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“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
Single by Bob Dylan
from the album Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
B-side “Turkey Chase”
Released 1973
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:29
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer G. McCartan (Arlington Heights, Illinois)
Bob Dylan singles chronology
“George Jackson”
(1971)
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
(1973)
“A Fool Such as I”
(1973)
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
Single by Guns N’ Roses
from the album Use Your Illusion II
Released 1992
Recorded A&M Studios, Record Plant Studios,
Studio 56,
Image Recording, Conway Studios & Metalworks Recording Studios 1990-1991
Genre Hard rock
Length 5:40
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer Mike Clink
Guns N’ Roses
Guns N’ Roses singles chronology
“Pretty Tied Up”
(1992)
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
(1992)
“Yesterdays”
(1992)

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In 2004, representatives of the music industry and the press voted it #190 in Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue.

Contents

  • 1 Meaning and song structure
  • 2 Covers
    • 2.1 Eric Clapton version
    • 2.2 The Alarm’s version
    • 2.3 Guns N’ Roses version
    • 2.4 Dunblane tribute version
    • 2.5 Avril Lavigne version
  • 3 Soundtrack appearances
  • 4 External links

Meaning and song structure

The song describes the feelings and impressions of a dying deputy, who can no longer continue his role.

The song consists of four chords in the key of G major: G, D, Am7, and C. The basic pattern throughout the song is G-D-Am7-Am7 and then G-D-C-C, and this is repeated.

Over the years, Dylan has changed the lyrics (as have others who have covered the song) during various version and live renditions.

Covers

Although it was originally recorded as an acoustic song, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” has been covered extensively in many styles, most famously by British blues-rocker Eric Clapton and by American hard-rock group Guns N’ Roses.

The song was performed by Bob Dylan & the Grateful Dead during the Dylan & The Dead tour in July 1987. Thereafter, the Grateful Dead (between August 1987 and July 1994) sometimes closed their shows with a performance of the song.

Other artists to perform the song include Bon Jovi, U2, Avril Lavigne, Bob Marley, The Animals, Wyclef Jean, Grateful Dead, Lynyrd Skynyrd,Aerosmith, The Sisters of Mercy, Bryan Ferry, Meir Ariel, The Alarm, Dan Kleederman Television, Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen, The Tramp on Winchester High Street, Heaven, The Lost Dogs, Mungo Jerry, Luciano, Randy Crawford, Babyface, Beau Jacques, Chaozz, Roger McGuinn,Cold Chisel, Zé Ramalho, Sandy Denny, Antony and the Johnsons, Warren Zevon (whose version was released two weeks before his death), Roger Waters, Herman Brood, Nazareth, Angela Aki, Tomoya Nagaze and United Rhythms of Brazil. Duets on the song include a team-up of the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and U.S. country diva Dolly Parton, and the Red Army Chorus and Ensemble with the Leningrad Cowboys. Another more recent edition to covers of this song is one performed by Jane Gurney with backup singers Geoff C and Robert Staff. It was performed by Ruth Lorenzo on The X Factor (UK).

Although it is not a cover, Gabrielle’s UK number one single “Rise” samples extensively from the track.

Eric Clapton version

Eric Clapton recorded a version of the song in June 1975 and released it as a single later that year, two years after Dylan’s version was released. Live recordings from this era can be found on official Clapton releases such as 1996’s Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies, which features a London performance from April 1977. The song was not included on a full-length album until the release of the 1982 compilation Time Pieces: The Best of Eric Clapton. In 1989, Clapton and David Sanborn backed singer Randy Crawford in a new version recorded for the film soundtrack for Lethal Weapon 2. The song has been resurrected twice on the Jouneyman and One More Car, One More Rider world tours of 1990 and 2003.

The Alarm’s version

The Alarm regularly played the song during their gigs. While supporting U2 during the War Tour, Bono would join leader singer Mike Peters on stage. When The Alarm supported Dylan, the whole band joined him on stage to perform the song.

Guns N’ Roses version

In 1987, Guns N’ Roses started including the song in their live sets. They recorded a studio version in 1990 for Days of Thunder’s soundtrack, and in 1991 it appeared on the Guns N’ Roses studio album Use Your Illusion II. Released as the fourth single from the album, it reached #2 in the UK singles chart. Their performance of the song at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 was used as the B-side for the single release and was also included on their Live Era: ‘87–’93 album, released in 1999.

This version has been covered live by canadian glam metal band Greywolfe.

Dunblane tribute version

In 1996, with the consent of Bob Dylan, musician Ted Christopher of Dunblane, Scotland wrote a new verse for “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre. A cover version of the song, which included brothers and sisters of the victims singing the chorus and Mark Knopfler on guitar, was released on December 9 in the UK and reached number 1. The proceeds went to charities for children.

Avril Lavigne version

In 2003, Lavigne performed on a host of radio-sponsored multi-artist holiday, which took place on January 23, 2003, and ended on June 4, 2003. A music video was made with her performance. Later on her Try To Shut Me Up Tour she included a cover version of the song.

Soundtrack appearances

Film/TV show Year Performer
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Bob Dylan
Renaldo & Clara 1978 Bob Dylan & Roger McGuinn
Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Randy Crawford, Eric Clapton & David Sanborn
Days of Thunder 1990 Guns N’ Roses
Rush 1991 Bob Dylan
Lawn Dogs 1997 Bob Dylan
The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field 1997 Roger Waters
Knockin’on Heaven’s Door 1997 Selig
Windstruck 2004 Youme
Be Cool 2005 Bob Dylan
Las Vegas (episode 45, “Letters, Lawyers and Loose Women”) 2005 Bob Dylan
Six Feet Under (episode 60, “All Alone”) 2005 Bob Dylan
ER (episode 260, “Darfur”) 2006 Scoob Serious
Salvador (Puig Antich) 2006 Bob Dylan
I’m Not There 2007 Antony & the Johnsons
Supernatural (episode 35, “Houses of the Holy”) 2007 Bob Dylan
Big Love (episode 2-08, “Kingdom Come”) 2007 Bob Dylan
My Name is Earl 2008 Bob Dylan
Come Dio Comanda] 2008 Antony & the Johnsons
Heaven’s Door 2009 Angela Aki
Preceded by
“A Different Beat” by Boyzone
UK Singles Chart number-one single
(Dunblane version)

15 December 1996 – 22 December
Succeeded by
“2 Become 1″ by Spice Girls

External links

  • A list of cover versions
  • Lyrics

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Tibouchina gleasoniana
Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Tibouchina
Species: T. gleasoniana
Binomial name
Tibouchina gleasoniana
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Tibouchina gleasoniana is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador.

Source

  • World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tibouchina gleasoniana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2007.

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Categories: IUCN Red List vulnerable species | Flora of Ecuador | Tibouchina | Vulnerable plants | Melastomataceae stubs

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Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

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Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege DVD cover
Directed by Peter Bonerz
Produced by Paul Maslansky
Donald West
Written by Pat Proft
Neal Israel
Stephen Curwick
Starring Bubba Smith
David Graf
Michael Winslow
Leslie Easterbrook
G. W. Bailey
Lance Kinsey
George Gaynes
Music by Robert Folk
Cinematography Charles Rosher Jr.
Editing by Hubert C. de la Bouillerie
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) March 10, 1989
Running time 90 min.
Country  United States
Language English
Preceded by Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988)
Followed by Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege is a 1989 comedy crime film starring Bubba Smith, David Graf and Michael Winslow. It was directed by Peter Bonerz and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Stephen Curwick. The film was given a PG rating for violence and profanity.

The film stars TV actors Bruce Mahler and Kenneth Mars. Mahler later played a Jewish rabbi on the hit TV show Seinfeld, and Mars later went on to work with the TV show Malcolm In The Middle.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
    • 2.1 Returning cast
    • 2.2 New cast
  • 3 Landmarks
  • 4 Production
  • 5 Reception
  • 6 See also
  • 7 External links
  • 8 References

Plot

The police must investigate a series of robberies along a strip of land in the city. The robberies are committed by a group of three dimwitted criminals who do not seem to be able to do this on their own, and it is later revealed they are being guided by a literally shadow figure known as the “Mastermind”, who speaks to the three behind a wall of glass and uses a voice distortion device. The Police Academy group believes the string of robberies may be to intentionally lower property values in that part of the city. They also learn that someone must be ‘leaking’ information to the bad guys, which is why they are always one step ahead of the Police Academy. In the end, it turns out that the Mayor is the “Mastermind” and that Captain Harris has been unwittingly leaking information during his daily meetings with the Mayor.

Cast

Returning cast

  • Matt McCoy - Sgt. Nick Lassard
  • Michael Winslow - Officer Larvell Jones
  • David Graf - Officer Eugene Tackleberry
  • Bubba Smith - Lt. Moses Hightower
  • Marion Ramsey - Officer Laverne Hooks
  • Leslie Easterbrook - Lt. Debbie Callahan
  • George Gaynes - Cmdt. Eric Lassard
  • G. W. Bailey - Capt. Thaddeus Harris
  • Lance Kinsey - Lt. Proctor
  • George R. Robertson - Chief Henry Hurst
  • Arthur Batanides - Mr. Kirkland
  • Bruce Mahler - Sgt. Fackler

New cast

  • Kenneth Mars - Mayor/Mastermind
  • Gerrit Graham - Ace
  • Brian Seeman - Flash
  • Darwyn Swalve - Ox


G. W. Bailey (Captain Harris), David Graf (Tackleberry), and Lance Kinsey (Proctor) in Sweden in 1989 to promote Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.

Landmarks

Some of the landmarks and people in the film reference the city of Toronto, the city where most of the first 4 Police Academy’s was filmed:

  • The police station is called Oakdale Police Station, referencing the Oakdale area of Toronto which a small area between the western intersections of Highway 400 and Finch Avenue, extending to just south of Sheppard Avenue, and east just past Jane Street. This is often referred to as part of the Downsview area of Toronto.
  • The criminal organization behind the crime wave in the city is called the Wilson Heights Gang, a reference to Wilson Heights Boulevard, a street in the Downsview area. The specific area itself is called Wilson Heights.

Production

The movie was filmed entirely in Los Angeles, California.

Reception

The DVD/Video Guide by Mick Martin & Marsha Porter gave the first two Police Academy films 2 stars out of 5; and each subsequent film received a Turkey (their lowest score.) Fellow critic/historian Leonard Maltin seemed to concur; he said this film was “…recommended only for people who thought PA#5 was robbed at the Oscars.”

The movie performed poorly at the US Box Office grossing less than $11 million and marking the decline of the Police Academy franchise. It also earned the designation of being the first Police Academy movie not to place first in the US weekend box office.

See also

  • List of American films of 1989
  • Police academy
  • Police Academy (film series)
  • Police Academy (TV series)
  • Police Academy: The Series

External links

  • Police Academy 6: City Under Siege at the Internet Movie Database
  • Police Academy 6: City Under Siege at Allmovie

References

  1. ^ Google Maps
  2. ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800107037/info

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Dick Richards

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Dick Richards (born 1936) is an American film director, producer and writer.

After working as a photographer, Richards went on to direct commercials. His career in film began by writing and directing a western, The Culpepper Cattle Co.(1972), and continued with such films as Farewell, My Lovely (1975), March or Die (1977), and Man, Woman and Child(1983). Though initially considered to direct Tootsie (1982), complications arose with the script, and he assumed the role of producer instead, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

Filmography as Director

  • The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972) (also as writer)
  • Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
  • Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
  • March or Die (1977) (also as producer and writer)
  • Death Valley (1982)
  • Man, Woman and Child (1983)
  • Heat (1986) (uncredited)

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Categories: American film producers | American film directors | 1936 births | Living people | United States film director stubs

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Lois Mark Stalvey

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Lois Mark Stalvey
Born 8/22/25
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Died December 7, 2004
Sedona, Arizona
Occupation Author
Genres Autobiographical
Subjects Race and racism
Spouse(s) Bennett Stalvey Jr.
Children Bennett III (Spike),Noah, Sarah

Influences

Lois Mark Stalvey (?-December 7, 2004) was an author, educator and civil rights activist. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and died in Sedona, Arizona. A 1974 Time magazine feature on her writing reported that Stalvey wrote, “a remarkable chronicle of a white family’s confrontation with inner-city schools and a harsh indictment of an educational system that is a disaster for most of its pupils.”

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Bibliography
  • 3 Legacy
  • 4 See also
  • 5 References

Biography

Immediately after graduating from high school in the late 1940s Stalvey started her first writing job as a copy writer for the local Gimbels department store in Milwaukee. One year later, she married, and a year after that, she divorced. In the early 1950s she moved to Chicago and started an ad firm called Lois Mark & Associates. In 1955 she married advertising director Bennett Stalvey Jr. and sold her firm to become a homemaker.

In the late 1950s the couple moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where Lois Stalvey joined in a fight for an African American surgeon’s family to move into their segregated neighborhood in West Omaha, resulting in her husband being transferred to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1961.

In 1965 Stalvey formed the Panel of Philadelphians, which sent teams of four women, including a Catholic, a Jew, an African American, and a WASP, to talk with groups around the city about racial justice. The teams facilitated 110 programs in 1965.

Stalvey’s first book, The Education of a WASP, was published in 1970. In it she detailed her experience as a Caucasian learning about civil rights as a mother in Omaha in the 1960s.

In 1976 Stalvey divorced her husband and moved to West Philadelphia. There she began teaching writing and journalism at the Community College of Philadelphia, and wrote articles for the Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers.

Stalvey moved to Sedona, Arizona in 1979 to continue writing. Education of an Ordinary Woman, published in 1982, along with Three to Get Ready: The Education of a White Family in Inner City Schools, published in 1997, focused on her experiences after moving to the integrated West Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Stalvey died in Sedona of emphysema on December 7, 2004.

Bibliography

Throughout her life Stalvey contributed to Reader’s Digest, Woman’s Day, Family Circle, and Good Housekeeping, as well as other magazines and several newspapers.

  • The Education of a WASP. (1989 reprint) University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Three to Get Ready: The Education of a White Family in Inner City Schools. (1997 reprint) University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Getting ready: The education of a white family in inner city schools. (1975) Bantam Books.
  • The Education of An Ordinary Woman. (1982) Aetheneum.
  • “The Urban Child: Getting Ready for Failure.” (1977) Children, Nature, and the Urban Environment: Proceedings of a Symposium-Fair. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-30. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. p 38-41.

Legacy

Stalvey is cited extensively in publications addressing racism, multiculturalism, white privilege, white allies and other race-related and education-related pieces. She is also regularly cited by academics, including Ronald Salz of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who based his 1997 commencement address on her work.

See also

  • Racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska
  • Culture in Omaha

References

  1. ^ “Making ‘Bad Kids’”, Time. Apr. 22, 1974. Retrieved 9/21/07.
  2. ^ Loewen, J.W. (2006) Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. Simon and Schuster. p 244.
  3. ^ “The Education of a WASP”, University of Wisconsin Press. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
  4. ^ “Three to Get Ready: The Education of a White Family in Inner City Schools”, University of Wisconsin Press. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
  5. ^ Sims, G.R. (2004) “Obituary: Lois Mark Stalvey,” The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 17, 2004, Page B15.
  6. ^ “Three to Get Ready: The Education of a White Family in Inner City Schools”, University of Wisconsin Press. Retrieved 9/21/07.
  7. ^ “White Anti-Racism Resources Annotated Bibliography” (pdf). San Diego County Office of Education. http://www.sdcoe.net/jccs/excellence/whitebibliography.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-21. 
  8. ^ Satz Delivers UW–Eau Claire Commencement Address University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Retrieved 9/21/07.

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Charles Newton
Born 8 October 1874
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Died 1926
Occupation Actor
Years active 1915 - 1926

Charles Newton (8 October 1874 – 1926) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 72 films between 1915 and 1926.

He was born in Rochester, New York.

Selected filmography

  • Mountain Mary (1915)
  • The Exile of Bar-K Ranch (1915)
  • The Silver Lining (1915)
  • The Solution to the Mystery (1915)
  • True Nobility (1916)
  • My Fighting Gentleman (1917)
  • The Crow (1919)
  • The Fighting Line (1919)
  • The Kid and the Cowboy (1919)
  • The Prospector’s Vengeance (1920)
  • Hair Trigger Stuff (1920)
  • The Moon Riders (1920)
  • Wolf Tracks (1920)
  • Double Danger (1920)
  • The Two-Fisted Lover (1920)
  • Tipped Off (1920)
  • Superstition (1920)
  • Fight It Out (1920)
  • The Man with the Punch (1920)
  • The Trail of the Hound (1920)
  • The Saddle King (1921)
  • The Fightin’ Fury (1921)
  • The Cactus Kid (1921)
  • Who Was the Man? (1921)
  • Bandits Beware (1921)
  • The Movie Trail (1921)
  • Action (1921)
  • Red Courage (1921)
  • Sure Fire (1921)
  • The Loaded Door (1922)
  • In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922)

External links

  • Charles Newton at the Internet Movie Database

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Newton”
Categories: 1874 births | 1926 deaths | American film actors | American silent film actors | Actors from New York | American film actor, 1870s birth stubs

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Chun-Ming Kao.

The Reverend Dr Chun-Ming Kao (???, Taiwanese: Ko Chùn-bêng; born Tainan, 1929-06-06) is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT). He graduated from Tainan Theological College and Seminary, and then studied at Selly Oak Colleges in England. He was the General Secretary of the PCT from 1970 to 1989, during which period he became a political prisoner for assisting participants in the Kaohsiung Incident (1979), in particular Shih Ming-teh. For this he was sentenced for 7 years in prison, and served his sentence from 1980 to 1984. While he was in prison, his wife Ruth Kao organized groups to help him and raised awareness in the worldwide Church about the human rights situation in Taiwan. After Chen Shui-bian was elected President in 2000, Chun-Ming Kao was appointed a Senior Advisor to the Office of the President. In 2006 he supported the then-president Chen against his former comrade Shih, who led a movement for a forced resignation of Chen called ‘Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go’.

References

  • United Reformed Church (2004) A Gift Box. ISBN 0-85346-222-4.
  • The Lord turned my grief to joy. Address by the Reverend Dr Kao to the general council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Seoul 1989.
  • Taipei Times (2001-04-25): Politicians gather to boost new book. Political heavyweights gathered at a ceremony to launch the memoirs of the Reverend Kao Chun-ming, The Path to the Cross: The memoir of the Reverend Kao Chun-ming.
  • Taipei Times (2006-09-09): Once comrades, dissidents now share bitter rivalries. Relationship between Kao and Shih.

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Georgia State Route 379

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Georgia State Route 379

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State Route 379
Existed: 1977 – 1981
South end: Georgia 53.svg S.R. 53 east of Fairmount
North end: Georgia 108.svg S.R. 108 west of Tate
Georgia State Routes
< SR 378 SR 380 >

State Route 379 was a west–east state route located in Pickens County in the northern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. From the route’s western terminus at State Route 53 east of Fairmount the route ran east-southeast along Henderson Mountain Road to its eastern terminus at State Route 108 west of Tate. The route was formed in 1977, after previously being numbered as State Route 143, and was turned back to local maintenance in 1981, having never been fully paved..

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  1. ^ http://www.geocities.com/garoadwarrior76/garoutelog361_380.html Accessed January 24, 2007.

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Ma`loula

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Ma’loula

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Ma’loula the city
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Ma’loula Church

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Ma’loula the city

Location in Syria

Coordinates: 33°50?39?N 36°32?48?E? / ?33.84417°N 36.54667°E? / 33.84417; 36.54667
Country  Syria
Governorate Rif Dimashq Governorate
District Al-Tall District
Elevation 1,500 m (4,921 ft)


St-Thecla Church


Overview

Ma’loula (Arabic: ???????, Ma‘l?l?, from the Aramaic word ????, ma‘l?, meaning ‘high place’) is a town in Syria dominated by speakers of Western Neo-Aramaic. With two other nearby towns Bakh’a and Jubb’adin , it is the only place where the Western branch of the Aramaic languages is still spoken. The town is located 56 km to the northeast of Damascus, and built into the rugged mountainside, at an altitude of more than 1500 meters. The distance and geological features only aided the longevity of this linguistic oasis for over one and half thousand years. However, modern roads and transportation, as well as accessibility to Arabic-language television and print media - and for some time until recently, also state policy - have eroded that linguistic heritage. As of 2005, the town has a population of 2,000.

Religiously, the population consists of both Christians (Melkite) and Muslims. For the Muslim inhabitants, the legacy is all the more remarkable given that they were not Arabized, unlike most other Syrians who like them were Islamized over the centuries but also adopted Arabic and shifted to an “Arab” ethnic identity.


Ma’loula

There are two important monasteries in Ma`loula: Mar Sarkis and Mar Taqla. The Mar Sarkis monastery was built in the 4th century on the remains of a pagan temple, designed on the model of martyries, which have a simple, plain appearance. It was named after St. Sarkis (St. Sergius), a Roman soldier who was executed for his Christian beliefs. This monastery still maintains its solemn historical character. Mar Taqla monastery holds the remains of St. Taqla (Thecla); daughter of one of Seleucid princes, and pupil of St. Paul. According to legend, in the 1st century C.E, St. Taqla was being pursued by soldiers of her father to capture her because of her Christian faith. She came upon a mountain, and after praying, the mountain split open and let her escape through. The town gets its name from this gap or entrance in the mountain. However, there are many variations to this story among the residents of Ma`loula.

There are also the remains of numerous monasteries, convents, churches, shrines and sanctuaries. There are some that lie in ruins, while others continue to stand, defying age. Many pilgrims come to Ma`loula, both Muslim and Christian, and they go there to gain blessings and make offerings.

See also

  • Western Neo-Aramaic.

References

  1. ^ Robert F. Worth (2008-04-22). “Presumed language of Jesus fading away in Syria”. International Herald Tribune. pp. 2. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/22/mideast/syria.php. Retrieved 2008-04-22. 

External links

  • A web site dedicated to Maaloula
  • New York Times article on Aramaic language in Ma’loula and other villages in Syria
  • Syrian village clings to Aramaic language at Al Jazeera English
  • An episode from Australian program, Foreign Correspondent, about Maaloula.

Coordinates: 33°50?39?N 36°32?48?E? / ?33.84417°N 36.54667°E? / 33.84417; 36.54667

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