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A typical shepherd's staff, with a gnomon that produces a shadow on a scale of months. A shepherd's dial (also known as a pillar dial or cylinder) is a type of sundial that measures the height of the sun via the so-called umbra versa. [1] Its design needs to incorporate a fixed latitude, but it is small and portable.
A hadith narrated from Ibn Umar says that Muhammad says, "All of you are shepherds and every one of you is responsible for his herd. A leader is a shepherd, a man is the shepherd over his family, and a woman is the shepherd over her husband's house and his children. So all of you are shepherds, and every one of you is responsible for his herd ...
The papal ferula (/ ˈ f ɛr əl ə /; Latin ferula, 'rod') is the pastoral staff used in the Catholic Church by the pope.It is a rod with a knob on top surmounted by a cross. It differs from a crosier, the staff carried by other Latin Church bishops, which is curved or bent at the top in the style of a shepherd's crook.
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Misa de Gallo (Spanish for "Rooster's Mass", also Misa de los Pastores, "Shepherds' Mass;" Portuguese: Missa do Galo; Catalan: Missa del gall) is the Midnight Mass celebrated in Portugal and many former Portuguese colonies and also in Spain and many former Spanish colonies on Christmas Eve and sometimes in the days immediately preceding Christmas.
This is the second time Williams has had to forfeit a chunk of his salary for a touchdown celebration this season. In Week 4, he topped off a 70-yard scamper by dunking the ball over the crossbar ...
Real-estate tech startups aim to make tasks from property management to homebuying more efficient. We surveyed 10 venture capitalists to identify the hottest proptech companies of the year.