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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion set for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. It was released on January 16, 2007 at local midnight in Europe and North America, selling nearly 2.4 million copies on release day alone and making it, at the time, the fastest-selling PC game released at that point. [ 1 ]
One Armenian manuscript, Matenadaran 2374 (formerly known as Etchmiadsin 229), made in 989, features a note, written between 16:8 and 16:9, Ariston eritzou, that is, "By Ariston the Elder/Priest". Ariston, or Aristion, is known from early traditions (preserved by Papias and others) as a colleague of Peter and as a bishop of Smyrna in the first ...
The 105 mm howitzer motor carriage M7 was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle produced during World War II.It was given the service name 105 mm self propelled, Priest by the British Army, due to the pulpit-like machine gun ring, and following on from the Bishop and the contemporary Deacon self-propelled guns.
This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the
New York, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M. 893 (Psalter and Hours of Henry Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick) New York, Morgan Library & Museum, M. 945 and M. 917 (Hours of Catherine of Cleves) Paris, Bibliothèque nationale MS lat. 1158 (Neville Hours) Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 9471 (Grandes Heures du Duc de Rohan)
The Wellcome originally had a collection of 34 manuscripts, acquired between 1913 and 1930. They retained 16 magico-medical scrolls and 1 divinatory manuscript; the remainder were transferred to the library of the British Museum in 1970 and 1971 and are now in the British Library. [41]
A leaf from the Tyniec Sacramentary, National Library of Poland.Written for the Brauweiler Abbey, it was a kind of sanctuary for the palatines of Lotharingia. [2]Other books used in the celebration of Mass included the Graduale (texts mainly from the Psalms, with musical notes added), the Evangeliarium or Gospel Book, and the Epistolary with texts from other parts of the New Testament, mainly ...
At 92 cm (36 in) long, 50 cm (20 in) wide and 22 cm (8.7 in) thick, it is the largest known medieval manuscript. [8] Weighing 74.8 kg (165 lb), Codex Gigas is composed of 310 leaves of vellum claimed to be made from the skins of 160 donkeys, or perhaps calfskin, covering 142.6 m 2 (1,535 sq ft) in total. [9]