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  • "Last Rites" is a time machine story, but a very different kind of time machine story than we're used to.

    MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

  • In those days, I got my sensible Stride Rites from a neighborhood shoe store.

    Sunday Scribblings-Shoes 2006

  • Equal Rites is a good one, though, I must admit, not as funny as some of his other Discworld books.

    Witches and Wizards « So Many Books 2005

  • China was made there by Jesuits, but evoked strong opposition from the Franciscans and Rome in the so-called Rites Controversy.

    HOLY (THE SACRED) WILLARD GURDON OXTOBY 1968

  • An illustrated article entitled Rites of the Firewalking Fanatics of Japan, by W.C. Jameson Reid, in the Chicago Sunday Inter - Ocean of September 27th, 1903, reveals so splendid an example of the gullibility of the well-informed when the most ordinary trick is cleverly presented and surrounded with the atmosphere of the occult, that I am impelled to place before my readers a few illuminating excerpts from Mr. Reid's narrative.

    Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

  • An illustrated article entitled Rites of the Firewalking Fanatics of

    The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900

  • Situated in a blighted area of Philadelphia, the IICS has struggled for 12 years to provide a full service learning facility, including a performing arts school filled with African dance and drumming classes, advanced placement programs, a senior intern project, and a program called Rites of Passage to help build students 'cultural, social, spiritual and emotional development.

    news.newamericamedia.org Charlene Muhammad 2010

  • Justin Bond brings his latest international tour, called Rites of Spring, to New York.

    247Gay.com 2009

  • Film Rites, which is a co-venture with Mandate, has a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Rites is a relatively late text,31 and although many of the positions it describes are attested to in other, earlier works, this does not seem to be so much the case with the positions held by women. 32 The Rites does describe the royal wives as being counterparts of the highest-ranking ministers in the government, but there is no evidence that they or the wives of the rulers of the subordinate states exercised any authority outside the confines of the palace.

    Empresses and Consorts 1999

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