Word: maha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left 21 years later, a near maha atma (great soul). There is no doubt in my mind that by the time he was violently removed from our world, he had transited into that state...
...elderly monarch, an heir with a troubled marriage, rumors of adultery...but wait. This heir is Crown Prince MAHA VAJIRALONGKORN of Thailand. Concern about his temperament rose recently when an official document was posted outside his palace alleging that his second wife, whom he married two years ago (although they have five children), was having an affair with an air force officer who worked for the royal family. The document bars the alleged adulterers from the palace, adding, "Should they be seen, the public is requested to chase them away...
...Thich Giac Duc, the priest of the Unity Buddhist Congregation, read from the Maha Pranya Sutra, the Mahayana Buddhist liturgy for the dead. Two assistants burned incensed and chanted as Duc recited the half-hour-long liturgy in Sanskrit, Vietnamese and Chinese...
...Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand is visiting Harvard this week to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of her grandfather, who attended the Medical School and the School of Public Health...
...other industrialized nations, the U.S. has no central government ministry imposing lockstep conditions on an untidy educational conglomerate. That is why so many schools are attempting to seize the future in strikingly independent ways. Take computers, for instance. At the University of California, Los Angeles, Egyptian-born senior professor Maha Ashour-Abdalla is using the smart machines to teach physics to 140 students. The computers can simulate experiments, from sound waves being measured in a pool of water to a 3-D, multicolored representation of molecules colliding...