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He is perhaps best known on Usenet for his famous ( or infamous ) " Happynet Proclamation " ( 1992 ), circulated to many newsgroups, some absurdly unrelated, which satirised the endless flamewars on the network, with Parry posing as a godlike being issuing an edict full of in-jokes and humor targets that claimed to unify all news into one glorious totality, " happynet ".
" I announce this good news to the city, that Florence will be more glorious, richer, more powerful than she has ever been ; First, glorious in the sight of God as well as of men: and you, O Florence will be the reformation of all Italy, and from here the renewal will begin and spread everywhere, because this is the navel of Italy.
Clarence also speaks Richard's " Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ,/ Not separated with the racking clouds / But severed in a pale clear-shining sky " ( ll. 26 – 28 ); Edward's " Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon / Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay " ( ll. 68 – 69 ); and Richard's " Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount / Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance / Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told ,/ The words would add more anguish than the wounds " ( ll. 96 – 100 ).
Clarence also speaks Richard's " Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ,/ Not separated with the racking clouds / But severed in a pale clear-shining sky "; Edward's " Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon / Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay "; and Richard's " Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount / Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance / Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told ,/ The words would add more anguish than the wounds ".
The news of Rivière's defeat and death reached Paris on 26 May, and the French navy minister Admiral Peyron declared ' France will avenge her glorious children!

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`` I had no idea that you, too, would be on this glorious voyage.
Pausing for a moment he scribbled on the back of an old tavern bill a note addressed to his wife, Sarah: " I have no time to say more but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory.
It was a whiteness beyond anything earthly I had ever seen .… His hands were naked and his arms also a little above the wrists .… Not only was his robe exceedingly white but his whole person was glorious beyond description ".
In what Stephen Jay Gould has called " glorious purple prose ," Gosse argued that if one assumed creation ex nihilo, there would necessarily be traces of previous existence that had never actually occurred.
: after they had been instructed by the glorious events of Christ's life and taught by the light of the Spirit of truth
According to legend, Sully had a vision of a glorious new cathedral for Paris, and sketched it on the ground outside the original church.
Miguel Sánchez, the author of the first Spanish language apparition account, identified Guadalupe as Revelation's Woman of the Apocalypse, and said: this New World has been won and conquered by the hand of the Virgin Mary ... had prepared, disposed, and contrived her exquisite likeness in this her Mexican land, which was conquered for such a glorious purpose, won that there should appear so Mexican an image.
Chrysaor, married to Callirrhoe, daughter of glorious Oceanus, was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Heracles at sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos.
" In April 1791, Fox told the Commons that he " admired the new constitution of France, considered altogether, as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty, which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country.
" I have no time to say more but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory.
I have now nothing to look for but this glorious hope .” As George R. Knight states, the movement ’ s survival was a result of the fact that,the Millerite leaders had been ‘ soft ’ on the time ….
By 1932 it had adopted the Soviet doctrine of socialist realism ; that is, the insistence that art must concentrate on contemporary events in a realistic way, exposing the ills of nonsocialist society and promoting a glorious future under communism.
He strikes up a conversation with the sergeant who tells him they are marching against the Roman Catholic rebels who had invaded England, expecting to be commanded by the glorious Duke of Cumberland.
The Plataeans, in response, dispatched a herald reminding the Spartans of the glorious deeds the Plataeans performed during the Greco-Persian War and of the oath the Spartans swore to protect them and keep them independent-in 479 BC Pausanias, the Spartan general had decreed that Plataea was on holy ground, and it should never be attacked.
It was in Mecca that he started writing the very best of his works Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, It was in Mecca that his status as Seal of Muhammadian sainthood was confirmed in the glorious vision of the Prophet ; it was in Mecca that he had the dream of the two bricks and his encounter with the Ka ‘ ba ; ( Hirtenstein 148 ) it was in Mecca that the love of women was first evoked in his heart by the beautiful Niẓām, ( Hirtenstein, 149 ) who became the personification of wisdom and beauty.
Ibn ‘ Arabī asked him: “ Who are you ?” He replied: “ I am al-Sabtī ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd .” Later Ibn ‘ Arabī asked him: “ What was the reason of choosing Saturday for work ?” He replied: “ As God has made this universe in six days from Sunday to Friday, and he rested on Saturday, so I, as His servant worked on Saturday and devoted myself to worshipping Lord for the rest of the week .” In another glorious vision at Kaaba Ibn ‘ Arabī saw his forefathers and asked one of them his time, he replied he had been dead around forty thousand years ago.
He later said: " I removed the huge neon sign that defaced the glorious terracotta exterior, much to the chagrin of West End producers who told me I had removed the greatest theatre advertising sight in London.
Nor am I unaware that, when the Holy Father determined to confer me this honor he had regard to the dignity of the See of New York, to the merits and devotion of the venerable clergy and numerous laity, and that he had in mind even the eminent rank of this great city and the glorious American nation.
The Han armies had gained a glorious victory, and it was a remarkable achievement that they removed so quickly the threat of Zhang Jue's rebellion.
The purpose of this fabrication, according to Christensen, was to establish a glorious identity for the peoples that had recently gained power in post-Roman Europe.
Later, OCS training location was moved to Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal and had its glorious turn out of graduates from Class 1 in 1987 to Class 27 in 2005.
" and had seen " two glorious personages who exactly resembled each other in features, and likeness, surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day.

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The Battle of the Nile has been called " arguably, the most decisive naval engagement of the great age of sail ", and " the most splendid and glorious success which the British Navy gained.
On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of " the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin ", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the " glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin " and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that " the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin ", since, he said, " up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See.
The battle for Luding Bridge has been portrayed as a glorious and heroic moment in Chinese Communist history, analogous to the U. S. battle of the Alamo.
The lake shore has been embanked and forms a promenade, from which glorious views of the snowy peaks of the Bernese Oberland, as well as of the Rigi and Pilatus, are gained.
Out of all Senator Jeff's difficulties there has been evolved the importance of a democracy and there is splendidly emphasized the rich and glorious heritage which is ours and which comes when you have a government ' of the people, by the people, and for the people.
On the announcement of his departure, Andrew Neil, The Spectator CEO, said: " Boris has been a wonderful and magnificent editor of The Spectator and we are sorry to lose him ; in many ways he will be irreplaceable … leaves the magazine in better shape than it has ever been in its long and glorious history, both editorially and financially … The editorial breadth and quality under his editorship has been unrivalled.
Genoa has been nicknamed la Superba (" the Superb one ") due to its glorious past and impressive landmarks.
A bullock-wagon load of rum, destined for the construction gangs, was said to have been bogged near a patch of jungle on the crocodile inhabited East Finniss River-the bullockies untethered the oxen and set about drinking the rum, having one of histories most glorious binges.
The Benchers ' table is also said to have been a gift from Elizabeth, and as a result the only public toast in the Inn up until the late 19th century was " to the glorious, pious and immortal memory of Queen Elizabeth ".
" Since his arrival in the U. S., backed by a group of prosperous but shady entrepreneurs, Carnera's career has been less glorious than fantastic.
It is in the aftermath of this treaty that Greek orators began to refer to the Peace of Callias ( whether fictional or not ), as a counterpoint to the shame of the King's Peace, and a glorious example of the " good old days " when the Greeks of the Aegean had been freed from Persian rule by the Delian League.
At the end of the poem, on Love Island, a fictional finale of the glorious Portuguese walk throughout history, Camões writes that the fear once expressed by Bacchus has been confirmed: that the Portuguese would become gods.
" Immediately on our coming up out of the water after we had been baptized, we experienced great and glorious blessings from our Heavenly Father.

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The town is also the home of the " Flaming Foliage Festival " held each October, generally in the second weekend, that celebrates the glorious fall colors of the area's mountains.
Some chronicle accounts of the battle include an invented pre-battle speech on the glorious deeds of the Normans, occasionally quoted as good contemporary evidence of the high opinion the Normans held of themselves.
The opening ceremony, which was held at Jakabaring Sport Center, Palembang, on November 11 ( Nov 11 was chosen because of its numerical uniqueness 11-11-11 ), is said to be " The most glorious SEA Games Opening Ceremony ever held ", with lots of performances and fireworks.
For the same faith is held and handed down by the churches established in the German states, the Spains, among the Celtic tribes, in the East, in Libya, and in the central portions of the world …" In Book 3, Irenaeus continues his defense of the unity of the church around the bishop, writing, " By pointing out the apostolic tradition and faith announced to mankind, which has been brought down to our time by successions of bishops, in the greatest, most ancient, and well known church, founded and established by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul, at Rome, we can confound all who in any other way … gather more than they ought.
At Christmas time the family held a glorious celebration with people from all over the country viewing the mansion for the first time.

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