John Lawrence Gihon (April 21, 1839 – September 18, 1878) was a Philadelphia photographer, best known for establishing the Philadelphia Sketch Club, documenting...
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Siloam tunnel (category CS1 Hebrew-language sources (he))
an impending siege by the Assyrians, by "blocking the source of the waters of the upper Gihon, and leading them straight down on the west to the City...
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City of David (archaeological site) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
defensive network dating back to the Middle Bronze Age were found around the Gihon Spring; they continued to remain in use throughout subsequent periods. Two...
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Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi (redirect from Ugolino de Vivaldo)
the Gihon (here probably meaning the Senegal River) where the Genoese were seized and held in close captivity. The principal documentary source is the...
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Battle of Cerro Gordo (section Sources)
Frost (1853). "Battle of Sierra Gordo". Pictorial History of America. J. L. Gihon. pp. 753–764. Page 90. Illinois State Military Museum Archived February...
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Mount Zion (redirect from Mont de Sion)
Hill is based on the existence of only one perennial water source in the area, the Gihon Spring, and on archaeological excavations revealing sections...
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Uzboy (labeled Bras de Tokai) flowing from the Amu Darya (Gihon or Oxus) into the Caspian, shown within the bounds of the Khanate of Khiva (Khwarazm)...
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using information from many different sources, including Landsat images from space. In this theory, the Bible's Gihon would correspond with the Karun in...
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2:10–14 lists four rivers in association with the garden of Eden: Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel (the Tigris), and Phirat (the Euphrates). It also refers to the...
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Pope Agapetus II (category Articles with Latin-language sources (la))
Mann, pg. 234 Mann, pg. 236 Mann, pgs. 237-238 Mann, pg. 238 DeCormenin, Louis Marie; Gihon, James L., A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint...
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History of Jerusalem (section Sources)
origins trace back to around 3000 BCE, with the first settlement near the Gihon Spring. The city is first mentioned in Egyptian Execration texts around...
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pg. 189 Collegio araldico, Rivista, Volume 5 (1907), pg. 49 DeCormenin, Louis Marie; Gihon, James L., A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint...
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Ark of the Covenant (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
Assyrian Empire by improving the city walls and diverting the waters of the Gihon Spring through a tunnel known today as Hezekiah's Tunnel, which channeled...
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Pope Valentine (category Articles with Latin-language sources (la))
II: The Popes During the Carolingian Empire, 795–858 (1906) DeCormenin, Louis Marie; Gihon, James L., A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint...
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Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (section Ancient sources)
city were blocked. Workers then dug a 533-meter tunnel to the Spring of Gihon, providing the city with fresh water. Additional siege preparations included...
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Pope John XII (category Articles with Latin-language sources (la))
Mann 1910, p. 264. Gregorovius 1895, p. 329. Mann 1910, p. 242. DeCormenin & Gihon 1857, pp. 296–298. Gregorovius 1895, pp. 329–330, 351–352. Mann 1910...
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other scholars have identified the Karun as one of the four rivers of Eden (Gihon), the others being the Tigris, the Euphrates, and either the Wadi al-Batin...
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Alvise Cadamosto (section Sources and Further Reading)
legend that it was believed to be a tributary of the great Biblical river of Gihon (Gion) that flowed from the Garden of Eden across the lands of Aethiopia...
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Peter, the First Bishop to Pius the Ninth. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: James L. Gihon. pp. 281–283. Gregorovius, Ferdinand (1895). History of the City of Rome...
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Generations of Noah (category CS1 Hebrew-language sources (he))
See Ibn Khaldun (1958:118). In contrast, Yefet ben Ali identified the Gihon River of Genesis 2:13 with that of Amu Darya (al-Jiḥān / Jayhon of the Islamic...
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Genesis creation narrative (section Sources)
on Zion, the mountain of God, which was also Jerusalem; while the real Gihon was a spring outside the city (mirroring the spring which waters Eden);...
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1922 regnal list of Ethiopia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
7-9 (The Sack of Thebes, then ruled by the Aethiopians) Genesis 2.13 (The Gihon river that circles Aethiopia) Numbers 12.1-10 (Unnamed Aethiopian wife of...
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were, in some sources, mistakenly called Martinus II and Martinus III. Mann, pgs. 218-219 Mann, pg. 219 DeCormenin, Louis Marie; Gihon, James L., A Complete...
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Hebrew inscription found in the Siloam tunnel which brings water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam, located in the City of David in East Jerusalem...
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educator Anne Hazen McFarland (1868–1930), American physician, editor Anne McGihon (born 1957), American attorney and politician Anne McGrath (born 1958),...
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Senegal River (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
the same source (variously conjectured to some great internal lakes of the Mountains of the Moon, or Ptolemy's Gir (Γειρ) or the Biblical Gihon stream)...
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Anazarbus (West Syriac diocese) (section Sources)
other Syriac Orthodox narrative sources. Anazarbus was a large city of Cilicia, which lay on the river Pyramus or Gihon, 24 miles away from Sis. The city...
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Jerusalem (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
of Jerusalem, founded as early as the Bronze Age on the hill above the Gihon Spring, was, according to the Bible, named Jebus. Called the "Fortress of...
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Ryukyuan people (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
made two additional chieftains, Shunbajunki (1237-1248) and Gihon (1248–1259). As Gihon abdicated, his sessei Eiso (1260–1299), who claimed Tenson's...
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