Word: suppers
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...presidential campaign by invoking John Winthrop's characterization of America as a chosen nation, a "shining city on a hill," to Bill Clinton's description of his 1992 Democratic convention acceptance speech as "the New Covenant" - a phrase drawn from the words of Jesus at the Last Supper - to George W. Bush's naming of Jesus as his favorite philosopher in a 1999 G.O.P. primary debate, public displays of faith are now de rigueur in U.S. presidential politics...
...books perhaps ought to be to the modern eye. Mutilation, murder, cannibalism, and cruelty mark the tales, making for somewhat scarring bedtime stories. 1. The Juniper Tree – A boy, salted with his sister’s tears, is served to his father for supper. Brought back to life as a bird by tears of blood, the boy kills his step-mother, who had decapitated him with the heavy lid of a chest, and everyone lives happily ever after. Hooray! 2. Little Red-Cap – A precursor to the better known “Hood...
...Last Supper's Score...
HIDDEN TUNE The true Da Vinci code may not lie with Dan Brown. According to Giovanni Maria Pala, an Italian musician and computer technician, the grand master stored a secret composition in his Last Supper masterpiece...
...Almost from their founding, the Templars have been rumored a.) to still exist b.) to be impossibly rich, and c.) to guard the Holy Grail (the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper) and other Christian relics. Most of these stories are probably baseless, although for 150 years in the high Middle Ages, their order was incontestably one of the most powerful and creative military and economic forces in the world...