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Barques were important religious artifacts and since the deities were thought to travel in this fashion in the sky — the Milky Way was seen as a great waterway that was as important as the Nile on Earth — cult statues of the deities traveled by boats on water and ritual boats were carried about by the priests during festival ceremonies.
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Barques and were
Barques were the workhorse of the Golden Age of Sail in the mid 19th century as they attained passages that nearly matched full rigged ships but could operate with smaller crews.
Barques and —
* Pointe aux Barques Light -- Lake Huron — near Port Hope
Barques and was
This class of falles was first started in 1942 and originally included the falles of Barques, Reina-Pau and Plaça del Mercat.
In 1964, the Pointe aux Barques Life Saving Station house was moved here.
Barques and on
Pointe Aux Barques is one of the smallest townships in Michigan, consisting of only three partial sections at the tip of the Thumb on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
Barques and water
* The world's largest man-made fresh water harbor offers a harbor of refuge to ships traveling between Port Huron and Pointe Aux Barques.
Barques and .
Pointe Aux Barques Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse is located in Huron Township, not Pointe Aux Barques.
* Pointe Aux Barques is an unincorporated community in the Township at Linwood and Gill Roads.
The Pointe aux Barques Light, near the tip of the Thumb.
Along M-25 you can see five lighthouses: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, Port Sanilac lighthouse, Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse, Harbor Beach Light, and the Port Austin Lighthouse.
* The " tip of the Thumb " is Pointe Aux Barques, between Port Austin and Grindstone City.
Barques and barquentines are partially square rigged and partially fore-and-aft rigged.
* Article from the Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse Society.
were and important
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
He had failed to realize that the Burmese were not really treating him as the important visitor he considered himself.
Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
During 1960, two important conferences were organized by the Development Council's Industrial Division.
But in such an important question, we would be satisfied if the judgment were that the principal objection to the identity of forces which produce electricity and magnetism were only a difficulty, and not a thing which is contrary to it.
The Chamber of Commerce elections were, of course, an important event in the preparation for rural commune elections.
Since the details of the elections were settled the change of government had no direct effect on the technical aspects of the elections, and may have been more important as an indication of royal displeasure with the U.N.F.P.
The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.
the important point, however, is that these magnificent achievements, unlike those of later decades, were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models.
Did she know, he asked, why the colors of the tubes were important to people's health??
The most important aims of the Jewish students were as follows: to make the world a better place to live in -- 30 per cent ; ;
The highly important Dyer patents on the sliding gear transmission were held by the A.L.A.M. pool.
During the making recently of an important Biblical film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and complied with.
In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).
Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views.
The Greek sculptors considered the senses more important, and the proportions were used to unite the sensible with the intellectual.
Though the proportions were always important in Greek art, the appeal of the Greek sculptures eludes any explanation by proportion alone.
In the Planalto ( the high plains ), the most important states were those of Bié and Bailundo, the latter being noted for its production of foodstuffs and rubber.
When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.
were and religious
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.
The O'Dwyers were real religious people except for Kate.
And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.
Immediately, the religious groups of the city were embroiled in an angry dispute over the alleged invasion of a man's right to freedom of religious belief and conscience.
Six of these were proposed by religious groups.
Until that first dedication service, he and Lois felt their children were too young to take part in any religious life at home.
At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.
There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.
During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.
and the daily duties of individuals were basically religious in nature.
They were good-living religious people, and I can truthfully say I never heard them spread any gossip about anybody.
A lot of religious elements including the were transmitted from the Hittites to the Greeks and then to the west.
This theme was greater strengthened by Christie ’ s time spent in the Middle East where she was consistently surrounded by the religious temples and spiritual history of the towns and cities they were excavating in Mallowan ’ s archaeological work.
This evidence suggests that the religious structures were deliberately abandoned slowly over time.
For the reception of the sacraments, and for other religious offices, the abbot and his monks were commanded to attend the nearest church.
The cost argument advanced by ACSI and others prevailed in keeping religious institutions from being labeled as " public accommodations ", and thus churches were permitted to remain inaccessible if they choose.
He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination.
The greatest influences in the 19th century that propelled " Amazing Grace " to spread across the U. S. and become a staple of religious services in many denominations and regions were the Second Great Awakening and the development of shape note singing communities.
Contemporary hymnbooks did not contain music and were simply small books of religious poetry.
During this time the Ainu were forced to learn Japanese, required to adopt Japanese names and ordered to cease religious practices such as animal sacrifice and the custom of tattooing.
The case of Thurgot's would-be successor Eadmer shows that Alexander's wishes were not always accepted by the religious community, perhaps because Eadmer had the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ralph d ' Escures, rather than Thurstan of York.
At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were supported by a fairly significant faction of religious cardinals and secular kings and kingdoms.
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