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Belshazzar

6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar's Feast)
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Belshazzar

gave banquet unrivalled for sumptuousness. [O.T.: Daniel 5:1–4]
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Belshazzar's Feast start with traditional folk music, add a touch of classical and jazz, throw in a bit of pop and music hall, and top it off with wry humour for a unique live experience.
So how does he rate his chances aboard last year's Japan Dirt Cup (G1) winner Belshazzar who will break from favourite number two stall.
(16) The first section of the play (1-175.1-4) depicts Belshazzar's feast: the defiling of the sacred vessels plundered by Nebuchadnezzar from the Temple in Jerusalem, the mysterious appearance of a disembodied hand that inscribes three enigmatic words on the wall of the royal banquet hall, Daniel's interpretation of the prophecy, and the sudden downfall of Belshazzar at the hands of Darius's invading army.
In order "To vouche on avayment of his vayneglorie" (1358), Belshazzar arranges a great feast in his own honor.
Her work reveals a fruitful interplay between contrasting orderings in the conscious and unconscious mind, and in this career-spanning show of some forty works--including major audiovisual installations such as Belshazzar's Feast, 1983-84, and Psi Girls, 1999-supernatural irruptions into the everyday will abound.
In the Book of Daniel, Belshazzar, unlike his father Nebuchadnezzar, does not acknowledge the true God.
Superb performances of works such as "Drop, drop, slow tears," "Belshazzar's Feast," and the breathtakingly mesmerizing, unbelievably poignant, aria "At the Haunted End of the Day" from Walton's opera, Troilus and Cressida, as well as many more works that musically illustrate the entire span of the composer's distinguished career form the backbone of the film.
The prophet Daniel interpreted a vision for the last Babylonian king, Belshazzar, foreboding the end of the Babylonian dynasty.
That may be the most grandiose set of ambitions for the region since the vision of Nebuchadnezzar's son Belshazzar, who saw the hand writing on the wall.
(Historians believe that the people of Babylon, fed up with King Nabonidus and his much-despised governor, Belshazzar, opened the city gates to the invaders.)
Some ten percent of Venezuela is sitting in on the modern Belshazzar's feast, catered by Standard Oil and Shell; the other four million are on the outside looking in, with hunger in their bellies and disease in their bones.
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