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News on the March-Catholic Church and Women Priests

“The Leadership Conference of Women Religious , a prominent group of U.S. Catholic nuns, said it was “stunned” Thursday after the Vatican issued a report essentially accusing it of neglecting its duties, according to the Washington Post. Their offenses included spending too much time on alleviating poverty and pushing for social justice; not being outspoken [...]

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Islamic Art-interior of a mosque

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2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many [...]

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The Merchant and the Jinn-11

‘I managed to escape the baleful eye of my cousin wife and I sent the calf to my attendant who provided me a substitute. Having outwitted my cousin I celebrated the feast with my household. O Jinn think what happened? My attendant came after the festival and he was all agog and narrated the wonderful [...]

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How Mahabharata came to be written-an old epic for modern readers

Vyasa who composed the Vedas planned the epic in his head and its complex structure was so grand that he could not write it all down. So he approached Brahma the creator with a request to help him out. ‘Why don’t you write it all down?’ Vyasa said it was work that held up his [...]

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Notice

www.bennythomas.nl www.bennythomas.nl Those who want to possess some original works of art may check out our webpage. www.bennythomas.nl Emma has her gift cards and it is one of a kind. There are other surprise items for children and old. Picture books for the kids and picture books from the Arabian Nights for the old. You [...]

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News on the March- the fall of a nobody

CAIRO – Cries of “Egypt is free” rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.(AP News) I call Mubarak a nobody [...]

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2010. That’s about 8 full [...]

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Elves Bells-fractured fairy tales

I have started a new blog url of which is http://ben4ben.wordpress.com. I shall be exclusively posting updated classics there. Name of the blog is Elves Bells. Those who are interested in updating the fairy tales of old are welcome to sample them .These stories shall be illustrated wherever possible. benny

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