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  • Kircher allegedly murdered in her bed during a sex fueled attack and one has already been convicted and sentenced to 30 years and prosecutors accuse Knox of exacting revenge on a house mate she hated, so much so that the prosecution claim that Knox slit Kircher's throat as her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito held her down and another sexually assaulted her.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009 2009

  • This musty folio edition, published sixty years earlier, and based on the tales of jesuit missionaries and envoys, embellished and elaborated in Kircher's fertile imagination, introduced me to the wonders of the Great Wall, to the pine-apple, to Confucius Trismegistus!

    Archive 2007-10-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • This musty folio edition, published sixty years earlier, and based on the tales of jesuit missionaries and envoys, embellished and elaborated in Kircher's fertile imagination, introduced me to the wonders of the Great Wall, to the pine-apple, to Confucius Trismegistus!

    Kitai Young Geoffrion 2007

  • Kircher's Hebrew type setter tends to misspell, and the Hebrew type renders some letters too like to others.

    The Way We Lived Then Messud, Claire 2006

  • There is a list of the Fifty Gates of Binah or Understanding in the back of a translation of the "Sepher Yetzirah" by Wescott, although not in all editions, and the original of that list is in Kircher's "Oedipus Aegyptiacus".

    The Way We Lived Then Messud, Claire 2006

  • Kircher's huge tome, with its numerous illustrations, was quickly reissued in Dutch, English, and French translations, and it thereafter became the starting-point for those who wrote or thought about China.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968

  • Kircher's distinction as a scholar, his interest in the comparative study of languages, his analytical presentation of the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968

  • We shall first describe Kircher's harp, which this Jesuit savant constructed according to an observation made by Porta in 1558.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various

  • In this _telegraphe intime_ we can only see an apparatus analogous to the one described by Guyot, or rather a synchronism obtained by means of cords, as in Kircher's arrangement.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

  • Epoch-making also were Kircher's labours in the domain of deciphering hieroglyphics, and, on the excavation of the so-called Pamphylian obelisk, he succeeded in supplying correctly the portions which had been concealed from him.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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