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A typical shepherd's staff, with a gnomon that produces a shadow on a scale of months. A shepherd's dial (also known as a pillar dial or cylinder) is a type of sundial that measures the height of the sun via the so-called umbra versa. [1] Its design needs to incorporate a fixed latitude, but it is small and portable.
Misa de Gallo (Spanish for "Rooster's Mass", also Misa de los Pastores, "Shepherds' Mass;" Portuguese: Missa do Galo; Catalan: Missa del gall) is the Midnight Mass celebrated in Portugal and many former Portuguese colonies and also in Spain and many former Spanish colonies on Christmas Eve and sometimes in the days immediately preceding Christmas.
In Israelite culture, the rod (Hebrew: מַטֶּה maṭṭeh) was a natural symbol of authority, [3] as the tool used by the shepherd to correct and guide his flock. [4] Moses, in fact, initially carried his rod while tending his sheep, [5] and later it became his symbol of authority over the Israelites. [6]
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
The papal ferula (/ ˈ f ɛr əl ə /; Latin ferula, 'rod') is the pastoral staff used in the Catholic Church by the pope.It is a rod with a knob on top surmounted by a cross. It differs from a crosier, the staff carried by other Latin Church bishops, which is curved or bent at the top in the style of a shepherd's crook.
Raising a senior dog is hard work. But for every hard day, there's a good day. And one dog mama recently had a good day with her senior Golden Retriever and his fur-brother, an Australian Shepherd ...
The poor Shepherd mix pup was frantically running in the streets while New Year's fireworks rang out, but Jon's quick thinking and generous nature helped the pup find a safe haven in the chaos. As ...
A FedEx contract worker has been busted for allegedly dumping dozens of packages in the woods to avoid working late. Latavion Lewis was arrested after a post office in Bonifay, Florida, received ...