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Keywords: purim, persia, hadassah, xerxes, heroine

Also known as Hadassah, she was a Jewish woman who was orphaned by the deportation to Babylon (Esther 2:7) and adopted by her uncle, Mordecai. By marriage to King Xerxes (=Ahauserus; 485-464 BCE), she became Queen of Persia. Because of her royal connections, she was able to avert a pogrom planned against her people and have the royal decree of extermination reversed. Esther and this event are celebrated in the annual feast of Purim on the 14th and 15th of Adar (February-March).

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One of the heroes of the story of Purim.

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(Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)

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an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre

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The heroine of the Purim story, originally called Hadassah. (Myrtle)

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Jewish girl who became the Queen of Persia. Also, the book of the Bible by the same name, which describes these events and the establish of the holiday of Purim.

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A Jewish heroine of the diaspora who became queen of Persia under Xerxes I; she secured the safety of the Jews when they were threatened with genocide; her story is told in the book which carries her name. See Chapter 16.

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Esther , born Hadassah, was a woman in the Hebrew Bible, the queen of Ahasuerus (commonly identified with Xerxes I or Artaxerxes II), and heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther which is named after her.

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The oratorio Esther by George Frideric Handel (HWV 50) is generally acknowledged to be the first English oratorio. This relatively short (1 hr. 40 min.) oratorio was probably given a small performance at Cannons, the estate of the Earl of Carnarvon where Handel was employed as the resident musician in 1718 when it was composed. It had a couple of other local performances before its first performance in London at a birthday celebration in a tavern in February of 1732.

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Keywords: kalmar, haferbier, ugglerum, svensson, magnus

Esther is a Lotus 7 type car made in Ugglerum, Sweden. The company was founded by Lars Svensson and Magnus Haferbier in 1987. They started off with a shingle wood board jig who had been used for earlier Lotus 7 copies in the Kalmar area.

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Keywords: fon, bum, 'sister

'Sister' of Fon of Bum

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