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89The Roman Catholic Tradition of Eating Fish on Fridays
The practice of fasting and abstaining from certain foods is an ancient one that has been practiced by many religions. In the early years of Christianity in Europe, the Church instituted the practice of requiring the faithful to abstain from eating...
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83Slovenia - Maribor
Maribor is 2nd largest city in Slovenia located around river Drava and has beautiful old town centre and many interesting places in the neighbourhood.
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82Book Review of "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris
A review of the novel "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris, and a comparison of how the book differs from the movie. It serves as the "sequel" to the movie review hub around this story about Vianne Rocher and her Chocolaterie.
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80Festina Lente! (Make Haste Slowly!)
In modern life, we're so concerned about speeding up the pace of things that we end up driving ourselves mad. The trick to sanity is to slow down even while speeding--in other words, to engage in the fine art of "hurrying slowly."
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77British Bank Holiday Days And Other Special Occasions In The UK 2011
Like any Brit, give me any chance to celebrate and I'm all over it! Here is a list of this year's bank holidays and special occassions - so get planning and partying! Bank Holidays are indicated with an asterisk (*). Note - when a bank holiday...
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77Mankind's Holidays or God's Holy Days
Welcome to my new Hub. In this exciting Hub we will be studying the works of mammon (mankind) and the works of God. Which days do you think we should be keeping now? The vast majority of Christians keep Sunday, Easter and Christmas. Only a very...
76Traditional Armenian Easter Eggs Dyed with Onion Skins
Traditional armenian Easter eggs dyed with onion skins are beautiful, "green", economical and incredibly easy.
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79Every Word Tells a Story #9: Ink, Indigo and Italics
In our journey through the alphabets we arrive at our ninth stop, the inevitable, indispensable and indefatigable ‘I’. One of the five vowels, 'i' is also the fifth most commonly used letters in the English language
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77The Days Of The Easter Season & Symbols
Easter is a moveable holiday but always on a Sunday. It always follows the full moon of the spring equinox. There is a Holy Week celebrated days leading up to Easter Shrove Tuesday, lent, Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday,Good Friday. Along with other signs and symbols of the Easter seasons.
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75Celebrating Easter In My Family
Following traditions in one's family for celebrating Easter. Includes Lent, Holy Week and Easter observances and celebrations.
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