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  • because of Leto's affair with Zeus, took refuge there and brought her twin children, Apollo and Artemis, into the world. Delos is a 15-square ...
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  • the Agra Fort where the British had taken refuge. Senior posts followed. In ... family, with other British residents, took refuge in the Agra Fort. The Muirs ...
    26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
  • with a further 150 emergency forts (places de refuge), to be maintained at the Huguenots' own expense. Such an act of toleration was unusual ...
    9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
  • herself and also pregnant, at that. She sought refuge in the hermitage of the sage Valmiki, where she delivered twin sons, Lava and Kusha. Sita raised ...
    19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
  • His legend states that Caius took refuge in the catacombs of Rome and died a martyr. However, as his episcopacy dates from a period of peace ...
    10 KB (1,554 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
  • Marie Antoinette often sought refuge at the Petit Trianon, where she attempted to re-create the intimate musical and theatrical productions of ...
    10 KB (1,468 words) - 01:37, 24 November 2022
  • it may have been easier for her to take refuge outside her country; a man ... #039;s "standing as a country of refuge" would be compromised ...
    26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
  • purpose of art was to provide a temporary refuge from the world of blind strife ... tended to look to Art as a contemplative refuge from the world of strife ...
    23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
  • New York Charity Organization in 1882, the House of Refuge for Women (later known as the State Training School for Girls) in 1886, the Woman's Municipal ...
    10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
  • [[Image:Wapiti on the National Elk Refuge.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Elk ... for up to six months on the National Elk Refuge. Conservationists there ensure ...
    32 KB (4,952 words) - 08:44, 31 December 2021
  • life to the Three Precious Ones, seeking refuge not for himself but for all ... of Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama sought refuge within India. The then Indian ...
    29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
  • the young man three things: 1) Taking refuge in the Three Jewels of Buddha ... believed he had gone mad during his jungle refuge. He explained to his parents ...
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  • Britain in serious difficulty, Jones sought refuge in Canada in 1908 in the post of psychiatric consultant at the Toronto General Hospital. There followed ...
    11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
  • the late 1930s the nursing home became a refuge for Jews fleeing from Germany ... The Ten Boom house in Haarlem, North Holland, was a place of refuge ...
    21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
  • No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave ...
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  • law, a refugee is someone who seeks refuge in a foreign country because ... the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the ...
    35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
  • of Russia, and still others sought refuge with the Kazakhs. ... Prince Amursana, fled to the North to seek refuge with the Russians. Approximately ...
    21 KB (3,293 words) - 13:28, 25 September 2020
  • Accounts also claim that Lancelot sought the refuge of Glastonbury Abbey after the death of King Arthur. Fueled by the legacy of myth, Glastonbury ...
    11 KB (1,740 words) - 17:35, 23 May 2024
  • role in providing shelter for scholars who sought refuge from Nazi persecution. In 1937, Beveridge was appointed Master of University College ...
    11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
  • exorcism of incubi or succubi who have taken refuge in, respectively, the bodies of men or women. Incubi were sometimes said to be able to conceive ...
    10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018

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