Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country where ritual is often the closest thing to religion, Mickey- san's Imperial Palace has in less than five years become something of a national pilgrimage site. In 1987 roughly 1 million schoolchildren, who would previously have been taken to Japan's great historical sites, were brought to the park. Last week, as people across the nation gathered at shrines to usher in an auspicious New Year, Tokyo Disneyland stayed open for 36 straight hours, serving as a kind of alternative temple. By day's end 200,000 votaries had observed the country's most important holiday...
Iran is Persian, not Arab. It shares the Moslem religion with the Arabs, but it adheres to the minority Shiite sect that has been at odds with the predominant Sunni branch of Islam for 1300 years...
Both sides have agreed to insert a clause into the contract prohibiting discrimination against employees on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation, Fortes said...
...noticed, Wilde realized, is to exist; clothes make the man. At various times throughout his life he favored such accessories as lilac shirts and heliotrope neckties, knee breeches, outlandish overcoats that shimmered in the shifting light. He turned the appreciation of beautiful things into a private religion, with distinctly public manifestations. To walk about carrying a single lily in his hand was not simply to throb with pleasure but to be observed doing so. News of Wilde's Oxford eccentricities preceded him in the world at large. When he met a friend outside a theater, he overheard someone say, "There...
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