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...The cave’s recorded history begins in earnest two centuries ago, with the arrival of Reverend William Buckland....
...Dance speaks of an older religion (the play is set at Lughnasa, the pagan harvest festival), but also of the internal lives of the women, deeper and richer than the narrow confines into which they have been...
...William Thuillier is one of those keen amateurs....
...“He is often compared to William Blake,” says Soriano, “but while Blake was all fire and brimstone, Čiurlionis is all about joy. Unlike Van Gogh, he never painted when he was depressed.”...
...Britain is bountiful with contests that hark from pagan times to the present, both whimsical and extreme. There is snail-racing, river football, stone-skimming, nettle-eating and gurning....
...Swan runs a louche soirée called the Ferryman’s (and for those who think the emblem of the Styx boatman sits ill with a “pagan sex club”, it’s a nice touch that it sounds like pheromones)....
...William Blake’s prophetic dream of revolutionary England has become, in Hubert Parry’s musical setting, an unofficial English national anthem....
...However, his 700-year-old stave church — a puzzle of poles and tar — is shaped by Christian, pagan and Viking elements, much like its congregation....
...Knots and tubes — both fallopian and phallic — recur frequently in Benglis’s work, evoking Christian and pagan symbols of birth and rebirth....
...In a ruminative lecture on Islamic Sharia’s place in English law a decade ago, Rowan Williams, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, asked whether small, culturally and religiously intimate matters of mainly...
...Hosted by the American author and science journalist Pagan Kennedy, this is the latest series in Radiotopia’s Showcase strand (all five episodes have been made available at once)....
...While serving as vicar of Morwenstow, Harker invented “the now ubiquitous harvest festival” as a way of getting his pagan parishioners to come to church....
...A smaller, less conventional crowd reach for flowing robes, floral headdresses and gnarly staffs — the get-up of the modern-day pagan....
...“They thought we were a pagan people and it was their duty to save our souls,” he says....
...The Isis destroyers of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud would have loved William “Basher” Dowsing....
...However it takes us beyond the work of Stubbs to three painters who actually travelled with Cook: Sydney Parkinson, William Hodges and John Webber....
...Williams asks. “That’s a strong possibility.”...
...Jeneve Williams, a winemaker for Marks and Spencer, feels the country holds its place in an emerging “eastern Mediterranean”....
...Men’s defending champion is Andy Murray and last year’s women’s winner was Serena Williams. The 17-time Grand Slam champion plays her first game on Thursday (to March 30)....
...This discovery of the individual also encompassed problems he barely touches upon: what was the status of Jews, pagans and Muslims in Christian society, when society itself was understood to consist of “...
...“And the flower outlines were like William Morris wallpaper.” “We were also thinking about Miami too,” said partner Thea Bragazzi....
...The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman, Headline, RRP£16.99 / William Morrow, RRP$25.99, 256 pages It begins with a funeral and ends with a death....
...Pagan Amum, lead negotiator for the South, said that the oil agreement is to be “part of a comprehensive deal on [the disputed territory] Abyei, security and citizenship … and then the oil will flow.”...
...South Sudan’s lead negotiator Pagan Amum said it would take six weeks to prepare the facilities for operation once again, although some experts suggest it could take as long as six months....
...Pagan Amum, lead negotiator for the South, told the Financial TImes: “The AU has lost sight of the principle of mutual economic viability.”...
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