) Mrs. Henry Labouisse, wife of the new director of the foreign aid program, is the writer and lecturer Eve Curie.

St George's day is the twenty-third of the month ; and St Mark's Eve, with its superstition that the ghosts of those who are doomed to die within the year will be seen to pass into the church, falls on the twenty-fourth.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

The Adamic language is, according to Jews ( as recorded in the midrashim ), some Christians, and Mormons, the language spoken by Adam ( and possibly Eve ) in the Garden of Eden.

It is variously interpreted as either the language used by God to address Adam ( the divine language ), or the language invented by Adam with which he named all things ( including Eve ), as in.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

In Modern Irish, Oíche Bhealtaine is May Eve, and Lá Bealtaine is May Day.

While Boxing Day is 26 December, many retailers who hold Boxing Day Sales will run the sales for several days before or after 26 December, often up to New Year's Eve.

The story of Adam and Eve is held to be an allegory.

Nowadays, opłatek is mostly shared with members of the family and immediate neighbors before the Christmas Eve supper ( Wigilia in the Polish language ).

In Poland, Christmas Eve is a day first of fasting, then of feasting.

On the night of Christmas Eve, so important is the appearance of the first star in remembrance of the Star of Bethlehem, that it has been given an affectionate name of " the little star " or Gwiazdka ( the female counterpart of St. Nicholas ).

Alternatively, it is identified with the " tree of paradise " of medieval mystery plays that were given on 24 December, the commemoration and name day of Adam and Eve in various countries.

The goal of the divine plan as revealed in Exodus is a return to man's state in Eden, so that God can dwell with the Israelites as he had with Adam and Eve through the Ark and Tabernacle, which together form a model of the universe ; in later Abrahamic religions this came to be interpreted as Israel being the guardian of God's plan for mankind, to bring " God's creation blessing to mankind " begun in Adam.

Eve is the first woman created by God in the Book of Genesis.

Analyses have shown a greater diversity of DNA patterns throughout Africa, consistent with the idea that Africa is the ancestral home of mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam.

By comparing mitochondrial DNA which is inherited only from the mother, geneticists have concluded that the last female common ancestor whose genetic marker is found in all modern humans, the so-called mitochondrial Eve, must have lived around 200, 000 years ago.

Eve Arden died from colorectal cancer and heart disease at her home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 82 and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.

This is also the title given in the Bible to Eve, the Hebrew Khavvah ( חוה ), the Aramaic Hawwah, who was made from the rib of Adam, in a strange reflection of the Sumerian myth, in which Adam — not Enki — walks in the Garden of Paradise.

" Older translations use the word " man " to translate the word ’ adam employed in the Hebrew language, the same word used as the proper name of the first man married to the first woman, Eve.

Seth ( Hebrew:, Šet, ; Shith or Shiyth ; " Placed ; appointed "), in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name.

In the Hebrew Bible the serpent in the Garden of Eden lured Eve with the promise of forbidden knowledge, convincing her that despite God's warning, death would not be the result.

According to this book, Hebrew is the language of Heaven, and was originally spoken by all creatures in the Garden, animals and man, however the animals lost their power of speech when Adam and Eve were expelled.

Though some sources identify Gadreel as the angel that seduced Eve, other Hebrew scholars say that it was Samael who tempted Eve in the guise of the Serpent.

This theory would make the names descriptions of their roles, where Abel works with livestock, and Cain with agriculture — and would parallel the names Adam (" man ") and Eve (" life ", Chavah in Hebrew ).

The movement often requires observance of universal commandments, such as Biblical Sabbath as given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the Hebrew calendar to define years, seasons, weeks, and days.

* Chavo, a romanized Ashkenazic pronunciation of the Hebrew name " Eve "

Friedman's thesis in The Hidden Book in the Bible is that the Yahwist author wrote many of the most familiar stories in the Hebrew Bible ( including the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, and David ) as one unified text.

; Lilith: A woman created before Eve, according to a Hebrew document.

In the first ten volumes, Josephus follows the events of the historical books of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve.

The Islamic creation account, like the Hebrew one, involves Adam and Eve as the first parents, living in paradise.

As in the Hebrew story, God warns Adam and Eve not to eat fruit from a certain tree, but they do anyway, earning expulsion from Paradise.

According to the Italian scholar Salvatore Settis, the desert city would represent the Paradise, the two characters being Adam and Eve with their son Cain: the lightning, as in ancient Greek and Hebrew times, would represent God who has just ousted them from Eden.

The first segment is based on the story of Adam and Eve, who, according to the Book of Genesis were the first man and woman created by YHWH, the God of the Hebrew Bible.

Bob Dylan appeared on stage on New Year's Eve and performed four songs with the group, including a version of " When I Paint My Masterpiece ".

The version in the Conflict of Adam and Eve says: " Phar ’ an reigned over the children of Saphir, and built the city of Saphir with stones of gold ; and that is the land of Sarania, and because of these stones of gold, they say that the mountains of that country and the stones thereof are all of gold.

A 1989 version of " The Eve of the War " remixed by Ben Liebrand reached number 3 in the UK singles chart.

Australian progressive metal band Alchemist released a version of " Eve of the War " on a 1998 EP.

In recent times Hayward has sung both this and " The Eve of The War " live in the touring version of the album, as featured on Wayne's original big-selling double album.

Baxter returned to Broadway during the 1970s in Applause, the musical version of All About Eve, but this time in the " Margo Channing " role played by Bette Davis in the film ( succeeding Lauren Bacall, who won a Tony Award in the role ).

Cain (, Qayin ; Koine:, Ka-in ; Ethiopian version: Qayen ; Arabic: قابيل, Qābīl ) is the first child of Eve, the first murderer, and the first human being to fall under a curse.

Barszcz in its strictly vegetarian version is the first course during the Christmas Eve feast, served with ravioli-type dumplings called uszka ( lit.

A prototype version of Grover appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in a Christmas Eve appearance in 1967.

* All About Eve performance a dubbed version of " Martha's Harbour " in 1988 was a well-known incident, owing to a studio technical error, the taped vocals were broadcast without the band being able to hear them, resulting in the TV audience hearing the recorded version of the song, while the band members sat motionless on screen waiting for their cue to begin.

The television cult also caught on in Scandinavia and Dinner for One has been a hugely popular permanent, mandatory institution on Danish, Finnish and Swedish television on New Year's Eve for many years, as well in Belgium in the original version.

LaMarr's television credits include a starring role on Justice League and Justice League Unlimited as Green Lantern, a major role as Hermes Conrad and various other characters on Futurama, the title roles on Static Shock and Samurai Jack, and guest starring roles on Cold Case, Eve, Reno 911 !, the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway ?, Without a Trace, Invader Zim, Phineas And Ferb, The Bernie Mac Show, NYPD Blue, Living Single, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Murphy Brown, and Family Guy.

The best-known version is broadcast annually from King's College, Cambridge, on Christmas Eve.

A fellow musician, Ted " Kingsize " Taylor, made a crude tape recording of their last New Year's Eve show, at the Star-Club in December 1962 ; a cleaned-up version of the tape was later released as an album, later characterized by Harrison as " Awful.

( In one version of the book, the events depicted in the film start on Christmas Eve ).

The current version of Eve Online is Inferno, released May 22, 2012.

* Elvis Presley released his version on his album Elvis-New Year's Eve ' 76 ( Live In Pittsburgh ).

On March 12, 2008, McGuire appeared on the Australian music comedy / game show, Spicks and Specks, performing an updated version of " Eve of Destruction ", with new lines such as, " You're old enough to kill / you just started voting " and "... can live for ten years in space ".

* Barszcz-Its strictly vegetarian version is the first course during the Christmas Eve feast, served with dumplings called " uszka " ( little dumping ears ) with mushroom filling ( sauerkraut can be used as well, again depending on the family tradition ).

Sometimes the men are condemned to fly the canoe through hell and appear in the sky every New Year's Eve, but in all but one version all escape the terms the devil made.

For the force group of image schemas Johnson also drew on an early version of the force dynamic schemas put forth by Len Talmy, as used by linguists such as Eve Sweetser.

Caltron Ind Inc. released a 6-in-1 multi-cart featuring a conspicuous game titled Adam and Eve with game play suspiciously similar to Balloon Fight, essentially a generic version of Balloon Fight.

The Life of Adam and Eve, also known, in its Greek version, as the Apocalypse of Moses, is a Jewish pseudepigraphical group of writings.