Imitation pearls are also widely sold in inexpensive jewelry, but the quality of their iridescence is usually very poor, and often, artificial pearls are easily distinguished from genuine pearls.

* The book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis is re-published in an English translation.

" small hammer "); ( c. 1380 – 25 July 1471 ) was a canon regular of the late medieval period and the probable author of The Imitation of Christ, which is one of the best known Christian books on devotion.

Kempis's 1441 autograph manuscript of The Imitation of Christ is available in the Bibliothèque Royale in Brussels ( catalog: MS 5455-61 ).

Early pies were much larger than those consumed today, and oblong shaped ; the jurist John Selden presumed that " the coffin of our Christmas-Pies, in shape long, is in Imitation of the Cratch crib ", although writer T. F. Thistleton-Dyer thought Selden's explanation unlikely, as " in old English cookery books the crust of a pie is generally called ' the coffin.

Imitation of Life is a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst that was adapted into two successful films for Universal Pictures: a black-and-white film in 1934, and a color remake in 1959.

Todd Haynes ' Far From Heaven ( 2002 ) is an homage to Sirk's work, in particular All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life.

Thomas A Kempis in the medieval contemplative classic The Imitation of Christ ( ca 1418 ) stated that the glory of a good man is the witness of a good conscience.

Imitation is much more easily demonstrated in " great apes " than in other primate species.

Instead of calling it a " parody mass ", the term " Imitation mass " has been suggested as being both more precise and closer to the original usage, since the term " parody " is based on a misreading of a late 16th century text.

The Imitation of Christ ( Latin: De Imitatione Christi ) by Thomas à Kempis is a Christian devotional book.

The Imitation is perhaps the most widely read devotional work next to the Bible, and is regarded as a devotional and religious classic.

The approach taken in the Imitation is characterized by its emphasis on the interior life and withdrawal from the world, as opposed to an active imitation of Christ by other friars.

Joseph N. Tylenda S. J writes that the book was composed anonymously is " not surprising " since the author writes in the Imitation that one should " love to be unknown.

The Imitation of Christ is divided into four books which provide detailed spiritual instructions.

The Book One of The Imitation is titled " Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life.

The Imitation is sometimes called as Following of the Christ, which comes from the opening words of the first chapter —" Whoever follows Me will not walk into darkness.

The Book Two of The Imitation is " Directives for the Interior Life.

Book Four of The Imitation, " On the Blessed Sacrament " is also in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and the disciple.

The Imitation of Christ is regarded as the most important devotional work in Catholic Christianity and is the most widely read devotional work next to the Bible.

Imitation of Byzantine coin found in Astana, Central Asia, 6th century A. D.

The earliest references to this process of " descent of imitation from the top to the bottom of social ladder ", in another context, can be found in The Laws of Imitation by Gabriel Tarde.

There, the origin of intimate publics in the mass cultural phenomenon of “ women ’ s culture ,” which crosses over the everyday institutions of intimacy, mass society, and, more distantly and ambivalently, politics, is pursued through readings especially of remade movies, such as Show Boat, Imitation of Life, and Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin.

Apart from a four-part autobiographical novel, Anton Reiser, and two fictional Andreas Hartknopf novels, he also wrote a number of theoretical writings on aesthetics, especially " Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen " ( On the Formative Imitation of Beauty ), which Goethe excerpted in his Italian Journey.

It is done in the style of a Douglas Sirk film ( especially 1955's All That Heaven Allows and 1959's Imitation of Life ), dealing with complex contemporary issues such as race, gender roles, sexual orientation and class.

* On Imitation (, Perì mimēseōs ), on the best models in the different kinds of literature and the way in which they are to be imitated — a fragmentary work ;

Imitation of the sax, a traditional Aleut coat made from bird skins and sea otter fur.

Imitation often involves the copying of an observed behaviour of another individual, but memes may transmit from one individual to another through a copy recorded in an inanimate source, such as a book or a musical score.

Observational learning differs from Imitation in that it does not require a duplication of the behavior exhibited by the model.

for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

He made his name with a series of lush, colorful melodramas for Universal-International Pictures from 1952 to 1959: Magnificent Obsession ( 1954 ), All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ), Written on the Wind ( 1956 ), A Time to Love and a Time to Die ( 1958 ), his masterpiece according to Jean-Luc Godard, and Imitation of Life ( 1959 ).

Turner's next film, Imitation of Life ( 1959 ), proved to be one of the greatest successes of her career, but from the early 1960s, her roles were fewer.

His books, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture ( 1750 ) and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (" History of Ancient Art ", 1764 ) were the first to distinguish sharply between Ancient Greek and Roman art, and define periods within Greek art, tracing a trajectory from growth to maturity and then imitation or decadence that continues to have influence to the present day.

As the start, he worked with the late Izumi Sakai from Zard for the song " Ihoujin ", as well as with Mai Kuraki for the song " Imitation Gold ".

* Imitation Song typefaces () are typefaces based on a printed style which developed in the Song dynasty, from which Ming typefaces developed.

Apart from the Bible no book has been translated into more languages than the Imitation of Christ.

1 from The Imitation of Christ, Chapman & Hall ( 1878 )

" The Imitation derives its title from the first chapter of Book I, " The Imitation of Christ and contempt for the vanities of the world " ( Latin: " De Imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi ").

Apart from the Bible no book has been translated into more languages than the Imitation of Christ.

* The Imitation of Christ, free audiobook from the Librivox project, read by David Barnes

This is followed by a brief section entitled " Imitation of the Tape ," a writing experiment by Kerouac in which he attempted to work from the spontaneity and speech patterns of the tape.

As the 1920 Act did not prevent criminals from obtaining firearms illegally, in 1933 the Firearms and Imitation Firearms ( Criminal Use ) Bill was submitted to Parliament.

In January 1964, his 1, 000-yen note partial reproductions became noticed by the police and he was indicted for creating imitations of banknotes stemming from the 1894 Law Controlling the Imitation of Currency and Securities.

More recent examples include " Genuine Imitation Life " from Genuine Imitation Life Gazette ( 1996 ) by The Four Seasons, as well as Metallica's S & M ( 1999 ).

This sentimental, anti-intellectual form of pietism is seen in the thought and teaching of Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravians ; but more intellectually rigorous forms of pietism are seen in the teachings of John Wesley, which were themselves influenced by Zinzendorf, and in the teachings of American preachers Jonathan Edwards, who restored to pietism Gerson's focus on obedience and borrowed from early church teachers Origen and Gregory of Nyssa the notion that humans yearn for God, and John Woolman, who combined a mystical view of the world with a deep concern for social issues ; like Wesley, Woolman was influenced by Jakob Boehme, William Law and The Imitation of Christ.