...ment in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the version of the Bible used by Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament. Altoget... ...a compilation of the words and names in the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all. Christians appear only 3 times (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16)... ...w.obgyn.net/displayarticle.asp?page=/urogyn/murphy- book/cover Calendars Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. Their "old new year... ...the Roman emperor Aurelian in the late 3rd century AD. Its branch was destroyed by Christians in AD 391. This was a traumatic event. It is little ... ...t burnt. It is dubious whether - as Tacitus and Suetonius claim - he blamed the few Christians in Rome for the conflagration, let alone persecuted t... ...Standard Elektrik Lorenz, the French consumer electronics company Oceanic, and the Swiss cable machinery company Maillefer. It proceeded to become ... ...ey accumulate within the nerves, destroying them. The brain becomes potholed, like Swiss cheese or a sponge - hence, spongiform. In humans, prion...

...sponsible and accountable for the well-being and lives of those who wrong us? True Christians are, for instance. Moreover, most of us, most of the... ... of experiments described in articles published in Science in mid 2007, British and Swiss researchers concluded that "their experiments reinforce th...

... how religious experiences affect those who have had them. As the son of a Swiss Protestant minister, Jung was particularly interested in this aspect.... ...erners were well acquainted with the existence of Judaism, though very few Christians had much conception of why and how Judaism continued to exist tw... ...tern religious writers was to divide the world’s religions into two camps: Christians and Jews on the one hand, and “pagans” or “heathens” on the othe... ...ic group which holds certain customs and specific beliefs in common. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Parsees, and perhaps the bulk of Buddhists align thems... ...here is no known Buddha who has lived on this earth except for Gautama. As Christians look forward to the return of Christ, so traditionally Buddhists... ...s the major religious and social influence in first century Palestine, and Christians at the time regarded the sacred scriptures of Judaism as their o... .... Jung himself traced the development of reports of a vision of light by a Swiss saint, Brother Klaus, to its final theological formulation as a visio...

...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ... the universe. This is called pantheism, meaning that ‗all is god.‘ Jews, Christians, Muslims, Bahais and Parsis or Zoroastrians believe in a single ... ...on that there is a God and the assumption that their scriptures are true. Christians a further assumption is needed-- that Jesus is God. For Catholi... ...ey believe in the same Supreme Being, identified by the same Abraham. But Christians and Moslems fight, Moslems and Jews fight,. Jews and Christians... ...tators in Africa, South America and the Philippines were returned from the Swiss bank accounts to the people who should have had it, it wouldn‘t go f... ...w real democracies in the world. They only work in small populations, like Swiss cantons and New England town meetings. ―The big democracies...

... Selimi ("Sultan") and other leaders of the KLA were then 20 years of age. Years of Swiss education notwithstanding, they witnessed first hand Kosov... ... republic. The KLA made use of the voluntary and not so voluntary donations to the Swiss-based fund "Homeland Calls" (or "Motherland is Calling"). ... ... century, from self-determination through religious affiliation to nationalism. The Christians of the Balkan were easy prey. They were dispirited pe... ...ary or civil officials) and Muslim "reaya" ("flock" of taxpayers). It is true that Christians paid the arbitrarily set "harac" (or, less commonly, ... .... Even the clergy were not exempt (they even assisted in tax collection). But both Christians and Muslims paid the land tax, for instance. And, as ... ...ransparency and predictability of the local taxmen deteriorated - both Muslims and Christians complained. The main problem of the Ottoman Empire w... ...heir mass conversion to Islam was a natural continuation of their complicity. Other Christians guarded bridges or mountain passes for a tax exemptio...

...give some countries money when much of it will find its way to a numbered Swiss bank account. Why should you try to combat malaria when HIV attacks ... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...rmed in heaven, why wouldn‘t God accept the truth of a proposition if two Christians today agreed to it? Was Jesus only talking about those in his a... ... in his audience 2,000 years ago? If Galileo or Darwin, both of whom were Christians, convinced a friend of the truth of a scientific finding, would... ...the Pope and one of his advisors agrees to it? But then what if two other Christians believe in the Biblical creation story, must God accept that to... ...ou Americans protesting your gasoline prices and I have heard the starving Christians and Muslims in Africa asking ‗If God will provide, why is He n...

...e a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christianity.‖ —―And many Christ... ... is strange that so often in the Crusades it was the infidels who showed true compassion. They were often able to turn the other cheek to the Christ... ... God of Abraham, but like the brothers they are, their fights have been most brutal between them. Jews against Moslems, Moslems against Jews, Christ... ...l between them. Jews against Moslems, Moslems against Jews, Christians against Christians, Christians against Jews or Moslems, Moslems against Christ... ... ―You might expect a religious war between the monotheistic and the pantheistic religions, but that‘s not where we war. It‘s the Muslims, Christ... ...all. I must spend at least twenty hours a week just dreaming about what it would be like to live in western Canada, the Arizona desert or the Swiss ...

...: Between early 1975 and late 1976 Lebanon was torn by civil war between its Christians then aided by Syrian troops and its Muslims and their Palestin... ... nese Muslims and the Palestinians and Israel's growing support for Lebanese Christians brought the two sides into rough equilibrium, but no progress ... ...8 million; expendi- tures, $86 million (1983) Monetary conversion rate: 1.69 Swiss francs=US$l (November 1986) Communications Railroads: 18.5 km 1.435... ...en many Hindu (about 88%) and Bud- dhist groups; small groups of Muslims and Christians Language: Nepali (official); 20 mutually unintelligible langua... ...rench expatri- ates Religion: 80% Muslim, remainder indige- nous beliefs and Christians Language: French (official); Hausa, Djerma Infant mortality ra... ...n: 6,572,739 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.32% Nationality: noun Swiss (sing. & pi.); adjective Swiss Ethnic divisions: total population 6... ...total population 65% German, 18% French, 10% Italian, 1% Romansch, 5% other; Swiss nationals 74% German, 20% French, 4% Italian, 1% Romansch, 1% other... ...total population 65% German, 18% French, 12% Italian, 1% Romansch, 4% other; Swiss nationals 74% German, 20% French, 4% Italian, 1% Romansch, 1% other... ...mployed (1985) Organized labor: 20% of labor force Government Official name: Swiss Confederation Type: federal republic Capital: Bern Administrative d...

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...or twenty-eight hours or longer? I thought our cavalry would mow down the Swiss...the Swiss kept rushing toward us...it was our artillery that destr... ...u, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Paris... ...ball. At the ball, boxers fought in an arena, sawdust-floored; there were Swiss dancers and yodelers; sword swallowers performed: they are the rage ... ...boomed and Pliny, the upright Roman, governor, senator, consul, killer of Christians, stood before me in his white toga: P - I respect your porti... ...dely from each other in the sectarian denominations. They all claim to be Christians, and interpret their sev- eral creeds as infallible ones. I doub... ...gassiz drove up to the White House, with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth. A Swiss-American, he speaks English with a marked but distinguished accent. ...

...ed back at him in shock. ‘I should hardly think so,’ she snorted. ‘We are Christians, the only true religion of God. Come to our church on Sunday an... ...itchens, and the head chef grew more enraged by the day. ‘I’ve lost seven Swiss cheeses, three bags of cakes and a case of wine in the last three day... ...ievous smile. He waited until the door opened again to let in a couple of Swiss backpack- ers and he slipped in behind them. Then he threw one long a...

..." Antonio nodded his understanding. When they arrived at the Vatican, the Swiss Guards quickly ushered them into the Pope's private elevator. "I... ... Muslim in the holy city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham. Jews, Muslims, and Christians had worshipped peacefully in their own mosques, synagogues, ...

...e, because I am possessed of the Holy Spirit.’ Why do you think born-again Christians are so despised, and shunned by other religious people? Why... ... no sense of humor about their own sacred beliefs. Others see how born-again Christians are blind to their own silliness and their stupidities. Sim... ...ing mechanically, predictably, boringly, regularly, unchangingly. Look at the Swiss. Affluent, privileged, mechanically perfect. And boring as hel... ... Riviera. All the wealth of the Congolese People tucked away safely in secret Swiss bank accounts. Living openly as an escaped thief and hoodlum an... ...rupt. Western people do not buy this holier than thou crap from their fellow Christians. But let a foreign, imported religion that is even older th... ...Hell because it is too unpleasant an idea. It does not matter whether modern Christians sin or not. There is no Hell where they will be punished l... ...d out how his teachings had been corrupted? Do you think he would praise all Christians? Or on the other hand: would he start a movement to abolish...

...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ...ce of the people is increasingly heard above the din of politics as usual. Is this Swiss-like participatory, direct democracy - or nascent mob rule... ...ld between 1986 and 1999, when annual trading volume exceeded 13 trillion dollar. Swiss Re Economic Research and Consulting had this to say in its... ...sponsible and accountable for the well-being and lives of those who wrong us? True Christians are, for instance. Moreover, most of us, most of the ...

...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ...ce of the people is increasingly heard above the din of politics as usual. Is this Swiss-like participatory, direct democracy - or nascent mob rule... ...ld between 1986 and 1999, when annual trading volume exceeded 13 trillion dollar. Swiss Re Economic Research and Consulting had this to say in its... ...sponsible and accountable for the well-being and lives of those who wrong us? True Christians are, for instance. Moreover, most of us, most of the ...

...hings; and surely their doings were full of the gold of love. So again two Swiss lads, whose father was dangerously ill, found that they could by no m... ...sionary who had converted a great part of Zealand, but who will not accept Christians who have not laid aside their sins. He confronts the king who ha... ...ssession of all the north of Gaul, except Brittany. Chlodweh had made them Christians in name, but they still remained horribly savage—and the life of... ...he lengths to which they would proceed. This was just at the time that the Swiss, angry at the overweening and op- pressive behaviour of Albrecht’s go... ..., with his head in the lap of a poor woman. The murderers escaped into the Swiss mountains, expect- ing shelter there; but the stout, honest men of th... ...self save his sword and scarf; but for the redemption of their poor fellow Christians their wealth was ready, and many a captive was released from toi... ...f Hapsburg, in whom the Empire became at length hereditary, was in reality Swiss, the county that gave them title lying in the canton of Aargau. Rodol... ...ers of Zurich, long before he was chosen to the Empire; and he continued a Swiss in heart, retaining his mountaineer’s open simplicity and honesty to ... ... unpre- pared for the attack, and had collected 5,000 allies to resist the Christians; but a great storm having dispersed the fleet on the first day o...

...asures of the legate were well taken. When the dessert was on the board, a Swiss presented himself, with the an nouncement that a strange ambassador ... ...ts; but looking up into the steeples, and seeing (and hearing) these young Christians thus engaged, one might very naturally mistake them for the Enem... ...ption of dead bodies. Among the troops in the town, there are usually some Swiss: more or less. When any of these die, they are buried out of a fund m... ...ndsditch, London. Having selected a V etturino from among the neighbouring Christians, who agreed to carry us to Milan in two days and a half, and to ... ...ine, the metal covered, red, green, yel low, domes and church spires of a Swiss town. The business of these recollections being with Italy, and my bu... ...s fast as possible, I will not recall (though I am sorely tempted) how the Swiss villages, clustered at the feet of Giant moun tains, looked like pla... ...ns small round panes of glass like crown pieces; or how, in ev ery little Swiss homestead, with its cart or waggon carefully stowed away beside the h... ... its walls are covered. These represent the martyrdoms of saints and early Christians; and such a panorama of hor ror and butchery no man could imagi... ...at in the upper range (for there are two stories of these caves) the Early Christians des tined to be eaten at the Coliseum Shows, heard the wild bea...

...nguage for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargon, introduced by foreigners,... ...t at her departure the Queen of all Marguerites was charged, by these good Christians, to kiss the captive heart- ily for all the ladies of the realm;... ...ll go away, so perverse are they, and so terrified at the idea of becoming Christians.” “And they are therefore wicked,” said the novice. “Is there an... ...rnished with certain warm properties by means of which are communicated to Christians the flames of hell in the form of love, which work in them until... ...t, had been found wanting in certain virile properties with which all good Christians are usually furnished, who, having perse- vered in his silence, ... ...tly his commerce with the devil, because he had been saved there where all Christians have succumbed, has admitted to us an agreement concerning the s...

...nd spend a few months in repenting and getting ready for another good time. She was a devoted Catholic, and was perhaps quite a model sort of a Christ... ... across a living ant that seemed to have any more sense than a dead one. I refer to the ordinary ant, of course; I have had no experience of those won... ...a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great deal of romantic nonsense has been written abo... ...piece of exaggeration is that about the “scarcity” of the chamois. It is the reverse of scarce. Droves of one hundred million chamois are not unusual ... ...remember the girl’s face, now, but I had no idea where I had seen it before, or what named belonged with it. I immediately tried to get up a diversion... ...iewed as a king, he was strictly contempt- ible. His was a most unroyal career, but the most pitiable spec- tacle in it was his sentimental treachery ...

...ears After murmurs of a whole city leagued against the minister; as well as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, w... ... gins—the king, Louis XIV ., then ten years of age, went in state, under pretext of returning thanks for his recovery from the small-pox, to Notre Dam... ...he less won for them the people’s good-will. All attempts to dis- perse the groups collected in the streets, or silence their exclamations, were in va... ...e ceremonial of the day, and that they would soon withdraw. In fact, about four o’clock they were all concentrated about the Palais Royal, the courts ... ...ing at the door, suddenly cried out: “Ah! see! here is madame returning with monsieur.” D’Artagnan looked out and at the corner of Rue Montmartre saw ... ... speak charmingly,” said Porthos. “And are the first of men!” added D’Artagnan. “Y ou excel us all.” Athos smiled with ineffable pleasure. “’Tis then ... ...s edge I will cut it off, regicide that he is.” “And I,” said Porthos. “Wait.” “What are you going to do?” asked Aramis. “Throw myself in the water an...