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  • Thumbnail for 2012 Lamma Island ferry collision
    On 1 October 2012, at approximately 20:23 HKT, the passenger ferries Sea Smooth and Lamma IV collided off Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island, Hong Kong. This...
    23 KB (2,100 words) - 05:17, 6 September 2024
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    Common land (redirect from Lammas land)
    and a common meadow at North Meadow, Cricklade. Lammas rights entitled commoners to pasture following the harvest, between Lammas day, 12 August (N.S...
    54 KB (6,618 words) - 19:48, 9 October 2024
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    Lamas (also spelled Lammas) is a village in Broadland, Norfolk, England. Administratively it falls within the civil parish of Buxton with Lamas. The village's...
    11 KB (1,468 words) - 19:56, 27 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry
    2012 at approximately 8:20 pm HKT, Sea Smooth of HKKF crashed into a Hongkong Electric-owned vessel Lamma IV off Lamma Island, causing the latter to sink...
    5 KB (302 words) - 17:59, 7 April 2024
  • hallowed bread [hláf—hence “loaf”] which is hallowed on Lammas Day". According to Wilson (2011), "at Lammas, the fruits of the first cereal harvest were baked...
    67 KB (8,087 words) - 22:15, 26 September 2024
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    (2020–2024) and the BBC drama Everything I Know About Love (2022). Siu lived on Lamma Island in Hong Kong until she was four years old, before moving to and growing...
    12 KB (717 words) - 22:42, 29 September 2024
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    practice of having the First Fruits blessed at the church has been celebrated through the feast of Lammas (Loaf Mass Day) in Western Christianity. In...
    15 KB (2,080 words) - 19:46, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalai Lama
    Dalai Lama (redirect from Dali lamma)
    was related to his supposed ally Lhazang Khan, deceived and betrayed the latter by invading Tibet and capturing Lhasa in 1717. These Dzungars, who were...
    158 KB (20,175 words) - 16:40, 2 October 2024
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    Druze (redirect from Ahl at-Tawhīd)
    to Christianity, some prominent Druze families, including the Druze Abi-Lamma clan—who were close allies of the Shihabs—also converted to Christianity...
    246 KB (28,888 words) - 03:29, 13 October 2024
  • kuningas < *kuningaz "king" (Old Norse kunungr, konungr) Estonian/Finnish lammas "sheep" < *lambaz "lamb" (Old Norse lamb) Finnish hurskas "pious" < *hurskaz...
    22 KB (2,290 words) - 16:07, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tim Buckley
    Of Melancholy) (EmArcy/Universal) (2005) – "Love From Room 109 At The Islander" Lammas Night Laments Volume 9 CDr (The Unbroken Circle) (2005) – "Song...
    46 KB (5,090 words) - 19:02, 30 September 2024
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    euphemistic, such as al-'aḥdāth ("the events"), al-hijra ("the exodus"), and lammā sharnā wa-tla'nā ("when we blackened our faces and left"). Nakba narratives...
    345 KB (48,804 words) - 10:55, 4 October 2024
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    located at Tai O (Wing Hong Street, Shek Tsai Po), Tung Chung, Hong Kong International Airport, Cheung Chau Wan, Mui Wo (Silvermine Bay), Lamma Island...
    9 KB (757 words) - 15:47, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902
    vested in the Richmond Corporation for purposes of public enjoyment. The lammas rights on part of the manor were also, by the same Act, taken from the commoners...
    6 KB (472 words) - 04:26, 23 May 2024
  • aftermath of his defeat at the hands of Teshub, though he notes that an alternate proposal is to place it before the Song of LAMMA, in which case it would...
    93 KB (12,868 words) - 19:25, 8 October 2024
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    McEachin, and two Redding wrote alone, called "I'm Gettin' Hip" and "Gamma Lamma" (which he recorded as a single in 1961, under the title "Shout Bamalama")...
    73 KB (8,413 words) - 09:14, 5 October 2024
  • ISBN 0-688-14360-1 In Celebration of Lammas Night (1996), created by Mercedes Lackey, anthology edited by Josepha Sherman; poem "Lammas Night" and short story "Hallowmas...
    45 KB (6,157 words) - 15:11, 5 October 2024
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    ancient Mesopotamian art, in which a minor goddess (Lamma) leads a human to a seated major deity. Lamma could also be a designation for specific goddesses...
    68 KB (8,971 words) - 20:43, 23 September 2024
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    holidays, stating that "the four great Sabbats are Candlemas [sic], May Eve, Lammas, and Halloween; the equinoxes and solstices are celebrated also". In the...
    112 KB (13,936 words) - 16:31, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joe Buck
    beer. One of the more memorable spots for the latter had Buck goaded into using the catchphrase, "Slamma-lamma-ding-dong!" A 2008 commercial for National...
    51 KB (5,291 words) - 19:08, 12 October 2024
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