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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth....
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MUFFLED CADENCE The sound of shot. The roar of gun. Thy will be done blares the drum. The sudden shock. The news farflung. Thy will be done beats the drum. The hour of grief. The darkened sun. Thy will be done rolls the drum. The sound of ...
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NĀ RO PA (1016–1100), also known as Nāḍapāda and Nāroṭapa; one of the eighty-four Indian Vajrayāna mahā-siddhas ("completely perfected ones"). Nā ro pa was...
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He is out of my mind but forever in my heart....
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When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. -N Smith....
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We [must not] underestimate the enormity of the claim [made by the Jews]. Again and again in the Pentateuch, the psalms, the prophets, and the subsequent writings which derive from them, the claim is made that the creator of the entire uni...
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The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the icono...
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"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; "Figments of Sancho Panza's Imagination," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (31 December 1972): 2; "Finding a Need for Nature," Viva: North...
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For more than a quarter century N. C. Wyeth was the country's most prestigious illustrator of books and magazines. His pictures for the classic tales of romance and adventure are now classic illustrations, familiar to generations of reader...
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About the highest tribute I can pay N. F. Simpson's A Resounding Tinkle … is to say that it does not belong in the English theatrical tradition at all. It derives from the best Benchley lectures, the wildest Thurber cartoons, and the crea...
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"Uhmma's hands are as old as sand. They have always been old, even when we were young. In the mornings, they would scratch across our sleeping faces as she smoothed our foreheads, our cheeks, and told us quietly, Wake up. Time for school."...
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The Naadam Festival
The Naadam festival is Mongolia's only big event, occurring every year, usually between the 11th and 13th of July. It is a national festival, with celebrations in almost every major town. The most impressive celebratio...
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NABATEAN RELIGION. The scholarly consensus is that the Nabateans, whose kingdom flourished from about 400 BCE to 106 CE and whose capital was Petra in Jordan, were in part the descendants of the earlier inhabitants of southern Jordan, thou...
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(1930–1993), Tajik politician. Rakhmon Nabiev led the Tajikistan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1982 to 1985 as the First Secretary of the Communist Party, and in 1991 he became the first president of independent Tajikistan. Born in...
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Nabih Berri (born 1939) became the leader of the Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon in 1980. He helped the Shi'ites achieve more prominent role in Lebanese politics. Like many of his countrymen from south Lebanon, Nabih Berri's father was a mercha...
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Franz Nabl wrote some of his major works at a time when Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Hermann Bahr dominated the Austrian literary scene. In contrast with the impressionism of these contemporaries, he is rooted in the tradi...
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NABU was a god, possibly of West Semitic origin, who became a major divine figure in Babylonia and Assyria of the first millennium BCE. He is first mentioned in official Babylonian documents of the time of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BCE) and may h...
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fl. c. 490 B.C. Babylonian astronomer credited with devising what came to be known as System A, a set of tables accounting for the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets at any particular time. As a result of inaccuracies in this system, ...
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Nachman Kohen Krochmal (1785-1840) was the first Jewish historian to treat Jewish history as an integral part of all human history. When Nachman Krochmal was born at Brody, Galicia, Poland, on Feb. 17, 1785, the Age of Enlightenment was re...
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NAḤMAN OF BRATSLAV (1772–1810), Hasidic master and founder of the Bratslav sect, born in Medzhibozh, Ukraine. A great-grandson of Yisraʾel ben Eliʿezer (1700–1760), the BeSHT, the first central figure of ...
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Nacho Libre is a 2006 comedy film about a monastery cook who wants to be a wrestler. Directed by Jared Hess . Written by Jared Hess , Jerusha Hess and Mike White . He's nacho average hero taglines Contents 1 Cast 2 Nacho 3 Steven (A.K.A. E...
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Nadeem F. Paracha , (born November 9, 1967) is a controversial Pakistani journalist, music critic and short story writer. He also writes as Nadeem Farooq Paracha or simply as “NFP” Attributed Art should not be an excuse to fulfil mater...
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With the appearance of his second article "O proiskhozhdenii, sushchestvovanii i padenii ital'ianskikh torgovykh poselenii v Tavride" (On the Origin, Existence and the Decline of Italian Trade Settlements on the Northern Black Sea Coast, 1...
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One of the major influences on modern classical music was the strong-willed French music teacher, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979). She bagan her career as a composer, but gave it up at the age of 33 to devote her time to teaching. Her students...
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Nadia Comaneci (born 1961) is one of the most-celebrated gymnasts in the history of the sport. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she was the first person in Olympic history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics. In all, ...
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Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of liberal South African whites opposed to apart...
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Nadir Shah (1687-1747) ruled Persia for eleven years. He rose from abject poverty to become one of the most powerful monarchs of his time. This spectacular success was due, in great part, to his ability to manipulate people, applying the r...
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Nadja is a 1994 film about vampires. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda . Unseen. Unforgiving. Undead. taglines tune in, chill out, drop dead Contents 1 Nadja 2 Van Helsing 3 Dialogue 4 Taglines 5 Cast 6 External links // Nadja Life...
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Ionescu, Nae(1890–1940) Nae Ionescu, the Romanian logician, metaphysician, and religious philosopher, studied at the University of Bucharest and received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1919 with the thesis Die Logist...
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A Campanian by birth, and therefore probably not a Roman with the full rights of a citizen, Gnaeus Naevius nevertheless stands as one of the most interesting, talented, and allusive figures in the early history of Roman literature. He was ...
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NAG HAMMADI. Unearthed in 1945 by a group of Egyptians digging for fertilizer, the so-called Nag Hammadi codices were one of the most important manuscript discoveries of the twentieth century for the study of religion in the late ancient M...
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The Nagas (with an estimated population of 3.5 million in 2000) are a group of tribes inhabiting Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland states in northeast India and neighboring areas of Myanmar (Burma). The 1971 census conducted ...
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Nagai Kafu wrote many poetic essays as well as stories that, although infused with realism, retain their lyricism. He battled the coarseness of the world around him through the way he chose to live, continually at odds with the modernizati...
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(2001 est. pop. 2 million). Since 1963 a state in India's northeastern corner bordering Myanmar (Burma), Nagaland has an area of 15,579 square kilometers and is inhabited by sixteen major and twenty minor ethnic groups, all called N...
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(2002 est. pop. 2.2 million). Nagano Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 13,585 square kilometers. Its primary geographical features are the Hida, Kiso, Akaishi, and...
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NĀGĀRJUNA, best known as the first Mahāyāna philosopher in India, is a highly complex figure whose philosophical works, iconic image, and esoteric meditations are studied, honored, and practiced in many Mah...
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(2001 est. pop. 430,000). Nagasaki is a seaport town on the west coast of Kyushu, Japan. Originally a tiny fishing village, Nagasaki first gained prominence with the establishment of its port by the Portuguese in 1571. It served as an acti...
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Nagauta (long poems or songs) is the dominant musical form for the Kabuki theatre and depicts the various poetic descriptions of the dance and scenes. The early dances of Kabuki were accompanied by kouta (short songs). Nagauta developed du...
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall,...
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Iurii Nagibin was a prolific fiction writer whose stories and novellas touch on such themes as childhood, war, love, history, music, Moscow life, and nature. He is also known for his scripts for many successful movies, including the Japane...
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If we accept T. W. Adorno's assertion that the only choice open to a politically committed artist at this stage in history is to create a negative art, then Nagisa Oshima's The Ceremony must be considered a profoundly revolutionary work. Us...
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Nagorno-Karabakh, which is primarily Armenian, was a province of Azerbaijan for much of the time it was part of the USSR. Nagorno-Karabakh is fighting for its independence from Azerbaijan, with support from Armenia. • The people of ...
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Though one of the less heralded from the Silver Age canon of authors, Evdokiia Nagrodskaia in fact merits special acclaim. Through her novels, short stories, and screenplays, she brought complex philosophies and aesthetics to a middlebrow ...
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz....
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Najib Mahfuz (born 1912) was Egypt's foremost novelist and the first Arab to win the Nobel Prize in literature. He had wide influence in the Arab world and was the author from that area best known to the West in the latter half of the 20th...
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The Hungarian admiral and statesman Nicholas Horthy de Nagybánya (1868-1957) was regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944. He led Hungary during a troubled period which began with a Communist revolution and ended with German and then Rus...
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Established in 1926 in Surabaya, Indonesia, by K. H. Muhammad Hasyim Asy'ari (1871–1947), the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is one of the largest socioreligious organizations in the country. It aims at promoting solidarity between tra...
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