Amphibian Ark is an organization that was formed to implement the ex-situ conservation recommendations of this plan, and they have been working with zoos and aquaria around the world encouraging them to create assurance colonies of threatened amphibians.

The main focus of the site is the forum, The Ark, and there is also a ( seemingly defunct ) web zine.

Ark is a Latin-based word that means a " box " or container.

Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.

The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed.

A golden cover, adorned with golden cherubim, is to be placed above the Ark.

The Ark is finally to be placed behind a veil ( Parochet ), a full description of which is also given.

The Ark is next spoken of as being in the Tabernacle at Shiloh during Samuel's apprenticeship ( 1 Sam.

In 1 Chronicles 13: 3 it is stated that the people were not accustomed to consult the Ark in the days of Saul.

There is no record of what became of the Ark in the Books of Kings and Chronicles.

In Rabbinic Literature, the final disposition of the Ark is disputed.

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

In the New Testament, the Ark is mentioned in the Letter to the Hebrews and the Revelation to St. John.

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

You are the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna, that is, the flesh in which Divinity resides " ( Homily of the Papyrus of Turin ).

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

The Biblical Ark of the Covenant is approximately 52. 5 inches long, 31. 5 inches wide, and 31. 5 inches high in the shape of a rectangular chest.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

* The Ark of the Covenant is the main focus of Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the same prop also appears in a cameo in a later sequel in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Their somewhat short-lived career ( the band disbanded in 1997-8 ) was characterized by a unique sound in the power / progressive metal genre ( which was slightly altered with their last studio release, Flow ), notable for Østby's occasional integration of elements of flamenco ( which he would continue in his later work with Ark ) and Khan's unique vocals.

* Ark ( Norwegian band ), a metal band

After touring to support Burn the Sun, Ark went on hiatus and eventually broke up, with Jørn Lande joining Roland Grapow and Uli Kusch in the classic power metal band Masterplan, as well as pushing his own solo career.

Jonah's Ark is the third full-length album by British folk metal band Skyclad.

Conception was reunited in 2005, playing the important American prog metal festival Prog Power USA 2005 on Friday, September 16 and Norwegian Scream Magazine's 15 Years & 100 Issues Festival on Saturday, October 1, bringing guitarist Tore Østby ( Ark ), singer Roy Khan ( recently resigned lead singer of Kamelot ) and the rest of the band back together.

Ark was a Japanese company that produced a series of die-cast metal monster toys sold under the brand name " Arklon.

* The Ark ( band ), Swedish glam-rock band

* Ark ( UK band ), a melodic rock band

* Ark ( Bangladeshi band ), a Bangladeshi rock band

* Ark ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel album ), by the Japanese rock band L ' Arc-en-Ciel

* The Ark ( EP ), the debut EP of the Swedish band The Ark

* " Ark ", a song by the Japanese band Sound Horizon

* " The Ark ", a song by American rock band Dr. Dog

Other dub performers include Serbian dub band Black Ark Crew, Basque dub band Basque Dub Foundation, and Australian live dub outfit The Sunshine Brothers.

* Steve Harris, guitarist for the British band Ark

On September 15, 2009, Brian Vander Ark announced on his website that the band will be releasing a new album called A Family Album in October, 2009.

After contact with Norwegian band Ark famous album Burn The Sun and subsequently the album Worldchanger, singer Jørn Lande was invited.

On their 2008 debut album, London band Silvery released ' Warship Class ', a song about a childhood trip to the scrapyard in search of the remaining British Rail Class 41 ( Warship Class ) locomotive-D601-' Ark Royal '.

For example, a 2007 article in the Deseret Morning News stated that " Pratt was killed near Van Buren, Ark., in May 1857, by a small Arkansas band antagonistic toward his teachings ".

The sidestory, SD Gundam Force Emaki Musharetsuden, is set in the land of Ark and focuses on a band of heroic Musha Gundams.

Blood Pollution ( Chris Cole's former band and a Steel Dragon tribute band ) is also made up of known musical artists, including guitarist Nick Catanese ( Black Label Society ), drummer Blas Elias ( Slaughter ), and bassist Brian Vander Ark ( The Verve Pipe, who also contributed a song to the film's soundtrack ).

* Ark, a literary prize from the Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

When carried, the Ark was always wrapped in a veil, in skins and a blue cloth, and was carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the priests who carried it.

After their first defeat at Eben-ezer, the Israelites had the Ark brought from Shiloh, and welcomed its coming with great rejoicing.

Illustration from the 13th century Morgan Bible of David bringing the Ark into Jerusalem ( 2 Samuel 6 ).

At the beginning of his reign, King David removed the Ark from Kirjath-jearim amid great rejoicing.

11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

The Ark carried into the Temple from the early 15th century Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

When Abiathar was dismissed from the priesthood by King Solomon for having taken part in Adonijah's conspiracy against David, his life was spared because he had formerly borne the Ark ( 1 Kings 2: 26 ).

When the priests emerged from the holy place after placing the Ark there, the Temple was filled with a cloud, " for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord " ( 1 Kings 8: 10-11 ; 2 Chron.

Since its disappearance from the Biblical narrative, there have been a number of claims of having discovered or of having possession of the Ark, and several possible places have been suggested for its location.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims to possess the Ark of the Covenant, or Tabot, in Axum, not far from the border with Eritrea.

Several recent authors have theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France.

Karen Ralls has cited Freemason Patrick Byrne, who believes the Ark was moved from Rennes-le-Château at the outbreak of World War I to America.

12: 1 – 37 ), the removal of the Ark of the Covenant from Kirjath-jearim to Mount Zion ( 1 Chr.

The Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh and take it to the temple of their god Dagon, who recognises the supremacy of Yahweh.

In this account, the Philistines of Ashdod were stricken with a plague for the crime of stealing the Ark of the Covenant from the Children of Israel.

The 97 children were taken from their homes in October 2007 by a then-obscure French charity, Zoé's Ark, which claimed they were orphans from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

At the time of her death, Carolyn Beug was working on a children's book about Noah's Ark which was to be told from Noah's wife's point of view.

* Ark ( 2011 ) Earth's wealthiest man attempts to save humanity from a coming apocalypse.

He continued with scenes from the Deluge, the story of Noah's Ark, Noah's sacrifice and Noah's drunkenness.

The headquarters of TV Asahi, which moved its headquarters to Roppongi Hills from Ark Hills in 2003

The dove then descended, took the scroll of the Law from the Ark, and placed it on Solomon's knees.

The producers and writers have cited All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rashomon, The Thing, The Boys from Brazil, The Silence of the Lambs, and JFK as influences on the series.