1) Bethlehem, town, West Bank. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bayt Lahm, town (1995 est. pop. 32,000), in the West Bank. It is traditionally considered the birthplace of Jesus and is one of the world's great shrines. Situated...
2) Bethlehem, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...United States, city (1990 pop. 71,428), Northampton and Lehigh counties, E Pa., on the Lehigh River near Allentown and Easton; inc. as a city 1917. Local manufacturing,...
3) star-of-Bethlehem. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Ornithogalum umbellatum) of the family Liliaceae (lily family), native to the Mediterranean region but naturalized in North America and cultivated in gardens. The...
4) Bethlehem, town, South Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...South Africa, town (1991 pop. 80,921), Free State, E central South Africa. It is situated in a farming and livestock area and has industries producing furniture and...
5) Lehigh University. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1866 by Asa Packer. It has undergraduate colleges of arts and science, business and economics,...
6) Tekoa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Tekoa, or Tekoah (both: tekoŽ) (KEY) , ancient town, S Palestine, S of Bethlehem. It is on the edge of a desolate country; to the east the land drops off precipitously...
7) Zanoah. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Zanoah, (znoŽ) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Town, SW Palestine, W of Bethlehem. 2 Town, Palestine, near Hebron. In First Chronicles, Jekuthiel is called the father (or...
8) Doolittle, Hilda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...After 1911 she lived abroad, marrying Richard Aldington in 1913. In England, under the influence of Ezra Pound, she became associated with the imagists and developed...
9) Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Moravian missionary in the United States, b. Bedford, England. Settling (1754) in Bethlehem, Pa., with his parents, he later was indentured to a cedar cooper, while...
10) Holy Innocents. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Holy Innocents, in the New Testament, children of Bethlehem "from two years old and under," killed by the order of Herod the Great in the attempt to destroy the infant...
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