II Divo - Amazing Grace

America

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp

America in the 1940's. A time when hard work, being poor, loving America, knowing true religion was Christianity and not being on welfare wasn't a crime.

Bergen Norway HD 1080i

Link:   http://www.tunliweb.no/SM/English/alb_Bergen_English.htm

Savannah and Bergen - Sister City

Cobblestone Savannah

Cobblestone Bergen

Savannah USA River st waterfront

Bergen Norway Ovregaten st waterfront

Should Bergen, Norway have as it's sister city Savannah, Ga. instead of Seattle, Washington. Maybe Seattle's terrain matches more than Savannah, but Savannah and it's combination of historic and modern is more of a match.

Tidin Rennur by Stanley Samuelsen

Tíðin rennur sum streymur í á

New Years Eve 2009 in Vágur, Faroe Islands. On this photo the men in the procession have come to their destination, the Triangle Square, where the wooden boat will become a bonfire in a few seconds. They are singing "Tíðin rennur sum streymur í á", which they do every year at the same time on the same place.

Can anyone from the Scandinavian countries improve on the translation of this song:

1. Tidin rennur sum streymur í á, Frequent runs on some streams in,
titt munu bylgjurnar falla: irregular waves will fall
lítlum báti rekist eg á, small boats I have come across,
áraleysur at kalla. Araleyzur that called.

2. Og hvør ein løta og hvør ein stund And each and every little one for a while
at stóra fossinum dregur: At the big waterfall draws
treigist mitt hjarta, tyngist min lund, suspension stays my heart, connect my lund
hvar er úr neydini vegur? Where is the forced way

3. Hvør hevur vinur vilja og mátt Each hevur friend will and power
at bjarga mær til landa? to rescue a maiden to countries?
Allir eru á olikan hátt All are in different ways
staddir sum eg í vanda. I present some problems.

4. Ein hevur vinur vilja og mátt One hevur friend will and power
at bjarga mær frá grandi; to rescue a maiden from hurt;
Jesus kann føra in lítla bát Jesus may Fora in a little boat
trygt at himla-sandi. safe for the kinda-Sandi.

5. Tidin rennur sum streymur í á, Frequent runs on some streams in,
fram i harrans navni! forward in God's name!
Litlum báti eri eg á, Small boat in the recent term I,
himla-strond fyri stavni himla-beach for stavni

Tidin Rennur by Sissel

Tíðin rennur */ **Time passes*/ 1892 by/ */Fríðrikur Petersen (1853-1917)./** *Time passes like a flowing river. We are all drifting without oars towards the waterfall. Who has the will and power to lead my little boat safely to the heavenly shore. Onward, in the name of the Lord, I am sailing my little boat. The heavenly shore is in front of my bow.

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem

The only historical event connecting Alexander the Great with the Jews is his visit to Jerusalem around 332 BC, which is recorded later by Josephus in a somewhat fantastic manner. According to "Ant." xi. 8, §§ 4-6, Alexander went to Jerusalem after having taken Gaza. Jaddua, the high priest, had a warning from God received in a dream, in which he saw himself vested in a purple robe, with his miter—that had the golden plate on which the name of God was engraved—on his head. Accordingly he went to meet Alexander at Sapha ("View" [of the Temple]). Followed by the priests, all clothed in fine linen, and by a multitude of citizens, Jaddua awaited the coming of the king. When Alexander saw the high priest, he reverenced God (Lev. R. xiii., end), and saluted Jaddua; while the Jews with one voice greeted Alexander. When Parmenio, the general, gave expression to the army's surprise at Alexander's extraordinary act—that one who ought to be adored by all as king should adore the high priest of the Jews—Alexander replied: "I did not adore him, but the God who hath honored him with this high-priesthood; for I saw this very person in a dream, in this very habit, when I was at Dios in Macedonia, who, when I was considering with myself how I might obtain dominion of Asia, exhorted me to make no delay, but boldly to pass over the sea, promising that he would conduct my army, and would give me the dominion over the Persians." Alexander then gave the high priest his right hand, and went into the Temple and "offered sacrifice to God according to the high priest's direction," treating the whole priesthood magnificently. "And when the Book of Daniel was shown him [see Dan. vii. 6, viii. 5-8, 20-22, xi. 3-4], wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks [] should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he was the person intended, and rejoiced thereat. The following day Alexander asked the people what favors he should grant them; and, at the high priest's request, he accorded them the right to livein full enjoyment of the laws of their forefathers. He, furthermore, exempted them from the payment of tribute in the seventh year of release. To the Jews of Babylonia and Media also he granted like privileges; and to the Jews who were willing to enlist in his army he promised the right to live in accordance with their ancestral laws. Afterward the Samaritans, having learned of the favors granted the Jews by Alexander, asked for similar privileges; but Alexander declined to accede to their request. The historical character of this account is, however, doubted by many scholars (see Pauly-Wissowa, "Realencyklopädie," i. col. 1422). Although, according to Josephus ("Contra Ap." ii. 4, quoting Hecatæus), Alexander permitted the Jews to hold the country of Samaria free from tribute as a reward for their fidelity to him, it was he who Hellenized its capital (Schürer, "Gesch." ii. 108). The Sibylline Books (iii. 383) speak of Alexander—who claimed to be the son of Zeus Amon—as "of the progeny of the Kronides, though spurious."