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"Kisapmata" (Blink) is a song written by Rico Blanco for the Filipino rock band Rivermaya. It was released as the lead single from their second album, Trip , in December 1995. It was one of Rivermaya's songs on which the group's original frontman Bamboo Mañalac sings lead vocals, and was the first Rivermaya single after original guitarist Perf ...
A lapidary is a text in verse or prose, often a whole book, that describes the physical properties and metaphysical virtues of precious and semi-precious stones, that is to say, a work on gemology. [1] It was frequently used as a medical textbook, since it also includes practical information about the supposed medical application of each stone ...
[10] De Leon was also influenced by the 1978 novel Blood Secrets by Craig Jones, which further developed the theme of incest. [11] The original version of the film omits Joaquin's name. According to de Leon, this was because the film's producers were seeking to avoid explicit reference to the real case. In the restored copy, the journalist is ...
The Natural History of Precious Stones and Gems and of the Precious Metals (1865) [3] Early Christian Numismatics (1873) The Handbook of Engraved Gems (2nd ed., 1885) The Gnostics and their Remains (2nd ed. by J Jacobs, 1887, which led to an animated correspondence in the Athenaeum) [4]
Jacinth (/ ˈ dʒ æ s ɪ n θ /, [1] / ˈ dʒ eɪ s ɪ n θ /) [2] or hyacinth (/ ˈ h aɪ. ə s ɪ n θ /) [3] is a yellow-red to red-brown variety of zircon used as a gemstone. [ 4 ] In Exodus 28:19, one of the precious stones set into the hoshen (the breastplate worn by the High Priest of Israel ) is called, in Hebrew, leshem , which is ...
The Kaicheng Stone Classics (開成石經) or Tang Stone Classics are a group of twelve early Chinese classic works carved on the orders of Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty in 833–837 (Kaicheng era) as a reference document for scholars. The works recorded are: [1] Book of Changes or I Ching (易經 Yìjīng) Book of Documents (書經 ...
The 7th Metro Manila Film Festival was held in 1981.. Bancom Audiovision's Kisapmata, a movie about a deranged retired policeman, won ten of the thirteen awards in the 1981 Metro Manila Film Festival including the Best Picture, Best Director for Mike de Leon, and Best Actor for Vic Silayan and among others.
A table of magical correspondences is a list of magical correspondences between items belonging to different categories, such as correspondences between certain deities, heavenly bodies, plants, perfumes, precious stones, etc. [1] Such lists were compiled by 19th-century occultists like Samuel Liddell Mathers and William Wynn Westcott (both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ...