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High test peroxide is used as a rocket monopropellant, and was involved with the loss of the submarines HMS Sidon and Kursk.

The Temple of Solomon was built by the Tyrian king Hiram, Tyre and Sidon being the major cities of Phoenicia, or Canaan.

He doesn't tell any stories about Sidon for the same reason Matthew doesn't: nothing that happened there was worth the space on the scroll.

The Bible certainly doesn't think the people of Tyre and Sidon were the same people as those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron and Gath.

For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Mark mentions Sidon for the same reason Matthew mentions Sidon: they think it's important to let us know that Jesus wasn't stuck south of Galilee, and/or that opposition at some point literally drove him out of the country.

Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

But I say to you, it will be better for Tyre and for Sidon on the day of judgment, than for you.

For had the great works been done in Tyre and Sidon that have been done in you, they would have in sackcloth and ashes repented long since.

In Lebanon, the French added Tripoli, Beirut and Sidon to the traditional Moronite area around Mount Lebanon, giving their Maronite Christian allies control to what were originally Muslim areas.

It could be hand-waved away, but aren't you curious why someone would mention an 80km detour but not give the reader any tidbits about why, or what went on in Sidon that was worth a) the massive detour & effort, and b) mentioning?

I was probably thinking of the author of Mark who had his Jesus doing the roundabout trip via Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, or the same author having Jesus stepping out of his boat and into a region that is actually 45km from the shore [1].

The key thing here is that Tyre and Sidon are "foreign" places in the same region.

You could be right After ABC news, "an AP photographer in the city of Sidon saw a mobile phone shop damaged after devices exploded inside".

For example, in the Matthew version of this story (15:21-29), Matthew says, he "withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon".

However, another walled island is in Sidon ("Saida"), nearby.

The Phoenicians (Sidon, Tyre) were independently described by other cultures as having a national cult that sacrificed children.

Alexander the Great did it to Tyre and Sidon.

So that's great that a bunch of idiots in antiquity who had no idea what was actually correct thought that Democritus was superior (who they also claimed was just ripping off Mochus of Sidon) and Epicurus the lesser.