Definitions
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- proper noun biblical The
hill outside Jerusalem whereJesus wascrucified . - proper noun slang At
Oxbridge colleges in the 18th and 19th centuries, aslang term for the rooms of the heads of the colleges (i.e. a pun on 'the place of the skulls or heads').
Etymologies
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Examples
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Armenian Golgotha is translated by Peter Balakian.
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"Grigoris Balakian's Armenian Golgotha is a powerful, moving account of the Armenian Genocide, a story that needs to be known, and is told here with a sweep of experience and wealth of detail that is as disturbing as it is irrefutable."
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Armenian Golgotha is actually a combination of two separate volumes written by Balakian after the war.
Book Review: Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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Armenian Golgotha is actually a combination of two separate volumes written by Balakian after the war.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian » Print 2010
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Armenian Golgotha is sure to deepen our understanding of a catastrophic crime that the Turkish government, the Ottomans successor, denies to this day.
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Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.
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And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
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But I have no doubt that for many members of the Cult of Terri, the religious fevour they feel when they picture her pitiful body wasting away on her Pinella County Golgotha is utterly sincere.
March 2005 2005
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And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull
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And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull
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