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Absalom or Avshalom according to the Hebrew Bible was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maacah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur. [1]

97 relations: Absalom (name), Absalom and Achitophel, Absalom, Absalom!, Absalon, Absolom (name), Adam Arcuragi, Ahitophel, Alan Paton, Amnon, Avessalom, Barranquilla, Battle of the Wood of Ephraim, Cherethites and Pelethites, Chinese Work Songs, Colombia, Cry, the Beloved Country, Darksiders II, David, David Olney, Davidic line, Death of a Hero, Discordance Axis, Ender's Shadow, Eric Whitacre, Fallout 4, Frans G. Bengtsson, Geddy Lee, Georg Christian Lehms, German language, Germany, Geshur, Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Grace Under Pressure (Rush album), Grindcore, Harald Bluetooth, Hebron, Heinrich Schütz, Howard Spring, Hushai, Israel, Jerusalem, Joab, John Dryden, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Jordan River, Josquin des Prez, Kidron Valley, Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kings of Israel and Judah, Lackthereof, ..., Leonard Cohen, Little Feat, Maacah, Mahanaim, Menomena, Michael Cook (playwright), Michael Crummey, Motet, Muriel Rukeyser, My Son, My Son! (film), Nathaniel Parker Willis, Neil Peart, Nephilim, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nicolas Gombert, Nigel Butterley, Nuremberg, Om (band), Peter Shaffer, Pierce Pettis, Progressive metal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rehoboam, Richard Aldington, Robertson Davies, Rush (band), Scandinavia, Susanna Clarke, Sweyn Forkbeard, Sydney Chamber Choir, Talmai, Tamar (daughter of David), Tanakh, The Long Ships, The Manticore, The Neverhood, The Residents, Thomas Sutpen, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, Tomb of Absalom, Tribe of Judah, Variations on a Theme (Om album), White Flags, William Billings, William Faulkner, Yona Wallach. Expand index (47 more) »

Absalom (name)

Absalom (English pronunciation,; Biblical Greek Αβεσσαλωμ) is a masculine given name from the Old Testament, where Absalom is a son of King David.

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Absalom and Achitophel

Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681.

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Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936.

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Absalon

Absalon or Axel (21 March 1201) was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death.

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Absolom (name)

Absolom is both a surname and a given name.

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Adam Arcuragi

Adam Arcuragi is an American-born songwriter and producer from Georgia, who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for many years.

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Ahitophel

Ahitophel, Achitopel or Ahithophel was a counselor of King David and a man greatly renowned for his sagacity.

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Alan Paton

Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.

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Amnon

Amnon (אַמְנוֹן, "faithful", born circa 1000 BCE) was the oldest son of King David and his third wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel.

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Avessalom

Avessalom (Авессало́м) is a Russian male first name.

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Barranquilla

Barranquilla is a city and municipality located in northern Colombia.

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Battle of the Wood of Ephraim

According to 2 Samuel, the Battle of the Wood of Ephraim was a military conflict between the rebel forces of the formerly exiled Israelite Prince Absalom against the royal forces of his father king David during a short lived revolt.

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Cherethites and Pelethites

In the Bible, the Cherethites and Pelethites (כרתי ופלתי.), the former also spelled Kerethites, are two ethnic groups in the Levant.

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Chinese Work Songs

Chinese Work Songs is the 13th studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 2000.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948.

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Darksiders II

Darksiders II is an action role-playing hack and slash video game developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ.

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David

David is described in the Hebrew Bible as the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

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David Olney

David Charles Olney is an American folk singer-songwriter.

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Davidic line

The Davidic line refers to the tracing of lineage to King David through the texts in the Hebrew Bible, in the New Testament, and through the following centuries.

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Death of a Hero

Death of a Hero is a World War I novel by Richard Aldington.

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Discordance Axis

Discordance Axis was a grindcore band from East Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow (1999) is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card, taking place at the same time as the novel Ender's Game and depicting some of the same events from the point of view of Bean, a supporting character in the original novel.

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Eric Whitacre

Eric Edward Whitacre (born Friday, January2, 1970) is a Grammy-winning American composer, conductor, and speaker, known for his choral, orchestral and wind ensemble music.

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Fallout 4

Fallout 4 is a post-apocalyptic action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Frans G. Bengtsson

Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (4 October 1894 – 19 December 1954) was a Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer.

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Geddy Lee

Geddy Lee Weinrib, (born Gary Lee Weinrib; July 29, 1953), known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush.

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Georg Christian Lehms

Georg Christian Lehms (1684 – 15 May 1717) was a German poet and novelist who sometimes used the pen-name Pallidor.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Geshur

Geshur was a territory in ancient Levant mentioned in the early books of the Hebrew Bible and possibly in several other ancient sources.

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Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia

Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía (1474 or 1476–1497) was the son of Pope Alexander VI a member of the House of Borgia who was murdered in 1497.

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Grace Under Pressure (Rush album)

Grace Under Pressure is the tenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1984.

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Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of hardcore punk and heavy metal that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from the most abrasive-sounding musical styles: hardcore punk, extreme metal, industrial and noise rock.

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Harald Bluetooth

Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (Haraldr Gormsson, Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway.

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Hebron

Hebron (الْخَلِيل; חֶבְרוֹן) is a Palestinian.

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Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz (– 6 November 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century.

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Howard Spring

Howard Spring (10 February 1889 – 3 May 1965) was a Welsh author and journalist who wrote in English.

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Hushai

Hushai (hus'-sha-i) or Chusai was a friend of David and a spy according to the Hebrew Bible.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; القُدس) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Joab

Joab (Hebrew Modern Yo'av Tiberian Yôʼāḇ) the son of Zeruiah, was the nephew of King David and the commander of his army, according to the Hebrew Bible.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke.

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Jordan River

The Jordan River (also River Jordan; נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן Nahar ha-Yarden, ܢܗܪܐ ܕܝܘܪܕܢܢ, نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ Nahr al-Urdunn, Ancient Greek: Ιορδάνης, Iordànes) is a -long river in the Middle East that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee (Hebrew: כנרת Kinneret, Arabic: Bohayrat Tabaraya, meaning Lake of Tiberias) and on to the Dead Sea.

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Josquin des Prez

Josquin des Prez (– 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a French composer of the Renaissance.

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Kidron Valley

The Kidron Valley (classical transliteration, Cedron, from נחל קדרון, Naḥal Qidron, literally Qidron River; also Qidron Valley; وادي الجوز, Wadi al-Joz for the upper segment near the Temple Mount, and Wadi an-Nar for the rest of it) is the valley on the eastern side of The Old City of Jerusalem, separating the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives.

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Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)

The United Monarchy is the name given to the Israelite kingdom of Israel and Judah, during the reigns of Saul, David and Solomon, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible.

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Kings of Israel and Judah

This article is an overview of the kings of the United Kingdom of Israel as well as those of its successor states.

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Lackthereof

Lackthereof is the solo project of Danny Seim, a founding member of the Portland, Oregon-based band Menomena.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.

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Maacah

Maacah (Codex Alexandrinus: Maacha, KJV: Maachah, Hebrew: מעכה ma`akhah "Crushed") is a non-gender-specific personal name used in the Bible to refer to a number of people.

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Mahanaim

Mahanaim (meaning two camps in Hebrew) is a place near Jabbok, beyond the Jordan River, mentioned a number of times by the Bible.

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Menomena

Menomena is an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States made up of Justin Harris and Danny Seim.

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Michael Cook (playwright)

Michael Cook (14 February 1933 – 1 July 1994) was a Canadian playwright known for his plays set in Newfoundland.

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Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction.

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Motet

In western music, a motet is a mainly vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from the late medieval era to the present.

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Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.

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My Son, My Son! (film)

My Son, My Son! is a 1940 American drama film based on a novel by the same name written by Howard Spring and directed by Charles Vidor.

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Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis,Baker, 3 was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Neil Peart

Neil Ellwood Peart, (born September 12, 1952), is a Canadian-American author and retired musician, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist for the rock band Rush.

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Nephilim

The Nephilim (nefilim) were the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" before the Deluge, according to narrative of the Bible.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

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Nicolas Gombert

Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560)Atlas, p. 396 was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.

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Nigel Butterley

Nigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM (born 13 May 1935) is an Australian composer and pianist.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg) is a city on the river Pegnitz and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia, about north of Munich.

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Om (band)

Om (sometimes stylized as OM) is an American heavy metal band from San Francisco, California.

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Peter Shaffer

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, of which several have been turned into films.

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Pierce Pettis

Pierce Pettis (born April 14, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter from Fort Payne, Alabama.

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Progressive metal

Progressive metal (sometimes known as prog metal or technical metal) is a fusion genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock which combines the loud "aggression".

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist.

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Rehoboam

Rehoboam was the fourth king of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible.

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Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.

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Robertson Davies

William Robertson Davies, (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.

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Rush (band)

Rush was a Canadian rock band comprising Geddy Lee (bass, vocals, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitars) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion, lyrics).

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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Susanna Clarke

Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history.

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Sweyn Forkbeard

Sweyn Forkbeard (Old Norse: Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg; Danish: Svend Tveskæg; 960 – 3 February 1014) was king of Denmark during 986–1014.

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Sydney Chamber Choir

Sydney Chamber Choir is a choir from Sydney formed as the Sydney University Chamber Choir in 1975.

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Talmai

Talmai (תלמי) is a name in the Bible referring to a number of minor people.

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Tamar (daughter of David)

Tamar is a person in 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible.

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Tanakh

The Tanakh (or; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach), also called the Mikra or Hebrew Bible, is the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament.

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The Long Ships

The Long Ships or Red Orm (original Swedish: Röde Orm meaning Red Serpent or Red Snake) is an adventure novel by the Swedish writer Frans G. Bengtsson.

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The Manticore

The Manticore is the second novel in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy.

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The Neverhood

The Neverhood (also called The Neverhood Chronicles, released in Japan as Klaymen Klaymen) is a graphic adventure video game developed by The Neverhood, Inc.

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The Residents

The Residents are an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works.

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Thomas Sutpen

Thomas Sutpen is the focal character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom! Sutpen arrives in Faulkner's imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi in the 1830s and establishes a 64,000 acre (100 square mile) plantation, Sutpen's Hundred, in an attempt to create his own personal dynasty.

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Thomas Tomkins

Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 9 June 1656) was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period.

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Thomas Weelkes

Thomas Weelkes (baptised 25 October 1576 – 30 November 1623His will was dated 30 November, and he was buried on 1 December, which strongly suggests he died on 30 November. See his entry at Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954, vol. IX, p. 231.) was an English composer and organist.

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Tomb of Absalom

Tomb of Absalom (Transl. Yad Avshalom; literally Absalom's Shrine), also called Absalom's Pillar, is an ancient monumental rock-cut tomb with a conical roof located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem.

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Tribe of Judah

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Judah (Shevet Yehudah, "Praise") was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

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Variations on a Theme (Om album)

Variations on a Theme is a 2005 album by the band Om.

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White Flags

White Flags (الرايات البيض) is an active insurgent group in northern Iraq opposed to the Iraqi government.

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William Billings

William Billings (October 7, 1746 – September 26, 1800) is regarded as the first American choral composer.

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.

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Yona Wallach

Yona Wallach (יונה וולך; June 10, 1944 – September 29, 1985) was an Israeli poet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom

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