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  2. Baptistery of Neon - Wikipedia

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    The Baptistery of Neon (Italian: Battistero Neoniano) is a Roman religious building in Ravenna, northeastern Italy. The most ancient monument remaining in the city, it was partly erected on the site of a Roman bath .

  3. The Neon Bible - Wikipedia

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    Toole, describing the novel during correspondence with an editor he was pitching Confederacy to, wrote of it "In 1954, when I was 16, I wrote a book called The Neon Bible, a grim, adolescent, sociological attack upon the hatreds caused by the various Calvinist religions in the South—and the fundamentalist mentality is one of the roots of what ...

  4. Book of Gates - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Gates is an ancient Egyptian funerary text dating from the New Kingdom. [1] The Book of Gates is long and detailed, consisting of one hundred scenes. [2] It narrates the passage of a newly deceased soul into the next world journeying with the sun god, Ra, through the underworld during the hours of the night towards his resurrection ...

  5. English church monuments - Wikipedia

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    "An Arundel Tomb", one of the best-known works by 20th-century English poet Philip Larkin, was inspired by a 14th-century English effigial monument. It was Larkin's response to a tomb monument in Chichester Cathedral, and the fact that the husband and wife subjects were portrayed holding hands. The photo at right also shows the stylized lion ...

  6. Amduat - Wikipedia

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    'The Book of the Hereafter') [1] is an important ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom of Egypt. Similar to previous funerary texts, such as the Old Kingdom's Pyramid Texts, or the First Intermediate Period's Coffin Texts, the Amduat was found carved on the internal walls of a pharaoh's tomb. [2]

  7. Geetanjali Shree - Wikipedia

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    Shree was born in the city of Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh state [4] on 12 June 1957. [5] Her father, Anirudh Pandey, was a civil servant, causing her family to live in various towns throughout Uttar Pradesh. Shree says that it was this upbringing in Uttar Pradesh, along with a lack of children's books in English, that gave her a rich connection ...

  8. Autobiography of Harkhuf - Wikipedia

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    The narration of Harkhuf's career is aforementioned by prayers for offerings and a good burial, and the list of virtues - standardized components of tomb-autobiography. Carved on the outside of the soft, flaking stone of the tomb are fifty-eight lines. [8] Listed below are the descriptions of the inscriptions on each side of the tomb.

  9. Soft goal - Wikipedia

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    In connection with modeling languages and especially with goal-oriented modeling, a soft goal is an objective without clear-cut criteria. [1] Soft goals can represent: Non-functional requirements; Relations between non-functional requirements