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(1886-1973). Led the struggle to establish the State of Israel and became its first Prime Minister and Defense Minister in May 1948. He served from 1948 until 1954 and from 1955 until 1963. He was an integral part of the development of Israel in its early years, and led the country in the 1956 Sinai campaign. Ben-Gurion died in 1973.
Ãâó: www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp
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a name possibly derived from the hebrew "dod", meaning "beloved".
Ãâó: www.ona.com/en/glossary/39/
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Inventor of the cable-stiffened pneumatic dome, and the first builder of a long-span tensegrity dome (at the 1988 Seoul Olympics).
Ãâó: www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/GLOSSRY/gloss.h...
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The second and great king of Israel who reigned about 1000 BCE and became king on the death of King Saul. He was of the tribe of Judah and, of note, killed the Philistine champion Goliath and wrote many of the Psalms (songs) in the Bible. Saint David: the patron saint of Wales. Legend has it that this British saint belonged to a noble family. He is said to have founded twelve monasteries and finally settled at Mynyw or Menevia, now St. Davids. ...
Ãâó: www.fitzwimarc.org.uk/glossary/d.htm
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(1711--76) Scottish philosopher, historian and essayist. Hume is the most influential thoroughgoing naturalist in modern philosophy, and a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment. Born the the second son of a minor Scottish landowner, Hume attended Edinburgh university. In 1734 he removed to the little town of La Fl?he in Anjou to write and study . . . In 1739 he returned to oversee the printing of the Treatise of Human Nature, his first and greatest philosophical work. . . .
Ãâó: www.philosophy.uncc.edu/mleldrid/intro/odop.html
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