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  2. Nut (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    This is an important collection of ancient Egyptian astronomical texts, perhaps the earliest of several other such texts, going back at least to 2,000 BC. Nut, being the sky goddess, plays the primary role in the Book of Nut. The text also tells about various other sky and Earth deities, such as the star deities and the decans deities. The ...

  3. Milky Way (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Badurru Ceremony is performed and the coffin carried into the sky by the crow and his kin. The bones are then dispersed and form the Milky Way. [7] Aboriginal groups from the Cape York region of Queensland see the band of light as termites that had been blown into the sky by the ancestral hero Burbuk Boon. [citation needed]

  4. The Starry Night - Wikipedia

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    The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889.It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.

  5. Orphism - Wikipedia

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    I am a son of Earth and starry sky. I am parched with thirst and am dying; but quickly grant me cold water from the Lake of Memory to drink. [36] Other gold leaves offer instructions for addressing the rulers of the underworld: Now you have died and now you have come into being, O thrice happy one, on this same day.

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    Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. Location: Maui, Hawaii. Rates: from $15,000 for up to six guests. Why We Love It: adults-only pool, five-star service, oceanside massage in hale. DarkSky Zone ...

  7. String Quartet No. 8 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    According to Carl Czerny, the second movement of the quartet occurred to Beethoven as he contemplated the starry sky and thought of the music of the spheres (Thayer, Life of Beethoven); it has a hymnlike quality reminiscent of a much later devotion, the Heiliger Dankgesang hymn to the Divine in the Quartet Op. 132.

  8. Looking up at the Starry Sky - Wikipedia

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    Looking up at the Starry Sky (Chinese: 仰 望 星 空; pinyin: yǎng wàng xīng kōng) is a widely known [1] poem written by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao [2] "to encourage young people to aim high and pursue their goals fearlessly."

  9. Choking emergency? How to do the Heimlich maneuver - AOL

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    Next, thrust in an inward and upward motion on the diaphragm. This will force air out of the lungs and remove the blockage. Repeat these abdominal thrusts up to five times, the doctor advised.