The main holy scriptures of the Sikhs is called the Guru Granth Sahib.

Paryushana and Ashthanhika are the main Parvas, which occurs 3 times in a year ) and on holy days ( eighth & fourteenth days of the moon cycle ).

The midday meal is the main meal, except during the holy month of Ramadan.

It is also known that Israelites and later the subdivision of Israelites known as the Judeans spoke Hebrew as their main language and it is still used in Jewish holy scriptures, study, speech and prayer.

In spring, a legendary holy statue of Our Lady is the main feature in the Procession of Hanswijk.

Its main city is Jeddah, but it is probably better known for the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

Such forced " progress " was viewed as one more attempt against their faith and against their own understanding of freedom, as the main motto of the Greek Revolution was " for the holy faith of Christ and the freedom of the homeland "; home and faith were inseparable, given also that the Church was the main contributor to the survival of the Greek language and Greek consciousness during Turkish occupation.

The two main but conflicting aspirations of the movement were to create a holy and pure fellowship on one hand, and to allow all Christians into fellowship on the other.

There are numerous sites in the region associated with Guru Rinpoche ( Padmasambhava ), whose tantric practices in holy sites around Tibet are credited with finally establishing Buddhism as the main religion of the country in the 7th – 8th century CE.

Other main Catholic holy days, including the local fiestas of barangays, are observed throughout the year.

The main church of this extraordinary establishment was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the holy patron of sailors ; hence, the whole White Sea became known in 16th-century English maps as " St. Nicholas Bay ".

Lorber does not reveal Jesus as one of three separate divine persons in a holy Trinity according to teachings of the main Christian churches.

It is the country's second port ( after Jeddah ) and serves as the main port for the holy city of Medina, to the east.

A millennium after the main events of The High Crusade, the holy galactic empire founded by Sir Roger and his people finally reunites with long lost Earth.

Richter makes use of a whip as his main weapon and one of six sub-weapons: an axe, a dagger, holy water, a grimoire, a pocket watch, and a cross.

The main holy days of each major religion are public holidays, taking place on either the western calendar or religious ones.

The city is located on the level plains of the Malwa plateau ; to the south, the land rises gently to the Vindhya Range, which is the source of the Chambal and Kali Sindh rivers that flow north through the district on their way to the Ganges. The main river in dewas is Kshipra, which is known as holy river.

Bahá ' ís also see this work as holy, since they consider their founder to be the fulfillment of the Báb's main prophetic anticipation.

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

File: Licheń-bazylika 15. JPG | A view of the main altar with the holy icon of Our Lady of Licheń

Shri Mamangeshwarar Kovil is one of the main holy places for Hindus in the country is located in a place called Amirthakally which is 6 Kilometers away from Batticaloa town.

The then Gurudwara Granthi ( priest ), Bhai Nand Singh, was sitting in the main hall reading the Sri Guru Granth Sahib ( the Sikh holy scripture ) when he was fatally injured In one of the attacks.

Sirajganj District is on the north-east, while the Padma River, main stream of the holy river Ganges, in the south separates it from Rajbari District and Kushtia District.

The main holy days of each major religion are public holidays.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

ASL has come a long way from its condemned days of banned use to being viewed as a grammatical language, which is the main form of communication in American Deaf culture.

On 7 August, therefore, the first of Baden's 15, 000 Imperial troops ( the remainder following two days later ) left Marlborough's main force to besiege the heavily defended city of Ingolstadt, farther down the Danube.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

These days most commercial-quality maps are made using software that falls into one of three main types: CAD, GIS and specialized illustration software.

Afghan forces achieved success in the initial days of the war, taking the British and Indians by surprise in two main thrusts as the Afghan regular army was joined by large numbers of Pashtun tribesmen from both sides of the border.

* 2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U. S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.

In Judaism, the main textual source for the belief in the end of days and accompanying events is the Tanach, or Hebrew Bible.

A few days later, when the Bolsheviks gained control of the village, they unearthed Kornilov's coffin, dragged his corpse to the main square and burnt his remains on the local rubbish dump.

He then turned his attention to the top of the mound, broke through and, over a period of a few days, emptied the main chamber of material that had filled it completely.

Christianity itself has been perceived at times as a form of polytheism by followers of the other Abrahamic religions because of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity ( which at first glance appears indistinguishable from Tritheism, though this is variously condemned as heresy or apostasy by the main Christian denominations ) or the celebration of Pagan feast days and other practices – through a process described as " baptizing " or " Christianization ".

Beyond by four days ' sail is another promontory, Belerion, which can only be Cornwall, as Diodorus is describing the triangular perimeter and the third point is Orkas, presumably the main island of the Orkney Islands.

In the cap-and-ball days of the mid 19th century, two revolver models, the English Tranter and the American Savage “ Figure Eight ”, used a method whereby the hammer was cocked by the shooter ’ s middle finger pulling on a second trigger below the main trigger.

Rigel B is itself a spectroscopic binary system, consisting of two main sequence stars that orbit their center of gravity every 9. 8 days.

Four days later, the rest of the main cast was announced, though the character names would not be announced until the next day.

The collection dates back to the days of Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, and has since been expanded with works by artists such as Rembrandt, and Antoine Watteau, as well as constituting a main part of Sweden's art heritage, manifested in the works of Alexander Roslin, Anders Zorn, Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.

All these main types of Shinto and some subtypes have given birth to many and diverse schools and sects since medieval times to the present days.

In 1982 in Honduras, a group of nine Salvadorans and Nicaraguans destroyed a main electrical power station, leaving Tegucigalpa, the capital city, for three days without power.

In the main lodge one can still see memorabilia from Williams ' playing days.

The final two days of the main event in 2005 were held downtown at what is now the MTR-operated " Binion's " in celebration of the centennial of the founding of Las Vegas.

In April 1968, The New York Times — using Telfer as a main source — introduced the XYY genetic condition to the general public in a three-part series on consecutive days that began with a Sunday front-page story about the planned use of the condition as a mitigating factor in two murder trials in Paris and Melbourne — and falsely reported that Richard Speck was an XYY male and that the condition would be used in an appeal of his murder conviction.

However, as their main raison d ' être had ceased to exist, the Order's glory days were over.