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David Downie (golfer)
David D. Downie (born in San Francisco in 1958) is a multilingual Paris-based American nonfiction author, crime novelist and journalist who writes most often about culture, food and travel. Biography Downie's family background is revealed in his memoir ''Shadows of Rome''. His father, Charles E. Downie, Jr., a Californian from Garden Grove, California, Garden Grove, previously a journalist on the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', served as a G.I. during the Second World War, fighting in the Italian campaign (World War II), Italian campaign and reaching the Gothic Line. His Italian mother, Romana Anzi, an artist trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Fine Arts Academy in Rome and a runner for the Italian resistance movement, Italian Resistance, thus became a War brides, G.I. bride. The couple lived for five years in Rome, where Charles wrote for the Rome edition of ''Stars and Stripes (newspaper), Stars and Stripes'' until it closed in 1945, then became a founder member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 32; Cambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
