Sentences with phrase «ancient wonder of»

The work would be about the library of Alexandria - images and snippets from an ancient wonder of the world now lost.

They invite you to: • Be dazzled in Brazil • Explore the ancient wonder of Machu Picchu • Try the world's best steak in Buenos Aires • Enjoy wine tasting in Argentina • Travel along the iconic Panama Canal • Follow David Attenborough's footsteps in the Galapagos • Explore Patagonia's awe - inspiring glaciers.

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2018-04-08 18:29 The Great Pyramid of Khufu has always fascinated people because it is the only ancient wonder of the world that exists today.

We recently built models of the ancient wonders of the world in Minecraft.

Do you want to explore the ancient wonders of Peru in a more intense and personal way?

Discover the 7 new Wonders of the World and the last remaining monument of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World on this 31 day round the world tour.

Scenic have released their first Egypt & Jordan luxury River Cruise and Escorted Touring programme which boasts an impressive collection of itineraries showcasing the natural and ancient wonders of this unique continent.

With breath - taking panoramic views of the west coast of Cyprus and comfortable convenience, this hotel provides a great base for a couples» or family holiday amidst the traditional, natural and ancient wonders of Cyprus.

Bodrum reveals the vestiges of one of the Ancient Wonders of the World, the magnificent Crusader castle of St. Peter and the unusual museum of underwater archaeology.

Experience the natural beauty and ancient wonders of China at four Aman destinations.

One of the seven ancient wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens were thought to be an incredibly elaborate structure built by a Babylonian King for his wife.

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The Giza Pyramids — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — can be found here, plus historic neighborhoods like Coptic Cairo.

More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version of it.

Is it any wonder the western world hates Muslims and Jews, when you maintain the ancient barbaric doctrines and then believe that it should be part of a modern society?

Then I was wondering how it can be explained that ancient Egyptian text supports Joseph's time as the leader under Pharaoh or pictures have been taken of chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea or even how recently the location of Sodom has been found.

(For example, given Wright's understanding of what the Reformers meant by «literal,» I wonder if they wouldn't be open to scholarship that interprets Genesis 1 as an ancient Near Eastern temple text — see John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One — rather than a scientific explanation for origins.)

This is good article but I wonder what do we do with the Old Testament description of God and wars that ancient Israel led.

Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...

The Temple was a wonder of the ancient world, vast, ornate and rich.

They came so close to Hebrew and Christian moral insights that some early Church Fathers wondered whether some Greeks had received private divine revelations; a contemporary secularist historian of ancient philosophy once wrote that almost the same sex ethic was espoused by Plato and Paul VI.

The result of a sabbatical grant from the Templeton Foundation to Celia Deane - Drummond, Professor of Theology and Biological Sciences at Chester University, Wonder and Wisdom takes several steps back from the rather narrow philosophyof ID to examine the relationship between these two ancient concepts.

0 wonder of wonders that none can unfold The Ancient of days as an hour or two old, The Maker of all things is made of the earth, Man as worshipped by Angels, and God comes to birth.18

Remembering that the faith of Israel is portrayed in the legends of Genesis primarily by the selection and arrangement of narratives which had an independent and often ancient origin, we need not wonder that the story of Peniel retains something of the enigmatic and primitive from its origin.

It is no wonder that in many ancient societies one found guilty of false witness in a trial was punished severely.

Starting with Socrates, ancient philosophers in the Platonic - Aristotelian tradition contended that the human being is best understood as the subject of wonder.

Besides being explanatory models of the phenomena of life, they also provided personality figures with whom ancient man could identify in the variety of human experience, such as wonder, despair, joy, sorrow.

So, Mr. * Naked * Pastor, I'm wondering... if instead of having guys being crucified wear some ancient loin cloth underwear, could you animate some pixelation over their genitals?

And then he concludes:» [A] s knowledge of our universe matures, that ancient awestruck feeling of wonder at its size and duration seems inappropriate, a sensibility left over from an earlier age.»

Given that Solomon is not mentioned in any other known sources from ancient times, a modern historian also has to wonder about what to make of the Bible's description of his extensive empire, fabulous wealth and renowned wisdom.

Second is I wonder if an ancient code applies to our food supply and system of distribution today.

Now this version of the Resurrection and Ascension excited awe and wonder in the minds and hearts of those who heard it, but at least it was meaningful and even to a certain degree reasonable within the ancient world view.

And as I scratched harder at the surface of my assumptions about what the liturgical life meant, I begin to wonder how I could live a liturgical life at home with my kids, celebrating all the lovely, ancient, traditions I was discovering.

This admiration of nature finds its climax in the book of Job, where the wonders of the natural order are used for a didactic purpose unique to the Bible, and possibly in all ancient literature: to make the point that humanity's whole attitude to the created order is wrong, because it is totally egoistic, totally anthropocentric.

In view of earlier periods» grim life - expectancy statistics and their harsh conditions of existence, is it any wonder that many ancients regarded the sex drive — the cause of souls being brought into this vale of tears — as a curse?

We wonder only that he survived at all — indirect tribute to the place of prophetism in ancient Israel, despite the individual unpopularity of most of the prophets.

Such skepticism may be justified, yet we find ourselves wondering whether DH has not in fact preserved here the very ancient but real encounter of free - ranging Syrian forces with the Yahweh - tribes (notably the Othnielites) inhabiting southern Canaan in the general area south of Hebron.

This temple is considered to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Not having even the idea of natural law in their heads, «signs and wonders,» as the New Testament calls them, did not bother the ancients intellectually at all.

It's no wonder that use of this ancient superfood can be traced back to 3500 BCE.

Halloween conjures a feeling of magic, wonder and and a desire to unlock ancient mysteries within.

Merely adopting the name of ancient Greece's sporting powerhouse may well work wonders.

At Kano Pillars he won the Nigeria League title with the team twice in a row and his jersey number 23 became famous in the ancient city little wonder he has picked it up again ahead of the start of next season.

At the very least I would glare at him very intensely and probably say something like, «In this house we respect the wonders of the ancient world, young man!»

When I looked further at some of their games I discovered that they had also learned about the ancient «Wonders of the World», about economics, and a great deal more about political systems than I had ever learned.

Archaeologists have long wondered why copper work and other metalwork in a style typical of ancient South America appears in western Mexico but nowhere in between the two areas.

Reich wondered if he could look at the genomes of living humans and find evidence of those ancient liaisons.

The catalogue of unheralded ancient wonders is a treasure in itself but Holzmann and Pehrson devote more space to «optical telegraph» networks built two centuries ago.

The study of astronomy has often been lauded by ancient and modern theologians because it instills in almost every person a sense of wonder about an extravagant universe that seems indiscernible, yet dutifully ordered.

«Since the time of the ancient Greeks, people have wondered how geckos are able to stick to walls — even Archimedes is known to have pondered this problem,» said Alex Greaney, co-author and an assistant professor of engineering at OSU.