BY THEA The answer to the question as to why bomb the area surrounding Erbil – the Kurdish region of Iraq is – its a “hub for US oil companies.” In fact, Erbil, a city of 1.5 million people is largely viewed as the administrative center for the Kurdish regional oil industry and a quarter […]
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Etymology The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon gives the meaning of Nephilim as “giants.”[1] Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-ph-l “fall.”Robert Baker Girdlestone [2] argued the word comes from the Hiphil causative stem, implying that the Nephilim are to be perceived as “those that cause others to fall down.” Adam Clarke took it as a perfect participle, […]
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One Minute Sand Then Next a Large Lake of Water The stretch of water, dubbed the Lac de Gafsa, may be the result of a rupture in the rock above the local water table “Some say it is a miracle, while others are calling it a curse,” Lakhdar Souid, a Tunisian journalist, told France 24 […]
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