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Babylon
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    It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition.†  (source)
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    The Southern kingdom fared no better, being conquered by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. Its temple was destroyed and most of its people were carried off to slavery in Babylon.†  (source)
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    Babel's a city in Babylon, right?†  (source)
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    BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON, by Stephen Vincent Benét.†  (source)
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    During this time Euclides had surfaced with so many proofs of his tale that it was no longer a question of playing with earrings and rings scattered amid the coral but of financing a major enterprise to salvage the fifty ships with their cargo of Babylonian treasure.†  (source)
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    Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†  (source)
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    He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae.†  (source)
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    Charlie walked through the semiswank lobby, done in Babylonian art deco, and nipped around the corner to his Swedish masseuse, who karate'd his aching lumbar for ten minutes.†  (source)
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    It was no wonder the Babylonians had once ruled the world.†  (source)
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    Nay, we might have judged that such a child's mother must needs be a scarlet woman, and a worthy type of her of Babylon!†  (source)
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    And I knew enough even then to know that it wasn't Greek, or Old Egyptian, or Babylonian, or Hittite, or Chinese.†  (source)
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    No doubt the Babylonians were already out scouting around for their favorite rocks.†  (source)
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    'That has the rivers of Babylon in it, sir,' the chaplain replied.†  (source)
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