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The Christian Bible describes how a so-called Star of Bethlehem guided three wise men to Jerusalem where they found the newborn Jesus. There are many theories that attempt to explain what the Star of ...

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"I am a native Bethlehemite. I am proud to be one and dearly love my Bethlehem," Mrs. Eugene C. Grace said on Dec. 7, 1937. "There is one thing, however, about my Bethlehem that I have never been ...