query: Who was the Roman god of the sea?

title: History of the Roman Empire

text: from this point on, leading his biographers to label him as insane. Most of what history remembers of Caligula comes from Suetonius, in his book "Lives of the Twelve Caesars". According to Suetonius, Caligula once planned to appoint his favourite horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate. He ordered his soldiers to invade Britain to fight the Sea God Neptune, but changed his mind at the last minute and had them pick sea shells on the northern end of France instead. It is believed he carried on incestuous relations with his three sisters: Julia Livilla, Drusilla and Agrippina the Younger. He

title: Sea in culture

text: sea nymphs whose parents were Nereus and Doris. The Tritons, sons of Poseidon, who were variously represented with the tails of fish or seahorses, formed Poseidon's retinue along with the Nereids. The mythic sea was further peopled by dangerous sea monsters such as Scylla. Poseidon himself had something of the shifting character of the sea, presiding not only over the sea, but also earthquakes, storms and horses. Neptune occupied a similar position in Roman mythology. Another Greek sea-god, Proteus, specifically embodies the domain of sea change, the adjectival form "protean" meaning mutable, able to assume many forms. Shakespeare makes use

title: The Sea God

text: It was loosely based on a short story by John Russell, a well-known writer of pulp fiction. Russell had also penned "The Pagan", another South Seas yarn which was made into a film in 1929. "The Sea God" was filmed on location at Catalina Island, California, with several scenes being shot at sea. The Sea God The Sea God is a 1930 American pre-Code adventure film written and directed by George Abbott. The film stars Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette, Ivan Simpson, Maurice Black, and Bob Perry. The film was released on September 13, 1930, by Paramount Pictures. Pink

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: God Beneath the Sea" and its sequel "The Golden Shadow" as "probably the most striking evidence of Keeping's forceful presence". The U.S. publisher Random House replaced Keeping's work with illustrations by Zevi Blum. They were not well received by critics; one described them as "MGM-style drawings, which substituted for drama a soft coyness and prurience." The God Beneath the Sea The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970. It was awarded the annual Carnegie Medal (Garfield & Blishen)

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: The God Beneath the Sea The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970. It was awarded the annual Carnegie Medal (Garfield & Blishen) and commended for the companion Greenaway Medal (Keeping) by the British Library Association. Pantheon Books published a U.S. edition with illustrations by Zevi Blum in 1971. The novel begins with newborn Hephaestus (the titular god beneath the sea) cast from Mount Olympus by his mother Hera. He is raised in a grotto by Thetis and

title: The Sea God

text: The Sea God The Sea God is a 1930 American pre-Code adventure film written and directed by George Abbott. The film stars Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette, Ivan Simpson, Maurice Black, and Bob Perry. The film was released on September 13, 1930, by Paramount Pictures. Pink Barker (Arlen) loses his boat and his girl Daisy (Wray) to his bitter rival Schultz (Gleckler), but his fortunes change when an old, dying sailor he rescues at sea tells him about a fortune to be had in pearls. Unfortunately, the pearl beds lie off an island inhabited by cannibals. Barker sails in

title: Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God

text: Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God or Thomasina is a 1957 novel by Paul Gallico about a cat, owned by a child whose strict father must learn that love is powerful enough to help others. The book was adapted for the 1963 Disney film "The Three Lives of Thomasina". Andrew MacDhui, a widowed veterinary surgeon working in Scotland, has a young daughter, Mary Ruadh, who is attached to her pet ginger cat called Thomasina (the narrator of the story). Although Mary loves Thomasina, her father MacDhui only tolerates the cat.

title: The Sea God

text: Square Deal and Daisy. Square Deal and Daisy are sent as prisoners to his boat, but just as Schultz is about to do away with Pink, his party are attacked by the natives. Pink escapes but Schultz and his men are all killed. Still trapped on the island, Pink puts on his god-like diving suit again and is able to subdue the natives long enough to swim out to the boat where he is reunited with his friends. "The Sea God" was one of at least six films Wray and Arlen made together while both under contract at Paramount Pictures.

title: Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God

text: to the Georgian Orthodox Church. The Roman Catholics in Batumi now use the Church of the Holy Spirit, a modern structure consecrated in 2000. Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God The Church of the Mother of God (, "batumis ghvtismshoblis sakhelobis eklesia") in Batumi is a Georgian Orthodox cathedral, originally built as a Catholic church early in the 1900s. A Gothic Revival design, the church is located in the Black Sea city of Batumi in Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara. The church was built as a Roman Catholic church through the sponsorship of the Zubalashvili brothers, Georgian Catholic businessmen,

title: Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?

text: Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls? Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search For The Secret Of Qumran is a book by Norman Golb which intensifies the debate over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, furthering the opinion that the scrolls were not the work of the Essenes, as other scholars claim, but written in Jerusalem and moved to Qumran in anticipation of the Roman siege in 70 AD. Writing in "Church History", Gregory T. Armstrong stated: "This book is 'must reading' for every historian regardless of her or his period of specialization. It demonstrates how a particular

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: About the writing process the authors told "Junior Bookshelf" (August 1971), "We wrote together, much of the time. One of us would actually commit the words to paper. There were often long silences. These might be broken, not by a grave suggestion as to further text, but by some wild burst of laughter. Much of the matter we were dealing with was most grim and tense. Laughter - and some schoolboyish joking - helped." Charles Keeping drew fifteen illustrations for "The God Beneath the Sea". His work was widely acclaimed by critics, but Keeping himself was dissatisfied with the illustrations.

text: Mary. She decides to immediately make her way back to Mary through a rainstorm. When Thomasina arrives at the MacDhui home, the housekeeper lets her in through the window, Lori recognizes her as the cat she rescued from a grave, and MacDhui lets Mary hold Thomasina. Mary is overjoyed to see her cat again and immediately starts to recover. Life returns to normal, with MacDhui marrying Lori and becoming a better father to Mary. In 1963 "The Three Lives of Thomasina", a film based on "Thomasina", was released by Disney Studios. Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God Thomasina,

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: project this by taking "a symbolic line, so if you look at them you will find there's a symbolic overtone in them." At the time of the book's publication, Keeping was looking forward to working with the authors on the sequel "The Golden Shadow", as he hoped "to redeem some of the mistakes of the first one." The Library Association recognised "The God Beneath The Sea" for both of its annual children's book awards, the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. Garfield and Blishen won the Carnegie Medal, for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Keeping

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: Eurynome and the two goddesses tell him various Greek creation myths. The novel continues with myths of the Olympians and the age of gods and mortals, and concludes with Hephaestus returning to Olympus, having been cast down for a second time after reproaching Zeus. Garfield, Blishen, Keeping, and Longman collaborated on a sequel entitled "The Golden Shadow" (1973, ). It is based on myths of the later heroic age, when divine activity was limited. "The God Beneath the Sea" is divided into three parts. Part one begins with the image of the infant Hephaestus plummeting from Olympus to the ocean.

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: throws Hephaestus for a second time from Olympus. Hephaestus lands on the isle of Lemnos and is nursed to health by the locals. He returns to Olympus and is greeted by Hermes. At the novel's conclusion, Autolycus muses in a letter to his daughter that his grandson Odysseus may one day visit the new city of Troy. Blishen and Garfield began work on "The God Beneath the Sea" after discovering that Greek mythology had had similar impacts on them as primary school children. In Blishen's words, "these stories seemed to illuminate, to make clear, what was going on around me

title: Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God

text: Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God The Church of the Mother of God (, "batumis ghvtismshoblis sakhelobis eklesia") in Batumi is a Georgian Orthodox cathedral, originally built as a Catholic church early in the 1900s. A Gothic Revival design, the church is located in the Black Sea city of Batumi in Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara. The church was built as a Roman Catholic church through the sponsorship of the Zubalashvili brothers, Georgian Catholic businessmen, between 1898 and 1902. During the Soviet period the church was closed and converted into a high-voltage laboratory. In 1989 the church was transferred

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: series of stories, "[t]heir zest sweeps you along. It is a real feat, to make everything sound so first hand." "Contemporary Review" observed a "slight decline in narrative cohesiveness" in the second half of the book, after the "fine ... reworking of the earlier myths" but felt it "detracts little from the effectiveness of dramatic and narrative motifs ... which help tie together the disparate myths so well." "The Spectator" claimed "the narrative is handled with dramatic, and comic, awareness of the epic voyage into our creative origins." Philip Pullman cites "The God Beneath the Sea" as an inspiration for

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: his fantasy literature. A 2001 article in "The Guardian" named "The God Beneath the Sea" the ninth best children's book of all time, calling it "[v]isceral, overpowering, defiantly undomesticated" and "the best ever rendering of the Greek myths in modern English." In contrast to the writing's mixed reception, critics were unanimous in acknowledging the power of Charles Keeping's illustrations. In an otherwise scathing review, Garner called them "a singular vision of what Classical myth must have been. Two drawings especially – Cronos and Prometheus – are more terrible and beautiful than Goya." Manning stated that Keeping's "contributions are magnificent... From

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: the past?" He also avoided modern dress as "this would be old fashioned within another fifteen years", deciding in the end to dispense with "any form of recognizable costume" while avoiding "anything that is appertaining to our particular moment in time." He used "a figurative art. There's nothing else in it... except people, their emotions and their reactions to emotions." Keeping called his completed illustrations for "The God Beneath the Sea" "a set of drawings much to my disgust not all awfully good." He saw them as violent and cruel illustrations of violent and cruel people, and attempted to visually

title: God Was Born in Exile

text: God Was Born in Exile God Was Born in Exile (French: "Dieu est né en exil") is a novel by Romanian author Vintilă Horia, for which he was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1960, though he was never handed the prize following allegations that surfaced after his nomination that he had once been a member of the Iron Guard. The novel's narrator is Ovid, the Roman poet, and this apocryphal work is rather similar to Marguerite Yourcenar's "Mémoires d'Hadrien" in which Yourcenar writes the Roman emperor Hadrian's mémoires. In "God Was Born in Exile", "Ovid" covers the last eight years

title: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

text: not sure as to what kind of glory he will receive. Ryuji falls in love with Fusako and then later he gets married to her becoming a father figure to her son Noboru. This new love and the failure of achieving glory in the presence of the sea makes him determine to retire from the sea, thus outraging Noboru and causing him to take action. Noboru is a thirteen-year boy and the son of Fusako. He is the protagonist of this novel. He is influenced by his friends, especially the chief who thinks “..society is basically meaningless, a Roman mixed

title: The Man Who Lost the Sea

text: at that listing. The Man Who Lost the Sea "The Man Who Lost the Sea" is a science fiction short story by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. Originally published in the October 1959 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", it was nominated for (but did not win) the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction. Writing in "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", John Clute described "The Man Who Lost the Sea" as "strong, immeasurably complex, word-perfect and deeply fixative to the reader's memory". When the story opens, the reader is introduced to a boy who is showing a

title: The Man Who Lost the Sea

text: The Man Who Lost the Sea "The Man Who Lost the Sea" is a science fiction short story by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. Originally published in the October 1959 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", it was nominated for (but did not win) the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction. Writing in "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", John Clute described "The Man Who Lost the Sea" as "strong, immeasurably complex, word-perfect and deeply fixative to the reader's memory". When the story opens, the reader is introduced to a boy who is showing a model helicopter to

title: Emperor of the Sea

text: Emperor of the Sea Emperor of the Sea (; literally "Sea God") is a South Korean television drama series starring Choi Soo-jong, Chae Shi-ra, Song Il-gook، Soo Ae and Chae Jung-an It aired on KBS2 from November 24, 2004 to May 25, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 51 episodes. The period drama is based on Choi In-ho's 2003 novel "Hae-sin", which depicts the life of Jang Bogo, who rises from a lowly slave to a powerful maritime figure who dominated the East Asia seas and international trade during the Unified Silla Dynasty. The series was received extremely

title: History of the North Sea

text: North Sea was by the Romans in 12 BC, when Nero Claudius Drusus built and launched a fleet of over a thousand ships into the North Sea conquering the indigenous tribes, including the Frisii and the Chauci. By 5 BC the Roman knowledge of the Sea was greatly expanded as far as the Elbe by a military expedition under Tiberius. Pliny the Elder describes Roman sailors going through Helgoland and as far as the northeast coast of Denmark. Julius Caesar's invasions of Britain in 55 BC and 54 BC were intended to punish those tribes who had supported the rebels

title: The Man Who Sued God

text: The Man Who Sued God The Man Who Sued God is a 2001 Australian comedy film starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and directed by Mark Joffe. The film was a financial success, debuting at number one at the Australian box office in the week of its launch and as of 2013 remains the 28th highest grossing Australian film of all time. Advocate Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) is a disillusioned lawyer who becomes fed-up with the perceived corruption within the judicial system. He quits the law business and buys a small fishing boat and takes up fishing for a living.

title: A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening

text: is both fascinated by and frustrated with the followers of the new religion; these people who "worship fish", as he puts it. He also reflects back on his visit to Rome several years earlier, where he met his hero Marcus Aurelius. A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening () is a historical novel by the Portuguese writer Mario de Carvalho, set in the Roman province of Lusitania during the reign of Roman Emperor Commodus. First published in Portugal in Portuguese in 1994 as "Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da

title: The God Who Wasn't There

text: stories of the Gospels," and in addition she cites verses from the Epistles that do reference the humanity of Jesus. In December 2006, the atheist organization Rational Response Squad announced it would give free DVDs of the film to the first 1,001 people who participated in the Blasphemy Challenge, an Internet-based project encouraging atheists to declare themselves publicly. The God Who Wasn't There The God Who Wasn't There is a 2005 independent documentary written and directed by Brian Flemming. The documentary questions the existence of Jesus, examining evidence that supports the Christ myth theory against the existence of a historical

title: State church of the Roman Empire

text: an outburst of missionary activity among these peoples, who had no direct links with the Eastern Roman Empire, and among Pictic and Celtic peoples who had never been part of the Roman Empire, fostered the idea of a universal church free from association with a particular state. On the contrary, "in the East Roman or Byzantine view, when the Roman Empire became Christian, the perfect world order willed by God had been achieved: one universal empire was sovereign, and coterminous with it was the one universal church"; and the church came, by the time of the demise of the Byzantine

title: The Man Who Ploughed the Sea

text: commercially viable. The piece was later published as the tenth story in Clarke's collection "Tales from the White Hart". The Man Who Ploughed the Sea "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story within a story is narrated by Harry Purvis, who recalls a holiday spent submarining off of the Florida Keys. While there, he happens to witness a meeting between two wealthy and talented scientists, one of whom has designed a method to extract trace elements from seawater. He trades his secret to

title: The Man Who Sued God

text: right to remake the film in Hindi for release in India. "OMG – Oh My God!", based on the original premise of TMWSG, as well as an Indian story with a similar plotline, was released in 2012. Produced by Grazing Goat, Playtime Creations, Spice Studios and Viacom 18, OMG was a box office hit in India, and was critically acclaimed. Later in 2015, the re-remake of the film in Telugu named "Gopala Gopala" was released. Later the remake of the movie in Kannada titled Mukunda Murari withactors Upendra and Sudeep released in 2016. The Man Who Sued God The Man

title: The Boy Who Was

text: in history, connected only by Nino's involvement. Chapter 3, "Poseidon and the Greeks", covers the building of the temple of Poseidon in Paestum. Chapter 4, "The Romans and the Volcano", tells of the destruction of Pompeii. Chapter 5, "The Last of the Goths", is a highly romanticized view of the fall of the Ostrogothic kingdom in southern Italy which followed the western Roman empire and was in turn followed by the Lombards. Chapter 6, "The Normans and the Saracens", has Nino telling Robert Guiscard's army about a group of Norman soldiers sixty years earlier who repelled a Saracen pirate attack

title: The God Who Wasn't There

text: The God Who Wasn't There The God Who Wasn't There is a 2005 independent documentary written and directed by Brian Flemming. The documentary questions the existence of Jesus, examining evidence that supports the Christ myth theory against the existence of a historical Jesus, as well as other aspects of Christianity. Most of the film is a presentation of the argument for the Christ myth theory. Flemming and those he interviews in the film make these claims: Besides defending the Jesus myth hypothesis, the film criticizes some other aspects of Christianity: Several notable personalities make appearances in the documentary: The following

title: The Man Who Lost the Sea

text: head ...", "If you were the kid ..."). Shortly after its original appearance in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in issue 74 (January 1960) of the French-language magazine "Fiction" (under the title "L'homme qui a perdu la mer"). Its first appearance in Britain was in the October 1963 issue of "Venture Science Fiction". "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in two best-of-the-year anthologies—"The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction" (Ninth Series, 1960) and "The Best American Short Stories, 1960", as well as being reprinted in "The Fifth Annual of the

title: The Sea Monster

text: on Anna Perenna, who escapes from Aeneas with the aid of a horned water-god. Art historian Jane Campbell Hutchison suggests that the Milanese headdress may refer to the Lombard queen Theodelinda, who was also abducted by a sea monster. The horned Tritonesque figure echoes a description given by Poggio Bracciolini of a sea monster that had terrorised the Adriatic coast in the early 15th century. The Sea Monster The Sea Monster (German: Das Meerwunder) is a c. 1498–1500 engraving by the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. It shows a voluptuous naked middle-aged woman riding on the back of a male

title: The God Machine (comics)

text: sea". Good God and Evil God come through a door, Evil God yelling about the fact that Guy saw them. Good God says they can simply look Guy up, and go into the Limbo dimension. There they run into Limbo God, third in command and keeper of Limbo, who goes with them to go eat before looking up Guy. Meanwhile Guy is in math class, where Mortia, the girlfriend of Andrew who is Guy's best friend, is hitting on Guy. He yells at her drawing the attention of the teacher, but begins to see horrific things in class while his

title: How The First Helandman of God Was Maid

text: How The First Helandman of God Was Maid How The First Helandman of God Was Maid is an anonymous comic poem in Scots preserved in the Bannatyne Manuscript of the sixteenth century. The poem narrates how, following a wager proposed to him by Saint Peter, God creates the first Highlander from a piece of horse manure. The prototype highlander is depicted as a petty thief and a stealer of Lowlanders' cattle. In the "Bannatyne Manuscript" the poem's full title is given as How the first Helandman of God was maid, Of ane Horss Turd, in Argylle, as is said. The

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: finds Prometheus' hidden jar. Opening it, she releases malignant furies on mankind: madness, old age, vice and sickness. All that is left in the jar is a chrysalis that works as a healing balm. Hermes consoles the despairing Prometheus that hope was left behind for mankind, "for who knows what may unfold from a chrysalis?" Part III, "Gods and Men", begins with the tale of Lycaon turned to a wolf by Zeus after treating him with disrespect. Zeus begins a deluge. Prometheus shouts a warning to Deucalion, who makes a sea vessel to survive the storm with his wife, Pyrrha.

title: The Man Who Played God (1922 film)

text: The Man Who Played God (1922 film) The Man Who Played God is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and written by Forrest Halsey. The film stars George Arliss, Ann Forrest, Ivan Simpson, Edward Earle, and Effie Shannon. The film was released on October 1, 1922, by United Artists. Considered to be a lost film for decades, a print of "The Man Who Played God" was found at Gosfilmofond in Moscow. A famous pianist (Montgomery Royle) is engaged to a quite younger woman. An accidental explosion results in him becoming deaf but he learns to

title: Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?

text: and that they were deposited in the caves near the Dead Sea (among other locations) by Jews fleeing the Roman army during the First Revolt" and that although the book is based in historical, archaeological, and paleographical evidence, "he also lets readers in on his personal efforts to question and oppose the scholarly status quo, leaving the impression of being self-serving." Ilene Cooper from Booklist suggest that public libraries carry this book for "its provocative assertions." Géza Vermes, wrote in his "An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls" (2000), that Golb is responsible for "another forceful attack on the

title: The Man Who Ploughed the Sea

text: The Man Who Ploughed the Sea "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story within a story is narrated by Harry Purvis, who recalls a holiday spent submarining off of the Florida Keys. While there, he happens to witness a meeting between two wealthy and talented scientists, one of whom has designed a method to extract trace elements from seawater. He trades his secret to the other in exchange for the other's fancy yacht, but it turns out that the process is not yet

title: God Save the Queen

text: ("God Save Emperor Francis") for the birthday of the last Holy Roman Emperor and Roman-German King, Francis II. It became the anthem of the Austrian Empire after the end of the Holy Roman Empire with revised lyrics, its tune ultimately being used for the German national anthem. The tune of "God Save the King" was adopted for the Prussian royal anthem "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz". Franz Liszt wrote a piano paraphrase on the anthem (S.259 in the official catalogue, c. 1841). Johann Strauss I quoted "God Save the Queen" in full at the end of his waltz "Huldigung der Königin

title: The Garden of God

text: The Garden of God The Garden of God is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1923. It is the first sequel to his best-selling novel "The Blue Lagoon" (1908), and continued with "The Gates of Morning" (1925). "The Garden of God" was adapted into the film "Return to the Blue Lagoon". The sequel picks up precisely where the first book left off, with Arthur Lestrange in the ship "Raratonga" discovering his son Dicky and niece Emmeline with their own child, lying in their fishing boat which has drifted out to sea. While the last line

title: Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca

text: Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca The Clerics Regular of the Mother of God () are a Roman Catholic Religious Order of priests, dedicated to education and pastoral care. The Order was founded by St. John Leonardi, who worked with this community to spread devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as the Forty Hours devotion, and frequent reception of the Blessed Sacrament. Its members use the suffix of O.M.D. Leonardi, son of middle-class parents, who was born in 1541 at Diecimo (now within the comune of Borgo a Mozzano) in the Republic of Lucca. He

text: in Greek characters. Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca The Clerics Regular of the Mother of God () are a Roman Catholic Religious Order of priests, dedicated to education and pastoral care. The Order was founded by St. John Leonardi, who worked with this community to spread devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as the Forty Hours devotion, and frequent reception of the Blessed Sacrament. Its members use the suffix of O.M.D. Leonardi, son of middle-class parents, who was born in 1541 at Diecimo (now within the comune of Borgo a Mozzano) in the Republic

title: History of the North Sea

text: History of the North Sea The North Sea, though often an area of conflict, has an extensive history of maritime commerce and trade routes between its coastal nations whose economies and industries were also able to exploit its resources. The earliest records of Roman explorations of the sea begin in 12 BC. Southern Britain was formally invaded in 43 AD and gradually assimilated into the Roman Empire, beginning sustained trade across the North Sea and the English Channel. The Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes began the next great migration across the North Sea during the Migration Period, conquering, displacing, and

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: into a screech-owl. Rhea intercedes and Demeter agrees to let Persephone live with Hades for three months of the year. The novel tells myths of Autolycus, the son of Hermes and Chione, and Sisyphus. Autolycus steals the cattle of his neighbor Sisyphus; Sisyphus gains revenge by raping Autolycus' daughter Anticleia. Autolycus sends Anticleia to Ithaca to marry Laertes, who raises Odysseus, the son of Sisyphus and Anticleia, as his own. Sisyphus spies Zeus ravishing the daughter of the river god Asopus and tells Asopus where he had seen them in return for a gift of an eternal spring. He tricks

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: and the immortals come to Olympus to honor the newborn god. Zeus commands Hermes to find a gift for Ares. Hermes finds the lost half of Hephaestus' broken brooch and returns it to Zeus as a gift. Zeus creates Aphrodite in the image of the brooch's nymph. Hermes then reunites the broken half of the brooch with the other half, which is worn by Thetis. Hera, struck by the beauty of the brooch, demands to know who fashioned the brooch, then dispatches Hermes to fetch Hephaestus. Hermes returns Hephaestus to Olympus; Hephaestus forgives Hera and asks Zeus for Aphrodite as

title: The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea

text: The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea is a 2010 British documentary film produced by the BBC. The film premiered on BBC Four on 6 January 2010, and is presented by archaeologist Cheryl Ward and directed by Stephane Begoin. Chris Hilton and Valerie Abita served as the executive producers. The duration of the film is fifty nine minutes. The film explores the legend that a large number of ships were built by Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, capable of trade with the Land of Punt. Hatshepsut is known as one

title: The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea

text: because of the "soft-focus dramatic reconstructions, Hatshepsut feeding grapes to her royal monkey etc" that "resembled a Flake ad." The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea is a 2010 British documentary film produced by the BBC. The film premiered on BBC Four on 6 January 2010, and is presented by archaeologist Cheryl Ward and directed by Stephane Begoin. Chris Hilton and Valerie Abita served as the executive producers. The duration of the film is fifty nine minutes. The film explores the legend that a large number of ships were built by Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh

title: Mother of God Roman Catholic Church (Covington, Kentucky)

text: Mother of God Roman Catholic Church (Covington, Kentucky) Mother of God Parish () is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, United States, located at 119 West 6th Street in Covington. The official title of the parish is "The Assumption of Mary, Mother of God, Parish". The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was also included in the Mutter Gottes Historic District which was listed on the National Register in 1980. This historic church features twin renaissance towers and murals by famous Vatican artist Johann Schmitt, an early teacher

text: of over a million dollars. The parish school merged with St John School, St Ann School, and Sts Boniface And James School in 1984 to form Prince Of Peace Academy housed at St John. Mother of God Roman Catholic Church (Covington, Kentucky) Mother of God Parish () is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, United States, located at 119 West 6th Street in Covington. The official title of the parish is "The Assumption of Mary, Mother of God, Parish". The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was also

title: How The First Helandman of God Was Maid

text: with him swearing an oath upon a nearby church. "As long as I may find goods to steal, I will never work!" How The First Helandman of God Was Maid How The First Helandman of God Was Maid is an anonymous comic poem in Scots preserved in the Bannatyne Manuscript of the sixteenth century. The poem narrates how, following a wager proposed to him by Saint Peter, God creates the first Highlander from a piece of horse manure. The prototype highlander is depicted as a petty thief and a stealer of Lowlanders' cattle. In the "Bannatyne Manuscript" the poem's full

title: The Wrath of God

text: The Wrath of God "For other uses, see Aguirre (disambiguation)." The Wrath of God is an offbeat Western genre film released in 1972 and filmed in Mexico. It starred Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth (her final film role) and Victor Buono and was directed by Ralph Nelson. It is based on the novel by Jack Higgins writing as James Graham. Van Horne (played by Mitchum), a bank robber dressed like a Roman Catholic priest, is spared from a firing squad in 1922 in an unnamed Central America nation and sent to kill a local desperado. The movie is a

title: The Witch Who Came from the Sea

text: The Witch Who Came from the Sea The Witch Who Came From the Sea is a 1976 American horror film produced and directed by Matt Cimber and shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey. The film centers on an emotionally scarred woman who goes on a killing spree after taking a job as a waitress in a seaside bar. The film concerns a dysfunctional and disturbed woman called Molly (Millie Perkins) who, after suffering repeated sexual abuse as a child at the hands of her seafaring father, embarks on a spree of gruesome sexual encounters with men who she meets during her

title: God Was Born in Exile

text: in the narrative. Ovid's spiritual journey resolves itself between both symbolic universes whose antagonistic characters become interwoven during a chiasm, in order to rise up again at the end of the radically metamorphized narration. God Was Born in Exile God Was Born in Exile (French: "Dieu est né en exil") is a novel by Romanian author Vintilă Horia, for which he was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1960, though he was never handed the prize following allegations that surfaced after his nomination that he had once been a member of the Iron Guard. The novel's narrator is Ovid, the Roman

title: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

text: never went this far south. This account of a kingdom tracing its beginnings to Alexander's campaigns and the Hellenistic Seleucid empire that followed: The "Periplus" further claims to the circulation of Indo-Greek coinage in the region: The Greek city of Alexandria Bucephalous on the Jhelum River is mentioned in the "Periplus", as well as in the Roman Peutinger Table: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea (, ) is a Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice Troglodytica along

text: for some kind of ideal. Because of this, the need to die for something arises. That need is the “great cause” people talked about in the past. Dying for a great cause was considered the most glorious heroic or brilliant way of dying” Thus in a certain way Mishima hereby personifies his ideology in Ryuji's character. When Ryuji was first introduced as an almost god-like figure, attention was drawn to his "dangerous, glittering gaze", hence firmly linking glory with danger, and by extension, death. Glory in the text is also found in the turbulence and uncertainty of the sea and

title: The Witch Who Came from the Sea

text: the era. Brett Gallman from "Oh, the Horror" wrote, "For all its glib asides, "The Witch Who Came from the Sea" leaves the haunting image of a woman undone by a world that never lived up to the fantasies inside of her television set." Casey Scott from "DVD Drive-in" called the film "an unsung psychological gem" among 1970s exploitation films. Chris Coffel from "Bloody Disgusting" gave the film a score of 4/5, writing, ""The Witch Who Came from the Sea" is a movie people need to see. Again it’s not horror in the typical sense, though it was a video

title: The Man Who Sued God

text: in Court that God's representatives will have to admit that the destruction of Steve's fishing boat was actually God's Act, accept and compensate him, or deny it altogether thereby denying God's existence, leaving the onus on Steve to prove his claim. Myers's battle brings media attention leading to a meeting with journalist Anna Redmond (Judy Davis) who helps to raise his public profile, enlisting the support of others who had fallen victim to insurance companies' "Acts of God" clause. He also faces heavy criticism and protests from religious groups as his profile grows, and he backs the church into a

title: The Man Who Played God (1932 film)

text: The Man Who Played God (1932 film) The Man Who Played God is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John G. Adolfi and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. George Arliss stars as a concert pianist embittered by the loss of his hearing who eventually finds redemption in helping others; it also features a then little-known Bette Davis as the much younger woman in love with the protagonist. Warner Bros. promoted the film as an example that studios could produce motion pictures of social and moral value without the oversight of non-industry agents. It was modestly successful at the

title: Marriage of the Sea ceremony

text: was offered that "for us and all who sail thereon the sea may be calm and quiet", whereupon the doge and the others were solemnly aspersed with holy water, the rest of which was thrown into the sea while the priests chanted ""Aspergēs mē hȳsōpō, et mundābor"" ("Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean" – Psalm 51:7). To this ancient ceremony a quasi-sacramental character was given by Pope Alexander III in 1177, in return for the services rendered by Venice in the struggle against the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I. The pope drew a ring from his finger

title: The Witch Who Came from the Sea

text: nasty, but it is without question horrific. And despite it’s grim nature, the film is quite beautiful thanks to the DP work of the legendary Dean Cundey." Todd Martin from "HorrorNews.net" called the film "a hidden gem", praising the film's bleak tone, and Perkins' performance. The Witch Who Came from the Sea The Witch Who Came From the Sea is a 1976 American horror film produced and directed by Matt Cimber and shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey. The film centers on an emotionally scarred woman who goes on a killing spree after taking a job as a waitress in a

title: The Man Who Sued God

text: His fishing boat is struck by lightning and explodes into pieces, burns and sinks. He informs his insurance company, which reviews and then subsequently declines his claim on the grounds that it is not liable as his fishing boat was destroyed due to an "Act of God". Frustrated that his claim is repeatedly declined, Steve files a claim against God, naming church officials as representatives of God and thereby the respondents. The church leaders, their respective lawyers and their insurance company get together to find a way to settle this dilemma, which catches the fancy of the media. It is

title: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

text: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea (, ) is a Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice Troglodytica along the coast of the Red Sea, and others along Horn of Africa, the Sindh region of Pakistan, along with southwestern regions of India. The text has been ascribed to different dates between the first and third centuries CE, but a mid-first century date is now the most commonly accepted. While the author is unknown, it is clearly a firsthand

title: The God Beneath the Sea

text: and more violent with age. Thetis and Eurynome give him a hammer, anvil and forge to vent his fury and discover he is a gifted smith. Hephaestus' most beautiful creation is a brooch depicting a sea nymph and her lover; he threatens to destroy the brooch unless Thetis tells him who he is and how he came to live in the grotto. The goddesses resume their tales: Rhea and Zeus conspire to overthrow Cronus. The avenging children of Cronus defeat and imprison the Titans, sparing Rhea, Prometheus and Epimetheus. The gods fashion their home on Olympus, and Zeus seduces Hera

title: God of the gaps

text: caused life to start." Critics of intelligent design creationism, for example, have accused proponents of using this basic type of argument. God-of-the-gaps arguments have been discouraged by some theologians who assert that such arguments tend to relegate God to the leftovers of science: as scientific knowledge increases, the dominion of God decreases. The term was invented as a criticism of people who perceive that God only acts in the gaps, and who restrict God's activity to such "gaps". It has also been argued that the God-of-the-gaps view is predicated on the assumption that any event which can be explained by

title: Movement of the Word of God

text: Movement of the Word of God The Movement of the Word of God, also called Work of God the Father, is a pastoral community of disciples, a lay ecclesial movement within the Roman Catholic Church. Is defined itself as "a Catholic Community organized out of the pastoral charism of the Gospel, and consecrated to evangelizing the desert of the world and to developing the Civilization of Love on Earth." It is an ecclesial movement of evangelical renewal and of evangelization with diverse types of members, commitments and services. It seeks to participate, within the Catholic Church, of the Ecumenism of

title: Movement of the Word of God

text: the needs of society. Movement of the Word of God The Movement of the Word of God, also called Work of God the Father, is a pastoral community of disciples, a lay ecclesial movement within the Roman Catholic Church. Is defined itself as "a Catholic Community organized out of the pastoral charism of the Gospel, and consecrated to evangelizing the desert of the world and to developing the Civilization of Love on Earth." It is an ecclesial movement of evangelical renewal and of evangelization with diverse types of members, commitments and services. It seeks to participate, within the Catholic Church,

title: How The First Helandman of God Was Maid

text: piece is attributed to no author. The poem opens with God and Saint Peter walking "High up in Argyll, where their path lay." Peter asks The Lord "Can you not make a Highland man out of this horse turd?" With a touch of his staff God creates a Highlander from the piece of dung and asks him "Where do you want to go?" The highlander replies that he will go to the lowlands to steal livestock. When God points out to the highlander that he will be hanged for this crime the man claims to be indifferent. "I must die

title: Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor

text: holy Roman Church in all ways useful to her, however many, in so far as I am supported by divine assistance according to my knowledge and ability." The imperial party then proceeded to the Basilica of St. Peter. The Emperor was met at the silver door of St. Peter's by the Cardinal Bishop of Albano, who says the prayer, "God in whose hands are the hearts of kings...". He then entered the church, where the Cardinal Bishop of Porto said the prayer, "Inscrutable God, Author of the world..." The Emperor then went up into the choir and the Litany of

title: The Man Who Played God (1922 film)

text: read lips quite quickly. He decides to use that skill to help random people around him. However, he sees his fiancee in a park with a different man. Montgomery is heartbroken, but after she confesses the truth to him, he helps her to be secure with the new man. The Man Who Played God (1922 film) The Man Who Played God is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and written by Forrest Halsey. The film stars George Arliss, Ann Forrest, Ivan Simpson, Edward Earle, and Effie Shannon. The film was released on October 1, 1922,

title: Emperor of the Sea

text: Bogo's charismatic comrade, supports Jang in his ascension to become the "Emperor of the Sea." But Yeom Jang competes with Jang Bogo for the love of Lady Jung-hwa (Soo Ae). Emperor of the Sea Emperor of the Sea (; literally "Sea God") is a South Korean television drama series starring Choi Soo-jong, Chae Shi-ra, Song Il-gook، Soo Ae and Chae Jung-an It aired on KBS2 from November 24, 2004 to May 25, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 51 episodes. The period drama is based on Choi In-ho's 2003 novel "Hae-sin", which depicts the life of Jang Bogo,

text: A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening () is a historical novel by the Portuguese writer Mario de Carvalho, set in the Roman province of Lusitania during the reign of Roman Emperor Commodus. First published in Portugal in Portuguese in 1994 as "Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde", the novel won several awards, including the 1996 Pegasus Prize, and became a best-seller in Portugal. The book is told as a First-person narrative by Lucius Valerius Quintius, prefect of the fictional city Tarcisis during the reign of Commodus. He

title: The Way to the Sea

text: The Way to the Sea The Way to the Sea is a 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway line (what is now known as the Portsmouth Direct Line) and its recent electrification. This is prefaced with an historical representation of Portsmouth and the London to Portsmouth road (known in the Roman era as Ermin Street and Stane Street). It was produced by the Strand Film Company. Its music was written by Benjamin Britten and its commentary by W. H. Auden, who also wrote the music and words respectively for the similarly themed "Night Mail" that year. The

title: The Man Who Played God (1932 film)

text: and goes, a famously unsuccessful version. The Man Who Played God (1932 film) The Man Who Played God is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John G. Adolfi and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. George Arliss stars as a concert pianist embittered by the loss of his hearing who eventually finds redemption in helping others; it also features a then little-known Bette Davis as the much younger woman in love with the protagonist. Warner Bros. promoted the film as an example that studios could produce motion pictures of social and moral value without the oversight of non-industry agents.

title: The Roman Triumph

text: She also adopts a minimalist position on the question of whether or not triumphs were bound by very detailed and specific rules and regulations, asserting instead that they were somewhat flexible in format and changed over the course of time. She also breaks down a popular theory such as the idea that the Roman general who was being honoured in the process embodied the god Jupiter Optimus Maximus himself, arguing that there is evidence for this but also counter-evidence. She then concludes with a discussion of the triumph of Belisarius in 534 which is often described as the final Roman

title: The Ape of God / The Ape of God

text: chart on the Billboard 200. Personnel adapted from "The Ape of God" and "The Ape of God" liner notes. All personnel are credited as contributing to both albums, unless otherwise noted. The Ape of God / The Ape of God The Ape of God is the name of three different studio albums released by the American rock band Old Man Gloom — one of which was a "fake" album released promotionally to music critics and subsequently leaked online, and two of which were officially released to the public making up the band's sixth and seventh studio albums (and are sometimes

title: The Ape of God / The Ape of God

text: The Ape of God / The Ape of God The Ape of God is the name of three different studio albums released by the American rock band Old Man Gloom — one of which was a "fake" album released promotionally to music critics and subsequently leaked online, and two of which were officially released to the public making up the band's sixth and seventh studio albums (and are sometimes unofficially disambiguated as The Ape of God I and The Ape of God II). The two publicly released albums were released on November 11, 2014 through Profound Lore Records (digital/CD) and

title: God the Father

text: begotten of the Father", indicating that their "divine" Father-Son relationship is seen as not tied to an event within time or human history. To Trinitarian Christians (which include Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and most but not all Protestant denominations), God the Father is not a separate God from God the Son (of whom Jesus is the incarnation) and the Holy Spirit, the other hypostases of the Christian Godhead. In Eastern Orthodox theology, God the Father is the "arche" or "principium" ("beginning"), the "source" or "origin" of both the Son and the Holy Spirit, and is considered the eternal

title: Chinese names for the God of Abrahamic religions

text: composed by Lü Dongbin, the Christian God is denominated by the term "Tiānzhǔ" (天主, literally, "Lord of Heaven"), 800 years before Matteo Ricci and his companions. Islam has enjoyed a long history in China. For Chinese Muslims, the principal term for God is also "Zhēnzhǔ" (真主) but transliterations of the Arabic "Allâh" also exist as "Ālā", and as "Ānlā"="Ān" "Peace"+"Lā" "Help" (阿拉 and 安拉). The term "Húdà" (胡大), from Persian "khudai", for God, is seen more often in north-western China. The earliest documented Chinese Roman Catholic church was founded in China in about 1289. The Roman Catholic Church historically favored

title: Song of the Sea

text: God and the Jewish people is traditionally described as a marriage, and the splitting of the sea is considered to be an important event leading to that marriage, which ultimately took place 42 days later, at Mt. Sinai. A tune for the Ladino poem along with the entire text itself can be found in Isaac Levy's "Anthology of Sepharadic Hazzanut". The following settings exist for the Song of the Sea in the Catholic tradition: The following settings exist for the Song of the Sea in the Protestant tradition: A version of the song features in the 1998 animated film "The

title: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (film)

text: on the sea, Chief and the boys concoct a sinister plot to do away with the intruder. The movie was filmed on location in and around Dartmouth, Devon, England. On June 19, 2012, Shout! Factory released the film to Blu-ray. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (film) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a 1976 British drama film starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles, directed by Lewis John Carlino. It was adapted from the 1963 novel "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The location

title: The Ape of God / The Ape of God

text: a music video for "The Lash" from "The Ape of God" (PFL145). Old Man Gloom released a promotional/alternate version of "The Ape of God" as a single album for music critics to review, also with the expectation that this version would inevitably be leaked online ahead of the official release date. A few music journalists published an official review of this version before the band revealed that this was not the real version of "The Ape of God". The fake version of "The Ape of God" albums was very positively received by music critics. Writing for the English publication "Clash",

title: Crossing the Red Sea

text: chariot-wheels and throws them into a panic, and with the return of the water, the pharaoh and his entire army are destroyed. When the Israelites see the power of God, they put their faith in God and in Moses, and sing a song of praise to the Lord for the crossing of the sea and the destruction of their enemies. (This song, at , is called the Song of the Sea). The narrative contains at least three and possibly four layers. In the first layer (the oldest), God blows the sea back with a strong east wind, allowing the Israelites

title: Book of the Consulate of the Sea

text: called " Ordinacions de Ribera", which established norms for policing harbours and coastal waters." The merit of the "Book of the Consulate of the Sea" is that it is the first work to collect the scattered laws and customs of Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Rhodian, Italian, French and Spanish maritime rights"." Until the publication of the " Ordonnance de la Marine " in France in 1681, the "Book of the Consulate of the Sea" was the code of maritime law in force throughout the Mediterranean. In Spain it continued in use until the introduction of the Spanish "Commercial Code." "The Book

title: Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire

text: Rome was no longer the capital in the West, it remained the West's largest city and its economic center. But the city was sacked by rebellious Visigoths in 410 and by the Vandals in 455, events that shocked contemporaries and signaled the disintegration of Roman authority. Saint Augustine wrote "The City of God" partly as an answer to critics who blamed the sack of Rome by the Visigoths on the abandonment of the traditional pagan religions. In June 474, Julius Nepos became Western Emperor but in the next year the "magister militum" Orestes revolted and made his son Romulus Augustus

text: of a shrinking population as Rome’s tax base was also shrinking and could no longer support the Roman Army and other Roman institutions. Rome's success had led to increased contact with Asia though trade, especially in a sea route through the Red Sea that Rome cleared of pirates shortly after conquering Egypt. Wars also increased contact with Asia, particularly wars with the Persian Empire. With increased contact with Asia came increased transmission of disease into the Mediterranean from Asia. Romans used public fountains, public latrines, public baths, and supported many brothels all of which were conducive to the spread of

title: The Writing of the God

text: let lie in prison. The Writing of the God "The Writing of the God" (original Spanish title: "La escritura del dios") is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in "Sur" in February 1949, and later reprinted in the collection "The Aleph". The story is narrated by an Aztec priest named Tzinacán, who is tortured by Pedro de Alvarado (who burned the pyramid Qaholom where the protagonist was a magician) and incarcerated, with a jaguar in the adjacent cell. Tzinacán searches for a divine script that will provide him omnipotence in the patterns of the

title: The Writing of the God

text: The Writing of the God "The Writing of the God" (original Spanish title: "La escritura del dios") is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in "Sur" in February 1949, and later reprinted in the collection "The Aleph". The story is narrated by an Aztec priest named Tzinacán, who is tortured by Pedro de Alvarado (who burned the pyramid Qaholom where the protagonist was a magician) and incarcerated, with a jaguar in the adjacent cell. Tzinacán searches for a divine script that will provide him omnipotence in the patterns of the animal's fur. While in

title: History of the North Sea

text: European Maritime Safety Agency has monitored and coordinated all sea traffic through the sea since its inception in 2003. While the Agency is part of the EU, non-member states Norway and Iceland have seats in the agency as they are directly affected. History of the North Sea The North Sea, though often an area of conflict, has an extensive history of maritime commerce and trade routes between its coastal nations whose economies and industries were also able to exploit its resources. The earliest records of Roman explorations of the sea begin in 12 BC. Southern Britain was formally invaded in

title: The Sea God

text: search of the island with his friend Square Deal (Pallette). Still in love with Pink, Daisy stows away but is soon discovered and forced by her unforgiving ex to work her passage. The cannibals attack Pink’s boat while he is underwater collecting the pearl oysters, forcing him to cut his air line and make for the shore. Unable to remove his cumbersome diving suit he later stumbles into the native village where Square Deal and Daisy are being held, and the islanders mistake him for a god. Schultz and his men, having followed Pink’s boat to the island, capture Pink,

title: Crossing the Red Sea

text: followed by the Egyptian army. Moses again moved his staff once the Israelites had crossed, and the sea closed again, drowning the entire Egyptian army. God chooses Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and into the land of Canaan, which God has promised to them. The Egyptian pharaoh, who previously said the opposite, agrees to let them go, and they travel from Ramesses to Succoth and then to Etham on the edge of the desert, led by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. There God tells Moses to turn

title: The Man Who Lost the Sea

text: Year's Best SF" (1960). Since then, it has been anthologized at least eight times and has been translated into French, Italian, German and Dutch. It also appears in three collections devoted to Sturgeon's work—"The Golden Helix" (1979), "Selected Stories" (2013) and "The Man Who Lost the Sea" (2013); the latter two are e-books. It is the title story of volume 10 of "The Complete Works of Theodore Sturgeon" (2005). The foregoing was taken from the story's listing in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (for which see the External Links section below). More detail on its publication history can be found

text: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (film) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a 1976 British drama film starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles, directed by Lewis John Carlino. It was adapted from the 1963 novel "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The location was changed to the English town of Dartmouth, Devon, the area where it was also filmed. Jonathan Osborne, the 14-year-old son of widow Anne Osborne, has become involved with a group of boys led by a neo-Nietzschean sadistic boy named

title: Historicist interpretations of the Book of Daniel

text: lasts until the Kingdom of God replaces and destroys it. As the Roman Empire evolved into the so called Holy Roman Empire, the part that was never part of the Babylonian, Persian or Grecian empires, became Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal. The seventh chapter of the Book of Daniel tells of Daniel's vision of four world-kingdoms replaced by the kingdom of God. Four beasts come out of the sea, a angelic guide interprets the beasts as kingdoms and kings, the last of whom will make war on the "holy ones" of God,

title: Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

text: Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a breakaway religious movement from the Roman Catholic Church founded by Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere and Bee Tait in Uganda. It was formed in the late 1980s after Mwerinde, a brewer of banana beer, and Kibweteere, a politician, claimed that they had visions of the Virgin Mary. The five primary leaders were Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo, and Credonia Mwerinde. In early 2000, followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a

title: The Man Who Sued God

text: a charter vessel the 'Tarpin', hired from Bermagui Boat Harbour. Indoor scenes and post-production were located in Sydney. On 15 February Bob Carr, then Premier of New South Wales visited the set, presenting a cheque for $50,000 to Gannon Films as a grant to offset the cost of filming in a regional location. The two-week shoot brought an estimated $250,000 to the local economy. "The Man Who Sued God" made a debut at number one on its opening weekend with a box office. Within Australia, it earned $8.1 million by the end of that year and ultimately grossed $8,546,867. Review

title: God of the gaps

text: reject a God-of-the-gaps while embracing the idea of a God who fine tuned the universe precisely so human life could exist. God of the gaps "God of the gaps" is a theological perspective in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of God's existence. The "gaps" usage was made by Christian theologians not to discredit theism but rather to point out the fallacy of relying on teleological arguments for God's existence. Some use the phrase as a criticism of theological positions, to mean that God is used as a spurious explanation for anything not currently

title: How The First Helandman of God Was Maid

text: only once" he says. God is amused by this and then departs by leaping over a wall. While doing so his knife falls from its sheath. Peter searches thoroughly but unsuccessfully for the lost knife. God observes "Here's a marvel! How can it be that my knife is missing when there are only three of us here?" The highlander does not reply but, while turning to leave, the lost knife falls from a fold of his plaid. Saint Peter reprimands him. "You will never do well. You, new-made, so soon turning to theft." The highlander is unrepentant. The poem ends