Sisters of MercyAlso found in: Acronyms, Wikipedia. (R. C. Ch.) a religious order founded in Dublin in the year 1827. Communities of the same name have since been established in various American cities. The duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to ...
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A really good study is those persons in scripture, who in their neediness, scream out “Son of God, have mercy on me.” There are 4-5 in the Gospels who said that. Although they modify this plea/prayer in slightly different ways, all of them are terribly desperate. I encourage you to...
Also found in:Dictionary,Thesaurus,Acronyms,Wikipedia. [′häs‚pid·əl ‚ship] (naval architecture) An unarmed ship equipped as a hospital, in particular, one assigned only to assist sick and wounded persons in time of war and protected from attack by international law. ...
In 1476 the Dominican friar Domenico da Pistoia (and not the more famous Bernardo Cennini as the board outside the church (and Wikipedia) claims) set up a printing press here, only the second one in Florence, with the nuns later employed as compositors, which is also the first documented...
It’s an excellent novella and it packs a lot in a mere hundred pages. According to Wikipedia,Wolff served in the U.S Army from 1964 to 1968, when he trained for Special Forces, learned Vietnamese and served as an adviser in Vietnam.If you add to the personal experience of the topic...
Wikipedia pulls the genesis of Rent from a 1996 New York Times interview with playwright Billy Aronson: In 1988, playwright Billy Aronson wanted to create “a musical based on Puccini’s La Bohème, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini’s world would be replaced with the coarseness and ...
c 1880. Source: Wikipedia Victoria had what was perceived to be the highest level of mental illness in the world, hence the title “The Maddest Place on Earth”. In fact, at one of the numerous Royal Commissions held into asylums in Victoria during the 19th century, it was predicted ...
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Moreover how does one reconcile bands such as Siouxie and the Banshees, The Cure or The Sisters of Mercy who insisted, despite appearances, that they were not goths, or account for the work of illustrator Edward Gorey (perhaps the purist goth of all) whose Victorian cautionary tales he has...