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Birthday
Birthday The celebration of the anniversary of one's birth is a phenomenon of modern industrial society. It is connected to the rise of a scientific way of thinking and to new attitudes about children and childhood. Perfection of the calendar by the Egyptians and Mesopotamians enabled people to... Read more |
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Elizabeth
Elizabeth (1900–2002) ( Queen Mother) British Queen Consort of George VI, b. Lady Bowes-Lyon. Elizabeth married George in 1923. They had two children, Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) and Margaret (1930–2002). In 1936 she unexpectedly became Queen when George's elder brother,... Read more |
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holiday
holiday [altered from holy day], day set aside for the commemoration of an important event. Holidays are often accompanied by public ceremonies, such as parades and carnivals, and by religious observances; they may also be simply a time for relaxation. Days of commemoration are observed throughout... Read more |
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Wrapping Paper
Wrapping Paper Background There are many kinds of wrapping papers manufactured specifically for the types of products they are intended to wrap. For example, wrapping paper is made for bread for sanitary and aesthetic purposes. Originally, waxed paper and cellophane were... Read more |
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feast
feast commemorative banquet symbolizing communal unity. Generally associated with primitive rituals and later with religious practices, feasts may also commemorate such events as births, marriages, harvests, and deaths. The principal Christian feasts of the Western Church are Easter , Pentecost ,... Read more |
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Saint John the Baptist
Saint John the Baptist d. c.AD 28-AD 30, Jewish prophet, considered by Christians to be the forerunner of Jesus. He was the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth, who was also a kinswoman of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his birth was miraculously foretold. After spending some time in the desert, he... Read more |
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Pentecost
Pentecost [Gr.,=fiftieth], important Jewish and Christian feast. The Jewish feast of Pentecost, in Hebrew Shavuot , the Feast of Weeks, one of the three pilgrimage festivals, arose as the celebration of the closing of the spring grain harvest, which began formally in Passover 50 days prior; there... Read more |
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Muhammad Subuh
Subuh, Muhammad (1901-1987) Indonesian mystic whose spiritual mission led to the formation of the movement known as Subud. Following some years of searching for spiritual guidance in Sufi and other movements, Subuh had an initiatory experience in 1925 on his twenty-fourth birthday when a sphere... Read more |
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Oak Park, Ill. one of the great American writers of the 20th cent. Life The son of a country doctor, Hemingway worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917. During World War I he... Read more |
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