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...Morocco. Maimonides, educated by his father and other local rabbis, soon began his first major project, a commentary on the Mishnah, which is part of the Talmud, the massive and authoritative compilation of Jewish law. Maimonides' work contained the 13 Articles of Faith, to this day part of synagogue ritual...
...British, which shows a public loyalty to haunts of privilege that Engels might have found hard to explain. The truth is that neither English history nor English culture can be understood without these places; they matter far more as social evidence than most Italian palazzi or French chateaus. The ritual of public visits is not at all new. Some great houses have been open to curious strangers since the day they were built (even the 1st Duke of Marlborough was pestered by tourists in 1711 while building Blenheim...
...Australian trip revealed the couple's considerable public relations skills, and turned into a showcase for their uninhibited style of royal excursion. With her nimble spontaneity, Diana is invigorating the staid ritual of the walkabout, the traditional version of which presents a gloved and hatted royal frowning to show interest as a dusty foreman laboriously explains how a widget is manufactured. Touring an aluminum smelter in the city of Portland, Diana could not stop giggling at the sight of Charles wearing a too small hard hat and protective goggles; with his Clark Gable ears, he looked rather like a Volkswagen...
...ritual seems "ridiculous" now, the witness acknowledged, but it was deadly serious when he joined the Mafia 37 years ago in Palermo, Sicily. One of the four men conducting the ceremony pricked the initiate's finger and rubbed the blood on the picture of a saint. The picture was then set afire. The act meant that "if I should betray the organization, my flesh would burn like this saint," Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic...
Johnson, pleading ignorance of Ivy League tradition, said he wasn't prepared for the bi-annual Dartmouth 'shmen ritual. "I had no information on any of that," he said...