This year, Apple upgraded its iPhone and iPad lines with 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB storage options, removing the 32GB models entirely. But is 16GB really sufficient in 2014? After wiping his original 16GB iPad mini, thatâs exactly what Kirk McElhearn attempted to find out. McElhearn had yet to upgrade his iPad mini to iOS 8, so he decided to take this opportunity to wipe it clean and start from scratch.
In 46 B.C.E. Herod was appointed governor of Coele-Syria and Samaria by Caesar's representative. But with the death of Caesar and the arrival of the new emperor, Cassius (d. 42 B.C.E. ), Herod quickly dismissed his loyalty to Caesar and won Cassius's favor. He also married Mariamne, a Hasmonean princess and granddaughter of the high priest Hyrcanus II.
Religion & Spirituality. King Herod the Great was the villain in the Christmas story, a wicked king who saw the baby Jesus as a threat and wanted to murder him. Although he ruled over the Jews in Israel in the time before Christ, Herod the Great was not completely Jewish. He was born in 73 B.C. to an Idumean man named Antipater and a woman named Cyprus, who was the daughter of an Arab sheik. King Herod was a schemer who took advantage of Roman political unrest to claw his way to the top.