* Noah's Ark, according to Abrahamic religions, a large boat built by Noah to keep him safe, together with his family and a core breeding stock of the world ’ s animals

Politician Daniel Webster was Noah Webster ’ s cousin.

As a senator, Daniel sponsored Noah ’ s proposed copyright bill.

Commentators, as early as the Classical era, on have excused Noah ’ s excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker, the first person to discover the soothing, consoling, and enlivening effects of wine.

John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah ’ s behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: “ Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor ”.

A fuller account would explain what exactly Ham “ had done to ” his father ; or why Noah directed a curse at Canaan for Ham ’ s misdeed ; or how Noah came to know what occurred.

The narrator relates two facts: ( 1 ) Noah became inebriated when he “ uncovered himself within his tent ” and ( 2 ) Ham “ saw his father ’ s nakedness .” Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2: 15 and Lamentations 4: 21.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

With regard to retroactive copyright extension, he viewed it foolish to apply the government's argument that income received from royalties allows artists to produce more work saying, " How will extension help today ’ s Noah Webster create new works 50 years after his death?

For example, according to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Noah ’ s wife was just such an individual ("" Hastow nought herd ", quod Nicholas, " also / The sorwe of Noë with his felaschippe / That he had or he gat his wyf to schipe ""; The Miller ’ s Tale, l. 352 – 354 ).

Disputing the claim of a Washington Post editorialist that " Western Europe ’ s recent history suggests that flat income distribution accompanies flat economic growth ," journalist Timothy Noah, points out that redistribution policies in Europe do not seem to be correlated to economic problems of the late twenty-oughts.

Orosius is thereby able to present the past as a series of adversities with concrete examples, from Noah ’ s flood to the shipwrecking of ships in the Mediterranean Sea, and the future as something positive despite the reality of the times in which he lived.

Included were a replica of the Canadian Rockies, a miniature railroad, mountain slide, Robinson Crusoe ’ s, Beach, a pirate ’ s lair, boat rides and Noah ’ s Ark complete with animals.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, was based on Noah Webster ’ s American Dictionary edition of 1841.

Si ’ ahl was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, and given the baptismal name Noah, probably in 1848 near Olympia, Washington.

This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah ’ s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

The question why the Jews were favored with God's instruction is answered in the Kuzari at I: 95, as based upon their pedigree, i. e., Noah ’ s most pious son was Shem.

Nicholas essentially tells John that rain will consume the land, creating far more devastation than Noah ’ s flood.

“ Noah ’ s Prayer ” ( originally entitled “ Mush ”) chronicles Noah ’ s journey to Mount Ararat.

For instance the Jewish text Pirqei R. Eliezer, depicts God as dividing the earth among Noah ‘ s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and attributing different skin colors to them ( literally, — blessing “ them with different skin colors ): light colored skin for the

Voight played Noah in the 1999 television production Noah's Ark, and appeared in Second String, also for TV.

Later rabbinical legends made Og a survivor of the flood, suggesting the he had sat on the Ark and was fed by Noah.

St Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ), demonstrated in The City of God that the dimensions of the Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which corresponds to the body of Christ ; the equation of Ark and Church is still found in the Anglican rite of baptism, which asks God, " who of thy great mercy didst save Noah ," to receive into the Church the infant about to be baptised.

The Qur ' an narrates that Noah received a revelation to build an Ark, after his people refused to believe in his message and hear the warning.

The Bahá ' í scripture Kitáb-i-Íqán endorses the Islamic belief that Noah had a large number of companions, either 40 or 72, besides his family on the Ark, and that he taught for 950 ( symbolic ) years before the flood.

The rainbow is the modern symbol of the B ' nei Noah | Noahide Movement, recalling the rainbow that appeared after the Noah's Ark | Great Flood of the Bible.

According to the Biblical narrative, the Deluge covered the whole world, killing every surface-dwelling creature except Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, sea creatures, and the animals taken aboard Noah's Ark.

Savonarola now declared that by answering his call to penitence the Florentines had begun to build a new Ark of Noah which had saved them from the waters of the divine flood.

The scriptural story of Noah and his Ark describes the end of a corrupt civilization and its replacement with a remade world.

Noah's Ark (; Biblical Hebrew: Teyvat Noaḥ ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative ( Genesis chapters 6 – 9 ) by which the Patriarch Noah saves himself, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals when God decides to destroy the world because of mankind's evil deeds.

Image: Millais-Die Rückkehr der Taube zur Arche Noah. jpg | The Return of the Dove to the Ark ( 1851 ) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

In 1824, in a precursor to modern Zionism, journalist and Utopian Mordecai Manuel Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called Ararat, after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark.

the Bible: ' and Noah sent out a Dove from the Ark and when the waters subsided

In 2011, Aronofsky was attempting to launch production on Noah, a retelling of the Bible story of Noah's Ark, projected for a $ 115 million budget.

* Noah's Ark ( 1986 ) — Noah ( voice )

According to local legend in the Birecik area, the Northern Bald Ibis was one of the first birds that Noah released from the Ark as a symbol of fertility, and a lingering religious sentiment in Turkey helped the colonies there to survive long after the demise of the species in Europe.

Located just outside of the town limits is a replica Noah's Ark, a 2 / 3-scale model of the Biblical Ark that Noah built, as described in the Christian Old Testament.

*( As Andrew Elborn ) Noah and the Ark and the Animals, illustrated by Ivan Gantschev, Picture Book Studio ( Saxonville, MA ), 1987.

In the earliest Christian art, the dove represented the peace of the soul rather than civil peace, but from the third century the dove began to be shown in situations of conflict such as Daniel and the lions, the three young men in the furnace, Susannah and the Elders and Noah and the Ark.

* The Lost Ship of Noah: In Search of the Ark at Ararat ( 1987 )

According to locals, Noah's Ark landed at the Col de l ' Aulp, whose valley is indeed shaped like a ship ; Noah, Biblical father of viticulture, would have planted the lakeside vineyards of Talloires, which produced wines and brandy until the 1950s.