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The native name for a sorcerer was tangata purepure (a man who prays). [157] The prayers offered by the ta'unga (priests) [158] to the gods worshiped on national or tribal marae (temples) were termed karakia; [159] those on minor occasions to the lesser gods were named pure. All these prayers were metrical, and were handed down from generation ...
Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, [20] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [21] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas.
Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
Semantics studies meaning in language, which is limited to the meaning of linguistic expressions. It concerns how signs are interpreted and what information they contain. An example is the meaning of words provided in dictionary definitions by giving synonymous expressions or paraphrases, like defining the meaning of the term ram as adult male sheep. [22]
The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...
The Burden of Black Religion (2008); traces ideas about Black religion from the antebellum period to 1950; Frey, Sylvia R. "The Visible Church: Historiography of African American Religion since Raboteau," Slavery & Abolition (2008) 29#1 pp. 83–110; Fulop, Timothy Earl; Raboteau, Albert J., eds. (1997).
Some Puritans refused to bow on hearing the name of Jesus, or to make the sign of the cross in baptism, or to use wedding rings or the organ. Yet, the main complaint Puritans had was the requirement that clergy wear the white surplice and clerical cap. [20] Puritan clergymen preferred to wear black academic attire.