...Statement of the Prophetess Nonkosi, 23rd October 1857 Nonkosi In the mid-1850s prophecies began circulating throughout the Xhosa-­speaking peo- ples of the Eastern Cape. The most important prophets were two girls, Nongqawuse and Nonkosi. They said that if the people slaughtered their...

...Rethinking a Great Event: The October Revolution as Memory Project frederick c. corney What if that discourse about [the French Revolution as] a radical break reflects no more than the illusion of change Unless the historian comes to grips with it, he is bound...

... October Afternoon, 1986 Leaves burning somewhere, traces of blue smoke a sweet autumnal aphrodisiac— we struggled over the equations, cloaked in life’s organic secrecies. Your back, as you leaned over glucose forming bonds with oxygen, was...

... october october in charleston Charleston is a gardener's delight in October and November. It is then cool enough to walk up and down the streets, peeking through fences at the little gardens, some of them tiny. Gardeners from the hill...

...Off the Grid Weather Conditions in Lower Manhattan, September 11, 2001, to October 2, 2001 This text began as an email composed in the days following September 11, 2001. In those days, writing it was my principal occupation, and I wrote to preserve the details of each day. There are...

... harpsichord. I have an instrument to play if I reach the stage when I can garden no longer. And if we just have a few more cold, wet days in winter, I will not have to wait until I am too feeble to get around. I will learn the Goldberg Variations. Early October was hot and humid. Frost will lay the...

... L O , Underworld 6 All plots tend to move deathward. D O N D E L I L L O , White Noise 6 It’s gone! Sportscaster E R N I E H A R W E L L , October 3, 1951 The narrative act of...

... chapter 1 THE REVOLUTION OF OCTOBER 1934 n the morning of 4 October 1934 the veteran socialist Oleader Teodomiro Menéndez sat on the train from Madrid to Oviedo comfortably dressed in a gray jacket and hat. He was no stranger...

... chapter 6 THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION IN DEMOCRATIC SPAIN Should we erase the past so that its ghosts do not reappear? —Eugenio de Rioja, La Nueva España, 8 July 1999 he commemorative imagery of the October 1934 revolution...

... divisions through devotion to the expansive love of God in Christ. Communion Meditation October 1, 1967 jürgen moltmann ‘‘Foras manyof you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.There is neither Jew nor Greek.There is neither slave nor...

... song by the Beatles with his personal wisdom to craft a beautiful sermon that elevates the notion of home- coming to an encounter with the gospel. Homecoming Homecoming and Dad’s Day October 22, 1967 thomas a. langford Psalm 127 I want to begin with a...

... an ability to lay the Christian faith alongside contemporarydilemmas. In this sermon Barr moves from the disciples asleep during Jesus’ Passion to insights about ourown tendency to sleep through life. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep October 26, 1969...

... Welsh-accented voice, he demonstrated that the finest of faithful biblical scholarship could also be vibrantly proclaimed.When not in the pulpit or on the lecture circuit, Davies was always in his place in the second pew on the right in the north transept of Duke Chapel. The Bible Today October...

... proven in this engaging biblical sermon. Seeing and Not Seeing October 21, 1979 leander keck Genesis 12:1–9, Exodus 2:1–4, 11–15, Joshua 2:1, 8–10, 15, and Hebrews 11:8–10, 23–27, 31 The Christian winner is in a precarious position.You know the...

... is the enemy, not the beloved friend. A Sermon at Duke University October 15, 1995 david g. buttrick Jeremiah 29:4–9 Here is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the leaders of the exiles, to the priests and the...

..., weaves a biblical themewith a consideration of the university’s mission. We Do See Jesus October 8, 2000 l. gregory jones We live in a world of people offering answers to unasked questions.We see it especially during a political campaign season when...

... Appendix A text of the objectives of nupepa kuokoa, as published therein, october 1861 Akahi. He olelo hoike i na mea nui a maikai a pau, i hanaia ma na aina e, e ku ana i ka pono o na kanaka Hawaii ke ike. Alua. E hoolaha ia ana na manao haole o kela...

...On the Munich Agreement British Parliamentary Debate (October 3, 1938) In resolving the crisis caused by Germany’s 1938 annexation of the “Sudetenland,” the areas bordering Germany and Austria in the northwest of the Czechoslovak Re- public, Great Britain and France were determined from...

... REIDENTIFICATIONS: SEEING CITIZENS BEING SEEN “THE EYE OF HISTORY” Photojournalism, Protest, and the Manifestation of 17 October 1961 5 A simple image: inadequate but necessary...

...October, Last Sail Among the last boats in the harbor, ours seems glad for human company: you board, and El Poeta rocks you lovingly. I watch you from the pebbled beach, unsure. But soon enough we’re sailing out, the day unpromising and cold; the air is gray, the sun a milky yellow pearl...