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Vor 18 Stunden · In the future, when we merit further illumination, we will know “the secret reasons and the hidden mysteries” of the Torah. Our longing is not in vain. A day will come when we merit the ...
Vor 18 Stunden · This included Calcutta, India’s only sea port, set at the mouth of the Hooghly River, where it distributes water from the Ganges into the Bay of Bengal. Calcutta was destined to become one of the world’s greatest commercial cities by the end of the nineteenth century. The Company transformed this former wetland into a fortified city and added forts in Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai ...
Vor 18 Stunden · (Id., p. 309.) Members were promised occult knowledge and taught yoga and other fragments of teaching and ritual borrowed from various historical and religious sources. (Id.) Though founded by Masons, it was not a Masonic order, and professed, in one of its founder’s words, “the secrets that Freemasonry has lost.” (Id., pp. 310-11.) Its ...
Vor 18 Stunden · On this Good Shepherd Sunday, we continue reading through the First Epistle of St. John, who is the traditional author of those beloved and bucolic words attributed to Jesus, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:11). This teaching about Christ laying down his life is echoed in our reading ...
Vor 18 Stunden · The word satire comes from the Latin word satur and the subsequent phrase lanx satura. Satur meant "full", but the juxtaposition with lanx shifted the meaning to "miscellany or medley": the expression lanx satura literally means "a full dish of various kinds of fruits". The use of the word lanx in this phrase, however, is disputed by B.L. Ullman.
Vor 18 Stunden · The country, which had no information about the Timișoara events from the national media, heard about the Timișoara revolt from Western radio stations like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, and by word of mouth. A mass meeting was staged for the next day, 21 December, which, according to the official media, was presented as a "spontaneous movement of support for Ceaușescu," emulating ...
Vor 18 Stunden · Cardiff Giant. In 1869, farm workers digging a well in Cardiff, New York, uncovered what appeared to be a fossilized man. The man was nearly 10 feet (3 meters) tall. Some believed this was proof ...
