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...seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder hit with metal rods. The engine room sets the tempo, the panmen follow, thumping and reverberating, and the North Stand, a rather rickety structure of standing-room-only bleachers erected especially for the competition, explodes with energy - the wooden planks bow precariously as they're rhythmically pounded in unison by the feet of thousands of people, jumping and singing in the sweltering heat. The islands of Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of calypso, take their steel bands, or "pan," very seriously. The first pans, or steel drums, were fashioned...
Renovations will also be made to the building courtyard with the construction of a wooden deck for outdoor activities and performances, equipped with stage lighting and space for surrounding seating...
KING ABSORBED THE RAW SPEECHES MILDLY, AS WAS HIS custom, then rose from a wooden Sunday school table to argue that they all underestimated their problem. "We are in serious trouble," he said. The Memphis riot had discredited nonviolent tenets at the heart of their movement. If they simply abandoned the garbage strike, a presumption of violence would follow them to the national stage with greatly magnified risk and opposition. Therefore, said King, he felt by no means committed to either Memphis or Washington--regardless of what he told the press--unless first convinced that they could restore the integrity...
...were thundering waves. "I stood there, staring helplessly at black water that looked more like heavy mud," he recalls. "It was filled with corpses, cars, dead animals and rubble from destroyed houses." Then he heard a sound--"Papa ..."--and saw a girl of about 3 clinging to a wooden plank. "It was terrible," he says. "There were so many men on the bridge, but nobody made a move. I realized then that nobody was going to help, so I ran to the river bank and waded into the water." Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently
...miraculous pregnancy, grows up in the great Jewish Temple receiving food from the hand of an angel. But as she approaches puberty, she can live there no longer, and the High Priest searches for a chaste caretaker to look after her. Under divine guidance, he collects the wooden staffs of all the widowers of Israel and prays over them, awaiting a sign. One by one he returns each rod, unchanged. "But Joseph received the last rod," reads the Protevangelium, "and lo, a dove came forth of the rod and flew upon the head of Joseph." Joseph protests, saying...