Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws close like a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall vendors, forever.

The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.

The Book of Mormon has a number of original and distinctive doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve, the nature of the Atonement, eschatology, redemption from physical and spiritual death, and the organization of the latter-day church.

Talking about Adalvard the Younger, the bishop of Sigtuna and later that of Skara, Adam or a later copyist has written:

Among other compliments, Linnaeus has been called ( Prince of Botanists ), " The Pliny of the North ," and " The Second Adam ".

The last time we saw the tree of life was in the Garden of Eden. 2: 9 God drove Adam and Eve away from it because it bestowed eternal life and he did not want them to have it in their degraded state. 3: 22 In the New Jerusalem, the tree of life reappears, and everyone in the city has access to it.

However it has not always been so: the Fall occurred because Adam and Eve succumbed to their desire for each other, and copulated before the allotted time.

In contrast to the Jewish view of being morally balanced, Original Sin refers to the idea that the sin of Adam and Eve's disobedience ( sin " at the origin ") has passed on a spiritual heritage, so to speak.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

Adam Nelson has won silver medals in the shotput in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics to go along with his gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

The Zohar tradition has influenced Jewish folkore, which postulates God created Adam to marry a woman named Lilith.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

This matter has been the subject of a number of cases before the Supreme Court, most notably Kansas v. Hendricks and United States v. Comstock in regard to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which does not require a conviction on sex offences, but only that the person be in federal custody and be deemed a " sexually dangerous person ".

Bedi married four times and has three children, Pooja, Siddharth and Adam.

After the publication of the statistical analysis by Bill, Adam discovers that he has missed a second instruction from Bill to conduct 12 trials instead, and that Bill's paper is based on this second instruction.

This Jewish tradition has echoes also in Jewish pseudepigrapha such as 2 Enoch and the Life of Adam and Eve.

In the 1994 comedy Airheads ( in which he is credited as " Lemmy von Motörhead "), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, " Chazz " Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive — Chazz asks him, " Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

As Adam Mickiewicz explained in 1842 to students of Slavic Literature in Paris, the song " begins with verses which are the emblem of recent history: ' Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live '.

Following his death, the publishers of the Old Earth creationism book " Who Was Adam " issued a news release that said: " Evolution has just been dealt its death blow.

There was also on the top of the throne a golden candelabrum, on the seven branches of the one side of which were engraved the names of the seven patriarchs Adam, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job, and on the seven of the other the names of Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses, Aaron, Eldad, Medad, and, in addition, Hur ( another version has Haggai ).

The earliest etymology of " Vinland " is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis (" Description of the Northern Islands "): " Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine.

Since 1986, Doe has also maintained a busy second career as an actor, appearing in such films as Oliver Stone's Salvador, Allison Anders ' Border Radio and Sugar Town, the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Craig Mazin's The Specials, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the independent feature Roadside Prophets, in which he starred with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

Rickman has also been featured in several musical works – most notably in a song composed by the English songwriter Adam Leonard entitled " Not Alan Rickman ".

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

This painting, for which the original title has not survived, depicts paradise with Adam and Eve and many wondrous animals on the left panel, the earthly delights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and hell with depictions of fantastic punishments of the various types of sinners on the right panel.

* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.

Adam Smith and David Ricardo referred to the " component parts of price " as the costs of using:

Adam of Bremen referred to them as the Reregi because of their lucrative trade emporium Reric.

" Old Adam is then referred to as " Gideon Crawle " or " Gideon " for the rest of Act II.

At night he had dinner with his friends Adam Oehlenschläger and H. C. Andersen, and he is said to have referred to the finished museum saying: " Now I can die whenever it is time, because Bindesbøll has finished my tomb.

The work referred to is La jeune fille à l ' agneau ; some commentators have described this as a pun by Doyle upon the name of Thomas Agnew of the gallery Thomas Agnew and Sons, who had a famous painting stolen by Adam Worth, but were unable to prove the claim.

Residents were growing weary of being referred to as a train station so in 1881, after researching post offices in the county, Adam Brubaker found only one named Denver.

It was on this occasion that the President, Adam Sedgwick, referred to Smith as " the Father of English Geology ".

" ( p. 224 ) The battle between uniformitarianism and catastrophism kept the Flood alive in the emerging discipline, until Adam Sedgwick, the president of the Geological Society, publicly recanted his previous support in his 1831 presidential address: We ought indeed to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Flood.

Adam Smith referred to a so called invisible hand, which will move markets towards their natural equilibrium, without requiring any outside intervention.

Piero Sraffa, in his introduction to the first volume of the " Collected Works of David Ricardo ", referred to Adam Smith's adding up theory.

In 1607, upon recommendation by his brother-in-law Zierotin and another relative Adam of Waldstein, often mistakenly referred to as his uncle, Wallenstein was made chamberlain at the court of Matthias, and later also chamberlain of archdukes Ferdinand and Maximilian.

An unknown child ( referred to as Adam ), whose decapitated torso was found in the River Thames in London in 2002 is believed to have been the victim of a muti killing.

It is also referred to as The Book of Adam.

He and his wife, Mary Isham, were referred to as the " Adam and Eve " of Virginia.

Adam attempts to leave the house to retrace his steps but finds himself in a strange, otherworldly dimension referred to as " Saturn ", covered in sand and populated by enormous sandworms.

Many Unionist politicians perceived " 50: 50 " as unfair, and when the Bill to set up the PSNI was going through Parliament, Minister of State Adam Ingram had stated: " Dominic Grieve referred to positive discrimination and we hold our hands up.

Adam jokingly referred to his creation as ' The Dogg Kennel '.

* Adam Thirlwell, Politics ( 2003 ): a novel about a ménage à trois, which is referred to as " the socialist utopia of sex ".

Humans from Earth are sometimes referred to as Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve by Narnians, a reference to C. S. Lewis ' Christian worldview.

" The theme of Adam 12 also referred to a " military style topic while portraying a sense of contemporary action.

In death, the former hero is referred to as " Khem-Adam " (" Black Adam ").

Enraged to the point of madness, Black Adam launched a week-long attack against the heroes of the world, referred to afterward as " World War III ".

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.

Bu Ishaq Quhistani referred to the Qur ' anic tale of Adam and Eve to support his argument for the necessity of a perfect teacher who could provide spiritual edification ( ta ’ līm ) in place of what he felt were subjective whims and wayward personal opinions ( ra ’ y ).