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  2. Who Can Sail Without the Wind? - Wikipedia

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    Who Can Sail Without the Wind? (Swedish: Vem kan segla förutan vind?, lit. 'Who can sail without wind?') is a Swedish folk song and lullaby known from Swedish speaking areas in Finland, assumed to originate from the Åland -islands between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The opening line is found in the fifth stanza of an 18th-century ...

  3. Ame ni mo makezu - Wikipedia

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    Ame ni mo makezu. Ame ni mo makezu (雨ニモマケズ, 'Be not Defeated by the Rain')[1] is a poem written by Kenji Miyazawa, [2] a poet from the northern prefecture of Iwate in Japan who lived from 1896 to 1933. It was written in a notebook with a pencil in 1931 while he was fighting illness in Hanamaki, and was discovered posthumously ...

  4. Crying - Wikipedia

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    Crying. Crying is the dropping of tears (or welling of tears in the eyes) in response to an emotional state or physical pain. Emotions that can lead to crying include sadness, anger, joy, and fear. Crying can also be caused by relief from a period of stress or anxiety, or as an empathetic response. The act of crying has been defined as "a ...

  5. On the Hills of Manchuria - Wikipedia

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    An early version of the song "On the Hills of Manchuria" performed by Michael Vavitch 1912. " On the Hills of Manchuria " (Russian: На сопках Маньчжурии, romanized: Na sopkakh Manchzhurii) is a waltz composed in 1906 by Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. [1] The original and orchestral arrangement is written in E-flat minor while the ...

  6. Simala Shrine - Wikipedia

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    Cultural significance. The Simala Shrine is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site. The site hosts the image of Our Lady of Lindogon, which is believed to be miraculous by devotees of the Virgin Mary; subsequent to its reported shedding of tears, it was credited with the healing of those who were afflicted with dengue in the area in 1998. [4]

  7. Farewell Sermon - Wikipedia

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    The Farewell Sermon (Arabic: خطبة الوداع, Khuṭbatu l-Widāʿ) also known as Muhammad's Final Sermon or the Last Sermon, is a religious speech, delivered by the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Friday the 9th of Dhu al-Hijjah, 10 AH (6 March 632 [1]) in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat, during the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj.

  8. You can shed tears that she is gone - Wikipedia

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    You can shed tears that she is gone - Wikipedia. " You can shed tears that she is gone... " is the opening line of a piece of popular verse, based on a short prose poem, " Remember Me ", written in 1982 by English painter and poet David Harkins (born 14 November 1958). The verse – sometimes also known as " She Is Gone " – has often been ...

  9. Answered Prayers - Wikipedia

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    The title of the book is taken from the novel's epigraph: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones", attributed to Saint Teresa of Avila. [ 1 ] According to Random House senior editor Joseph M. Fox, Capote signed the initial contract for the novel on January 5, 1966—envisioned as a contemporary American analog to Marcel ...