File At Jambavan s urging, Hanuman goes to the Himalayas to find the four healing plants.jpg thumb At Jambavan s urging, Hanuman goes to the Himalayas to find the four healing plants Oshadhiparvata , that is, the mountain of herbal medicine medicinal herbs , was a Hindu mythology mythical mountain described in the Ramayana . Hanuman uproots the mountain and flies with it to the battlefield in Lanka . There the herbs are used by the Vaidyas to restore to life the dead, and to treat the wounded warriors fighting on the side of Rama. References Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend ISBN 0 500 51088 1 by Anna Dallapiccola Ramayana HinduMythology Category Ramayana Hindu myth stub ... more details
Via Media is a Latin phrase meaning The Middle Road . This is a philosophical maxim for life which advocates moderation in all thoughts and actions. The Via Media was the dominant philosophical precept by which Ancient Roman civilisation and society was organised. This precept of moderation in all things was derived from earlier Ancient Greek philosophy where Aristotle 384 322 B.C. taught moderation urging his students to follow the middle road between extremes. Category Philosophical concepts ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2010 Subud Subud Youth Association S.Y.A. is a branch within the World Subud Association , and one of four wings of Subud . It was founded in 1983, at the urging of Subud founder Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo , called Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo Bapak . His intent was to allow Subud youth to plan their own activities. Its main purpose is that of helping young Subud members network with one another. SYA publishes a newsletter, Youth Times. Category Subud ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Deleted image removed Image Juvand.PNG thumb right JJ.AA. symbol Image Juvand2.PNG thumb right JJ.AA. sticker, urging people to consume Andalusian products. Andalucista Youth in Spanish language Spanish Juventudes Andalucistas is the youth wing of Partido Andalucista , in Andalusia , Spain . External links http www.juventudesandalucistas.net www.juventudesandalucistas.net Category Youth wings of political parties in Spain es Juventudes Andalucistas ... more details
Year nav topic2 1244 poetry literature Events Lanfranc Cigala writes Si mos chans fos de joi ni de solatz in response to the loss of Jerusalem to the Mamelukes Guilhem Figueira writes Del preveire maior urging peace in Europe for a union against Islam after the fall of Jerusalem Births Folquet de Lunel died 1300 in poetry 1300 , troubadour from Lunel in the modern H rault Deaths Category 1200s in poetry Category 1244 Poetry ... more details
Amoros dau Luc was a troubadour who wrote a satirical sirventes , En Chantarel, sirventes ab motz plas , urging Henry III of England and his ally, Pierre de Dreux Peter of Brittany , in their campaign in France in 1230. The sirventes is probably ironic. It closes with a amorous dedication to a woman. References http w3.uniroma1.it bedt BEdT 03 20 index.aspx Bibliografia Elettronica dei Trovatori, v. 2.0 . Retrieved 4 October 2011. Category Troubadours ... more details
Wiktionary populist Populist may refer to A supporter of Populism , a political philosophy urging social and political system change that favors the people over the elites , or favors the common people over the rich and wealthy business owners Populist Caucus , a Democratic Congressional caucus founded by Bruce Braley of Iowa Populist Party of America , a party founded in 2002 advocating constitutional democracy Populist Party United States , actually the People s Party a major political party in the United States in the late 19th century The Progressive Populist , a newspaper founded in 1995 attempting to organize a populist movement with progressive values For other groups using the label populist in the United States, see Populist Party United States Recent incarnations Populist Party label in 1970s, 1984, 2004 , and for other groups worldwide see Populist Party disambiguation ... more details
Cura te ipsum Take care of your own self or Cure your self is a Latin injunction, urging physician s to care for and heal themselves first, before dealing with patients. Cura te ipsum was made famous in the Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate . The proverb was quoted by Jesus Physician, heal thyself , as recorded in the Gospel of Luke chapter 4 23. Luke the Evangelist was himself a physician. See also Physician, heal thyself List of Latin phrases medicine stub word stub Category Medical ethics Category Latin medical phrases bs Cura te ipsum es Medice cura te ipsum it Medice, cura te ipsum ru Cura te ipsum uk Cura te ipsum ... more details
for the 1989 Spanish film The Dark Night film Refimprove date April 2008 La noche oscura is a poetry book by Alejandro Carri n first published by the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana at the urging of the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade , then vice president. This book includes a complete version of the poem Tiniebla ref http members.tripod.com pce50 tiniebla.htm ref first published by the National University of Colombia thanks to the poet and novelist Jaime Ib ez . Also included is the poem Jon s which Luis Cardoza y Arag n claimed to be one of his favorites. Invitaci n a la fiesta de la tristeza was first published in Ecuador 0.0.0 , the poetry magazine of Alexander Finisterre . This book deserved an extensive critique by Matilde Elena Lopez . References references DEFAULTSORT Noche Oscura Category Poetry collections Category Ecuadorian poetry ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Imperialismo Pagano Il Fascismo Dinanzi al Pericolo Euro Cristiano, con una Appendice sulle Reazioni di parte Guelfa Pagan Imperialism Fascism in Front of the Euro Christian Danger, with an Appendix on the Reactions of the Guelphs is a work by Italy Italian esoteric writer Julius Evola . It is a polemical work published on the eve of the Lateran Accords urging the Fascist regime to conduct an anti Christian , paganism pagan revolution . It was published in 1928 by Atanor . Footer Works by Julius Evola Category 1928 books Category Political books Category Works by Julius Evola Poli book stub ... more details
orphan date February 2010 Notability date November 2008 Iyyakum wa jahannam lang ar is a phrase meaning beware of Hell ref Al Bukhari Jami al hadith as sahih ref i.e. Gehenna that is taken from various speeches by the Islamic prophet Muhammad to people urging them to convert to Islam . See also Empty section date September 2011 References Reflist added above categories infobox footers by script assisted edit Category Arabic words and phrases Category History of Islam Category Muhammad Category Conversion to Islam ... more details
Alabama Day is a holiday celebrated on the 14th of December. It commemorates Alabama s admittance to the United States Union as the 22nd state on December 14, 1819. The Alabama Legislature adopted a resolution calling for the observance of the day in 1923, at the urging of the Alabama Department of Education and Alabama Department of Archives and History . ref name aladay cite web url http www.archives.state.al.us alabamaday.html title Alabama Day work Alabama Department of Archives and History accessdate 2009 12 03 ref References Reflist U.S. Holidays Category Holidays in the United States Category Alabama culture Category December observances he ... more details
Orphan date August 2011 Dr. Li Yu Ying was a prominent Chinese scholar and president of Soochow University who served during World War II as an activist to promote rescue of Jews from the Nazi s. Ying, living in the United States during the 1940s, served as a cochairman of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe , an offshoot of the Bergson Group , which lobbied the US government and took out advertisements in newspapers urging American intervention to save European Jews. In 1943 and 1944 he was a featured speaker at the Committee s Emergency Conferences to Save the Jewish People of Europe. ref Teaching the Chinese About the Holocaust , Rafael Medoff , Jewish Ledger , November 5, 2010 ref References reflist Category Jewish Chinese history ... more details
unreferenced date March 2012 The Splendid Microfinance Bank is a Nigerian bank based in Abuja concentrating on alleviation and eradication of poverty. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide Microfinance micro finance banking services to the banking public. Since its establishment the bank has distributed 100 Million Nigerian naira naira to the public as part of a strategy to increase the participation of government in micro finance funding. In 2005 the Central Bank of Nigeria came up with a regulatory framework urging states and local governments to set aside at least 1 of their annual budget to micro credit initiative through micro finance banks. External links www.splendidmicrofinancebank.com Bank website Category Economy of Nigeria ... more details
one source date February 2012 no footnotes date February 2012 Abhorrers , the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who had signed petitions urging King Charles II of England to assemble English Parliament Parliament . Feeling against Roman Catholic Church Catholic s, and especially against James II of England James, Duke of York , was running strongly the Exclusion Bill had been passed by the United Kingdom House of Commons House of Commons , and the popularity of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth , was very great. To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had legislative session Procedure in Commonwealth realms prorogue d its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament , without allowing it to meet. He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens , who presented addresses expressing abhorrence of the Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king. The frolic went all over England , says Roger North 17th century Roger North and the addresses of the Abhorrers which reached the king from all parts of the country formed a counterblast to those of the Petitioner s. It is said that the terms British Whig Party Whig and British Tory Party Tory were first applied to English political parties in consequence of this dispute. References Wikisource1911Enc Abhorrers 1911 Category 1679 in England Category People in English history Category Stuart England Category Political history of England England stub es Abhorrers hi pl Abhorrers pt Abhorrers sv Abhorrers ... more details
The New Lebanon Conference of ministers was a meeting held in July, 1827, in New Lebanon, New York , to resolve disputes in the Presbyterian churches concerning the so called New Measures for evangelism instituted and popularized primarily by Charles Grandison Finney . The organizers of the meeting appear to have been Nathan S.S. Beman Nathan Beman and Lyman Beecher . ref Murray, Iain H., Revival and Revivalism The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750 1858, The Banner of Trust Trust Edinburgh 1994 , p. 235. ref The week long series of meetings did not achieve unity among those who attended, but it did clarify the differences. Heman Humphrey, William R. Weeks, and some others represented the traditional side which opposed the New Measures while Finney was present with some supporters from the other side. Asahel Nettleton, Weeks, and others, who were not willing to accept uncritically all that occurred during the Western revivals in Oneida County, have been often blamed for not providing more documented evidence against Finney. But the fact is that they were often unsure of who was primarily responsible for the various innovations that were being pressed on the churches by a large group of itinerants and their younger imitators who appeared in the wake of the revivals. ref Murray, Iain H., Revival and Revivalism The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750 1858, The Banner of Trust Trust Edinburgh 1994 , p. 239. ref These methods would included 1 criticism of specific individuals by name from the pulpit for sins which were not generally known, 2 urging those who were under conviction of sin to make their way to the front of the meeting room for counselling, 3 repeated singing of the same hymns for emotional effect to convince the audience to respond visibly to the preaching, 4 urging outward motions of the body to accompany alleged inner conviction, etc. This culminated in the revivalistic preaching of Dwight L. Moody , Billy Sunday, and their ... more details
Lehava is an Israel i organization whose primary objective is opposing marriages between Jewish women and non Jewish, particularly Arab , men. It has been described as Far right politics far right wing in the Israeli media. The organization gained notoriety in 2010 after sending an open letter to Israeli Jewish supermodel Bar Refaeli urging her to break off her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio , who is Roman Catholic. Lehava was founded by Mosis Zion, and it employs a number of figures including Kahanist politician Baruch Marzel , formerly of the outlawed Kach movement. ref name refaeli cite web url http heebmagazine.com jewish organization lehava defends call for bar refaeli leo dicaprio breakup 5346 title Jewish Organization Lehava Defends Call for Bar Refaeli Leo DiCaprio Breakup ref ref name marzel cite web url http www.jpost.com Israel Article.aspx?id 171071 title Marzel urges super model Refaeli not to marry DiCaprio ref Multiple rebbetzin s, acting on behalf of Lehava, issued an open letter urging Israeli women not to date Arabs this letter December 2010 Israeli rabbi letter controversy caused a controversy and was denounced by other rabbis. ref name rabbis cite web url http www.ynetnews.com articles 0,7340,L 4005896,00.html title Rabbis wives Don t date Arabs ref ref name rabbis2 cite web url http www.jpost.com NationalNews Article.aspx?id 201318 title Rebbetzins Women, stay away from Arab men ref In addition to opposing interfaith and interethnic marriages, Lehava also has encouraged Israelis to report to the organization the names of Israelis who rent to Arabs, so that they can be named and shamed publicly. ref name report cite web url http www.ynetnews.com articles 0,7340,L 3998121,00.html title Public invited to inform on those renting to Arabs ref References reflist Category Religion and politics Israel stub ... more details
Virginians Against Drug Violence , or VADV, is an organization devoted to ending the Prohibition drugs drug war in the Commonwealth of Virginia . It reviews the Virginia General Assembly s bills every year, sending out emails to a network of citizens and urging them to contact their legislators on relevant issues. VADV activists persuaded the legislature to carve out an exemption in the cannabis drug marijuana cultivation law so that individuals growing cannabis for their own use would be prosecuted only for simple possession. Virginia thus has more lenient laws on cultivation than even California . In addition, VADV activists successfully lobbied the General Assembly to keep medical marijuana legal for cancer and glaucoma and put marijuana in a class by itself, as opposed to being a scheduled controlled substance. See also Legal status of cannabis in Virginia References http www.drugsense.org dpfva Virginians Against Drug Violence . Whitley, Tyler http www.pdxnorml.org 980127.html Panel Backs Marijuana, Heroin Ban , Richmond Times Dispatch, 27 Jan. 1998. US org stub Category Civic and political organizations of the United States Category Organizations based in Virginia ... more details
Other uses Diogenes disambiguation Refimprove date December 2009 Diogenes was a soldier in the service of the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus 103 76 BCE . He appears in Josephus s work Antiquities of the Jews . In revenge for the support of certain Pharisees for Demetrius III of Syria s invasion of Judea , Diogenes advised Alexander to crucify 800 Pharisee scholars and murder their families before their eyes. ref Graetz, History of the Jews ,v. II, ch. 2. ref Graetz and others, using 5 Maccabees as their source, identified Diogenes as a Sadducee . Following Alexander s death, his widow and successor Salome Alexandra , probably at the urging of her brother Simeon ben Shetach , had Diogenes put to death. Notes Reflist Persondata name Judea, Diogenes of alternative names short description date of birth place of birth date of death place of death DEFAULTSORT Judea, Diogenes Of Category Ancient Jewish Greek history Category Mercenaries Category 1st century BC deaths Ancient Greece bio stub MEast mil bio stub ... more details
orphan date December 2007 br Troop Sport was a clothing company founded in 1985 by two Jewish brothers, Teddy and Harvey Held, and a Koreans Korean , Howard Kim. The clothing line was intended to target young men in urban areas, particularly those who were Latino and African American . The company went bankrupt and had its reputation hurt after rumors spread that company was actually owned by the Ku Klux Klan similar rumors have been made about popular companies such as drink company Snapple and shoe company The Timberland Company Timberland as well , and that the name stood for To Rule Over Oppressed People. Additional rumors claimed that rapper LL Cool J appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show urging viewers to protest the company. The rumors about the connection to the Klan hurt sales and the company declared bankruptcy several years later. External links http www.snopes.com business alliance troop.asp Snopes.com article Category Defunct companies of the United States Category Clothing brands fashion stub ... more details
Moses Pinheiro , an Italian Jew who lived at Livorno in the seventeenth century, was one of the most influential pupils and followers of Shabbethai ebi . He was held in high esteem on account of his acquirements and, as the brother in law of Joseph Ergas , the well known anti Shabbethaian, he had great influence over the Jews of Leghorn, urging them to believe in Shabbethai. Even later, in 1667, when Shabbethai s apostasy was rumored, Pinheiro, in common with numerous other adherents of Tzevi, still believed him to do be the messiah. Pinheiro was the teacher of Abraham Miguel Cardoso , whom he initiated into the Kabbalah and into the mysteries of Shabbethaianism. References Gr tz , Gesch. 3d ed., x. 190, 204, 225, 229, 312 External links http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 332&letter P Source JewishEncyclopedia DEFAULTSORT Pinheiro, Moses Category Italian Jews Category Italian rabbis Category 17th century rabbis Category Sabbateans Category People from Livorno ... more details
The Libel Act 1792 ref This short title was conferred by the Short Titles Act 1896 , section 1 and the first schedule ref 32 Geo. III c. 60 also known as Fox s Act was an Act of Parliament Act of the Parliament of Great Britain . At the urging of the British Whig Party Whig politician Charles James Fox , the Act restored to juries the right to decide what was libel and whether a defendant was guilty , rather than leaving it solely to the judge . It is still in force. The Act itself only applies to criminal trials, but the rules it creates have come to be applied in civil trials. Fact date February 2009 Edmund Burke presented a similar bill in 1791. Charles James Fox opposed it and it was not passed. References reflist External links UK LEG path apgb Geo3 32 60 title Libel Act 1792 wikisource UK law stub UK legislation Category Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1792 Category United Kingdom defamation law ... more details
File Italia Libera.jpeg thumb right 200px Cover of the partisan newspaper labeled the organ of the Action Party, urging the liberation of Italy ahead of the Allied forces, which had reached Rome three days before. L Italia Libera or Free Italy was the newspaper of the Italy Italian anti fascist organization and political party Partito d Azione abbrev Pd A Action Party , which was founded in July 1942. The paper was published on a press in the basement of premises at Via Basento 55, in Rome, until it was raided in November 1943. ref name anpi it icon http www.anpi.it donne e uomini leone ginzburg Short biography of Leone Ginzburg , Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d Italia ANPI accessed October 30, 2010 ref Leone Ginzburg was editor until his arrest and subsequent murder in 1943. References reflist Category Defunct newspapers of Italy ... more details
No footnotes date September 2010 Susanne Hoder is Moderator of the Interfaith Peace Initiative and a member of the Divestment Task Force of the United Methodist Church New England Conference. Since visiting Israel and the West Bank in 2004, she has been an advocate for a just peace in the region based on equality, international law and human rights. She has spoken at numerous conferences and written articles on the situation in the Holy Land. She has compiled research on publicly held companies that support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, urging churches and other organizations to withdraw their investments in these companies until Israel complies with international law. References http www.interfaithpeaceinitiative.com http www.neumc.org pages detail 178 http www.unitedmethodistdivestment.com , http umportal.org article.asp?id 2654 http www.projo.com opinion contributors content CT shoder 01 02 09 1DCR2T8 v21.2d0641e.html, Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hoder, Susanne ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hoder, Susanne Category American Methodists Category Living people ... more details
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005 was a bill introduced as H.R. 3037 in the United States House of Representatives on June 22, 2005. The bill proposes to amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes . Submitted by Ron Paul , Pete Stark , Jim McDermott and Raul Grijalva , the bill was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the United States House Committee on the Judiciary . On July 1, 2005, Energy and Commerce referred the bill to the Subcommittee on Health. ref http www.govtrack.us congress billtext.xpd?bill h109 3037 H.R. 3037 Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005 Retrieved 2009 10 11, from GovTrack database. ref H.R. 3037 was not passed, and would need to be reintroduced before a second vote could take place. In 2009 Ron Paul Republican Party United States R Texas and Barney Frank Democratic Party United States D Massachusetts proposed H.R. 1866, commonly known as the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 , urging fellow legistors to reconsider the definition of marijuana. References references Category Hemp ... more details
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