Word: supplicationes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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* Literally, Place of the Skull, Lobnoye Mes to is a large masonry platform near the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed. In czarist days, it was used as a place of supplication and as the site of royal orders. The unpleasant name probably dates from the reign of Ivan the Terrible...
The candidates' increasingly frantic supplication of supposedly convinced delegates suggests that quite a few of those 4,322 minds may be open. In this volatile political year, which has been rife with surprises, which has produced widespread grumbling about preordained choices but presents little visible evidence of bossism at...
Indeed, much of the Bee Gees' style (the name, coined by an Australian disk jockey, stands for Brothers Gibb) harks back to the days long past -1964, say-when love and idolatry dogged the Beatles' every step. The songs are simple, the beat steady, the tune up on...
At the top of his stretch, with his long arms straight up, Santiago's loose wrists would come together in an insolent, triumphant flick of glove and ball. At first, one though it was some kind of supplication. But it was a strong gesture, a determined yet casual Latin signal...
Pioneered by a turn-of-the-century Kansas Methodist preacher, Charles F. Parham, Pentecostalism asserts as its basic tenet the need for baptism by the Holy Spirit, the supreme manifestation of which is glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. Dissatisfied with the institutionalized quality of Methodist worship and spirituality, Parham took...