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  • Thumbnail for Abbot
    house being taxed with the expenses of the new abbot's journey to Rome. It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 30 years of age, of legitimate...
    34 KB (4,674 words) - 11:37, 12 July 2024
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    author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan, the son of wealthy parents, Henry and...
    30 KB (3,099 words) - 15:06, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ecclesiastical ring
    An ecclesiastical ring is a finger ring worn by clergy, such as a bishop's ring. In Western Christianity, rings are worn by bishops of the Roman Catholic...
    17 KB (2,423 words) - 17:13, 19 May 2024
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    2013 of the merger of the two schools, there has been renewed interest in Abbot's history and traditions. The school was founded during a time when the prevailing...
    36 KB (3,929 words) - 04:42, 9 June 2024
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    existing church to take advantage of the site at the road junction. St Mary Abbot's design is almost certainly influenced by Scott's earlier work on Dunblane...
    13 KB (1,008 words) - 16:08, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle Abbey
    Browne, who demolished the church and parts of the cloister and turned the abbot's quarters into a country house. A triple-light window in Buckland Church...
    14 KB (1,462 words) - 11:23, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abbots of Shrewsbury
    Catholic Church, abbots were permitted by the Pope to wear the pontifical ring from 1251 and the mitre from 1397. For the earlier abbots, dating and detail...
    147 KB (16,916 words) - 22:51, 27 July 2024
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    Seal (emblem) (redirect from Signet ring)
    century. Pliny also explained the significance of the signet ring, and how over time this ring was worn on the little finger.[failed verification] Known...
    45 KB (5,623 words) - 00:34, 28 July 2024
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Shang-Chi. Produced by Marvel...
    216 KB (18,234 words) - 05:17, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
    Horn Dance from the Abbots Bromley web site Burne, Charlotte S. (1896). "Staffordshire Folk and their Lore" . Folk-Lore. 7. Abbot's Bromley traditional...
    19 KB (2,442 words) - 16:11, 21 July 2024
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    Epicyclic gearing (redirect from Ring gear)
    of an outer gear ring, or ring gear, sometimes called an annulus gear. Such an assembly of a planet engaging both a sun gear and a ring gear is called a...
    36 KB (5,301 words) - 09:59, 10 July 2024
  • it passed into the keeping of the abbot of Westminster, by whom it was used medically and was known as St Edwards Ring. From that time the belief grew that...
    2 KB (311 words) - 12:23, 7 March 2024
  • Published in 1802, it tells the story of a 14th-century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath ("Aberbrothock") to install a warning bell on Inchcape, a notorious...
    8 KB (1,096 words) - 16:11, 10 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sherborne Abbey
    Evangelists. The abbot's northern entrance would have been to the right of the projecting octagonal block, or stair turret, which led to the abbot's parlour above...
    56 KB (6,928 words) - 22:05, 17 July 2024
  • cure for the plague. Jepperd is kept in a cage but is eventually freed by Abbot's brother, Johnny, a guard in the facility. Johnny tells Jepperd his wife...
    23 KB (1,635 words) - 03:08, 29 July 2024
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    Mitre (redirect from Mitred abbot)
    bishop and an abbot by the omission of the infulae in the abbot's arms. In England and France it was usual to place the mitre of an abbot slightly in profile...
    28 KB (3,398 words) - 15:51, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Buckfast Abbey
    major rebuilding work at this time, of which the tower attached to the abbot's house is the sole upstanding survival. By the 16th century, the abbey was...
    43 KB (4,796 words) - 17:38, 13 July 2024
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    ceremonial shield; and a heavy whetstone sceptre, on top of which is an iron ring surmounted by the figure of a stag. In 597 CE, a Benedictine monk was sent...
    101 KB (13,051 words) - 09:34, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Khakkhara
    the khakkhara symbolizes the abbot's administrative authority. When ascending the platform during large ceremonies, the abbot takes the khakkhara and strikes...
    12 KB (1,387 words) - 12:46, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tewkesbury Abbey
    vestiges remain in the layout of the streets and a few buildings: the Abbot's gatehouse, the Almonry barn, the Abbey Mill, Abbey House, the present vicarage...
    31 KB (3,210 words) - 21:26, 2 July 2024
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