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Someone called Adon on the blog talks at length about Tibetan women's rights and so forth.
Tibet Will Be Free 2008
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It's the first of a planned series of weird westerns from Damnation Books featuring 'the Rider,' a Hasidic gunslinger hunting the renegade teacher a man called 'Adon' who betrayed and destroyed the American enclave of his mystic Jewish order, The Sons of the Essenes.
Archive 2010-03-01 Liviu 2010
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It's the first of a planned series of weird westerns from Damnation Books featuring 'the Rider,' a Hasidic gunslinger hunting the renegade teacher a man called 'Adon' who betrayed and destroyed the American enclave of his mystic Jewish order, The Sons of the Essenes.
Interview with Ed Erdelac (Interview by Mihir Wanchoo) Cindy 2010
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Semites, the Semitic title "Adon", meaning "lord", having been mistaken for a proper name.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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"Adon" was one of the names of the Supreme God of the Phnicians; from it was derived the name of the Greek god "Ad-onis."
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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It is so effective that it is even ideal for stuffing many special moves, such as Adon's Jaguar Tooth, E. Honda's flying headbutt, and Blanka's horizontal ball.
Shoryuken Teben 2010
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Tanit was the great goddess of Carthage; she is called "Adon,"'lord,' and her equality with Baal is indicated by the statement that she had his face, the word 'face' being here equivalent to 'personality' and 'power.' [
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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Though she doesn't believe in Him, she sometimes spontaneously breaks into the ballad version of Adon Olam, Debbie Friedman's Havdalah prayer or the Shema.
Mira Sucharov: Parting The Red Sea With My Dad And My Atheist Daughter Mira Sucharov 2011
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Though she doesn't believe in Him, she sometimes spontaneously breaks into the ballad version of Adon Olam, Debbie Friedman's Havdalah prayer or the Shema.
Mira Sucharov: Parting The Red Sea With My Dad And My Atheist Daughter Mira Sucharov 2011
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Interestingly, this language is almost identical to the Medieval Jewish poem "Adon Olam" -- "Master of the World".
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Rabbi Who Believes In Zeus: Why All Intuitions Of God Are Incomplete Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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