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Midgham railway station Midgham railway station is a railway station named after the village of Midgham in the county of Berkshire in England. In fact the station is in the nearby valley bottom village of Woolhampton and some distance downhill from Midgham village itself.
Midhat Mursi Midhat Mursi (also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri or Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar) was born April 29 1953 in Egypt. He is an alleged top bomb maker for al-Qaeda, and is considered to be in Osama bin-Laden's inner circle.
Midhordland Midhordland is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, consisting of the central portion of the county of Hordaland. It includes the municipalities Askøy, Austevoll, Bergen, Fjell, Fusa, Os, Samnanger and Sund.
Midhurst Midhurst is a market town in West Sussex with a population of approximately 5000. The town is situated on the River Rother and is home to the magnificent ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House and the stately Victorian Cowdray House.
Midi Modern Music Festival Midi Modern Music Festival is China's largest rock music festival, based in Beijing, since 1997 the festival is held every year during the May holiday (May 1st - May 3rd) with some breaks due to government problems in 2003 and 2004 (both times hold in October).
Midi-chlorians Midi-chlorians (also spelled "midi-clorians" or "midichlorians") are mysterious organisms in the fictional Star Wars universe, first mentioned in the prequel trilogy. They are microscopic life-forms that reside within the cells of almost all living things and communicate with the Force.
Midian In the Bible, Midian (Hebrew: מִדְיָן, Standard Midyan Tiberian ; Arabic مدين; "Strife; judgment") is a son of Abraham and his concubine Keturah (who according to midrash is Hagar).Genesis 25:1-6
Midian war The Midian War documented in the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 31, is the final military action that Moses personally led. The Bible says that the people of Midian had already led the people of Israel to sin against God, and this was meant to be the final act of extermination.
Midiboard Midiboard was broadly understood to be a contraction of Midi and Piano keyboard, and, to some extent, the term became synonymous with keyboards sold without sound synthesis during the later part of the 1980s to address the needs of performance artists who needed a master keyboard to control racks of Midi synthesis modules (synthesizers without keyboards), a separation that was made possible by MIDI technology.
Midland and South Western Junction Railway The Midland and South Western Junction Railway (MSWJR) was, until the 1923 Grouping, a wholly independent railway built to form a link between the Midland (MidR) and London and South Western Railways (LSWR) allowing MidR and Great Western Railway (GWR) trains, inter alia, to reach the port of Southampton.
Midland Athletic League The Midland Athletic League is an OHSAA athletic league located in northwest Ohio. The following schools are currently members of the league, with the school name providing a link to the town the school is in or near:
Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute was a public high school in Scarborough, Ontario. It opened in the early 1960s for the then Borough of Scarborough and later was a school under the Toronto District School Board.
Midland Bank The Midland Bank opened as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. The bank expanded in the Midlands, absorbing many local banks, and merged with the Central Bank of London Ltd.
Midland Beach, Staten Island Midland Beach is a Staten Island neighborhood. It lies along the east-central coast of the island, in the area known locally as the "Mid-Island, Staten Island", or, according to some, the "East Shore.
Midland Canal The Midland Canal (German: Mittellandkanal) is, at 320 km, the longest artificial waterway in Germany. It branches off the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Hörstel (near Rheine), runs north along the Teutoburg Forest, past Hannover and meets with the Elbe River at Magdeburg.
Midland Combination Women's Football League The Midland Combination Women's Football League, also known simply as the Midland Combination, is at the third level of the English women's football pyramid, along with the three other Combination Leagues - South West, South East and Northern. The Midland Combination feeds directly into the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division, and lies above the West Midland Women's Football League and the East Midland Women's Football League in the pyramid.
Midland Counties cricket team A Midland Counties cricket team appeared on four occasions in English first-class cricket, all in the 19th century. In 1843 they played two games against MCC, one at Lord's and one at Barker's Ground in Leicester; they lost both, and in the second innings of the first match were dismissed for just 30.
Midland Counties Railway The Midland Counties Railway (MCR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1832 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence to London. The MCR system connected with the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway in Derby at what become known as the Tri Junct Station.
Midland F1 Racing MF1 Racing (in full, Midland F1 Racing; also known as Spyker MF1 Racing for the last three races of the 2006 season) was a Formula One constructor. It competed in the 2006 Formula One season with drivers Christijan Albers and Tiago Monteiro.
Midland Great Western Railway The Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) main line extended from Broadstone in Dublin to the Midlands (Athlone) and onwards to Galway and Clifden in what is now the Republic of Ireland. At its peak there were a number of branch lines
Midland Group The Midland Group is an international trading and investment holding company. Registered in Guernsey under the name Midland Resources Holding Ltd, the group owns a number of subsidiaries across the agriculture, manufacturing, real estate, shipping and steel industries.
Midland High School (Midland, Texas) Midland High School (officially Midland Senior High School) is a public high school located in Midland, Texas and is part of Midland Independent School District. The original Midland High School was built in 1926 and was moved twenty-three years later to a new building in 1949 where it currently sits today.
Midland Highway Midland Highway (A300, B300, C518), not to be confused with Tasmania's Midlands Highway, links the Victorian towns of Geelong and Mansfield in south-eastern Australia. It winds through country Victoria in a large arc, travelling via the towns of Ballarat, Bendigo and Shepparton.
Midland International Records Midland International Records was a US record label that existed in the 1970s. Doctor's Orders by Carol Douglas, Fly, Robin, Fly and Get Up And Boogie by Silver Convention, and Let Her In by John Travolta were among the few major national successes the label released during its short existence.
Midland Junction Municipality The Municipality of Helena Vale was proclaimed on November 8,1895 as the local government authority for the rapidly growing town of Helena Vale in Western Australia. The name 'Helena Vale' was chosen because of it's closeness to the Helena River.
Midland Line, New Zealand The Midland line is a famous 212 km section of railway between Christchurch (Rolleston) and Greymouth in the South Island of New Zealand. The line features five major bridges, five viaducts and 17 tunnels, the longest of which is the Otira tunnel.
Midland M16 The Midland M16, also known as the Spyker M16, was the car with which the MF1 Racing team competed in the Formula One season. It was driven by Tiago Monteiro, who had driven for the team in during its Jordan guise, and Christijan Albers, who moved from Minardi.
Midland Mainline Midland Mainline (MML) is a British train operating company owned by the National Express Group, created after the privatisation of British Rail. Midland Mainline started services in April 1996 and its opperations are based in Derby.
Midland Oak The Midland Oak is an oak tree located on the boundary between Lillington and Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. A plaque placed nearby makes the claim that the tree marks the very centre of England, though a number of other locations in the Midlands make the same claim.
Midland Park High School Midland Park High School is a six-year comprehensive public high school located in Midland Park, New Jersey, United States. Opened in 1957, it is a junior-senior high school and is part of the Midland Park School District.
Midland Railway 1000 Class Midland Railway 1000 Class is a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotive designed for passenger work. They were designed by Richard Deeley and had a 3-cylinder compound arrangement and one high pressure inside cylinder and two low pressure outside cylinders.
Midland Railway 1528 Class The Midland Railway 1528 Class was a class of small 0-4-0T steam locomotives designed for shunting. Ten were built in two batches; the first five Nos 1528-33 in 1907 and the second five 1534-7 in 1921-1922, with detail differences between the batches.
Midland Railway 2000 Class The Midland Railway 2000 Class was a class of 40 0-6-4T steam locomotives designed by Richard Deeley. They were known as "flatirons" or "hole-in-the-wall tanks" because of their distinctive shape; their side tanks extended to the front of the smokebox and they had a distinct cut-out in the side tanks to access the motion.
Midland Railway Butterley The Midland Railway, Butterley is a complex of railway museum exhibits within the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley, near Ripley in Derbyshire. It lies on the Pye Bridge, near Ironville, to Ambergate line of the old Midland Railway, although the present-day heritage line terminates at Hammersmith.
Midland Railway of Western Australia The Midland Railway Company was a private railway built on the land-selection principle that ran from Midland Junction near the capital city of Perth, Western Australia to a location south of the port of Geraldton.
Midland Railway Paget locomotive The Midland Railway's Paget locomotive, No. 2299, was an experimental steam locomotive constructed at its Derby Works in 1908 to the design of the General Superintendent Cecil Walter Paget (though Richard Deeley was Locomotive Superintendent at the time).
Midland Scottish Midland Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, in Scotland, was a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group formed in June 1985 from Walter Alexander and Sons (Midland) Ltd, and operated until 1991 when it became Midland Bluebird Ltd.
Midland Township, Bergen County, New Jersey (Historical) Midland Township was a Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States, that was formed on March 7, 1871, from portions of New Barbadoes Township."The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P.
Midland Trail High School Midland Trail High School is a public 9-12 school located in Hico, West Virginia located upon the historic Midland Trail highway (US Rt 60,) hence the name. The 65 acre campus is located 6 miles north of the New River Gorge National River and New River Bridge in scenic Fayette County.
Midland, North Carolina The town of Midland is located in southern Cabarrus County in North Carolina, USA, in the south-central portion of the state, in the region known as the Piedmont. The name of the town is derived from its location approximately one-half way between Charlotte and Oakboro on the railroad line.
Midland, Western Australia Midland () is both a suburb and a township in the Perth, Western Australia metropolitan area, and is the regional centre for the City of Swan local government area that covers the Swan Valley and parts of the Darling Scarp to the east. It is situated at the intersection of Great Eastern Highway and Great Northern Highway.
Midlands In general, the central region of any territory may be called its midlands. In Britain and Ireland, the term seems to be reseved for the "middle" in the vertical (North/South) direction - but countries oriented more EW might use "Mid" with a horizontal meaning (ie between East and West).
Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference The Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference is an affiliate of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Its nine member institutions are located in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
Midlands Electricity The Midlands Electricity Board was formed in 1947, under the Electricity Act of that year. The counterpart of the East Midlands board, it served southern, and western parts of Warwickshire, as well as the counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire, as well as most of Gloucestershire, the West Midlands conurbation and northern Oxfordshire.
Midlands Gold Midlands Gold Westmeath is an Independent Local Radio service in the Republic of Ireland, broadcasting to County Westmeath. It is an opt-out from Midlands 103 (formerly Midlands Radio 3), the ILR contractor for counties Westmeath.
Midlands Regional Alliance The Midlands Regional Alliance is a football competition based in England. This league has a total of three divisions, of which the highest, the Midlands Regional Alliance Premier Division, sits at level 13 of the English football league system.
Midlands State University Midlands State University is a university in Zimbabwe offering different courses mainly in the commercial and arts sector. The school was previously called Gweru Teacher College, which was primarily a teacher training college under the University of Zimbabwe.
Midlands Today BBC Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for the West Midlands region, which comprises the West Midlands county, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire. It began on 28 September 1964, from a studio on Broad Street, Birmingham.
Midlands, South Carolina The Midlands (IPA: ) roughly refers to an area in the middle of South Carolina, including but not limited to: Calhoun, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter counties. This term is used mostly by Columbia-based media outlets that wish to appeal to audiences outside of the Columbia metropolitan area.
Midlands, Tasmania The Midlands in Tasmania refers to the relatively flat, dry agricultural area between Launceston and Hobart, so named because it covers most of the middle of these two cities. Its name is probably also influenced from the Midlands in the United Kingdom.
Midlife Crisis Midlife Crisis is a song by the alternative metal band Faith No More, from their fourth studio album Angel Dust. According to singer Mike Patton "The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation.
Midlist Midlist is a term in the publishing industry which refers to books which are not bestsellers but are strong enough to economically justify their publication (and likely, further purchases of future books from the same author). The vast majority of total titles published are midlist titles, though they represent a much smaller fraction of total book sales, which are dominated by bestsellers and other very popular titles.
Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency) Midlothian and Peebles Northern was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950. Along with Peebles and Southern, it was formed by dividing the old Midlothian constituency.
Midlothian and Peeblesshire (UK Parliament constituency) Midlothian and Peeblesshire was a short-lived constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1955. It was formed by a merger of parts of the old Midlothian and Peebles Northern and Peebles and Southern constituencies.
Midlothian Scottish Pipe Band The Midlothian Scottish Pipe Band is a leading American pipe band from the suburbs of Chicago. In their 31 years of existence, they have been successful in grades IV through I and currently play at Grade II with 18 pipers and 15 drummers.
Midlothian Snowsports Centre Midlothian Snowsports Centre, formerly Hillend Ski Centre, near Hillend, Midlothian, Scotland, is Europe's longest artificial snowsports facility. It is made up of two main slopes, a 20m nursery slope and a jump slope; the slope on the left (made to look a bit like Ireland) is 50m and the large slope on the right (made to look like the United Kingdom) is 100m.
Midlothian, Virginia Midlothian, Virginia is an unincorporated place located in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was named for the early coal mining enterprises of the Wooldridge brothers who came from the mining villages of East Lothian and West Lothian near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Midmar Mile The Midmar Mile is the world's largest open water swimming event, a swimming race held at the Midmar Dam north of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Each year, it draws thousands of competitors, from serious international athletes and Olympic medallists to purely recreational swimmers.
MidMAN MidMAN is one of the regional networks that comprise JANET, providing connectivity to schools, colleges and universities in the West Midlands area of England. The provision of services is managed by the West Midlands Regional Networking Company Ltd, whose network is operated by Synetrix and Telewest.
Midna is a fictional main character in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. A newer character to the series, debuting in Twilight Princess, she teams up with the protagonist, Link, to battle a "greater evil" that she alone cannot overcome.
Midnapore Collegiate School Mindapore Collegiate School established in the year of 1834, is one of the oldest schools in Bengal as well as India. The students and teachers of this school made contributions in Indian Freedom Movement during the British Rule.
Midnight Midnight, literally "the middle of the night", is a time arbitrarily designated to determine the end of a day and the beginning of the next in some, mainly Western, cultures. Originally midnight depended on the time of the sunset and dawn, varying according to the seasons.
Midnight (1939 film) Midnight was a 1939 comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz. Actress Barbara Stanwyck was originally slated for the role of Eve Peabody, but was replaced by Claudette Colbert because of scheduling problems.
Midnight (DC Comics) Midnight was intended as a simple replacement for Will Eisner's The Spirit while Eisner was at war, but took on its own life in later stories. He was created for Quality Comics by Jack Cole, who later that year would become famous for creating Plastic Man.
Midnight Brown Midnight Brown is a band, formed in December of 2003 by Jeff Gerstmann and Chris Henderson. The duo's music can be somewhat eccentric and difficult to describe, but the common theme is that it all has a decidedly electronic sound to it, often mixed with rap, a la Gerstmann's previous groups Headboard and The Suburban All-Stars.
Midnight Club Midnight Club is a series of racing games developed by Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios). Rockstar San Diego also developed Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2, which are deemed strikingly similar to the Midnight Club series, by having the same free roam racing format within metropolitan areas, and similar vehicle behaviour and design.
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition is a racing video game, developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games, and is the third game in the Midnight Club series. Like previous installments in the series, the game is an arcade-style racer and focuses on wild, high-speed racing, rather than realistic physics and driving characteristics.
Midnight Club: Street Racing Midnight Club: Street Racing is a racing arcade game, developed by Angel Studios (now Rockstar San Diego) and published by Rockstar Games. The game focuses on competitive street racing and the import scene, as popularised by The Fast and the Furious movies.
Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 film written by Waldo Salt based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, and directed by John Schlesinger. It stars Dustin Hoffman, and then-newcomer Jon Voight in the title role.
Midnight Express (film) Midnight Express is a 1978 biographical film, based on the book of true accounts of Billy Hayes, a young American sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle Cannabis out of Turkey to the US. It stars Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L.
Midnight for Charlie Bone (film) Midnight for Charlie Bone is the first book in the Children of the Red King series of children's books by Jenny Nimmo. There are plans for it to be made into a major motion picture by Warner Brothers Pictures in 2007.
Midnight Funk Association The Midnight Funk Association (MFA) was an eclectic late-night segment of a radio program hosted by "The Electrifying Mojo" on various Detroit, Michigan radio stations including WGPR, WJLB and WHYT from 1977 through the mid-1980s. It was a common mistake for people to refer to Mojo's entire show as the MFA but at midnight, each night, Mojo would call the MFA to order.
Midnight House Midnight House is a classic horror and weird fiction specialty publishing house founded in Seattle, Washington in 1998 by John Pelan and Aaron Bates. All Midnight House releases are limited hardcover editions, the majority being offered in a print run of 450 copies; as of 2003 the print run quantity was raised to 500.
Midnight Judges The Midnight Judges were the last-minute appointments of judges made by United States President John Adams to the Judicial Branch just before the end of his presidental term in 1801. The Federalist-controlled Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801, which created sixteen federal judgeships.
Midnight Louie Midnight Louie is the name of a slightly overweight (20 pounds) fictional black cat in a series of mystery novels by author Carole Nelson Douglas, and the general title for the same series. Each volume of the series is told from the point of view of the cat's "owner", Temple Barr, a freelance public relations consultant, and from the point of view of Midnight Louie, the cat himself.
Midnight Love Midnight Love was the final studio album recorded by soul singer Marvin Gaye, mostly written, produced, and arranged by the performer himself. Released in October 1982, the album Included the hit single "Sexual Healing".
Midnight movie The term midnight movie is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local television stations around the United States airing low-budget genre films as late-night programming, often with a host delivering ironic asides. As a cinematic phenomenon, the midnight screening of offbeat movies began in the early 1970s in a few urban centers, particularly New York City, eventually spreading across the country.
Midnight Magic (Atari 2600) Midnight Magic is a video game released for the Atari 2600 video game console in 1984. As Atari's second attempt at a video game simulation of pinball, Midnight Magic features more realistic ball physics and graphics than the older Video Pinball Atari 2600 title.
Midnight Notes Collective The Midnight Notes Collective is an autonomist marxist collective that produces theoretical analysis of political and, particularly, economic systems. The collective includes Michaela Brennan, George Caffentzis, Steven Colatrella, Dan Coughlin, Peter Linebaugh, Monty Neill, p.
Midnight Oil Midnight Oil was an Australian rock band active from the early 1970s until 2002. The band was known for its driving hard rock sound, intense live performances, and its overt left-wing political activism, particularly in aid of environmentalist causes.
Midnight Predator Midnight Predator is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, published in 2002 when the author was 18. The novel was an ALA Quick Pick and “a must-read” according to School Library Journal, who also wrote that “the plot and characters are so skillfully intertwined that each one moves the story to its thoughtful ending.
Midnight Rain (novel) Midnight Rain is a paranormal romantic suspense novel by Holly Lisle, published in 2004, the first novel of this type Lisle has published. The protagonist of the novel is Phoebe Rain, a young woman who narrowly escaped being murdered by her ex-husband.
Midnight Ramble A Midnight Ramble was a segregation-era midnight showing of films for an African American audience, often in a cinema where, under Jim Crow laws they would never have been admitted at other times. The films shown were often from among the over 500 films were made between 1910 and 1950 in the United States with Black producers, writers, actors and directors.
Midnight Rambler "Midnight Rambler" is a song by British rock and roll band the Rolling Stones that was released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Stones guitarist Brian Jones is credited on percussion (he also plays autoharp) and this is one of the two songs he played on from the last album before his death.
Midnight Rogue Midnight Rogue (ISBN 0-14-032378-3) is a single player roleplaying gamebook written by Graeme Davis, illustrated by John Sibbick and originally published in 1987. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 29 in the original Puffin printing and not yet included in the Wizard reissuing.
Midnight Rose Midnight Rose was a name taken by a group of United Kingdom science fiction and fantasy writers for a series of shared world anthologies published by the Penguin Books imprint Roc. The group's "core members" were Alex Stewart, Roz Kaveney, Neil Gaiman and Mary Gentle.
Midnight sun The midnight sun is a phenomenon occurring in latitudes north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun is visible at the local midnight. Given fair weather conditions, the sun is visible for a continuous 24 hours.
Midnight Spank Midnight Spank (formerly 'G4 Late Nights' and Barbed Wire Biscuit) is the name of the late-night block shown on G4. This block was based on G4's recent venture to Williams Street Studios, pioneers of the Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network.
Midnight Special (song) "Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song. It was originally popularized by Lead Belly, who recorded at least three versions of the song, one with the Golden Gate Quartet, a slick gospel group (recorded for RCA at Victor Studio #2, NYC, June 15, 1940).
Midnight Sun Game The Midnight Sun Game is a baseball game played every summer solstice at Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Because the sun is out for almost 24 hours a day, the game starts at about 10:30 at night and completes around 1:30 the next morning.
Midnight Sun Run The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Midnight Sun Run is a ten kilometer road running event, held annually since 1983 in Fairbanks, Alaska, that attracts participants from across the United States and Canada. The race takes place on the third Saturday of June each year, starting at 10 pm with the boom of a cannon that can be heard throughout Fairbanks.
Midnight Train Midnight Train (2008) is a horror film based on Clive Barker's short story. The film will follow a NYC photographer who attempts to track down a serial killer dubbed the "Subway Butcher" and discovers more than he bargained for under the city streets.
Midnight Train to Georgia "Midnight Train to Georgia" is a 1973 number-one hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips, their second release after departing Motown Records for Buddah Records. Written by Jim Weatherly, and included on the Pips' 1973 LP Imagination, "Midnight Train to Georgia" won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus and has become Knight's signature song.
Midol Midol is an over-the-counter medication indicated for menstrual cramping and other effects related to premenstrual syndrome and menstruation. It is not considered effective for cramping during periods, or dysmenorrhea.
Midoriko Midoriko (翠子) was a great Miko from the past in the anime series InuYasha. During a battle between herself and yōkai, the battle was sealed into the Jewel of the Four Souls (四魂の玉, Shikon no Tama) a.
Midoriyama are a rival tennis team in the anime and manga series The Prince of Tennis. In the manga, the team defeats Jousei Shounan in the first round of the Kantou Tournament, and plays against Seigaku in the second round.
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) is a special-purpose district that manages over 50,000 acres (200 km²) of open space in 25 preserves in the San Francisco Bay Area. It includes parts of Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties.
Midrash Midrash (Hebrew: מדרש; plural midrashim) is a Hebrew word referring to a method of exegesis of a Biblical text. The term "midrash" also can refer to a compilation of Midrashic teachings, in the form of legal, exegetical or homiletical commentaries on the Tanakh (Jewish Bible).
Midrash Abkir Midrash Abkir (Hebrew: מדרש אבכיר) is one of the smaller midrashim, the extant remains of which consist of more than 50 excerpts contained in the Yalḳuṭ and a number of citations in other works. It dealt, according to all accessible evidence, only with the first two books of the Pentateuch.
Midrash Aseret ha-Dibrot Midrash Aseret ha-Dibrot (Hebrew: מדרש עשרת הדיברות) or Midrash of the Ten Commandments is one of the smaller midrashim which dates, according to Jellinek, from about the 10th century, and which is devoted entirely to the Feast of Weeks, being actually called in a Vatican library manuscript "a haggadah for Shabu'ot."

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