Search results for "Paradise" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • # Paradise is created for both Ma'aminim and the Israelites. ... # “You shall have two names, one for the world, the other for paradise ...
    14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
  • and most admired works. In 1843 he wrote Paradise and the Peri, his first ... where he heard a performance of his Paradise and the Peri organized by ...
    26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
  • Teacher's Paradise, Yellow Peril. == Death and legacy == Gompers held an interest in international labor issues. At the conclusion of World ...
    14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
  • what he described as a "socialist paradise," but reports soon ... be, as Jones promised, a "socialist paradise." However, the life ...
    26 KB (4,078 words) - 19:51, 4 May 2024
  • their new society in the U.S. would be a paradise on earth, perhaps a taste ... * Kagan, Robert. 2003. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in ...
    29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
  • be your inheritance and your garden, a paradise and a haven of salvation ... * Speake, Graham. Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise. Yale University ...
    27 KB (4,022 words) - 17:04, 10 November 2022
  • the Sea's eastern side were once considered a paradise for divers due to beds of dazzling coral and mollusks. However, the once pristine ...
    13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
  • #039;s Brut and John Milton's Paradise Lost. His last academic ... * A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942) ISBN 0195003454 * The Abolition ...
    27 KB (4,330 words) - 19:28, 24 November 2023
  • Marcel Mangel (March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007), better known by his stage name Marcel Marceau, was a well-known mime. He performed all ...
    13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
  • *1808: John Milton, Paradise Lost *1819-1820: John Varley, Visionary Heads ... *G.E. Bentley Jr. (2001). The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography ...
    26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
  • cfm?story_id=884045 "Paradise well and truly lost." ... * McDaniel, C. N. and J. M. Gowdy. 2000. Paradise for Sale. Berkeley ...
    25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
  • duty is to carry the throne of God around in paradise, hence their name. They are said to be the companion angels of the planets. According to the ...
    17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
  • * Freeman, George Ronald. Paradise and fall in Rulfo's Pedro Páramo; archetype and structural unity. Cuernavaca, Mexico: Centro Intercultural ...
    12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
  • and slowly they made their way into this new paradise. ===The Hudson ... was found in showing the public the paradise of the New World. To this ...
    34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
  • and matriarchs, angels, demons, paradise, hell, the Messiah, Satan, feasts and fasts, parables, legends, miracles, and satirical assaults on ...
    16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
  • actor after seeing the play, The Bird of Paradise, but he was not able to ... , which starred Clara Bow, and Forbidden Paradise. However, Gable was not ...
    25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
  • :And immediately, expelled from paradise, :He left those heavenly courts…. :God came seeking the sheep :That He had lost, :And he who had given ...
    14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
  • Thus, in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), iii. 353: ... :In paradise, fast by the tree of life, :Began to bloom; but soon for ...
    27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
  • The Huma, also known as the "bird of paradise," is a Persian mythological bird, similar to the Egyptian phoenix. It consumes itself ...
    14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
  • * Slovak Paradise, Slovak Karst and Muránska planina, Slovakia * The region of Inner Carniola in Slovenia. * Kras, a plateau in southwestern ...
    14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
  • eminent degree. One of these minds produced Paradise Lost, the other The Pilgrim's Progress." Bunyan wrote about 60 books and tracts ...
    14 KB (2,215 words) - 04:30, 3 August 2022
  • embedded in the Requiem, the deceased is wished to Paradise—In paradisum deducant te Angeli— with Lazarus, who once was poor (cum Lazaro quondam paupere ...
    15 KB (2,333 words) - 17:59, 25 October 2022
  • y Gasset "the first man of the philosophical paradise." Scheler argued that the human “heart,” or seat of love, accounted for the essence ...
    14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
  • Liston is interred in Paradise Memorial Gardens in Las Vegas, Nevada. ==Legacy== Sonny Liston's most notable boxing accomplishment occurred ...
    14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
  • the poem is an open imitation of Milton's Paradise Lost, but the second version, which Keats worked on almost until his death, was stripped down ...
    14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
  • Green Pigeons, Rose Ringed Parakeets, Paradise Flycatchers, Cormorants, Fishing Eagles, White Bellied Sea Eagles, Seagulls, Common Kingfishers ...
    14 KB (1,909 words) - 23:31, 26 February 2023
  • The man who was going down is Adam. Jerusalem is paradise, and Jericho is the world. The robbers are hostile powers. The priest is the Law, the ...
    15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
  • between May and September, the lake becomes a paradise for a dozen or so varieties of precious bird species, including swans, white and gray cranes, ...
    15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
  • whose soul becomes Dante's guide through Paradise. Cavalcanti's controversial personality and beliefs attracted the interest of Boccaccio ...
    14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
  • Maria Luisa Nunes, "Mário de Andrade in 'Paradise' ... *Nunes, Maria Luisa. "Mário de Andrade in 'Paradise' ...
    29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
  • and women—and its reputation as an island paradise is further enhanced by three things the island does not have—beggars, thieves, or locked gates. ...
    15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
  • the locale for his novel The Fountains of Paradise in which he described a ... * The Fountains of Paradise (1979) * 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) ...
    45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
  • and discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it. Jean Leymarie, Herbert Read and William S. Lieberman, Henri Matisse, ...
    14 KB (2,268 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
  • . The Abrahamic religions speak of an original paradise in the Garden of Eden in which humanity is said to have first lived, while Hinduism's ...
    16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
  • creation of an ideal state—the Commonwealth. In Paradise Lost, Milton uses the term Leviathan to describe the size and power of Satan. The term "Leviathan ...
    15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
  • city built by gods and being as prosperous as paradise itself." Sarina Singh, India (Footscray, Vic: Lonely Planet Publications, 2005), 382. ...
    16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
  • of New Guinea, by tracking all of the birds of paradise known only from specimens collected by natives and not yet traced to their home ground (Diamond ...
    30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
  • * Staniford, Les. Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean. Three Rivers ...
    16 KB (2,477 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
  • and to find a way to restore God's original paradise. ==Mythological Accounts== ===Birth and physical characteristics=== Of all the second ...
    15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
  • courtship displays by the bird of paradise and manakin. *Food-related signals: many animals make "food calls" that attract a mate, or ...
    17 KB (2,393 words) - 17:12, 9 January 2024
  • * Comenius, Johann Amos (ed.). The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart. Paulist Press, 1998. ISBN 080910489X * Dunn, James D ...
    19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
  • would cause trouble for their earthly paradise. Ivan eventually has a nervous breakdown, unable to face up to the consequences of such a world ...
    29 KB (4,183 words) - 07:25, 15 April 2024
  • return again and again to images of tropical paradise. When he returned to Paris, after less than a year's absence, he was of age and could receive ...
    15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
  • * On the Threshold of Paradise ( ru|В преддверии рая ) 1979 * Without Illusions ( ru|Без иллюзий ) 1979 Complete text ...
    15 KB (2,070 words) - 15:29, 18 July 2023
  • an angel is shown guarding the gates of paradise.]] Old English poetry is of two types, the pre-Christian and the Christian. It has survived ...
    17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
  • the righteous will enter the pleasures of Paradise, and the wicked will be ... I know that this man was caught up into Paradise—whether in the body or ...
    65 KB (10,516 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
  • also called Acher, is said to have entered Paradise when he sees Metatron sitting down (an action that in heaven is permitted only to God Himself ...
    18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
  • than the feather for the deceased to pass into paradise—all depictions show only the weighing of the heart, not the actual results, heavier or lighter. ...
    17 KB (2,703 words) - 15:12, 25 January 2023
  • the supplicant's prayer to the Western paradise, the home of Amita (or Amitabha—the Buddha of the Western paradise). The poem's authorship ...
    33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
  • harmonic state and destroying the mythical paradise of harmony with god, nature and himself. Only as a utopian ideal this state of perfection may lead ...
    16 KB (2,396 words) - 15:02, 26 October 2022
  • statement that "the key to paradise is prayer [salat] and the key to prayer is purification." Quoted in Frederick Mathewson Denny, An ...
    17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
  • of birds and a few iguanas, thus making the area a paradise for birdwatchers and nature lovers alike. A major threat to the Río de la Plata’s ...
    17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
  • did this was as a serpent in the earthly paradise called the "Garden ... demons, such as the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and Faust. ...
    32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
  • *Hawaiian Paradise (1949) *The Hit Makers! (1950) *The New Sound (1950) *Les Paul's New Sound, Volume 2 (1951) *Bye Bye Blues! (1952) ...
    17 KB (2,630 words) - 22:00, 25 October 2022
  • reading, particularly of John Milton's Paradise Lost (which he later translated into French prose), would have a deep influence on his own literary ...
    16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
  • their debut film Blood Simple and Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch so impressed the jury that it earned a Special Jury Prize. The festival continued ...
    21 KB (2,999 words) - 23:30, 26 February 2023
  • and began to sour on his Marxist paradise dreams, resettling in Paris in 1973, with his family. It was there, during his months of isolation ...
    17 KB (2,660 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2024
  • beyond Earth's sky in John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=space Space.] Etymonline. Retrieved ...
    19 KB (2,762 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
  • audience to hear their vision of a workers’ paradise in which emperors and aristocrats have no place. The famine in addition to the expensive war in ...
    17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
  • Focus: Massive China quake heavily mauls tourist paradise.] Retrieved July 7, 2008. The Giant Panda population in Jiuzhaigou Valley, which numbers ...
    16 KB (2,461 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
  • Too Blue to Cry" and "Kentucky Means Paradise" were similarly popular within a small section of the country audience. ...
    17 KB (2,511 words) - 07:53, 24 January 2023
  • Roman catacombs displayed intricate scene of paradise, as did the ornate mausoleums that housed Roman royalty. Such tombs also contained elaborate ...
    18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
  • art, and film. In Milton's classic Paradise Lost, Moloch is one of the greatest warriors of the rebel angels, vengeful, militant, and: ...
    20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
  • You" and "Bird of Paradise" (based on "All the Things You Are"). Parker's soaring, fast, rhythmically asymmetrical ...
    17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
  • Williams died by suicide at his home in Paradise Cay, California. His autopsy ... Williams was found dead in his home in Paradise Cay, California on ...
    61 KB (8,753 words) - 02:22, 16 December 2022
  • similar to other islands in the area is its paradise-like environment, home to diverse ecosystems and resplendent with landscapes of brilliant flora ...
    18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
  • to give up what they described as their socialist paradise. On the one hand, East Germany was the most successful economy in the Soviet bloc but its ...
    20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
  • the pure land of Buddha or Western Paradise of the Amit'a world once sat. The second bridge stairway (National treasures of South Korea|National ...
    18 KB (2,761 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
  • Famous disco bars included the very important Paradise Garage as well as cocaine-filled celeb hangouts such as Manhattan's Studio 54, which was ...
    17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
  • and advancing age meant that the proposed paradise cantos with which Pound ... Although some of Pound's intention to "write a paradise ...
    34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
  • The environment of the island, a paradise with food, water, and all the necessities, is a metaphor for the Garden of Eden. The first appearance ...
    18 KB (2,814 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
  • was dry and very hot, as opposed to the balmy paradise some had imagined. As a visiting scientist to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he contributed ...
    18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
  • Further, the divine city was also home to the paradise of Valhalla: :In Ásgard, before the doors of Valhall, there stands a grove which is called ...
    19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
  • from Ovid. The influence of John Milton's Paradise Lost and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the book ...
    19 KB (3,074 words) - 16:14, 7 November 2022
  • who leads souls to the Western Paradise, stands in the center with his attendants. ===Janggyeong Panjeon: National Treasure No.52 (Haeinsa Library)=== ...
    18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
  • sword, and the sensual nature of his promised paradise as evidence of Islam's human, this worldly-origin."Bennett (1998), 77. However, when ...
    19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
  • *Bachelor in Paradise (1961) *Jessica (1962) *How the West Was Won (1962) *Who's Minding the Store? (1963) *Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) ...
    19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
  • the left bank of the river will reach Svarga, the paradise of Indra, the storm god. Funeral rites are always held near rivers; the son of the deceased ...
    20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
  • reunited with her but with the whole world in a paradise of joy. Hymnen an die Nacht, in addition to setting a standard for what would become a long tradition ...
    20 KB (3,018 words) - 22:15, 16 November 2022
  • * Jerzy Andrzejewski's Gates to Paradise * A.B. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce * Will Christopher Baer's Phineas Poe Trilogy (Seen in ...
    20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
  • spaces with specimen trees, and vistas over Paradise Pond through wooded groves. Olmsted also provided planting lists of diverse trees, shrubs, herbs ...
    19 KB (2,939 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
  • The ones who succeed in this are rewarded with Paradise, attainable only by righteous conduct. ===The Devil in folklore=== [[Image:Paul Cézanne ...
    20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
  • will find their just reward in death, going to Paradise if they were true Muslims and going to hell if they were bad Muslims or infidels. ...
    20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
  • at her death, the third volume (Paradise) was completed by Barbara ... * The Divine Comedy, Part 3: Paradise (completed by Barbara Reynolds ...
    39 KB (6,001 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
  • mammal life. Known as a "bird lover's paradise," the Okhotsk Sea's shores serve as a haven for large colonies of the common and ...
    21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
  • asked, "Is this food that of paradise or the food of this world ... com/articles/women_of_paradise.php Paradise is for Believing Men and ...
    59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
  • to a literal garden and to the garden of Paradise. "The nightingale, ... and thus analogous to the garden of Paradise) and negative aspects (it ...
    56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
  • The park is an outdoor paradise, and offers activities for visitors of all ages and experience levels. National Park Rangers provide guided walks ...
    19 KB (2,921 words) - 09:33, 28 January 2024
  • that he called his "Blue Yodeler's Paradise." However, Kerrville was too quiet for Jimmie, and by the autumn of 1930, he had moved ...
    23 KB (3,146 words) - 13:11, 1 August 2022
  • Kismet had Bennett record "Stranger in Paradise" as a way of promoting the show during a New York newspaper strike. The song reached the top ...
    61 KB (9,033 words) - 20:13, 12 September 2023
  • * Summer in Paradise (1992) * Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 (1996) |} ==Notes== ==References== *Carlyn, Patrick Ames. Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall ...
    21 KB (3,336 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
  • a system of metaphor derived from Milton's Paradise Lost and from the Bible. Not only was his study of Blake's poetry a major contribution, ...
    25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
  • with the music accompaniment of Riviera Paradise by blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan (himself the victim of an accidental death less than one ...
    20 KB (3,216 words) - 19:16, 3 August 2022
  • with Neal Cassady. The main character, Sal Paradise, is modeled after Kerouac and the character of Dean Moriarty was created from the experiences ...
    22 KB (3,414 words) - 21:03, 25 December 2022
  • is, and always has been, my other paradise." Katherine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991, ISBN 0345410092). ...
    23 KB (3,401 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
  • is dried and cured), tortoise shell, and bird of paradise plumes. Weta, also in Maluku, has several gold mines. Buru, in Maluku, produces ebony, teak ...
    21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
  • land of men to ascend once more to his celestial paradise. ==Location of the Kingdom of Ling== The mythological and allegorical elements of the ...
    21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
  • regions. …You have a treatise by us, (on Paradise), in which we have established the position that every soul is detained in safe keeping in Hades ...
    23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
  • largest hotel in the Bahamas is the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort, a lost city themed resort. Within the New Age movement there are those that ...
    22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
  • :上有天堂 下有蘇杭 "Paradise above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below."--Chinese saying :"Born in Suzhou, live in Hangzhou, eat ...
    24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023

View (previous 100 | next 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)