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Grail, the Holy
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Grail, the Holy. In medieval romances, a vessel possessing spiritual powers and affording, under certain conditions, mystical benefits to its beholders. It is sometimes identified with the cup used by Christ at the
Last Supper.
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THE HOLY GRAIL BOOKS / Nonfiction
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Tribune 02-26-2004 THE HOLY GRAIL Imagination and Belief...Michiko Kakutani* The Holy Grail has become a popular metaphor...quantum mechanics as the holy grail of physics. Marketers talk...targeted commercials as the holy grail of advertising. And the digerati...one of ...
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HOW MANY HOLY GRAILS ARE THERE OUT THERE?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/10/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...high-energy physicists as a kind of Holy Grail, will probably be delayed for years...very big!) bucks for seeking "the Holy Grail," or an answer to "the Most...exaggerations. I've read the words "Holy Grail" a dozen times in recent months...
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What was the Holy Grail, and why our centuries-old fascination with it?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...excitement over the idea that the Holy Grail is in town. Curators spent five...responsible for the legend? The Holy Grail may have been a miraculous chalice...recorded account of the Quest for the Holy Grail. A 9,000-line poem written sometime...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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Qld: Scientists find dinosaur holy grail in outback
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 9/26/2003; 633 words
; ...2003 Qld: Scientists find dinosaur holy grail in outback By Jordan Baker WINTON...scientists have found one of the holy grails of Australian dinosaur research during...over 100 years is like basically a holy grail for paleontologists. "Finding claws...
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The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; RICHARD BARBER, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief...relics such the Cult of the Holy Blood, Barber postulates...theme of the collection of holy blood, without specifically...contemporary image of the Grail owes much to the popular...
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The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the connection between the Grail and the Waste Land (198...and the Renaissance put the Grail out of religious and literary...history again in part 3, "New Grails for Old: Secular Images of the Grail," which begins with a section...Bradley and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In this ...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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TV show pours scorn on Wales' claim to Holy Grail.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 8/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...wooden cup's claim to be The Holy Grail will be dismissed by...rejected Wales' contender for the holiest of relics, concluding that...Even if it's not the Holy Grail it is something Welsh and in...like one would imagine the Grail to be - this rather scruffy...could be thought of as ...
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Grail; Medieval writers invented quest for the holy vessel.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...mention in literature of a "Grail." But already within five...is the subject of "The Holy Grail," a vast, occasionally...case that the context for the Holy Grail is none other than the...No two writers describe the Holy Grail the same way, but it...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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My quest for the Holy Grail; The Daving Code Week RICHARD HAMMOND TACKLES HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERY.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 5/15/2006; 700+ words
; ...documentary about searching for the Holy Grail, I couldn't pack my bag...of actually finding the Holy Grail and I didn't want to let...at the mention of the Holy Grail may well be a cup or chalice...Languedoc - now southern France. Grails have been guarded by bears...
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The Holy Grail: From Romance Motif to Modern Genre.
Magazine article from: Folklore; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; In his search for the Grail, Tennyson's Lancelot follows...And yet methought I saw the Holy Grail All palled in crimson...advertise Lancelot's vision of the Holy Grail with promises of new discoveries...reveal the secret behind the Holy Grail literature of the Middle...
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Holy Grail
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Holy Grail According to medieval legend, the Holy Grail was the vessel from which Jesus Christ drank at the...knights who sat around King Arthur's Round Table, seeing the Holy Grail was the highest and most noble goal. They roamed the nation...
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Grail, Holy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Grail, Holy A portion of the Arthurian cycle of romance...King Arthur's court come in quest of the holy vessel. Only the purest of the pure could...Anglican Church by direct emissaries from the Holy Land. Glastonbury was fixed as the headquarters...
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Temple of the Holy Grail (THG)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Temple of the Holy Grail (THG) The Temple of the Holy Grail (THG) is a small initiatory...what are now known as the "Grail" mysteries (and hence associated...schools. The Temple of the Holy Grail began its history at the end...ancient silver auxiliary "grails," prepared in ...
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Internet holy grail
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
Internet holy grail An ultimate task or product which, in practice, can never be achieved. A GODZILLAGRAM is an example of a holy grail: a packet of data which could, theoretically, reach every computer on the Internet.
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‘Holy Grail, The’
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
‘Holy Grail, The’ one of Tennyson's Idylls of the King , published 1869, in which Sir Percivale, now a monk, describes the quest of the Holy Grail, and the differing degrees of failure of himself, Bors, Gawain, and Launcelot.
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