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1. Celtic Feasts: Feasts were an important part of ancient Celtic culture which marked important dates in the calendar and community successes. They were, too, an opportunity to display social status and, of course, eat and drink aplenty. Drunkenness and brawling were not ... [100%] 2021-02-12
2. Mo'Ed ("Feasts"): Name of an order of the Mishnah and the Tosefta both in Babli and in Yerushalmi. The name "Mo'ed," which is mentioned in the Talmud itself (Suk. b), is applied to this order because all the treatises belonging to ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
3. Mesoamerican feasts: Feasts in Mesoamerica served as settings for social and political negotiations. Wealthy or royal families hosted feasts for the purpose of gaining loyalty and a strong image that would help them politically or socially in the future. [100%] 2024-08-24 [Mesoamerican society] [Mesoamerican diet and subsistence]...
4. Ingathering, Feasts Of: INGATHERING, FEASTS OF in'-gath-er-ing. See FEASTS AND FASTS; BOOTH. in'-gath-er-ing. See FEASTS AND FASTS; BOOTH. [81%] 1915-01-01
5. Fasts And Feasts: FASTS AND FEASTS See FEASTS AND FASTS. See FEASTS AND FASTS. [81%] 1915-01-01
6. Feasts, Seasons For: FEASTS, SEASONS FOR Regulated by the sun and moon. See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5. Regulated by the sun and moon. See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5. [81%] 1915-01-01
7. Feasts And Fasts: FEASTS AND FASTS fests (mo`edh, "an appointed day" or "an assembling," chagh, from chaghagh, "to dance" or possibly "to make a pilgrimage"; tsom, "fast," ta`anith, "a day of affliction"): I. PRE-EXILIC A) Annual 1. Passover, 15th-22d ... [81%] 1915-01-01
8. Feasts And Festivals: A festival or feast1 is a day or series of days specially and publicly set apart for religious observances. Whether its occurrence be casual or periodic, whether its ritual be grave or gay, carnal as the orgies of Baal and ... [81%] 2022-09-02
9. Feasts of Jesus Christ: Feasts of Jesus Christ are specific days of the year distinguished in the liturgical calendar as being significant days for the celebration of events in the life of Jesus Christ and his veneration, for the commemoration of his relics, signs ... (Specific days in the liturgical calendar) [70%] 2024-08-16 [Feasts of Jesus Christ] [Christian festivals and holy days]...
10. Agape (Plural Agapæ—"Love-Feasts"): The name given to the communion meals of the early Christians, at which the rich and the poor, the master and the slave, sat together at one table, merging all distinctions of rank in fraternal union and fellowship. A good ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [63%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Christianization of saints and feasts: The term Christianized calendar refers to feast days which are Christianized reformulations of feasts from pre-Christian times. Historian Peter Brown, in his The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, argued that one cannot equate ... [63%] 2024-02-18 [Liturgical calendar] [Christianization]...
12. The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin: The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin or (Russian: Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным, romanized: Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym) is a 1989 film adaptation of Fazil Iskander's eponymous novella directed by Yuri Kara. In the 1990s the film was screened ... [47%] 2023-12-10 [1989 films] [1980s biographical drama films]...