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A 3,000-year-old defensive wall possibly built by King Solomon has been unearthed in Jerusalem, according to the Israeli archaeologist who led the excavation. The discovery appears to validate a Bible passage. The tenth-century BC wall is 230 feet long and about 20 feet tall. It stands along what was then the edge of Jerusalem—between the Temple Mount, still Jerusalem's paramount landmark, and the ancient City of David, today a modern-day Arab neighborhood called Silwan.

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The Mother was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who himself—in addition to being an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter—was a prolific poet, writer, visionary philosopher of human progress and avant-garde spiritual evolutionist. She had a revelation of Auroville as a place meant to contribute significantly toward the "progress of humanity towards its splendid future by bringing together people of goodwill and aspiration for a better world." Auroville aimed to be a town that expressed humanity’s aspiration to integral perfection, where creative exploration, active solution-seeking and open communication were encouraged as means to a better, more harmonious way of living.

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Lord of the creative, the conquering force,
Smile of the Supreme and the winning strength,
Blaze noon-intense of the godhead’s brilliant triumph...

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