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  2. Seven Sleepers - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Sleepers series by Gilbert Morris takes a modern approach to the story in which seven teenagers must be awakened to fight evil in a post-nuclear-apocalypse world. John Buchan refers to the Seven Sleepers in The Three Hostages in which Richard Hannay surmises that his wife Mary, who is a sound sleeper, is descended from one of the ...

  3. Cave of the Seven Sleepers - Wikipedia

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    It is claimed that this cave housed the Seven Sleepers, also known from Christian sources as the "Sleepers of Ephesus" and from the Qur’an as the "Companions of the Cave" (Arabic: اصحاب الكهف, romanized: aṣḥāb al kahf)—a group of young men who, according to Byzantine Christian and Islamic sources, fled the religious ...

  4. Seven Sleepers' Day - Wikipedia

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    Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Passionary of Weissenau, Cod.Bodmer 127, c. 1170. Seven Sleepers' Day (German: Siebenschläfertag) on June 27 is a feast day commemorating the legend of the Seven Sleepers as well as one of the best-known bits of traditional weather lore (expressed as a proverb) remaining in German-speaking Europe.

  5. Calligraphic Galleon - Wikipedia

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    The calligram's creator inscribed characters representing the story of the Seven Sleepers (the Ashab al-Kahf in Arabic), a group of seven men who were given refuge in a cave by God, onto the galleon; it has been posited that such an inscription on the work was intended to protect the ship from harm, just as God protected the seven sleepers. [1]

  6. BibleGateway - Wikipedia

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    Bible Gateway's engagement features include the ability to display a single Bible verse in many English Bible translations, the ability to display and compare up to five Bible translations side by side at once, its daily Blog, more than 60 email devotions, Bible reading plans and verses-of-the-day, a free mobile app, audio Bibles, video ...

  7. Battle of Dunsinane - Wikipedia

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    [2] [7] The battle is also known as the battle of the Seven Sleepers, as it was fought on the day of the Seven Sleepers (27 July). [8] The battle ended in defeat for Macbeth. [9] According to the Annals of Ulster 3,000 Scots and 1,500 English were killed. [10] Siward's son Osbeorn and his nephew, also called Siward, were both killed in the ...

  8. Osbeorn Bulax - Wikipedia

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    Osbeorn, also spelled Osbjorn and Osbert (died c. 1054), given the nickname Bulax, was the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria (died 1055). He is one of two known sons of Siward, believed to be the elder.

  9. Rip Van Winkle - Wikipedia

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    Seven Sleepers, the Christian and Islamic story of a group of youths who hid inside a cave at Ephesus to escape Roman persecutions and emerged some 300 years later. Sleeping Beauty The Bedbug , the story of Prisypkin, who was frozen in the basement for fifty years.