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The fourth watch (Greek: Φυλακῇ) or guard is a word which points to the Romans changing guard every three hours of the night. These were their watches kept in cities and in armies. They changed frequently, for fear a longer watch would give an occasion to sleep. If the night was short, they divided it into three watches.
"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.
The streets in London were dark and had a shortage of good quality artificial light. [1] It had been recognized for centuries that the coming of darkness to the unlit streets of a town brought a heightened threat of danger, and that the night provided cover to the disorderly and immoral, and to those bent on robbery or burglary or who in other ways threatened physical harm to people in the ...
In Christian liturgy, a vigil is, in origin, a religious service held during the night leading to a Sunday or other feastday. [1] The Latin term vigilia, from which the word is derived meant a watch night, not necessarily in a military context, and generally reckoned as a fourth part of the night from sunset to sunrise. The four watches or ...
What is a night guard? Also called an occlusal splint, a night guard is “a removable appliance that can be used in either the upper or lower jaw and covers the surface of the teeth,” explains ...
World English Bible "God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day." American Standard Version "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day." Bible in Basic English "Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night.
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The body guards, "guardians of the dead," perform a thankless task—literally. [1] In the Talmud, in b. Berachot 18a and Shabbat 151b, the purpose of shemira was to guard against rodents, as rodents fear the living and not the dead, an idea derived from Genesis 9:2 which puts the fear of man into other living creatures.