(Greek: a speaking place) Greek stage; performances in Hellenistic period included actors placed on a raised platform or stage behind the orchestra and in front of the skene; the roof of the proskenion could be employed for this purpose. See Latin pulpitum.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, Texas, prompting a gun battle in which four agents and six cult members are killed. The federal agents were attempting to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on information that...
Branch Davidians. (Redirected from Branch Dividian) The Branch Davidians (also known as The Branch) are a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists (Davidians), a reform movement that began as an offshoot from the Seventh-day Adventist Church (Adventists) around 1930.