Word: meccas
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While traveling abroad, devout Muslims must still say prayers five times a day while facing the holy city of Mecca. But a long trip with frequent stops could make them lose their bearings and point them in the wrong direction for worship. To prevent such a problem, Dallas Inventor George Shrime has applied science to religion and designed an electronic prayer guide. It points the way toward Mecca from any of 200 locations, beeps at worship time and displays the opening verses of the call to prayer on a liquid-crystal screen...
Flocking to an adoption mecca...
...later, after a pilgrimage to Africa and Mecca, Malcolm's perceptions changed slightly, and he tried to join the efforts of other civil rights leaders. In his autobiography, written with Alex Haley, Malcolm X wrote...
...with its Arab population. Israeli Arabs not only enjoy full political rights they have representatives in the Knessel but also unrestricted religious practice. The Israeli Government safe guards the holy shrines of Islam and every year helps in the chartering of buses for Arab pilgrims wishing to travel to Mecca and Medina for holidays. Thousands of Arab children attend free Israeli public schools and have access to institutions of higher education. Furthermore, many Arabs over the years have benefited from social programs stretching from the Galilee to the Negev, including low-cost housing, government subsidized food and free medical care...
Even before the peaked and porched Queen Anne-style house was refurbished, 18,000 tourists visited the new mecca. It is one of 13 such presidential boyhood homes open to the public. Nearly 200,000 people visit Dwight Eisenhower's home each year in Abilene, Kans., and some 30,000 find Theodore Roosevelt's house on New York City's East 20th Street...