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# Ghurid invasion of Bengal

The Ghurid invasion of Bengal in 1202 was a military campaign of Ghurid dynasty led by Muhammad Bhakhtiyar Khalji against the Sena dynasty. Bakhtiyar Khalji emerged victorious in the campaign and subsequently annexed Nabadwip, a significant portion of the territory controlled by the Sena Dynasty. Following their defeat, Lakshmana Sena, the ruler of the Sena dynasty, retreated to the southeastern region of Bengal.

## Quotes

* The next year Malik Muhammad Bakhtiyar started from Behar, and with a small force reached the city of Nudiar by successive rapid marches. Lakhmania in great confusion embarked in a boat and escaped ; and all his treasure and the paraphernalia of state, which were beyond the bounds of all account and calculation, fell into Muhammad Bakhtiyar’s hands. The latter devastated the city of Nudiar, and in place of it, founded another city, which has become Lakhnauti; and made it his capital, and today that city is in ruins and is known as Gour. In short, Muhammad Baklitiyar assumed the canopy, and had prayers read, and coin struck in his own name ; and founded mosques and IQiankahs 8 and colleges, in the place of the temples of the heathen ; and he sent many precious articles for the acceptance of Sultan Kutbuddin Aibak, out of the booty which he had acquired.
** Tabqãt-i-Akharî
* …In the second year after this arrangement Muhammad Bakhtyar brought an army from Behar towards Lakhnauti and arrived at the town of Nudiya, with a small force; Nudiya is now in ruins. Rai Lakhmia (Lakhminia) the governor of that town… fled thence to Kamran, and property and booty beyond computation fell into the hands of the Muslims, and Muhammad Bakhtyar having destroyed the places of worship and idol temples of the infidels founded Mosques and Monasteries and schools and caused a metropolis to be built called by his own name, which now has the name of Gaur. There where was heard before The clamour and uproar of the heathen, Now there is heard resounding The shout of ‘Allaho Akbar’.
** About Ikhtiyaru’d-Din Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji (AD 1202-1206) Navadvipa (Bengal) Muntakhabu’t-Tawarikh, translated into English by George S.A. Ranking, Patna Reprint 1973, Vol. I, p. 82-83
# Labour in Pakistan

Quotes about labour in Pakistan.

## Quotes

* Only up to 3pc of Pakistan's labour force is unionised, and there are few opportunities for collective bargaining for fair wages or safe working conditions. The Balochistan High Court last year banned 62 labour unions in the province. The disregard for labour rights will take on new dimensions during a pandemic, when workers should have ample rights to demand safe working conditions and job protection in the event of sickness.
** Huma Yusuf, Missing rights (04 May, 2020), Dawn
# Labyrinths

Labyrinths (1971) by Okigbo Christopher derives its name and meanings from the ancient Greek word ‘labyrinthos’ –a massive, complex and deliberately designed structural passage meant to slow down the mind of any potential enemy , Minotaur, the monster in particular, from killing King Minos of Crete at Knossos in 400 BC. A close-ancient-Greek-contextualization tinkered with broad-oracularinterpretation projects Okigbo’s Labyrinths as a confused journey of the split mind. The mind, as Steven Pinker puts it, is like the spacecraft, ‘designed to solve many engineering problems, and thus is packed with high-tech systems each contrived to overcome its own obstacles’ (1997, 4). The journey begins with inner mind initiations to bargain easy access to some focal points, but disastrously ends, at the very points of beginnings, with obscure ratings. The mind, poetry, and obscurity epigraph with which this essay opens ultimately begins with the persona, and ends with the persona. The epigraph owes nothing to the personality of the writer. To further disambiguate the mind from the personality of the poet, poetry is employed here to theorise the mind. Obscurity of the mind, in this sense, highlights possible difficulties arising from psychodynamic indices in interpreting behavioural actions, and by extension identifying and classifying the behaviours of the persona in Labyrinths as communicating the mind to the reader. In this way, evaluating the mind gives vent to behavioural problems in poetry

## Quotes

* Today-for tomorrow, today becomes yesterday: How many million promises can ever fill a basket..."
** Okigbo, "Hurrah for Thunder
* later grew into a ceremony of innocence, something like a mass, an offering to Idoto, the village stream of which I drank, in which I washed, as a child; the celebrant, a personage like Orpheus, is about to begin a journey”
** Okigbo 1971, xi
* the drums speak in broken and disjointed tunes reminiscence of invocation: ‘We are tuned for feast-of-seven-souls’
** Okigbo 1971, 45
* Obscurity and impenetrability in the mind of the persona are obvious in ‘after we had formed/ then only the forms were formed/ and all the forms/ were formed after our forming
** Okigbo 1971, 57
* The entrapped is not only stripped of dignity and identity in the mind, the
meaninglessness of the trap makes the persona suddenly become ‘talkative like the weaverbird’, and in ‘Between sleep and waking’ abruptly brandishes ‘A tiger mask and nude spear….’ ** Okigbo 1971,23
* If I don’t learn to shut my mouth I’ll soon go to hell. I Okigbo, town-crier, together with my iron bell’
** Okigbo 1971, 67
* Okigbo accompanies us the oracle enkindles us’ and ‘Okigbo accompanies us the rattles enlighten us’
** Okigbo 1971, 69
* ‘O mother mother Earth, unbind me; let this be my last testament’
** Okigbo 1971, 71
* ‘foreshadows its going /Before a going and coming that goes on forever…’
** Okigbo 1971,73

## External links

* little village magazine
* books
* preprints
* JSTOR
# Lachit Borphukan

Lachit Borphukan (24 November 1622 – 25 April 1672) was an Ahom Borphukan, primarily known for commanding the Ahom Army and the victory in the Battle of Saraighat (1671) that thwarted an invasion by the vastly superior Mughal Forces under the command of Ramsingh I.

## Quotes

* The main reason of his meteoritic rise within the administration was his deep and enduring sense of duty along with steadfast loyalty to his master. His devotion had been noticed even by the Mughals, who when reporting to their emperor about Assam had said: ‘The (Ahom) king is a veritable Mahadeva, and Momai-tamuli is Mahadeva’s chief henchman or Nandi. As long as these two wield the affairs of Assam, it is impossible to turn your face to that country.’5 Lachit had inherited all these qualities from his father, having observed his father closely, in managing the administration.
** Sampath V.; Manuscript ‘Assam Buranji’, from the earliest times to Swargadeo Gadadhar Singha’s recovery of Guwahati from the Moguls in 1682, with several historical letters; from the earliest times to the death of Swargadeo Rudra Singha in 1714, DHAS, Guwahati. quoted from Sampath V. (2022). Bravehearts of Bharat : vignettes from indian history. Penguin Random House India
# Labīd

Abu Aqil Labīd ibn Rabī'ah (c. 560 – c. 661) was an Arabian poet. He belonged to the Bani Amir, a division of the tribe of the Hawazin.

## Quotes
#### The Poem of Labīd (translated by C. J. Lyall in 1881)

* DESOLATE are the mansions of the fair, the stations in Minia, where they rested, and those where they fixed their abodes! Wild are the hills of Goul, and deserted is the summit of Rijaam. The canals of Rayaan are destroyed: the remains of them are laid bare and smoothed by the floods, like characters engraved on the solid rocks. Dear ruins! Many a year has been closed, many a month, holy and unhallowed, has elapsed, since I exchanged tender vows with their fair inhabitants! The rainy constellations of spring have made their hills green and luxuriant: the drops from the thunder-clouds have drenched them with profuse as well as with gentle showers: Showers, from every nightly cloud, from every cloud veiling the horizon at day-break, and from every evening cloud, responsive with hoarse murmurs. Here the wild eringo-plants raise their tops: here the antelopes bring forth their young, by the sides of the valley: and here the ostriches drop their eggs. The large-eyed wild-cows lie suckling their young, a few days old—their young, who will soon become a herd on the plain. The torrents have cleared the rubbish, and disclosed the traces of habitations, as the reeds of a writer restore effaced letters in a book; Or as the black dust, sprinkled over the varied marks on a fair hand, brings to view with a brighter tint the blue stains of woad. I stood asking news of the ruins concerning their lovely habitants; but what avail my questions to dreary rocks, who answer them only by their echo?
** translated by C. J. Lyall, quoted in Arabian Poetry, p. 41-42. First Stanza, lines 1-10

#### The Poem of Labīd

* Yea, everything is vain, except only God alone, and every pleasant thing must one day vanish away! And all the race of men—there shall surely come among them a Fearful Woe, whereby their fingers shall grow pale: And every mother's son, though his life be lengthened out to the utmost bound, comes home at last to the Grave: And every man shall know one day his labour's worth, when his loss or gain is cast up on the Judgment Day.
** translated by C. J. Lyall, quoted in Arabian Poetry, 1881

### Couplets

* Dear ruins! Many a year has been closed, many a month, holy and unhallowed, has elapsed, since I exchanged tender vows with their fair inhabitants!
** translated by C. J. Lyall, quoted in Arabian Poetry, p. 41
* I stood asking news of the ruins concerning their lovely habitants; but what avail my questions to dreary rocks, who answer them only by their echo?
** translated by C. J. Lyall, quoted in Arabian Poetry, p. 42

## External links

* William Alexander Clouston: Arabian Poetry, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1881
# Lach proverbs

Lach is a Silesian dialect spoken in the cities of Opava, Ostrava, Frenštát (in German Freistadt) in the present day Czech Republic.

## U

* Unkraut ausjäten ist schwer.
** von Duringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "516, Unkraut" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 288.

## See Also

* German proverbs
# Laboratory

A laboratory (colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratory services are provided in a variety of settings: physicians offices, clinics, hospitals, and regional and national referral centers.

## Quotes

* A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.
** Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, And I Quote, Revised Edition: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker, p. 469
* A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.
** Louis Agassiz, Discovery: or, The spirit and service of science, p. 43
* A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist.
** Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately 27,000 Quotations Pertaining to Archaeology, Architecture, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Cosmology, Darwinism, Engineering, Geology, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Nursing, Paleontology, Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Science, Statistics, Technology, Theory, Universe, and Zoology, p. 1129
# Joseph Nicolosi

Joseph Nicolosi (January 24, 1947 – March 8, 2017) was an American clinical psychologist who advocated and practised "reparative therapy", a form of the pseudoscientific treatment of conversion therapy that he claimed could help people overcome or mitigate their homosexual desires and replace them with heterosexual ones. Nicolosi was a founder and president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Medical institutions warn that conversion therapy is ineffective and may be harmful, and that there is no evidence that sexual orientation can be changed by such treatments.

## Quotes
### The Gay Deception

* A "homosexual" is anyone who experiences a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. [...] "Gay" is a self identity chosen by some homosexuals, [...] the idea that homosexual behavior is as normal and natural as heterosexual behavior.
** p. 25
* The person who accepts the gay label in adulthood has typically spent much of his childhood emotionally disconnected from people, particularly his male peers and his father. He also was likely to assume a false, rigid "good little boy" role within the family.
** p. 28
* The pre-homosexual boy is detached, not only from father and other boys, but from maleness and his own male body, including the first symbol of masculinity, his own penis…Homosexual behavior is the search for the lost masculine self. [...] By the early teenage years, unconscious drives to fill this emotional vacuum – to want to connect with his maleness – are felt as homoerotic desires. The next stage will be entry into the gay world.
** p. 29

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Joseph Mitsuaki Takami

Joseph Mitsuaki Takami (March 21, 1946–) is a Japanese Roman Catholic prelate.

## Quotes

* Peter Kibe and his 187 companions send us Christians, and also non-Christians, a message containing many things, such as following: persistence in the faith in God, who alone can save the humanity; keeping the liberty of religion which is one of fundamental human rights; non-violence in front of those who persecute and attack with violence is necessary for making peace. We expect that the Beatification for the Christians of Japan will be an occasion for rediscovering the importance of the faith and of bearing testimony to the love of God manifested through Jesus Christ and the Martyrs.
** “The Beatification of the 188 martyrs is an event of grace, the hidden treasure, an occasion to rediscover and bear witness to the faith.” Interview with Archbishop Joseph Takami of Nagasaki (24 November 2008)
* Perhaps because of Japan's mentality and culture, our faithful are reluctant to talking about their Christian faith to others. Today we need a more explicit Gospel proclamation.
** Archbishop Takami: "Justo Takayama Ukon, an example for today's Christians" (13 October 2017)
* Peace first of all, is a question of one's soul. However, peace is about our faith in God and interpersonal relationships of trust and forgiveness that do not discriminate and hate anybody. Peace is about the necessary conditions that guarantee life in society (health, education, security) and the environment, our common home.
** Japanese archbishop urges U.S. to witness the Gospel of peace (1 August 2020)
* We know that a world without nuclear weapons does not automatically make for peace. We have to make many efforts toward renewal, to recreate the human spirit by insisting on the importance of the practice of love taught and showed by Jesus Christ.
** Japanese Bishop calls for peace on 76th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing (9 August 2021)
# Joseph Mittathany

Joseph Mittathany (12 July 1931 – 11 July 2022) was an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Tezpur and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Imphal.

## Quotes

* As individual Churches we are small, but collectively we are big and a force to reckon with, and can achieve a lot.
** Christian Churches Jointly Seek Peace In Troubled Northeastern India (15 October 2003) Union of Asian Catholic News
# Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt

Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt (4 September 1952 –) is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hanoi.

## Quotes

* Do your best to preserve the unity, and love among you. It's the most precious treasure of our archdiocese. With the love that already exists among us, love Mgr. Peter as you have loved me.
** Archbishop Joseph Ngo explains his resignation (13 May 2010) VietCatholic News
# Joseph Mukasa Zuza

Joseph Mukasa Zuza (2 October 1955 – 15 January 2015) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Mzuzu.

## Quotes

* They are using our poverty in order to get their agenda fulfilled and that is what we say is contrary to the principles of genuine love and the principles of the family.
** Resist Western influences says Bishop Zuza of Mzuzu in Malawi (2014) Vatican Radio
# Joseph Murphy

Joseph Denis Murphy (May 20, 1898 – December 16, 1981) was an Irish author and New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science.

## Quotes
### The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind By Joseph Murphy (1963)

The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind
* “Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.”
* “The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish."
* “All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. Its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”
* “Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.”
* “As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.”
# Joseph N. Welch

Joseph Nye Welch (22 October 1890 – 6 October 1960) was an American lawyer, and the head counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for Communist activities. Welch played a Michigan judge in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

## Quotes
### Army–McCarthy hearings (9 June 1954)

    Statements to Joseph McCarthy on the 30th day of the Army–McCarthy hearings (9 June 1954) · partial video of exchange at YouTube
* Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale and Dorr. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
** Highlighted section cited in: William Lee Miller (2012) Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World. p. 309
* Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
** Highlighted section quoted in: Robert Shogan (2009) No Sense Of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings. p. xiii
* Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you. You have sat within six feet of me and could have asked me about Fred Fisher. You have seen fit to bring it out. And if there is a God in Heaven it will do neither you nor your cause any good. I will not discuss it further. I will not ask Mr. Cohn any more questions. You, Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, call the next witness.
** As cited in: Thomas Doherty, ‎Thomas Patrick Doherty (2013) Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. p. 207

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Joseph N. Welch on Wikipedia
* Joseph N. Welch on IMDb
* McCarthy–Welch exchange: "Have You No Sense of Decency" (transcript and sound file)
# Kleve proverbs

Kleve is a Lower Rhine dialect spoken in Western Germany bordering to the Netherlands.

## O

* Onkrüt vergeht niet.
** von Duringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "516, Unkraut" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 288.

## S

* Stille Waters sinn diep.
** English equivalentː Still waters run deep.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto. "399, Stille". Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. II. pp. 221-222.

## See Also

* German proverbs
# Klänge

Klänge (German; Sounds) is a book by the Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky. Published in an edition of 345 in Munich in late 1912, the work is a famous early example of an artist's book, containing both poems and woodcuts by the artist, forming two parallel strands, each involving a loose progression. One of three seminal books that Kandinsky published between 1911 and 1912 - the other two being Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Der Blaue Reiter Almanac that he edited with Franz Marc - Klänge was to have a direct and lasting influence on Expressionism, Dada and Russian Futurism.

## Quotes

* [Kandinsky] began writing prose-poems, composing 38 altogether between 1908 and 1912. In 1913 these were published by Piper Verlag under the title Sounds, accompanied by colour and black-and-white woodcuts. in these Dadaistic poems, Kandinsky employs a method borrowed from young children's early attempts at speech; through constant repetition and babbling words are emptied of their meaning, so that only the pure sound remains. It is Kandinsky's aim to uncover this "pure sound" of language, the sound which "sets the soul vibrating.
** Becks-Malorny Kandinsky. Taschen, 1994. - P. 24.
# Kleshas (Buddhism)

Kleshas, in Buddhism, are unwholesome mental states.

## Quotes

* Focus right at the mind. Whichever defilement arises first, that’s the one to abandon first.
** Ajaan Dune, response when asked, "Which defilements should be abandoned first?" Gifts He Left Behind, The Dhamma Legacy of Phra Ajaan Dune Atulo (Phra Rājavuḍḍhācariya), compiled by Phra Rājavaraguṇa, as translated from the Thai by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
# Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel (March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer. Making his debut at the conducting podium at the age of eight, he embarked on his career in earnest in 1953, establishing a reputation in European concert halls by 1960 but, by comparison, his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. However, he would later be appointed music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic (NYP), among other posts.

## Quotes

* In fact the hardest part is trying to forget music when I'm not conducting it.
** As quoted in BBC News
* I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
** As quoted in BBC News
* I come to a performance of music that I know very well as if I were performing it for the first time. Every day is a new day, a new experience. This is the way I approach a masterpiece. A masterpiece can never age - it's only the people who perform it or listen to it who become insensitive to it. If you come with a fresh feeling toward a masterpiece, it will always feel fresh and give you the benefit of its genius.
** As quoted in Successories.com

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Lorin Maazel on Wikipedia
# Loris Francesco Capovilla

Loris Francesco Capovilla (14 October 1915 – 26 May 2016) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* The election of John XXIII to the papacy has had varied and reliable interpretations, not always free of objections. Undoubtedly those who believe in the aid of the Holy Spirit, are not surprised by anything, least of all by the age of the man called, and often they rejoice; but even those who hesitate, biased by a reductive vision of the divine reality of the Church, are convinced that that election honored a biblical man.
** Pope Paul, thank you! (2003) 30 Days