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Encyclopedia > Eldred Jonas

Eldred Jonas is a fictional character from the novel Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. Jonas is a failed gunslinger and the leader of the "Big Coffin Hunters". He walks with a limp after his leg was broken by Cort's father. In Wizard and Glass he is employed by John Farson to keep a rein of control over Rhea of the Cöos. He was killed by Roland Deschain, who also stole from him Maerlyn's Grapefruit, a crystal ball of the Maerlyn's rainbow. Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. ... Gunslinger from The Great Train Robbery Gunslinger, also gunfighter, is a name given to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation as being dangerous with a gun. ... John Farson, The Good Man, was a leader of a revolution in the land of Gilead from Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ... Rhea of the Coos is a witch mentioned several times in the fictional Dark Tower series by Stephen King. ... Roland. ...


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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Assyria (9804 words)
These may be grouped as: (1) the Old Testament; (2) the Greek, Latin, and Oriental writers, and (3) the monumental records and remains of the Assyrians and Babylonians themselves.
Tiglath-pileser was the first Assyrian king to come into contact with the Kingdom of Juda, and also the first Assyrian monarch to begin on a large scale the system of transplanting peoples from one country to another, with the object of breaking down their national spirit, unity, and independence.
According to many scholars, it was during Tiglath-pilesar's reign that Jonas (Jonah) preached in Nineveh, although others prefer to locate the date of this Hebrew prophet a century later, i.e.
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