and illustrious persons, in all ages and climes have not considered the labor requisite to fathom the mysteries of magic as labor expended in vain, and although they condemned the form, they could not deny the possibility or even fact that gifted men, of inherent worth, could accomplish such...
Isn't this strange? Who has two Bhikshus come to name him? To say "above" and "below" when referring to a person's name, is a most respectful form of address. What the newly born Patriarch ate was sweet dew. Text: He grew up, and at the age of twenty-four he heard the Sutra...
The first organized game of baseball was played in Hoboken in 1846, on land now occupied by 11th Street. In those days, the town was home to a resort called the Elysian Fields, a getaway for new Yorkers with means–among them John Jacob Astor, who maintained a summer home in Hoboken. ...
She wrote each kid’s name on a piece of paper and threw them into a bucket, and then we each closed our eyes and drew the name of a classmate who we were to secretly befriend and support over the next five school days. By the middle of the week, everyone,...