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Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers; The Wicca Book of Days by Gerina Dunwich; Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days by Dawn Prince-Hughes; Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days by John Gray; Book of Days by China Bayles; The diary of Stanislaus Joyce that he called his "Book of Days” Book of Days, a ...
The Book of Days was Robert Chambers's last publication, and perhaps his most elaborate. It is a huge collection of short, largely factual pieces that today might be bracketed as "trivia", but very interesting trivia. The formula has been much repeated. It is supposed that his excessive labour in connection with this book hastened his death. [3]
"Book of Days" is a song by Irish musician Enya. The original version, included on her 1991 album Shepherd Moons, is sung in Irish Gaelic.The subsequent 1992 single version is bilingual, with new English lyrics; this version was recorded for Ron Howard's film Far and Away, and scenes from the film feature in the video.
The Ancient of Days (1794). Watercolor etching by William Blake.For Blake, however, this was a title of Urizen (the demiurge in his prophetic books).. Ancient of Days (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: עַתִּיק יֹומִין, romanized: ʿattiq yomin or Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: עַתִּ֤יק יֽוֹמַיָּא֙, romanized: ʿattiq yomayyā; Koinē Greek: παλαιὸς ἡμερῶν ...
Books of hours were often the only book in a house, and were commonly used to teach children to read, sometimes having a page with the alphabet to assist this. Towards the end of the 15th century, printers produced books of hours with woodcut illustrations, and the book of hours was one of the main works decorated in the related metalcut technique.
Where do the "12 Days of Christmas" lyrics come from? Though some scholars believe that the song is French in origin, the first printed appearance of the song was in the English children's book ...
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).
Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism and Christianity, the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaChaim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Kitab al-ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is destined for Heaven and ...