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Brewer's: Image of God

Wear not the image of God in a ring. This is the twenty-fourth symbolic saying in the Protreptics of Iamblichus, and is tantamount to the commandment “Thou shalt not take the name of God…

Brewer's: Annulo Dei figuram ne gestato

(In). Wear not God's image in a ring (or inscribe....), the 24th symbol of the Protretics. Jamblicus tells us that Pythagoras wished to teach by this prohibition that God had an “…

Brewer's: Peal

To ring a peal is to ring 5,040 changes; any number of changes less than that is technically called a touch or flourish. Bells are first raised, and then pealed. (Qy. Latin pello, to…

Civil Rights March on Washington

All about the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 Related Links Quotes from Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Speeches Martin Luther King Biography Civil Rights Timeline…

Middle-earth Timeline

From the creation of Middle-earth to the War of the Ring by Laura Hayes The awakening of Man, the Elves' struggle against Morgoth, and the love of Beren and Lúthien. These tales are to be…

Brewer's: Doge

(1 syl., g = j). The chief magistrate in Venice while it was a Republic. The first duke or doge was Anafesto Paoluccio, created 697. The chief magistrate of Genoa was called a doge down to…

Brewer's: Camarina

Ne moveas Camarinam (Don't meddle with Camarina). Camarina was a lake in Sicily, which, in time of drought, yielded a pestilential stench. The inhabitants consulted an oracle about…