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  2. Marvin Heemeyer - Wikipedia

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    Marvin Heemeyer was born on October 28, 1951, on a dairy farm in South Dakota.In 1974, he moved to Colorado because he was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base. [3] In 1989, [3] he moved to Grand Lake, Colorado, about 16 miles (26 km) away from Granby.

  3. Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia

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    Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...

  4. Killdozer! (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Killdozer!" is a science fiction/horror novella by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, originally published in the magazine Astounding (November 1944) and revised for the 1959 collection Aliens 4. This story represents Sturgeon's sole output between the years 1941 and 1945. Everything else that was published during this time had been written ...

  5. Miraculous catch of fish - Wikipedia

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    [6] at which Peter jumped into the water to meet him (an aspect of the story often illustrated in Christian art), while the remaining disciples followed in the boat, towing the net, which proved to be full of 153 large fish. The fish caught were later used by Jesus to cook some breakfast along with some bread for himself and for his disciples.

  6. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Wikipedia

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    Ben-Hur is a story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman who was falsely accused and convicted of an attempted assassination of the Roman governor of Judaea and consequently enslaved by the Romans. He becomes a successful charioteer. [4] [5] The story's revenge plot becomes a story of compassion and forgiveness. [6]

  7. Killdozer! (film) - Wikipedia

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    Killdozer! is a 1974 made for TV science-fiction horror movie, adapted from a 1944 novella of the same name by Theodore Sturgeon. [1] A comic book adaptation appeared the same year, in Marvel Comics ' Worlds Unknown #6 (April 1974).

  8. Belshazzar's feast - Wikipedia

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    This section summarizes the narrative, as found in C. L. Seow's text translation in his commentary on Daniel. [1]King Belshazzar holds a great feast for a thousand of his lords and commands that the Temple vessels from Jerusalem be brought in so that they can drink from them, but as the Babylonians drink, a hand appears and writes on the wall.

  9. Ecce homo - Wikipedia

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    Ecce Homo, Caravaggio, 1605. Ecce homo (/ ˈ ɛ k s i ˈ h oʊ m oʊ /, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈettʃe ˈomo], Classical Latin: [ˈɛkkɛ ˈhɔmoː]; "behold the man") are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of John, when he presents a scourged Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his crucifixion (John 19:5).