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Audre Lorde
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litany
litany [Gr.,=prayer], solemn prayer characterized by varying petitions with set responses. The term is mainly used for Christian forms. Litanies were developed in Christendom for use in processions. In the West there were traditionally four days for these processional litanies, the Rogation Days .... Read more |
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Richard Carlile
Richard Carlile , 1790-1843, English journalist, reformer, and freethinker. For his radical writings and efforts to secure the freedom of the press, he spent over nine years in prison. He republished suppressed works by Thomas Paine, William Hone, and others, brought out his own Political Litany ... Read more |
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rogation
rogation in the Christian Church, a solemn supplication consisting of the litany of the saints chanted on the three days before Ascension Day. The name comes (in late Middle English) from Latin rogatio(n-), from rogare ‘ask’.Rogation Days in the Western Christian Church, the three... Read more |
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farce
farce light, comic theatrical piece in which the characters and events are greatly exaggerated to produce broad, absurd humor. Early examples of farce can be found in the comedies of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence. During the Middle Ages the term farce designated interpolations made in the... Read more |
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc , 1899-1963, French composer and pianist. He was one of Les Six , a group of French composers who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Erik Satie . The spontaneity and lyricism of Poulenc's style are best adapted to small forms—piano pieces such as Mouvements... Read more |
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Rogation Days
Rogation Days in the calendar of the Western Church, four days traditionally set apart for solemn processions to invoke God's mercy. They are Apr. 25, the Major Rogation, coinciding with St. Mark's Day; and the three days preceding Ascension Day, the Minor Rogations. The processions are Christian... Read more |
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Master Francke
Master Francke German painter, active in Hamburg in the early 15th century. His major surviving work is an altarpiece (now fragmentary) for the guild of merchants trading with England (1424, Kunsthalle, Hamburg), showing scenes from Christ's Passion and incidents from the life of St Thomas à ... Read more |
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Lebanon
Lebanon , officially Lebanese Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 3,826,000), 4,015 sq mi (10,400 sq km), SW Asia. The country is bordered on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, on the north and east by Syria and on the south by Israel. The capital is Beirut . Land and People Much of the terrain is... Read more |
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Too Short
Too $hort Rap artist Created Pimp Persona Mixed Reviews Dangerous Music Wet Dream Rap—The Misogynist Element Selected discography Sources The “acknowledged West Coast master of the pimp rhyme,” Jonathan Gold wrote in the Los Angeles Times, “Oakland rapper Too $hort built... Read more |
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Cranmer, Thomas
...counsellors. Henry VIII's constant support ensured his survival in the ‘Prebendaries' plot’ against him at Canterbury...and gave him the authority to promote his own English Litany and King's Prymer while suppressing more conservative... |
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Survival & emergency gear: emergency & survival gear is a year-round...
Under extreme conditions, emergency preparedness may have its limits. Other than being forewarned to get out of harm's way, the victims of last month's killer tsunami in south Asia could not have been ready for what occurred. And yet the lesson to be drawn from this unprecedented catastrophe is |
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It's Sean Dunne's fault I'm [euro]300m in the red; Court told Liam Carroll...
...Justice Peter Kelly complained of 'a litany of incorrect information being presented...Mr Carroll's dramatic court bid for survival. Michael Cush SC, for the Zoe group...would - then there has to be a prospect of survival.' He also revealed that the two biggest... |
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AIB: a litany of problems
...wholly owned division, racked up liabilities estimated at up to (pounds) 120 million (E150 million), threatening its very survival. Although it had reaped profits of around (pounds) 80 million in the previous year, AIB warned it might not be able to... |
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NAMING OF BRANCH LIBRARY JOINS LITANY OF HONORS FOR BERNIE...
...mountain village his family settled in the 1700s, he spoke only Spanish and struggled in school. Education took a backseat to survival, and he moved to Colorado in 1926 to work on the Moffat Tunnel and in the sugar beet fields of northern Colorado during the... |
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Another chapter in the Taoiseach's litany of openings
...the board members set about looking for State support to save the house. A package was put in place to ensure the centre's survival. The Government is contributing [euro]250,000 over the next two years, contingent on a restructuring programme being... |
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Bloody Sunday killings were the result of a litany of political errors and...
...my respect for the Paras as outstandingly brave, first- in men who go for an enemy with no regard for their own safety or survival, as we saw in the Falklands. Shoot at a calm line infantry battalion and they will stop, take cover and sort it within the... |
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Disaster relief efforts of native women's organizations: the director of the...
...mobilize efforts as quickly as possible, to meet the immediate survival needs of the affected population and to ensure, in the longer...do not laugh or smile. People become singularly focused on survival, which consumes all of their thoughts and energy. They sometimes... |
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What happened under the table? An 88-page charge sheet is a meaty document in...
...sentence in the charge sheet is also "very telling". This sentence says in the State's view, Shaik's Nkobi group's survival depended on obtaining profitable new business, inter alia, with the assistance of Zuma and his coaccused. It also alleges... |
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Today at Filmfest DC
...Iran, 1992), Cineplex Odeon Tenley. 7 p.m. A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (United States...Parts 5 and 6, AMC Union Station. 9:30 p.m. A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (United States... |
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Columbia's gay, lesbian group creates new name
...Palmer, "I Never Danced The Way Girls Were Supposed To" by Dawn Suggs, and "A Litany For Survival: The Live Work of Audre Lorde". "A Litany For Survival" is an award winning feature length documentary. Columbia film teacher Crystal Griffith... |
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