Word: archangel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Koran. Raphael, who escorted Tobias on his journey to Media, has a host of spiritual assignments: chief of the order of virtues, ruling prince of the second heaven, the guardian angel of science and knowledge, the healer of human disease. Of almost equal importance, says Davidson, is Uriel, archangel of salvation, often credited with warning Noah of the Flood. Despite their hierarchical importance, none of these four is the largest angel: that honor, according to the Zohar, goes to Metatron, whose height was equal to the breadth of the world-although other angelic experts insist that Aupiel was several hundred...
Keating and Hinckle had been at loggerheads for a long time. There were no ideological differences: both are doctrinaire leftists with a passion for disparaging U.S. policies and institutions. The disagreements were largely over money and approach. Keating, the magazine's financial archangel, charged his opponents with "fiscal irresponsibility" and an "inability to practice budgetary controls." Circulation of the last issue was 228,730, more than half newsstand, but the magazine is still losing money at the rate of $350,000 a year. Hinckle believes he can break even by raising another $250,000-and without Keating...
Gabriel the Archangel. Last week 100,000 pilgrims made their way to the shrine of St. Gabriel at Kulubi, in the jagged mountains 200 miles east of Addis Ababa, for a festival that is al most without parallel in the Christian world...
While bearded priests intoned prayers and blessings over blaring loudspeakers, pilgrims dressed in lionskins paraded around the gold-domed shrine, chanting, wailing, beating drums, and imploring the archangel to answer their prayers in return for offerings of jewelry, cash, painted ostrich eggs, rattails and leopard cubs. Disfigured beggars called upon Gabriel for the miracle of a cure. Vendors selling gum, candy, candles, post cards and pictures of movie stars shoved their way through the multitude. Barren women kissed the church's stones, praying the messenger of good tidings to grant them a child. On hand, in case immediate help...
...also been launched from a new site. With his students, he plotted its orbital path and determined that it intersected the others at 63° north latitude and 41° east longitude, a point near the town of Plesetsk, about 140 miles south of the White Sea port of Archangel. It was from this site, he was convinced, that all four of the mysterious Cosmos satellites had been launched. Though neither Russia nor any U.S. Government source has officially confirmed existence of the new launch site, the U.S. has known of its existence for months. Noting that the new base...