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Zhenitba (Russian: Женитьба, Zhenit'ba, Marriage) is an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy Marriage. This 1842 play is a satire of courtship and cowardice, which centres on a young woman, Agafya, who is wooed by four bachelors, each with his own idiosyncrasies.
The "Wedding Church" in Kafr Kanna, Israel, one of the locations considered to be the site of the biblical CanaThe wedding at Cana (also called the marriage at Cana, wedding feast at Cana or marriage feast at Cana) is a story in the Gospel of John at which the first miracle attributed to Jesus takes place.
The Object-Lesson (1958) is a picture book by Edward Gorey. [1] A work of surrealist art and literature, it is typical of Gorey's avant-garde style of storytelling, with Victorian and Edwardian-esque line drawings and settings, each described with a sentence fragment which adds to a larger continuous narrative. The pictures and text combine to ...
An object lesson is a teaching method that consists of using a physical object or visual aid as a discussion piece for a lesson. Object lesson teaching assumes that material things have the potential to convey information.
Kanyadana (Sanskrit: कन्यादान, romanized: Kanyādāna) is a Hindu wedding ritual. [1] One possible origin of this tradition can be traced to 15th century stone inscriptions found in the Vijayanagara Empire in South India. [2]
Pope Leo XIII began Arcanum by recalling the history of marriage, established in the Old Testament when God created man and woman: . We record what is to all known, and cannot be doubted by any, that God, on the sixth day of creation, having made man from the slime of the earth, and having breathed into his face the breath of life, gave him a companion, whom He miraculously took from the side ...
Object Lessons may refer to: Object Lessons (book series), an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things; Object Lessons (novel), a 1991 novel by Anna Quindlen; Object lesson, a teaching method that consists of using a physical object or visual aid
The Svayaṃvara ceremony of princess Damayantī, by Nandalal Bose. Svayaṃvara (Sanskrit: स्वयंवर lit. ' self-choice ') is a matrimonial tradition in ancient Indian society where a bride, usually from Kṣatriya (warrior) caste, selects her husband from a group of assembled suitors either by her own choice or a public contest between her suitors.