Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

John was away at school most of the time.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

He and Dean John W. Schwada of the Business School outlined the project at a recent conference.

Chairman Khrushchev and John McCloy had a terrible row at Sochi.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

Listed as present at the Descent were Mary, Mary's sister, Mary Magdalene, John, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.

Above decks on the John Harvey, Lieutenant Richardson gazed at the lights still burning on the port wall and felt uneasy.

A long flat known as the St. John field seemed to answer their purpose, and since the Winooski bridges were at last passable, they decided to use it.

It ticked over smoothly, idling while Fogg exchanged mails with the armed messenger from Burlington at Fort Ethan Allen, and one from Montpelier and Barre at the St. John field.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

The slaves appeared to be in good health and at work under John Palfrey's overseer.

But John nipped her rear end -- one lion's rear end was as good as another to John, Africa, Arizona no matter -- and she changed ends and took a swipe at John, but he ducked back.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

* February – Page with Crucifixion, from the " Rabbula Gospels ", from Monastery of Saint John the Evangelist in Beth Zagba, Syria, is completed.

Bede explains how each of the four Evangelists was represented by their own symbol: Matthew was the man, representing the human Christ, Mark was the lion, symbolizing the triumphant Christ of the Resurrection, Luke was the calf, symbolizing the sacrificial victim of the Crucifixion, and John was the eagle, symbolizing Christ ’ s second coming ( The British Library Board ).

John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies.

To the right, the Conception, Crucifixion and Resurrection symbolize redemption, and this is duly impressed on Adam by John the Baptist.

In the 19th century, with the exception of John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ), Passion settings were less popular, but in the 20th century, they have again come into fashion.

In 1998, John Windsor in The Independent said that the work of the YBAs seemed tame compared with that of the " shock art " of the 1970s, including " kinky outrages " at the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, amongst which were a " hanging, anatomically detailed leather straitjacket, complete with genitals ", titled Pink Crucifixion, by Mandy Havers.

John Calvin presented the same Christological view of " The Lamb as the agent of God " by arguing that in his trial before Pilate and while at Herod's Court Jesus could have argued for his innocence, but instead remained mostly quiet and submitted to Crucifixion in obedience to the Father, for he knew his role as the Lamb of God.

Sir John Stainer ( 6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901 ) was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally much performed today ( with the exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in many Protestant churches of the former British Empire ), was very popular during his lifetime.

Some critics would later complain that the large cast distracted from the solemnity, notably in the appearance of John Wayne as the Roman centurion who comments on the Crucifixion by stating: “ Truly this man was the son of God .”

Madonna of the Sunsets below the Crucifixion in a painted frame is the Madonna and Child, Saint John the Evangelist, and Saint Francis.

betrayal of Jesus by Judas ; Peter denying Christ and repenting of it ; the judgment of Jesus by Pilate (“ Ecce Homo ”); the Johannine Passion Narrative ( John 18-19 ; including the Agony in the Garden ); the Carrying of the Cross ; the Crucifixion of Christ ( Laurence Olivier's Nicodemus recites the “ Suffering Servant ” passage 53: 3-5 as he looks helplessly on the crucified Messiah ); the discovery of the empty tomb ; and an appearance of the Risen Christ to his Disciples.

It was dipped in vinegar ( or in some translations sour wine ) and offered to Christ to drink during the Crucifixion, according to Matthew 27: 48 ; Mark 15: 36 ; and John 19: 29.

The Apostolic Age of the history of Christianity is traditionally the period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Crucifixion of Jesus ( c. 30-33 ) and the Great Commission in Jerusalem until the death of John the Apostle ( c. 115 ) in Anatolia.

A Crucifixion, with eight scenes from the New Testament, is shown as his in the cathedral, a Christ in Judgment, with Mary and John, and the Resurrection of Souls in the town-hall of Nördlingen.

Just as the Gospel of John proclaims the universal relevance of the Incarnation of Jesus as Logos, the Pauline view emphasizes the cosmic view that his birth, Crucifixion and Resurrection brought forth a new man and a new world.

Only two of the fully decorated pages survive: a Crucifixion ( the oldest in English art ) and the initial to John, and both of these are in poor condition.

* Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John, fresco in the church of Santa Maria della Misericordia, Spello ( 1562 )

The main altar --" The Silver Altar "-- is a wooden triptych with an ebony veneer with sculptured reliefs in silver in ascending order of the Last Supper on the predella ; a large depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ between silver statues of Moses and John the Baptist in niches with small silver columns on either side ; of the Burial of Christ ( between silver statues of the evangelists Matthew and Mark ; of Christ's Harrowing of Hell ( between statues of the evangelists John and Luke ; and on the pediment at top of the triptych, a silver statue of the Risen Christ between two reclining soldiers.

However this masterpiece of Christian symbolism had two serious weak points: historical inaccuracy surrounding the date of Resurrection as determined by its Easter computus, and its contradiction to the chronology of the Gospel of St John regarding the date of the Crucifixion on Friday after the Passover.

According to the legend: " after the Crucifixion, when Our Lady moved to the home of St. John, she took with her a few personal belongings -- among which was a table built by the Redeemer in the workshop of St. Joseph.

Below this is the Healing of the man born blind from John 9: 1, inscribed: " Et praeteriens vidit hominem caecum a natibitate et sanavit eum ab infirmitate ," the Annunciation (" Et ingressus angelus ad eam dixit ave gratia plena dominus tecum benedicta tu in mulieribus "-Luke 1: 28 ) and the Crucifixion, which on stylistic grounds is considered to have been added at a considerably later period.

The central panel has a Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist standing beside the cross, with the sun and the moon above the cross.

* The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John ( ter Brugghen ), ( c. 1625 ), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York