Word: prophete
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...wrapped in three cloth bags, nestled in three wooden boxes, locked in a cabinet, in the innermost of four cells, protected by four guards, a brownish hair from the head of Mohammed has lain for three centuries in Srinagar's mosque of Hazrat Bal. On holy days, the prophet's hair is tenderly removed from its resting place, attached to a chain and locked around the waist of one or the other of five Bandey brothers, the hereditary keepers who alone are permitted to touch the sacred relic and show it to Moslem worshipers in the mosque...
...Shaab-e-Baraat when the sorrowful news crackled from houseboat to houseboat, from hut to hut. The guard on duty at Hazrat Bal (literally Majestic Place) had left his post long enough for thieves to saw out the strongroom locks, smash the cabinet and make their getaway. The prophet's hair was gone...
Then, at week's end, mourning throngs flung away their black banners and started dancing in the streets. The hair of the prophet had been found, abandoned in the grounds of the mosque. Radio Kashmir blared joyful music as pilgrims waited for the news that the sacred relic had been wrapped again in three cloth bags, placed inside three wooden boxes, locked in its cabinet in the innermost of four cells, and was carefully watched over by four badly shaken guards...
...Cover) He has been called "the first poet of technology," "the greatest living genius of industrial-technical realization in building," "an anticipator of the world to come-which is different from being a prophet," "a seminal thinker," and "an inspired child." But all these encomiums are fairly recent. For most of his life, R. Buckminster Fuller was known simply as a crackpot...
...prices of the shares). The British Rothschilds ignored the country's industrial boom, but propped the young government of the U.S. with loans and, in combination with de Rothschild Frères, made loans to Brazil. "Money is the God of our times, and Rothschild is his prophet," sang Heinrich Heine, who marveled at seeing a French borrower tip his hat to the chamber pot of Baron Jakob...