In the mid-1890s Hubbard launched the first of three subscription magazines, The Philistine.

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But Hubbard's biggest commercial success was an essay that first appeared in the March 1899 issue of the The Philistine.

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Samson seeks a wife among the Philistine people and is on his way to secure the marriage when he meets the lion and kills it with his bare hands.

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It was puzzling to watch the Israelites and Philistines mingle onstage (the supposedly opposing groups were identifiable through costume designer Gideon Davey's fezzes, black hats and such), and the Philistine villain Joabel seemed to have his own homoerotic reason for making trouble for David.

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According to legend, Samson was of the Dan tribe of Israelites, born near where the Israelite, Philistine and Canaanite borders met.

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To deny the validity of the droit de suite is not to be a philistine: arguably, it is more philistine to equate the value of a work of art with its price.

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The reactionary rants and philistine jibes are undimmed.

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Mostly Mr Cork keeps his critical ire for philistine readers, though the complaints diminish as the edgy art of the 1970s and early 1980s later becomes mainstream.

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Of course, Mr Letwin and Mr Cameron, both old Etonians, may simply be attempting to put some clear blue water between themselves and the more populist - or wilfully philistine depending on your point of view - elements on Labour's front bench.

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