about the wedding and asked me to be his best man oh and by the way congratulations I am really pleased for the both of you”, at hearing this a pink glow suffused her neck and cheeks

    11. Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria, accused him of teaching the dual personality of Christ, a view which was formally condemned and anathematized by the Third Council of Ephesus, 431…The controversy lasted for two centuries” (Encyc


    12. Even various interpretations within the Christian faith, fostered and solidified by the slowness of communication between large population centers such as Alexandria, Antioch, and Ephesus


    13. Fiscal Associates of Alexandria, VA, an economic consulting firm, did an analysis of the Flat Tax and


    14. He went all the way to Egypt where he founded Alexandria


    15. Once, the Islamic culture strove to improve upon the mathematics of India, including geometry and trigonometry; the science and chemistry of Coptic Alexandria and Persia; the philosophy of Greece; the medicine of a time when in Europe medical practice was forbidden by the Church


    16. 1 On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria


    17. 1 On discovering this so incensed was the wicked king that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria


    18. 21 Accordingly bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen at Jerusalem but rather remembering our connection with them and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them we wished to venture a total alteration of their state by bestowing on them the rights of citizens of Alexandria and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities


    19. And one of the five capitals of our Church is in Africa: an Egyptian city called Alexandria


    20. We caught the daily bus, as the only other traffic on the road was an occasional car laden to the axles with Libyans driving to Alexandria for sex

    21. The concrete tenements surrounding old Cairo were as poverty stricken, filthy and miserable as those of Alexandria


    22. After another nightmare train trip I arrived back in Alexandria, with its canals and swamps, where a charming Lebanese took me by the hand and we wandered the city, drinking sherbets


    23. Then they patrolled Alexandria Bay and slapped fines and convictions on nude males—not females of course; and that was the end of innocence


    24. Attorney’s office in Alexandria,” Jersey stated


    25. He could call his wife later from the federal lock-up in Alexandria if he wished---one call would be gratis


    26. I followed the car transporting Alistair to Alexandria


    27. 4 When Jesus returned to Palestine, he did nothing to change the opinion of his family that he had gone from Jerusalem to Alexandria; he permitted them to continue in the belief that all the time he had been absent from Palestine had been spent in that city of learning and culture


    28. 1 It had been an eventful visit at Caesarea, and when the boat was ready, Jesus and his two friends departed at noon one day for Alexandria in Egypt


    29. 2 The three enjoyed a most pleasant passage to Alexandria


    30. As they approached the city's harbor, the young man was thrilled by the great lighthouse of Pharos, located on the island which Alexander had joined by a mole to the mainland, thus creating two magnificent harbors and thereby making Alexandria the maritime commercial crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe

    31. In this library Ganid saw the largest collection of Indian literature in all the world; and they spent some time here each day throughout their stay in Alexandria


    32. 6 Although these translations were made at Alexandria, Ganid did not finally arrange these selections and add his own personal conclusions until near the end of their sojourn in Rome


    33. 7 Jesus and Ganid spent much time in the museum during their stay in Alexandria


    34. 8 Alexandria was the city of the blended culture of the Occident and next to Rome the largest and most magnificent in the world


    35. Here was located the largest Jewish synagogue in the world, the seat of government of the Alexandria Sanhedrin, the seventy ruling elders


    36. Ganid and Jesus talked much about Philo's teachings and expected to attend some of his lectures, but throughout their stay at Alexandria this famous Hellenistic Jew lay sick abed


    37. 1 The night before they left Alexandria Ganid and Jesus had a long visit with one of the government professors at the university who lectured on the teachings of Plato


    38. This Persian had been educated at Alexandria, and he really desired to learn from Jesus


    39. 2 There is presented herewith an abstract of Ganid's manuscript, which he prepared at Alexandria and Rome, and which was preserved in India for hundreds of years after his death


    40. Next to Alexandria and Rome, it was the most cosmopolitan city of the Mediterranean empire

    41. Jesus and Ganid had thoroughly discussed the teachings of Plato when they attended the lectures in the museum at Alexandria


    42. The last of these few altered and amended copies was destroyed by fire at Alexandria about one hundred years after the original was written by the first chosen of the twelve apostles


    43. This week Jesus enjoyed a period of almost complete rest, but Nathaniel and Thomas were very busy with their discussions with a certain Greek philosopher from Alexandria named Rodan


    44. This Greek had recently become a disciple of Jesus through the teaching of one of Abner's associates who had conducted a mission at Alexandria


    45. 2 When the hour came to leave for Jerusalem, Nathaniel and Thomas were still in the midst of their discussions with Rodan of Alexandria, and they secured the Master's permission to remain at Magadan for a few days


    46. Rodan discovered that he had been well instructed in Jesus' teachings by one of the former apostles of John the Baptist who had been his teacher at Alexandria


    47. 2 At this time, Abner was making his headquarters at Bethlehem, and from that center many workers had been sent to the cities of Judea and southern Samaria and even to Alexandria


    48. Not since the times when he had taught in Alexandria, Rome, and in the islands of the Mediterranean, had he exhibited such learning and shown such a grasp of the affairs of men, both secular and religious


    49. At the money table of a near-by exchanger a violent and heated argument had arisen over the alleged overcharging of a Jew from Alexandria, while at the same moment the air was rent by the bellowing of a drove of some one hundred bullocks which was being driven from one section of the animal pens to another


    50. 1 About noontime, as Philip was purchasing supplies for the new camp which was that day being established near Gethsemane, he was accosted by a delegation of strangers, a group of believing Greeks from Alexandria, Athens, and Rome, whose spokesman said to the apostle: "You have been pointed out to us by those who know you; so we come to you, Sir, with the request to see Jesus, your Master











































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    Synonyms for "alexandria"

    alexandria el iskandriyah

    "alexandria" definitions

    a town in Louisiana on the Red River


    the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt