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Kadesh
Ancient city, W Syria. Located just southwest of modern Homs, it was seized by the Egyptian king Thutmose III in the 15th cent. BC. It remained an outpost of Egypt until it came under Hittite rule in the mid-14th cent. BC. The Egyptian king Seti I captured the city, and in 1275 BC it was the scene of a battle between Ramses II and the Hittite Muwatallis. After invasion by the Sea Peoples c.1185 BC, it disappeared from history.


Amos
Earliest Hebrew prophet (one of the 12 Minor Prophets) to have a biblical book named for him. Born in Tekoa in Judah, he was a shepherd. According to the Book of Amos, he traveled to the richer and more powerful kingdom of Israel to preach his visions of divine destruction and the message that God's absolute sovereignty required justice for rich and poor alike and that God's chosen people were not exempt from the moral order. He foretold the destruction of the N kingdom of Israel and anticipated the predictions of doom by later Old Testament prophets.


Cadogan
British soldier. He served as a trusted colleague with the duke of Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession. Later he became involved in intrigues to secure the succession for the Hanoverian George I (1714). He crushed a Jacobite rebellion in 1716, was granted an earldom in 1718, and was promoted to commander in chief in 1722.


dado
In Classical architecture, the plain portion of the pedestal of a column, between the base and the cornice (or cap). In later architecture, a dado is a wall's paneled or decorated lower part, up to 2-3 ft (60-90 cm) above the floor and defined by a horizontal molding. Interior walls were so treated especially in the 16th-18th cent. In carpentry, a dado is a rectangular groove cut across the grain of a wood member.


Davos
Commune (pop., 1990: 11,600), E Switzerland. It consists of two villages, Davos-Platz and Davos-Dorf, located in a valley of the Alps. First inhabited by Romansh-speaking people, it was settled in the 13th cent. by German speakers. It became the capital of the League of Ten Jurisdictions or Courts in 1436 and was ruled by Austria in 1477-1649. After the 1860s it became a fashionable health resort, and in the 20th cent. it was famous as a center for winter sports.


Hades
Greek god of the underworld. He was also known as Pluto; his Roman equivalent was Dis. Hades was the son of the Titans Rhea and Cronus and the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. His queen was Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, whom he kidnapped from earth and carried off to the underworld. Stern and pitiless, unmoved by prayer or sacrifice, he presided over the trial and punishment of the wicked after death. His name was also sometimes used to designate the dwelling place of the dead, and it later became a synonym for Hell.


Kaddish
Jewish prayer of mourners, recited for a period of 11 months and one day after the ...

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