For the Song, all these are also places for sexual love: the beloved has recalled her embraces of the king on the couch, and elsewhere in scripture the same word is used for something on which lovemaking may occur (most dramatically, it is on an accubitum that Haman plans to rape Esther in Esth. 7:8); and Solomon's bed is mentioned in the context of preparations for his marriage.

The US and Israeli forces, for example, have long worked systematically to “demodernize” entire urban societies through the destruction of the life-support and infrastructure systems of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iraq since 1991 ...

The asymmetry of the bones too is remarkable, although this is characteristic of all the catodon whales, especially as regards the bones of the anterior narial passages, the left of which is very much larger than the right.

Gillian reached for the comm link, but the carrier wave cut off before she could say another word.