And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. A more recent example of its use appears below: My mother … had first tendered the olive branch, which had been accepted...
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812. Read more: Plot summary Director Sergey Bondarchuk WritersSergey Bondarchuk | Vasiliy Solovyov | Lev Tolstoy (novel) Composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov Cinematographers Iolanda Chen | Anatoliy Petritskiy | Aleksandr She...
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The centre offers a place of peace and hope for those who are on the road to recovery. But that period of peace from the media will now come to an abrupt end. A way of life beckons that promises peace in a beautiful place, where the weather is kind, wine plentiful, and food exquisi...
Nor would there have materialized the French occupation of the Ruhr and the war reparations crisis that led to the destruction of the German middle class in the 1923 hyperinflation; and, finally, the history books would have never recorded the Hitlerian ascent to power in 1933 and all the evi...
"I hope countries can abandon disagreements, become more united and step up cooperation on further improving global security governance and achieving win-win peaceful development," Yan said. Dominique de Villepin, former French prime minister, said the fragmentation of the world is linked to the der...
Finding Inner Peace in the French Alps; Gill Martin Breathes Deep and Slow and Tracks a Down-Toearth Approach to Mediation through WalkingOUR mountain guide must have lost the plot. Here we are in the French Alps on a perfect day, snow-tipped peaks glinting under azure skies, crystal clear...
Do not expect that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword.Aramaic Bible in Plain EnglishThink not that I have come to bring peace in the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. NT TranslationsAnderson New TestamentThink not that...
Led by Choir Conductor Mervyn Peters, the concert themed ‘Peace on Earth’ will showcase traditional and contemporary pieces including ‘Wolfgang’s Christmas Canon’, ‘Three French Carols’, ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Christmas on Broadway’, ‘Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth’, and other seasonal son...
He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation ...