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  Gideon: The Life of One Man in the Arts
Gideon would allow the actual duplication of his gallery and studios showing what the life of a serious artist really is. Children, schools and universities and working artists would benefit from the decades of Gideon's research, techniques and discoveries in art.
Gideon is such a man; an artist, a sculptor, an innovator.
Gideon is an institution in himself; not only a national treasure but an international treasure.
www.gideonart.com   (846 words)

  
  Gideon (Judges) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gideon (גִּדְעוֹן, Standard Hebrew Gidʻon, Tiberian Hebrew Giḏʻôn), also known as Jerubbaal, is a character that appears in the Book of Judges, in the Bible.
God chose Gideon, a young man from an otherwise unremarkable clan from the tribe of Manasseh, to free the people of Israel and to condemn their worship of idols.
On God's instruction, Gideon destroyed the town's altar to the foreign god Baal and the symbol of the goddess Ashera beside it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon   (816 words)

  
 Gideon McDuck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gideon is presented as Scrooge McDuck's younger brother, and mainly appears in Italian comic stories; in those stories, Gideon is the editor of the newspaper "The Cricket", the most credible newspaper in Duckburg.
Gideon's existence doesn't agree with Carl Barks's view of Scrooge as the last of the Clan McDuck.
Additionally, by the same timeline, Gideon would have died sometime after 1970, probably having outlived Scrooge, though his exact dates of birth and death are still unknown.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon_McDuck   (220 words)

  
 Gideon: Christian Resource Centre (Bermuda)!
During an oppression by the Midianites, Gideon, while threshing wheat in the wine press at Ophrah to hide his harvest from the Midianites, was called by an angel of the Lord to deliver Israel.
The Ephraimites, instructed by Gideon to block the escape routes at the Jordan, caught two of the Midianite princes and sent their heads to Gideon.
Gideon refused the people’s offer to make him king, recognising that God was their only king (Jgs 8:22, 23).
www.nisbett.com /people/bp-gideon.htm   (451 words)

  
 GIDEON in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
Gideon seems to have held this worship in contempt, and to have pondered deeply the causes of Israel's reverses and the injuries wrought upon his own family by the hand of the Midianites.
Gideon's demand for a sign (Jdg 6:17) being answered, the food offered the messenger having been consumed by fire at the touch of his staff, Gideon acknowledged the Divine commission of his visitor, and at the place of visitation built an altar to Yahweh (Jdg 6:19 ff).
But Gideon was a master of diplomacy, as well as of strategy, and won the friendship of Ephraim by magnifying their accomplishment in comparison with his own (8:1 ff).
www.bible-history.com /isbe/G/GIDEON   (1648 words)

  
 Daily Bible Study - Gideon
Gideon, from the Hebrew word meaning hewer or feller, was the son of Joash, an Abiezrite (Judges 6:11), from the town of Ophrah in the Manasseh territory (see Tribal Lands) of Samaria, a short distance from Mount Gerizim (the view from the summit is seen in the photograph below).
Gideon's first attack was somewhat modest; under cover of darkness, Gideon and ten of his servants destroyed the people's altar of Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole that had been erected beside it (Judges 6:25-27).
Gideon died at a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of his fathers.
www.keyway.ca /htm2002/gideon.htm   (358 words)

  
 Holocaust Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gideon has never been able to erase the faces he encountered as he looked upon the effects of the atrocities that had been committed on humankind.
Gideon relates that everywhere he went there were little children looking up at you with begging eyes.
Gideon's own experience and struggle has allowed him insight into the lives of struggling nations and people, and has strengthened his inner drive to bring forth this message forth with a touching and revealing force.
hometown.aol.com /gideonet/holocaust.htm   (1495 words)

  
 Gideon - German Shepherd - March 4, 1999
Gideon is a working dog; he participated in the search and rescue operations last March 1998 here in Florida after tornadoes ripped through the area.
Gideon also was my "furred walker" during the months of September and October while I was recuperating from respiratory arrest.
Gideon is now the perfect example what time, patience, and training can do for an aggressive dog.
www.dogoftheday.com /archive/1999/March/04.html   (378 words)

  
 The Book of Judges: The Israelite Tribal Federation and Its Discontents
Gideon goes through a test with the messenger of God which ends with his assault on and destruction of the idolatrous altars.
Gideon uses in his defense as to how he could do no such thing, the classic Jewish argument that if the gods could not save themselves, why should anybody else be angry (6:27-32).
Gideon is presented as having all the experiences of a true charismatic leader of the Lord: an encounter with God's angel messenger, divine dreams, God's promises through them; taking a strong and public stand against idolatry, and demonstrating great faith in God's highly unconventional military tactics.
www.jcpa.org /dje/articles/judges.htm   (8419 words)

  
 Gideon - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Gideon's demand for a sign (Judges 6:17) being answered, the food offered the messenger having been consumed by fire at the touch of his staff, Gideon acknowledged the Divine commission of his visitor, and at the place of visitation built an altar to Yahweh (Judges 6:19).
But Gideon was a master of diplomacy, as well as of strategy, and won the friendship of Ephraim by magnifying their accomplishment in comparison with his own (8:1).
So Gideon commands his young son Jether to slay them as though they were not worthy of death at a warrior's hand (Judges 8:20).
www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3786   (1656 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gideon
Gideon naturally took the lead against Madian, and Amalec, and other Eastern tribes who had crossed the Jordan, and encamped in the valley of Jezrael.
Gideon's army from 32,000 to 300 (vii, 1-8).
Gideon." Panic-stricken at the sudden attack, Israel's enemies turned their arms against one another, and broke up in flight towards the fords of the Jordan (vii, 16-23).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06402c.htm   (775 words)

  
 Gideon v. Wainwright Turns 40
Clarence Earl Gideon, a 50 year-old drifter, was charged with breaking and entering the poolroom, stealing bottles of wine, beer, soda, and change from a cigarette machine and a juke box.
Gideon insisted he was entitled to be represented by a lawyer.
Gideon's case was sent back to the Florida court for retrial.
www.rashkind.com /gideon   (744 words)

  
 Music Associates of America ~ MadAminA! Miriam Gideon
One of her teachers in the early thirties was Lazare Saminsky, the Russian-American composer, conductor, and writer on music who had studied composition with Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov and, on coming to America, was one of the co-founders of the League of Composers and music director of New York's Temple Emanu-El.
Gideon chose to work with Sessions whom she found to be enormously supportive and encouraging ("he left it to me to be self-critical").
In 1975, Miriam Gideon became the second woman composer elected to membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters — the first having been Louise Talma who, oddly enough, has for years lived in the same Central Park West apartment house and also celebrates her 80th birthday in October of next year.
www.musicassociatesofamerica.com /madamina/1985/gideon.html   (1749 words)

  
 The Gideon Venture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him, rose early and camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
And Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the 300 men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
Gideon was not without a strategy even though the victory was going to be God's (verse 9: "I have given it into your hand.").
www.desiringgod.org /library/sermons/00/032600.html   (2561 words)

  
 Gideon (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who checks into a retirement home where he finds the residents have lost their lust for life...
The fact they are old drives the story concerning a relative "youngster" named Gideon who comes to live with them in their retirement home.
You will know them before Gideon transforms them, and afterward, and each will come out of their encounter with Gideon a better person than they were before they met him.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0141121   (465 words)

  
 Anniversary of Gideon case spotlights right to court-appointed attorney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gideon vs. Wainwright established clearly the right of a poor person charged with a felony crime to have a lawyer paid for by the state.
Gideon drafted his own habeas corpus petition on a prison yellow legal pad, asserting, as he had without success in a Florida trial court, that the Supreme Court had guaranteed his right to counsel.
It is doubtful that the Gideon court anticipated that an American citizen held in an American prison would be denied the right to see an attorney yet that is happening in two cases today.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/112406_gideon16.shtml   (1268 words)

  
 Gideon V. Wainwright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Clarence Earl Gideon versus Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Florida Department of Corrections is the landmark case that established the right to legal counsel in criminal proceedings.
Gideon was accused of breaking and entering a pool hall and stealing a small amount of money.
It is probably a good thing that it is immaterial and unimportant that Gideon is something of a 'nut,' that his maniacal distrust and suspicion lead him to the very borders of insanity.
www.lawbbs.net /gideon/gquote.htm   (299 words)

  
 Who is Gideon?
Gideon returns with a goat, bread and some broth and places them on a stone.
Gideon blew the trumpet and summoned soldiers from all over the territory to defend Israel against the gathering armies.
God had a lesson for Gideon, lest he should think that the might of his army was a deciding factor.
ms.essortment.com /whoisgideon_rukp.htm   (1147 words)

  
 Gideon II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gideon is a six year old liver and white male.
Gideon was originally rescued five years ago when his original owner died.
Gideon is very good on a leash and knows sit, shake, roll over, and stay.
www.maessr.org /adopted/gideonII.html   (198 words)

  
 Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963 - Indigent's Right to Appointed Counsel
Like Gideon, Betts sought release by habeas corpus, alleging that he had been denied the right to assistance of counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded to the Supreme Court of Florida for further action not inconsistent with this opinion.
Later in the petition for habeas corpus, signed and apparently prepared by petitioner himself, he stated, 'I, Clarence Earl Gideon, claim that I was denied the rights of the 4th, 5th and 14th amendments of the Bill of Rights.' FN2.
www.lectlaw.com /files/case17.htm   (4004 words)

  
 Gideon (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gideon received a direct call from God to undertake the task of delivering the land from these warlike invaders.
Gideon died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers.
Gideon left behind him seventy sons, a feeble, sadly degenerated race, with one exception, that of Abimelech, who seems to have had much of the courage and energy of his father, yet of restless and unscrupulous ambition.
www.www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/gideon.html   (366 words)

  
 To Realize Gideon: Competent Counsel with Adequate Resources
A drifter and ex-convict, seemingly the least influential of men, he insisted against all the odds that the Constitution of the United States entitled him to a lawyer at state expense when he was charged with breaking and entering the Bay Harbor Poolroom in Panama City, Florida.
The producers used an old courthouse south of Los Angeles as the setting of Gideon's second trial, this time with a lawyer, after his case was remanded from the Supreme Court.
Gideon say anything when he got in the cab?" The taxi driver answered: "Yes.
www.criminaljustice.org /CHAMPION/ARTICLES/98mar03.htm   (1712 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Gideon's Trumpet (Vintage)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gideon, who would be a career criminal by contemporary definitions, was in a Florida jail for breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor.
Gideon was a poor, career criminal who was denied counsel in Florida for a charge of petty theft who challenged his right to an attorney all the way to the Supreme Court.
Gideon won his case (and at retrial, with counsel, was acquitted), and indigent criminal defendants are now guaranteed the right to counsel.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679723129?v=glance   (2005 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Gideon
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the posting of the guards.
The gold rings that he requested weighed seventeen hundred gold shekels, in addition to the crescents and pendants, the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and the trappings that were on the necks of their camels.
At a good old age Gideon, son of Joash, died and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintg5r.htm   (2481 words)

  
 Gideon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Facts: Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested in 1961 and charged with breaking and entering a pool hall with intent to commit petty larceny (a felony).
Gideon was sentenced to five years in prison.
Issue: Whether the state of Florida violated Gideon's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, by not providing him with the assistance of counsel for his criminal defense.
publicdefender.cjis20.org /gideon.htm   (400 words)

  
 Daily Bible Study - Gideon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Also known as Jerub-baal (Judges 6:29, 32), Gideon was one of the series of Judges, or tribal leaders, whose story is substantially detailed in recorded Bible History (Judges chapters 6-8).
We first read of Gideon at a time when "the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of The Lord; and The Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years." (Judges 6:1 RSV).
Using a Shofar, Gideon then mustered a force of 22,000 Israelites (Judges 6:34-35).
www.execulink.com /~wblank/gideon.htm   (358 words)

  
 History Of Gideon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nestled between the Ozark Mountains and the Mississippi River is the portion of the state of Missouri known as the "Bootheel"--a name derived from its boundary which resembles a heel of a cowboy boot.
Gideon was once a swampland southwest of New Madrid, the location at which Desoto set foot on Missouri soil in 1541.
Gideon has become a suburb community for area towns with their active industries.
gideon.k12.mo.us /town/gideona.htm   (257 words)

  
 GIDEON "The Ascending Journey"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
GIDEON has been Painting and Sculpturing for over seven decades and has produced a legacy of FINE ART in a mind boggling array of styles and media.This online Gallery/Studio tour is our way of making this marvelous collection of Master Works by GIDEON available to the masses for viewing and enjoying.
Gideon had been released from hospital and was making his way back to his outfit, through the French countryside.
Gideon stopped, had some water and talked with him for a while.
members.aol.com /gideonet/index.htm   (460 words)

  
 GIDEON: Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In a blind trial done on 495 patients, the correct diagnosis was included in the differential diagnosis list in 94.7% of cases (sensitivity) and displayed as the first disease in the list in 75% (specificity).
Gideon's infectious disease network pays special attention to the country of origin.
Epidemiological Module: With GIDEONS Epidemiological Module the user can retrieve a diseases epidemiological parameters, access the status of any disease in the current country, get a list of the world wide distribution, review the status of the current disease in any country and the possibility to access a list of alternative names for a disease.
www.openclinical.org /aisp_gideon.html   (661 words)

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