Search results for "Nun" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the university city of Dunedin and the Flying Nun Records label. The genre had its heyday during the mid-1980s and produced bands such as the Bats ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- Families that have produced a priest or nun have a high status. Symbols of difference include owning a car or truck, a large house, furniture ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- tomb, two full-length figures of a monk and a nun rest atop the sarcophagus. A Gothic-revival enclosure protects them from sun and possible damage ...20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
- the true story of Maria von Trapp, a Salzburg-based nun who took up with an aristocratic family and fled German occupation. Although the film is not popular ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- The term monastery (from Greek: μοναστήριον (monastērion) denotes the buildings of a community of monastics (monks or nuns). ...53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
- Theodore also spoke against the second marriage of Michael II to the nun Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI, although in a very moderate ...24 KB (3,706 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- Cinderella (French: Cendrillon, German: Aschenputtel), is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ...20 KB (3,064 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- periodically to the faithful. In the 380s, a nun named Egeria who was travelling on pilgrimage described the veneration of the True Cross at ...22 KB (3,738 words) - 18:26, 2 May 2023
- :er befiehlt uns spielt auf nun zum Tanz :Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts :wir trinken dich morgens und mittags wir trinken ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- to Paris by playing on his interest in the case of a nun who had refused to give up her vows. Diderot sent letters in her name to the marquis, as if she ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- again share romantic love with a man, became a nun. === Later life === Abélard, now aged forty, sought to bury himself as a monk in the abbey ...23 KB (3,725 words) - 01:06, 24 November 2022
- Asceticism describes a life characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures. Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- Chaplin, and antics such as dressing up as a nun and walking around town. It ... * Viridiana (1961)—A well-meaning young nun tries unsuccessfully ...42 KB (7,001 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- set in a convent, this is a story of a nun who sacrifices her life to save the soul of a murderer. Bresson's next project, Les dames du ...22 KB (3,559 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. Beginning with William IX of Aquitaine, the troubadours ...21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- SAINT The Princess in a Mercedes or the bare-foot Nun?] Category:Biography 78961235 ...23 KB (3,638 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- * Bridget of York (November 10, 1480–1517), became a nun Edward had numerous mistresses, the best known of whom is Jane Shore (whose name in ...25 KB (3,839 words) - 16:21, 9 August 2023
- Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (September 23, 1949 - ) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist. He is widely known for his brand ...23 KB (3,510 words) - 04:41, 22 November 2023
- of Thomas Hooker. Of her piety and almost nun-like love of God and belief in His personal love for her, Edwards had known when she was only thirteen ...24 KB (3,948 words) - 00:21, 4 August 2022
