debate becoming more word‐centered ‐ The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook (1992)emotive and neutral vocabularySummary This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Origins of the Phrase The Debate: Redefining Territories and Establishing Boundaries The Canon and Multiculturalism...
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, evangelism spread the Word of God, but, Malone writes, there was also secular music with its “simple, singable melodies and song texts characterized by choruses, refrains and repetitive phrases.” Having renounced Catholicism, Calvinist Scots began to sing...
Secret societies, the unseen hands that steer national and international affairs from the shadows, go back to the dawn of Western civilisation. The individual most famously linked to these occult forces is Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830), a Jesuit trained philosopher and lay professor of canon law at...
The seated spinal twist was in the original Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā canon and remains popular for its multiple benefits such as realigning the vertebrae, toning the internal organs, and opening the muscles of the chest, hips, and lower back. It activates samana vayu, the inward moving energy...
“N” was responsible for the most recognizable video game character in the world, and now they were going to introduce a new kind of hero. A galactic space hunter in a gold space suit whose mission was to travel deep below the planet’s surface to exterminate all the bug-like creatures...
The Later Creed What we now know as the Apostles’ Creed is an enlargement of the Old Roman Creed. The first known occurrence of the Apostles’ Creed, in a form that is nearly equivalent to its final form, is in the Latin tractDe singulis libris canonicis scarapsusby the monk Primini...
“tales of enchantment” than the conventional rendering of “fairy tales,” the wordféebeing derived fromféerie[enchantment]. There is, however, an argument to be made for a narrower definition as “tales of fays” on the grounds that what the genre’s originators meant...
In particular, the Xu yiqiejing yinyi 續一切經音譯 (Extended Pronunciation and Meaning in the Complete Buddhist Canon) elaborates the definition further—“zhidi was formed by ‘piling up’ (earth or brick), and the tamiao 塔廟, tai 臺, and ge 閣were installed in venues where Buddha ...
the time. Being occupied with other academic pursuits (including a master’s thesis in Michael’s team on the yeast NADPH oxidase geneYNO1), I never actually got to publish on the historical and philosophical trajectory of molecular biology. This special issue “in honor of Prof. Michael ...