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    Balm of Gilead was a rare perfume used medicinally that was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and named for the region of Gilead, where it was produced. The...
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  • "There Is A Balm in Gilead" is a traditional African American spiritual. The date of composition is unclear, though the song dates at least to the 19th...
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  • Balm in Gilead is a 1965 American play written by American playwright Lanford Wilson. Wilson's first full-length play, Balm in Gilead centers on a café...
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  • Look up balm of Gilead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Balm of Gilead was a rare perfume mentioned in the Bible, which has come to signify a universal...
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    Jordan. Balm of Gilead Machir Machir (tribal group) Shibboleth Tribe of Manasseh Perea Balqa Republic of Gilead Church of Jesus Christ: "Book of Mormon...
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  • Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer is Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's 1988 biography of her mother, Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, who was one of the first...
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  • or Vietnamese balm Cedronella, Canary Balm or Balm-of-Gilead Liniment, a medicated topical preparation for application to the skin BALM Paints, an Australian...
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    Populus × jackii (balm-of-Gilead, bam bud, bom-a-gilly) is the hybrid between balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera, and the eastern cottonwood, Populus deltoides...
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  • gileadensis, the source of Balm of Mecca, presumed to be the biblical Balm of Gilead Daniellia oliveri, African copaiba balsam tree, a member of the genus Daniella...
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  • Balm in Gilead is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released on November 3, 2009 by Fantasy Records. It was produced...
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    basam, "spice", "perfume") owes its name to the biblical Balm of Gilead. Balsam is a solution of plant-specific resins in plant-specific solvents (essential...
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  • Gilad (disambiguation) Balm of Gilead (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gilead. If an internal link led...
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    already using the word Gilead in its name. He had first heard of the Balm of Gilead when he read Lanford Wilson's play Balm in Gilead while in medical school...
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    Gilead is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. Upon incorporation in 1804, it was named for the large quantity of Balm of Gilead trees in the...
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    may have been introduced. Other common names for the plant include balm of Gilead and Mecca myrrh, but this is due to historical confusion between several...
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    The Raven (category Gilead)
    the Book of Jeremiah (8:22) in the Bible: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people...
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    Cedronella (redirect from Herb of Gilead)
    Canary Islands-balm, Canary balm, and Balm-of-Gilead. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 1–1.5 m tall. The distinctive feature of these plants...
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    Viola tricolor (category Flora of Europe)
    the Shrew (Act 1, Scene 1) In her poem Balm in Gilead, Christina Georgina Rossetti uses heartsease as a metaphor of growing older as her confidence and her...
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    Theatre World Award for best newcomer. In New York, she appeared in Balm in Gilead with her fellow Steppenwolf Theatre members, and in Arms and the Man...
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    volatile and consist of diterpenes among other compounds.[citation needed] Examples of plant resins include amber, Balm of Gilead, balsam, Canada balsam...
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  • Northwest of North America Populus x jackii (balm-of-Gilead) Populus × acuminata, lanceleaf cottonwood, Populus sect. Aigeiros, a section of three species...
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    Ginger beer (category Types of beer)
    known as "bees wine", "Palestinian bees", "Californian bees", and "balm of Gilead", it is not a plant but a composite organism comprising the yeast Saccharomyces...
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    Steppenwolf, of which she was a charter member. Metcalf went to New York to appear in an Off-Broadway Steppenwolf production of Balm in Gilead at Circle...
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  • also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war. Language of flowers – cryptological...
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  • Handmaid's Tale". University of Toronto Quarterly. 75 (3): 857–868. Rothstein, Mervyn (17 February 1986). "No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood". The New...
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    beer seeds, beer seeds, beer plant, ale nuts, eternity grains, and Balm of Gilead. Pidoux in 1898 also identified the sugary kefir grains with the ginger...
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    William Petersen (category American people of Danish descent)
    (1980) Sixty Six Scenes of Halloween (1981) The Tooth of Crime (1984) as Hoss (nominated by Joseph Jefferson Awards) Balm in Gilead (1981–82) as Joe Conroy...
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    for use in slide mounts. Balm of Gilead, a healing compound made from the resinous gum of Commiphora gileadensis. "The Bonding of Optical Elements – Techniques...
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    £226 million ($309 million) in 2014. The price of a bottle of Cordial Balm of Gilead was 33 shillings in the period of the Napoleonic wars,[citation needed] equivalent...
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    Desire, on the making of the album, was also released. It was her first album of all new original material since Balm in Gilead six years earlier. In...
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