Damascus
About Damascus
Damascus (دِمَشْق) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital city in the world. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine", Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
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In 714, two generals were both accused of misappropriation of funds sent back to Damascus, and they both died in complete obscurity — they were the ones who brought the Islamic invasion into Spain.
from No Such Thing As A Sausage Swingboat, 2021-09-17 at 00:07:26 · read transcript
Other times Damascus came up
He's quite famous. Did he? Did not know that. He became an atheist when this is quite ironic. He was reading about the road to Damascus when St. Paul became a Catholic. Okay. St. Paul converted when he saw a light on the road to Damascus, and it made him turn around and stop being a tax collector and become an apostle of Jesus, right? Okay.
453: No Such Thing As James Cameron's Worms, 2022-11-18 · listen
All this too um so there is an argument it's only an argument and we'll never know the truth but there's an argument that um there's a bit in the bible where st paul has a conversion He's on the road to Damascus.
No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen
That was that in Latin. I've got a religious connection to all this too. There is an argument. It's only an argument and we'll never know the truth, but there's an argument that there's a bit in the Bible where St. Paul has a conversion. He's on the road to Damascus. He's called something else for that. Then he becomes Paul. He's called Saul. Then he, and Saul becomes Paul.
255: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen
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