Babylonian

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Recent Examples of Babylonian The Code of Hammurabi, a Babylonian legal code, according to History, contains one of the earliest beliefs that Friday the 13th is unlucky because a 13th law was omitted from its list of legal rules. Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024 The application includes the complete Babylonian Talmud, the five books of the Torah, the six books of the Mishnah and dozens of other Jewish books and writings. Daniel Edelson, Sun Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024 Ethan Hawke's true-crime writer finds a box of Super 8 home movies in his attic, playing them and consequently putting his family in grave danger thanks to the appearance of a Babylonian deity named Bughuul. 39. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024 The four tablets analyzed in the new study date to the middle and late Old Babylonian periods (circa 1894 to 1595 B.C.E.), some 4,000 years ago. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024 The formula for its hero product, a natural soap housed in refillable glass bottles, is inspired by 5,000-year-old Babylonian recipes. Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024 This verse seems to invoke the Babylonian custom of tattooing servants. Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 10 July 2024 During his reign in the sixth century BC, Cyrus the Great—Kourosh in Persian, Koresh in Hebrew—was famous for having liberated the Jews from Babylonian captivity. Ali M. Ansari, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024 Ancient Chinese, Chaldean and Babylonian cultures, as far back as 2,500 B.C.E., noticed that certain celestial events, including eclipses, repeated themselves. Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2024
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    Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The former private residence now offers seven luxurious suites and four ballrooms, which host some of the city’s most notable events, with over 150 additional guest rooms set in the hotel’s contemporary tower.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2025
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    Stacie Stukin, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
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    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2024
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  • One Madison’s slate of attractions includes a public gym (run by Chelsea Piers Fitness) so spacious and luxuriant that members might be tempted to move in.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
  • This was a man who had lengthy experience in surviving far from luxuriant conditions, firstly from his time living with the destitute of Paris and London as part of his first successful non-fiction volume and secondly as a fighter for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2024
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    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Through the 18th and into the 19th centuries, the Classical Revival house style represented a turn to simplicity after the lavish ornamentation of previous periods like French Rococo, and that clean austerity still has appeal today.
    Lauren Gallow, Architectural Digest, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Babylonian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Babylonian. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

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