Shetland
The Oxford Companion to British History
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Shetland is a group of islands in the northern North Sea, some 150 miles from the north-east tip of the Scottish mainland. Once annexed by the Vikings and subsequently part of the kingdom of Norway, Shetland (together with Orkney) became part of Scotland in 1469. It is a county of Scotland and has remained a unitary local administrative authority. More than Orkney, Shetland has asserted its cultural separateness from Scotland, most notably by the annual ‘Viking’ midwinter festival of Up-Helly-A. North Sea oil has had a significant effect on the economy: one of the main terminals for landing oil from pipelines is at Sullom Voe, and the local authority negotiated with the oil companies a deal which generated considerable revenue for the islands, which were able to cut local taxes and build up a development fund for the future.
Charlotte M. Lythe
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Claude Michel Cluny. Le Silence de Delphes: Journal litteraire, 1948-1962.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...considerable significance. Still, Cluny to a certain extent remained...quiet revolutionary, young Cluny lived carpe diem fashion yet...unlike Renaissance sculptor Bernard de Palissy, who burned those...creations he deemed imperfect, Cluny destroyed paintings and writings...
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Destined to be a singer; music Duffy is one of the most talked about new female singer-songwriters at the moment, and she is at the Cluny in Newcastle on Sunday. Entertainment Editor GORDON BARR has the details.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 2/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...she plays Newcastle's The Cluny on Sunday. Duffy is possibly...the critically-acclaimed, Bernard Butler-produced debut single...Duffy's live show at the Cluny will also feature her impressive...inspired her. She is at the Cluny on Sunday. CAPTION(S...
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Bernard of Clairvaux: Between Cult and History.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...of Bernard (including Bernard as an ideologue of papal...Citeaux, Clairvaux, Cluny, the Cistercian expansion...gives us a history of Bernard research; the survey...Peter the Venerable of Cluny and Bernard as a fiction of the cultic...
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At the Cathedral, Ringing In the New
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/5/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...the subdued and yearning hymn of Bernard of Cluny. It was a Victorian translation...Victorian tune but the dream (in Bernard's case the faith) of the words...anxiety to deal with-a thing Bernard knew well and contrasted with the...
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'Hierusalem, my happie home'
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/6/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...concluded. NAOMI SHEMER was not the first to sing of Jerusalem the Golden. She was preceded by the medieval hymnist Bernard of Cluny, who composed a five-stanza hymn by that name. The first stanza reads (in Rev. John Neale's 1851 translation...
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Justice and judgment.(Matthew 25:31-46)(Living By the Word)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/6/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...that were so strong in the Western catholic tradition: the Dies irae, whose cadences thunder in Verdi's Requiem; Bernard of Cluny's Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus, which reminds us both of the judgment that is coming and of...
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The risky business of making an apology.(Nation)(Pruden On Politics)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/14/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...meaning. The reference to sins against women are recalled, too, and the villain who first comes to mind is St. Bernard of Cluny, who wrote that female adornments "are but blood, mucuous and bile. If we refuse to touch dung and phlegm, even...
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RARE CONCERTOS FOR NONSTANDARD INSTRUMENTS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/7/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Victor Herbert, this was the oratorio for you - - big, devout, plushy and sonorous. In keeping with its text, by Bernard of Cluny, the general tone is either meditative or affirmative. The polyphony is smooth and the orchestration filling. All...
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Inadequate memory and the adequate imagination.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...poetry that arose in the 1950s. From the beginnings of belief in a transcendent god to our very day, ranging from Bernard of Cluny's twelfth-century, 3,000-hexameter. De contemptu mundi to Teresa of Avila's Life (1562-65) and Interior...
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FOR ALL THE SAINTS, TRINITY OFFERS A RARE, JUBILANT `HORA NOVISSIMA'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/7/2001; ; 647 words
; ...genuine rarity: Horatio Parker's oratorio, "Hora Novissima." Based on a Latin libretto by the medieval monk Bernard de Morlaix of Cluny, the work extols the wonders of "the celestial city" and the burning desire to take refuge there. Parker...
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Bernard of Cluny
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Bernard of Cluny ( c. 1100– c. 1150), also called Bernard of Morlás or Morval. He was probably a Cluniac monk. His poem, De contemptu mundi , is the source of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’.
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Bernard of Morlaix
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Bernard of Morlaix (12th cent.), a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Cluny in Burgundy who wrote the Latin poem ‘De Contemptu Mundi’, c. 1140. Several of his hymns were translated by J. M. Neale .
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Urbs Sion Aurea
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Urbs Sion Aurea. A set of extracts from a work of Bernard of Cluny in use as the well-known hymn ‘Jerusalem the golden’.
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John Mason Neale
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...known for his numerous translations of Greek and Latin hymns. In 1859 appeared his translation of a sizable part of Bernard of Cluny's De contemptu mundi, from which several of Neale's best-known hymns are taken. Bibliography: See A. G...
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Renault, Bernard
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
RENAULT, BERNARD ( b .Autun, France, 4 March 1836; d...chemistry and physics at the lyc é e at Cluny. Through naturalist friends Renault early...friend A. Roche, “ Biographie de Bernard Renault, ” in Bulletin de la...
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