The Maccabean martyrs were Jews killed c. 167 BCE by the Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The first of the martyrs to die was the elderly scribe Eleazar, who was beaten to death for refusing to eat pork. The rest of the martyrs (seven young brothers and their mother) were then killed for the same offense. Interestingly, these martyrs came to be venerated as Christian martyrs during late antiq...

An interest in the development of nursing from early Christian times and the persecution of women in the Early Church has led to this study of nurses and martyrdom. Historical research using secondary sources was undertaken to identify and describe the experiences of nurse martyrs with special reference to the present century. Martyrdom does not belong to the past as generally believed. The twe...

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This survey discusses recent developments in the context of spherical designs and minimal energy point configurations on spheres. The recent solution of the long standing problem of the existence of spherical t-designs on S with O(td) number of points by A. Bondarenko, D. Radchenko, and M. Viazovska attracted new interest to this subject. Secondly, D. P. Hardin and E. B. Saff proved that point ...

Submitted for the MAR08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Electron states of monoand bilayer graphene on SiC probed by STM FRANÇOIS VARCHON, PIERRE MALLET, CÉCILE NAUD, Institut NEEL CNRS/UJF, 25 rue des Martyrs BP166, 38042 Grenoble, CLAIRE BERGER, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430; Institut NEEL CNRS/UJF, 25 rue des Martyrs BP166, 38042 Grenoble, LAURENCE...

A. Balocchi,1,* J. Renard,2,3 C. T. Nguyen,1 B. Gayral,3 T. Amand,1 H. Mariette,3 B. Daudin,3 G. Tourbot,3,4 and X. Marie1 1Université de Toulouse, INSA-CNRS-UPS, LPCNO, 135 avenue de Rangueil, F-31077 Toulouse, France 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4 3CEA-CNRS group “Nanophysique et semiconducteurs,”CEA-Grenoble, ...

2007 III DEDICATION To the owners of the glowing hearts and burning vigor.……………. To those who sacrificed their money, souls and blood for their faith..... To those who faced the devil of evil and the devil of craving………. To Al-Aqsa Intifada martyrs and all the martyrs of Palestine………. To the spirit of the struggling martyr, my nephew, Rami Ganim……… To the stubborn heroes and political prisoners...