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John Coffey is another of Stephen King's mystical black martyrs with extra-sensory perception.
The massacre aided the Revolutionary cause by creating its first martyrs and the propagandists, including Paul Revere, who made an engraving of the event, used it to their advantage.
This is Edinburgh, a city which, since 1846, has marked time in its own distinctive style and to which, in return, time has bequeathed a rich legacy of monuments, myths, martyrs, and memories that make it a magnet for visitors.
In October 2000, Abu Basir took Hamlan and Nami to Kandahar to meet KSM, who impressed on them the high expectations for martyrs and instructed them on using coded telephone numbers.
Now the practice has its own martyrs: a "triple"--a woman and her two men--whose child was taken away because of their unusual living arrangement.