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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Shriners International, formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS), is an American Masonic society.Founded in 1872 in New York City, it is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and has over 200 chapters across nine countries, with a global membership of nearly 1.7 million "Shriners". [1]
The Chicago Cubs' 2016 World Series victory parade and rally attracted over five million people. Four million pilgrims visited Imam Ali Shrine in Iraq on the anniversary martyrdom of the first Shia Imam on 28 June 2016.
World Shrine of Sukyo Mahikari Sukyo Mahikari (Japanese: 崇教真光; "Sukyo" means universal principles and "Mahikari" means True Light) is an organization with centers in more than 100 countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The stated aim of the organization is to help people improve the quality of their lives and attain happiness by practicing universal ...
This is a list of the more notable religious shrines around the world. ... Shrine of Saint Wulfstan in Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, England
The premise of the song is the "43rd Annual Convention of the Grand Mystic Royal Order of the Nobles of the Ali Baba Temple of the Shrine." Each verse describes a different aspect of the convention: first a parade, then a formal banquet, and finally a ceremonial "secret meeting", which is actually a poker game.
The Association of Shinto Shrines is the largest Shinto religious group in Japan, and more than 79,000 of the approximately 80,000 Japanese shrines, including major ones, are members. [3]
In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7. It would not be until 1987 when the home team won all seven games of a World Series. [14] However, the Yankees became the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in 2001. [14] [15]