damascus

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Here it is in summary: blah. bokra begins the celebration of al ques as a capital of arab culture. last year it was damascus. i have mixed feelings about these festivals because whether it is damascus or al quds how many arabs are prevented from traveling to participate if they had the money and wanted to go?

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  1. Steel or iron resembling that of a Damascus blade.
  2. Damascus blade a sword or simitar presenting upon its surface a variegated appearance of watering, as white, silvery, or black veins, in fine lines or fillets, fibrous, crossed, interlaced, or parallel, etc., formerly brought from the East, being fabricated chiefly at Damascus in Syria. (See damascene work , under Damascene, a.) The excellent quality of Damascus blades has become proverbial.
  3. Damascus iron a combination of iron and steel, so called because of its resemblance to Damascus steel. Scrap-iron and scrap-steel are cut into small pieces and welded together, and then rolled out. The surface presents a beautiful variegated appearance.
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  • I have folowed Joram 's articles for a long time he has not changed i don't see a Paul going to damascus.
  • Was it pattern-welded bronze and iron layers like damascus steel? —  Latest Articles
  • I admit that coming from the kind of background I am the product of, my first thought would be to find a lovely shotgun with damascus barrels or other sublime beauty and have target practice. —  World of SL
  • Begin calling for a unified front to support the resistance make secret trips to damascus to inform them of my willingness to play by their rules —  The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog
  • Call every other politician corrupt and declare that I will open all the corruption files travel secretly to damascus to beg them to elect me instead of Aoun or Gigi Bassil by convincing them that I can be the biggest Syrian stooge since Emile Lahoud —  The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog
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  1. Latin Damascus, from Greek Δαμασκός, from Hebrew Dameseq, Arabic Dameshq, Damascus. This city gave name to several fabrics of steel and iron, and of silk, and to a plum: see below, and see damask, damascene, damson.
 

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