(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...
After Houteff died in 1955, the segment of the group loyal to Houteff continued as the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists. But a splinter group, the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, was begun by Benjamin Roden and headed after Roden's death by his wife Lois Roden.he name Branch Davidian is most widely known for the Waco siege of 1993 on their property (known as the Mount Carmel Center) near Waco, Texas.