Martin Luther King Jr. also was assassinated, and people say they have "reached the promised land" that King described in a speech he gave the night before he was slain that April.
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This small chunk of land in the highlands of the Levant is where Jesus started his ministry, where Abraham staked his claim on the land and where King Solomon lolled in his tent by shimmering pools of spring water.
After all, this is the land of the Jewish King David who founded the Jewish capital of Jerusalem three thousand years ago.
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Soon after he seized power, General Musharraf went to Saudi Arabia, Islam's holiest land, to pay obeisance to King Fahd, only to be stunned by an intercession by Prince Abdullah to ask for clemency for Mr Sharif.
He was given the job, temporary at first, of king of Transjordan, a land considered unimportant, except in its relation to Palestine.
Some were tempted by promises of land, others by the fact that the king's armies paid in a gold-backed currency, not paper dollars.
Traditionally, Ben Wyvis belonged to the Clan Munro - which was given the land on condition that it could present the king with a snowball from the mountain at midsummer.
The late Faisal Husseini, whose family owns the land it stands on, was the benign king of a castle that was packed with political and welfare offices, plus visiting foreigners: it was too open for the sinister goings-on that Israelis now hint at.
And the President described the monument as a reminder that King's dream of "a land in which all of God's children might come together in a spirit of brotherhood" still beckons.
Big Flat sits in the middle of the Bureau of Land Management's 64, 000-acre King Range National Conservation Area, a patch of northern California so rugged that the engineers who built Highway 1, which hugs the coast from San Diego to Oregon, took the road 30 miles inland here to avoid it.
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Ireland's King of Kings dethroned French champion Xaar to land a first British classic for trainer Aidan O'Brien in the Sagitta 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.
Forty minutes later we land in Queenstown for a hot shower, a real meal and a king-size bed at a very nice hotel.
In a land where celebrity is celebrated, a man who will one day be a king still has pulling power.
So the state's Independent governor, Angus King, came up with a sensible suggestion: Cut hay from land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the unaffected counties, and send it south, where it is immediately needed.
Back in the 1934, Martin Luther King Sr. was one of 10 Baptist ministers who traveled first to the Holy Land and then to Germany.
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At Suvarnabhumi ("golden land") his kingdom has grown to about 290, 000 square feet, which includes King Power duty-free shops (75, 000 square feet) and retail space for international and domestic brands such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton and luxury Thai silk manufacturer Jim Thompson.
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