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The Annunciation by Guido Reni (1621). Miraculous births are a common theme in mythological, religious and legendary narratives and traditions. They often include conceptions by miraculous circumstances and features such as intervention by a deity, supernatural elements, astronomical signs, hardship or, in the case of some mythologies, complex plots related to creation.
In short, for someone to be born, someone else must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident. The scene is a waiting room at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, where Edward K. Wehling Jr. is faced with the situation that his wife is about to give birth to triplets, but he has found ...
Sinatra’s lyrics became the best-known and have been rerecorded by many musical artists, but many fans of the original lyrics remain. Singer James Taylor told the Times the original line was a ...
"Who I Was Born to Be" is the first original song recorded by Susan Boyle. Appearing on her multi-platinum debut album I Dreamed a Dream , the song has become a staple in Boyle's repertoire. This song's lyrics describe Boyle's decades-long dream of becoming a professional singer.
My grandfather said that of those he could hire, Not a servant so faithful he found; For it wasted no time, and had but one desire — At the close of each week to be wound. And it kept in its place — not a frown upon its face, And its hands never hung by its side. But it stopp'd short — never to go again — When the old man died.
28: And he came to her and said, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you." 29: But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. 30: The angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31: And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus.
Maybe we should let me go,” Christopher Reeve recalls thinking. “And then she said the words that saved my life: ‘You’re still you. And I love you.’”
Born a slave is an archaic stock phrase that was commonly used to describe people born enslaved under the system of chattel slavery in the Western Hemisphere but eventually granted legal personhood, either through escape, lawsuit, manumission, or mass emancipation. The phrase was used for both self-identification and by external narrators.