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To this original Liber Secretorum Sanuto added largely; two other "books" were composed between December 1312 and September 1321, when the entire work was presented by the author to Pope John XXII, together with a map of the world, a map of Palestine, a chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea and west European coasts, and plans of Jerusalem ...
The Book of Secrets, 1997 album by Loreena McKennitt; The Secret Book, 2006 Macedonian detective film directed by Vlado Cvetanovski; National Treasure: Book of Secrets, 2007 film directed by Jon Turteltaub; America's Book of Secrets, a program broadcast by History TV channel "Book of Secrets" (L.A.'s Finest), a 2019 television episode
The Secretum Secretorum or Secreta Secretorum (Latin, 'Secret of secrets'), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar (Arabic: كتاب سر الأسرار, lit. 'The Secret Book of Secrets'), is a treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics ...
Brindis de Salas is the first Black woman in Latin America to publish a book. The 1947 title Pregón de Marimorena discussed the exploitation and discrimination against Black women in Uruguay. 24.
by the road/way: The word denotes "by way of" or "by means of", e. g., "I will contact you via email". via media: middle road/way: This phrase describes a compromise between two extremes or the radical center political position. via, veritas, vita: the Way, the Truth, [and] the Life: Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:6; motto of many institutions
Other books of secrets, such as Isabella Cortese's Secreti (1564), disseminated alchemical information to a wide readership. Recent research has suggested that the books of secrets may have played an important role in the emergence of experimental science by bringing practical technical information to the attention of experimental scientists. [1]
There, Ben activates a secret sliding door, separates the President from the U.S. Secret Service, and asks him about the book while safely leading the President to freedom at the other end of the tunnel. The President sympathetically warns Ben that his actions, while innocently meant, will be interpreted as an attempted kidnapping, and unless ...
The culture of Latin America is the formal or informal expression of the people of Latin America and includes both high culture (literature and high art) and popular culture (music, folk art, and dance), as well as religion and other customary practices.