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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
- way, the Buddhist figure is more the celibate monk or nun. The primary interest in Buddhism is not the family values or the elaboration of social institutions ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- By his first wife Theodora of Wallachia (nun Teofana), a daughter of Basarab of Wallachia, Ivan Alexander had several children, including Ivan ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- Virginie Ghesquière, Marie-Jeanne Schelling and a nun, Sister Anne Biget. (The first recorded women's award is 1851, under Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.) ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- of that year, the renegade monk Faqing married a nun and formed a sect in the Northern Wei province of Jizhou (in the southern part of today’s Hebei ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- |image=[[Image:Kargil's Kun and Nun mountain.jpg|300px|]] |caption=Mountains Kun and Nun in the distance. In Kargil district ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- Fassbinder's camera tracks the nun (played by his mother) who tells Elvira's story; she moves with a kind of military precision through ...50 KB (7,532 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit, over which a black scapular ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offense of disturbing the King's peace was the first conviction ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- Marie Goupil (born 1756), a 37-year-old former nun who had left convent life at the Sisters of Providence convent at rue Saint-Honoré. They married ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- reported to have considered becoming a Buddhist nun but eventually chose not to, although she studied Buddhist Pali and Prakrit texts as part of her master ...33 KB (4,286 words) - 22:07, 30 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria meaning father and arché meaning ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- |Arabella FitzJames||1674||7 November 1704||Became a nun; no issue. |- |colspan=4|By Catherine Sedley |- |Catherine Darnley||c. 1681||13 March ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden" [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Rosary "Rosary." Online Etymology ...35 KB (5,735 words) - 21:43, 16 April 2023
- accused of conspiring with Elizabeth Barton, a nun who had prophesied against the king's divorce, but More was able to produce a letter in which ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- the 2006 film The Painted Veil where she played a nun, Manohla Dargis, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/movies/20veil.html A Plague Infects ...38 KB (5,401 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- 1973). The ninth-century mystic Nubian Dhu al-Nun al-Misri clearly expressed what was to become the backbone of Sufi philosophy by saying, “Let ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- to satirize the experience of a chaste nun, but to embody in marble a complex truth about religious experience— that it is an experience that ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- * Barbara, who became a Benedictine nun * Katharina, who married businessman and city councilor Barthel Gertner In 1491, Copernicus enrolled at ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- of the Byzantine fleet of Sicily forced a nun to marry him. Emperor Michael II caught wind of the matter and ordered that general Constantine ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- In the same year Jacqueline moved to become a nun at Port-Royal, despite her brother's opposition. When the time came for her to make her ultimate ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- death, his daughter Princess Mitsuko became a nun, and established another temple there, the Ryinku-ji, in what later became the Middle Garden. ...36 KB (5,281 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- (Vinaya) to follow. His wife Yasodhara also became a nun, with both Maha Pajapati and Yasodhara becoming arahants. === Devadatta === ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- AD. [Turkish: "Hun Konfederasyonu'nun Blnmesi ve Yikilmasi"], being a paper published in The Turks [Yeni TrkiyeMedya Hismetleri ...37 KB (5,668 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- appeared to Gelongma Palmo, an Indian nun who had contracted leprosy and was on the verge of death. Chenrezig taught her the method of Nyung ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- hymns, such as Wachet auf! Ruft uns die Stimme and Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, as inspiration for the music. On holy days, such as Christmas ...38 KB (5,977 words) - 19:57, 7 May 2024
- Grazia (who was later to become a Bridgettine nun). His parents had two other children who died in infancy. When he was baptized, he was given the ...40 KB (6,382 words) - 17:02, 2 October 2023
- Eleanor then returned to Fontevrault, where she took the veil as a nun. By the time of her death she had outlived all of her children except ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- the Gods were known as Anunnaki ((d)a-nun-na-ke4-ne = "offspring of the lord"). An's closest cohorts were Enki in the south at ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- words are of native Bengali descent. For example, nun (salt) in the west corresponds to lôbon in the east. ==Spoken and Literary varieties== ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- did not have to become a priest, a monk, or a nun to get closer to God. God is to be glorified in work activities and in family life. Waking up early ...41 KB (6,580 words) - 14:04, 7 May 2024
- Therefore, she wrote Victoria (1833), The Nun (1833) and The Monk of Cimies (1834) in order to illustrate some of the dangers of Catholicism ...47 KB (7,022 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- such as "Christ ist erstanden" and "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist" adapted original Gregorian melodies to translated texts. Secular ...47 KB (7,182 words) - 13:41, 31 January 2023
- east, reaching a climax in the twin summits of Nun-Kun (7000 m or 23,000 ft). The Suru and Zangskar valleys form a great trough enclosed by ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- can be traced to Saint Marie Alacoque, a Visitation nun, whose spiritual director was Saint Claude de la Colombière). The Jesuits particularly promoted ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- na-go" in the ancient language. There is also Nun'Yunu'Wi, an evil spirit monster who preys on humans, and Raven Mocker, the evil spirit ...50 KB (7,562 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- figures, such as her The History of a Nun. However, her most famous novel was Oroonoko in 1688. This was a biography of an entirely fictional ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- *Adel Ich muss nun gehen, 4 voices, August 1870 *Das "Fragment an sich", piano, October 1871 *Kirchengeschichtliches Responsorium, chorus ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- In August 2006, extracts from the 60-year-old diary of a nun of the Convent of Santi Quattro Coronati Pina Baglioni, 30 Days - The Holy Father ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- the Zanskar range, Karakoram range, the Nun Kun range and the Shivalik range. The main Kashmir valley is 62 miles (100km) wide. The Himalayas ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( 'luːtvɪç 'joːzɛf 'joːhan 'vɪtgənʃtaɪn ) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was ...59 KB (9,088 words) - 02:40, 5 November 2022
- to arrange marriages for the 26 year old former nun, Luther, at age 42, married her in 1525. Luther declared, "I would not exchange Katie for ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- #039;s ideal, the arhat, represents a monk/nun who has successfully followed the historical Buddha's teachings, which allow them to break ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- Angel. She declared her intention to become a nun, but did not always follow convent rules; she was accused of sacrilege when she arranged a Christian ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
