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"Watches of the Night" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 25, 1887; in book form, first in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888; and in the many subsequent editions of that collection. It is one of the "Tales" which deals with the tense, enclosed ...
Watchman Edward Gardener was taken before the recorder with 'a common nightwalker' – Mary Taylor – in 1641 after he 'tooke 2s to lett' her 'escape' when he was escorting her to Bridewell late at night. Another watchman from over the river in Southwark took advantage of the tricky situation people suddenly found themselves in if they ...
The Slavic word Grigori used in the book is a transcription [18] of the Greek word ἐγρήγοροι egrḗgoroi, meaning "wakeful". [19] The Hebrew equivalent is ערים, meaning "waking", "awake". [20] Chapter 18 presents the Grigori as countless soldiers of human appearance, "their size being greater than that of great giants".
A watchnight service at a Lutheran Christian church on New Year's Eve (2014) A watchnight service (also called Watchnight Mass) is a late-night Christian church service.In many different Christian traditions, such as those of Moravians, Methodists, Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Adventists and Reformed Christians, watchnight services are held late on New Year's Eve, which is the ...
Ishum (Išum; possibly the masculine form of Akkadian išātum, "fire" [1]) was a Mesopotamian god of Akkadian origin. He is best attested as a divine night watchman, tasked with protecting houses at night, but he was also associated with various underworld deities, especially Nergal (or Erra) and Shubula.
A night-watchman state, also referred to as a minimal state or minarchy, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, ...
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. The New International Version translates the passage as: During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.
Watchman (law enforcement) Nightwatchman (cricket), a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play "Nightwatchman", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from Hard Promises; The Nightwatchman, or Tom Morello, a musician