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The book opens in a café in Piraeus, just before dawn on a gusty autumn morning sometime after the end of World War I.The narrator, a young Greek intellectual, resolves to set aside his books for a few months after being stung by the parting words of a friend, Stavridakis, who has left for the Russian Caucasus and Ukraine to help the Caucasus Greeks and Ukrainian Greeks who were facing ...
Chryse and Argyre (/ ˈ k r aɪ s iː / and / ˈ ɑːr dʒ ə r iː /) were a pair of legendary islands, located in the Indian Ocean and said to be made of gold and silver.They took their name from the Greek words for gold (chrysos) and silver (argyros).
Subsequently, each of the tathāgatas established throughout the three times extended his golden hand and consecrated the king of vidyās by anointing his head. Each tathāgata thus bestowed the mudrā consecration upon the king of vidyās. The mantra for the mudrā consecration is: "Oṁ, amogha jewel-lotus of the splendorous great mudrā! Blaze!
Here is the splendorous flag that surprised the world with its victory, when arrogant and victoriously during the battles the top of the Andes it has climbed. Here is the flag that one day triumphantly rose in the middle of the battle and, full of pride and gallantry, to San Lorenzo it went immortal. Here it is, like the shining sky,
Sheet music cover from 1955, with poster artwork from film of the same name featuring its two stars. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. [1]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 Deluxe color American drama-romance film in CinemaScope.Set in 1949–50 in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China, Han Suyin (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong ...
Even though it is speculated that Ahura Mazda was a spirit in the Indo-Iranian religion, he had not yet been given the title of "uncreated spirit". This title was given by Zoroaster, who proclaimed Ahura Mazda as the uncreated spirit, wholly wise, benevolent, and sound, as well as the creator and upholder of Asha.
The phrase "the full catastrophe" does not actually occur in the novel, but the screenplay dialogue above blends and condenses the language of two distinct scenes in the novel. In the first, the narrator, having just met Zorba, asks him if he is married. Zorba: "Aren't I a man? I mean blind. Like everyone else before me, I fell headlong into ...