When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenant

    A Christian burial, indeed, he received, though unworthy of it; but it did not much benefit him: for issuing, by the handiwork of Satan, from his grave at night-time, and pursued by a pack of dogs with horrible barkings, he wandered through the courts and around the houses while all men made fast their doors, and did not dare to go abroad on ...

  3. Resurrection - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection

    Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions involving the same person or deity returning to another body. The disappearance of a body is another similar but distinct belief in some religions.

  4. Mr. Garrity and the Graves - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Garrity_and_the_Graves

    In the year 1890, a traveling peddler named Jared Garrity arrives in the little recently renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk's dead back from Boot Hill. Initially, they do not believe him, but, when he appears to resurrect a dead dog struck by a traveler's horse-drawn wagon, they believe him.

  5. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker...

    "Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for the off-topic section of an Internet forum, and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question.

  6. Google (verb) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_(verb)

    The act of using the Google search engine is known colloquially as googling. Owing to the dominance of the Google search engine, [1] to google has become a transitive verb. [2] The neologism commonly refers to searching for information on the World Wide Web, typically using the Google search engine. [3]

  7. Dying-and-rising god - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying-and-rising_god

    The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...

  8. List of Google April Fools' Day jokes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_April_Fools...

    Google announced a joint project with the Virgin Group to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. This operation has been named Project Virgle. [33] The announcement includes videos of Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group) as well as Larry Page and Sergey Brin (the founders of Google) on YouTube, talking about Virgle. [34]

  9. Pet Sematary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary

    Several months later, two-year-old Gage is killed by a speeding truck. Overcome with despair, Louis considers bringing his son back to life with the help of the burial ground. Jud attempts to dissuade him by telling him the story of Timmy Baterman, the last person resurrected by the burial ground.