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Miracles
MIRACLES. Miracles, miracle workers, and their stories are found in the life and literature of all ancient societies and are not limited to religious texts. In ancient Greece figures like Epimenides, Pythagoras, and Apollonius of Tyana were all renowned for working miracles. To this day, healing... Read more |
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miracle
miracle preternatural occurrence that is viewed as the expression of a divine will. Its awe and wonder lie in the fact that the cause is hidden. The idea of the miracle occurs especially with the evolution of those highly developed religions that distinguish between natural law and divine will.... Read more |
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Frank Bacon
Bacon, Frank (1864–1922), actor and playwright. Born in Marysville, California, he spent time as a journalist and photographer before making his stage debut in San Jose, California, in 1890 as Sample Switchell in Ten Nights in a Barroom. Bacon remained in stock in San Jose for seventeen... Read more |
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Cana
Cana , ancient town of Galilee. According to the Gospel of St. John it was here that Jesus performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding.... Read more |
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Satya Sai Baba
Satya Sai Baba (1926-) Modern Hindu guru, regarded by his devotees as a reincarnation of an early twentieth century holy man, Sai Baba (d. 1918). He was born Sathyanarayana Ratnakaru Raju, November 23, 1926, in the village of Puttaparthi, South India. As a thirteen year old, in 1940, he was... Read more |
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Akio Morita
Akio Morita Akio Morita (born 1921), along with a few other entrepreneurs, embodied the postwar recovery and growth of Japanese industry. Morita and Sony Corporation, which he cofounded with Masaru Ibuka, challenge conventional notions about Japan's "economic miracle." The energy and... Read more |
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Foundation for A Course in Miracles
Foundation for A Course in Miracles The Foundation for A Course in Miracles is a study and re-treat center established in 1982 by cofounders Kenneth Wapnick and his wife, Gloria Wapnick. Wapnick, a clinical psycholo-gist, was a close friend and associate of Helen Schucman and William Tetford, ... Read more |
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Ludus Coventriae
Ludus Coventriae , one of four extant cycles of English miracle plays. In the 17th cent. it was mistakenly designated as originating in the town of Coventry. Because of its stylistic distinction from other Coventry plays, the Ludus Coventriae is presently believed to have been produced by a... Read more |
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Epimenides
Epimenides , fl. 6th cent.? BC, Cretan prophet and miracle worker. According to one story, he was called to Athens to purify the city after the murder of Cylon on the Acropolis. Many poems, oracles, and sayings were attributed to him (Titus 1.12 is supposed to contain one of these).... Read more |
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Towneley Plays
Towneley Plays a cycle of 32 plays preserved in a manuscript of c.1460 by the Towneleys, a Lancashire family. Intended for production by the guilds of Wakefield, they are sometimes called the Wakefield Plays. The well-known Second Shepherds' Play is one of this collection. See miracle play .... Read more |
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American Medical Association
...hoping to improve the stature of their profession. This was no small task in the crowded and chaotic nineteenth‐century medical...the public's health by debunking quackery and so‐called miracle cures, permitting approved food and drug advertisers to use... |
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New Guinea campaign
...see previous entry), but performed miracles in bringing up supplies, evacuating the...Netherlands East Indies, there were only two small Australian forces—one at Kokoda, the...Lae and Salamaua, MacArthur ordered his small forces across the Owen Stanley range to... |
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Plastics
...percha, used for daguerreotype cases, buttons, and other small artifacts. Celluloid, a sheet material shaped with heat, replaced...fuses, even bugles. Its wartime advertising promised a plastic miracle world, but homefront substitutes reinforced an image of cheapness... |
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Krasna, Norman
...for the World and then the Evening Graphic. After seeing two of his plays on Broadway, Louder, Please (1931) and Small Miracle (1934), Krasna went to Hollywood, returning for The Man with Blond Hair (1941) before finally finding success... |
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Religious Drama in America
...House (1908) met with great critical acclaim but found only small audiences. The disillusionment and cynicism that followed...presentation of Max Reinhardt's decade‐old pageant The Miracle, Shaw's St. Joan (1923), and The Ladder (1926), the... |
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Royalty Theatre
...were killed and 20 injured. 2. In Dean Street, Soho. This small theatre was built for Fanny Kelly, and was used by her in conjunction...The Visit starring the Lunts. After William Gibson's The Miracle Worker in 1961 it became a cinema, but reopened as a live theatre... |
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Shakerism
...eventually located at Watervliet near Albany, New York. The small community first attracted attention in 1780 because of its...traditions describe her as a powerful charismatic who worked miracles.Following Lee's death, leadership passed first to her... |
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Shakespeare, William
...from providential history and depicting a world in which ‘miracles are ceas'd; | And therefore we must needs admit the means | How...the company's acquisition of an additional playhouse, the smaller, indoor Blackfriars theatre—and putting his Holinshed... |
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Business
...commerce in human beings constituted only a small fraction of the transatlantic slave trade...phenomenal business achievement and “miracle” of economic growth.Only a few major...The du Pont family (France) founded a small gunpowder firm in 1802 that eventually... |
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Costume
...except for the Devil, who kept the costume he had worn in the miracle play. His attendant, the Old Vice, was usually dressed as a fool...contemporary style, suggesting character or period by some small decorative detail. His costumes, both male and female, are... |
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Ananda Marga
...known to his followers as Baba and regarded by them as a thaumaturge or miracle-worker. Imprisoned in India in 1971 on a charge of murder and later...several million adherents, the actual membership is undoubtedly very much smaller. |
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Cana
Cana an ancient small town in Galilee, where Christ is said to have performed his first miracle by changing water into wine during a marriage feast (John 2:1–11). |
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Fiacre, Saint
...province, France: a patron of travellers and gardeners. The small hackney coach, the fiacre, derives more from the Hôtel de...from his hermitage and chapel. He was long venerated for his miracles, and his shrine was established at Meaux by Anne of Austria... |
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Henze, Hans Werner
...1949); Die schlafende Prinzessin (arr. of Tchaikovsky for small orch. 1951); Labyrinth (1951, choreog. fantasy for...orch. (1977); Musik, vc., chamber orch. (1977); Le Miracle de la Rose, cl., 13 instr. (1981); gui. conc. (1986... |
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Teresa of Lisieux, St
...version of Teresa's autobiography, L'Histoire d'une âme. Miracles were reported and by 1907 an account of these was appended...extreme mortification but through continual renunciation in small matters. She is popularly known as ‘The Little Flower... |
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sociology
...and meals, and in John to the demonstration that Jesus' miracles are ‘signs’ of heavenly food and divine light that are available...social relationships has thrown light on the progress of a small group on the margin of rural Jewish society in Palestine into... |
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Teresa
...sanctity can be attained through continual renunciation in small matters, and not only through extreme self-mortification. She...sign of her promise to ‘let fall a shower of roses’ of miracles and other favours. Her feast day is 3 October. |
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Miracle Noodle Announces the Release of Miracle Rice, a Calorie Free Rice...
...CA (PRWEB) December 9, 2010 Miracle Noodle, known for popularizing...today the official release of Miracle Rice. Miracle Noodle President Jonathan Carp...cutting the noodles into very small pieces to use as a rice substitute... |
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When is a miracle not a miracle?
...by the Catholic Church as miracles. So it was strange to hear...telephone interview: "The word miracle is rotten!" As co-president...Mgr Perrier is overseeing a small revolution in the church's attitude towards miracles. A new, three-tier ... |
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Modern Miracles // Believe It or Not, They Still Occur
...at Lourdes in 1858. Most miracles, however, are not sanctioned...wounds of Jesus) and that his small statue of Mary weeps. Church...official look-see when a miracle is attributed to a candidate...one of the church's chief miracle investigators in the ... |
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Chanukah: The Miracle of Lights.
...Jews see everything as a miracle. The Greeks saw nothing as a miracle. To the Greeks, a miracle was an absurdity. To...rational can be real. Miracles are illogical and therefore...and very irrational. A small group of weaklings stood... |
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Miracles and wonders: finding Canadian medical history in the Vatican...
...before canonization. Potential miracles are investigated in a forensic...Archives. (2) Information on miracles is available in three ways...time of every canonization a small pamphlet or compendium is...with information about each miracle; many are available ... |
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Miracles are more than they seem
...a "continuation of the miracle of Our Lady of Cicero...natural event, some will say. Miracles, after all, don't happen...story. It comes from the book Small Miracles: Extraordinary Stories of...of course, hoped for a miracle. But Suzanne ... |
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Miracle Recreation Equipment Company Teams with Extreme Makeover: Home...
...AIDS will benefit from a new Miracle Recreation Equipment Company...an ongoing basis. And with Miracle's donation, these children...and physical benefits of a Miracle Recreation Equipment Company...need to satisfy many kids in a small amount of space." ... |
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Miracle-Gro Sues Organic Plant-Food Co.
...The makers of garden products Miracle-Gro and TerraCycle are as...and seedlings. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is a $7 billion...better than synthetic ones like Miracle-Gro. "I don't think their...who the company is, large or small, we take our brand and ... |
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In Search of Miracles, CBS
...together making plans for a miracle. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) L...Sean, his only hope may be a miracle. FATHER CHARLES GAGAN: He...a place where it`s said miracles happen... UNIDENTIFIED...DOW: ... Lourdes, a small town in southwestern France...HENDERSON: I`m ... |
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Miracle Mystery Fruit Turns All to Sweetness
...Considered (NPR) 03-31-2007 Miracle Mystery Fruit Turns All to...back a magical berry. The miracle fruit, as it's called...currently writing a book about miracle fruit. And he joins us from...kind of like the size of a small olive or maybe the tip of your... |
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