A piece of devotional material, such as The Upper Room, may be left in each home.

** the Upper Room ( 1: 13 )

* Laurence Olivier Award for In the Upper Room, Laurence Olivier Foundation

The same building on Mount Zion is traditionally revered by Jews as David's Tomb and by Christians as the Cenacle ( The Upper Room ), and that there is a Jewish tradition that David was born and died on Pentecost.

The biblical narrative of Pentecost, where the 12 Disciples of Christ ( Acts 1: 13, 26 ) along with about 108 other individuals ( Acts 1: 15 ), including many women, among whom was Mary the mother of Jesus ( Acts 1: 14 ) received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, is given in the second chapter of the Book of Acts.

Traditional interpretation holds that the Descent of the Holy Spirit took place in the Upper Room, or Cenacle, while celebrating the day of Pentecost ( Shavuot ).

The Upper Room was first mentioned in Luke 22: 12-13 ( " And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.

The next mention of an Upper Room is in Acts 1: 13-14, the continuation of the Luke narrative, authored by the same biblical writer.

", " they " refers to the aforementioned disciples and women ,; the " place " referring to the same Upper Room where these persons had " continued with one accord in prayer and supplication ".

Tharp choreographed Push Comes To Shove for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976 ; in 1986 she created In The Upper Room for her own company.

Towards the end of 1830, Gautier began to frequent meetings of Le Petit Cénacle Little Upper Room, a group of artists who met in the studio of Jehan Du Seigneur.

In August 2005 the Stuckists initiated a major controversy over the Tate's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room for £ 705, 000.

Outside the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, 2005: Stuckists demonstrate against the purchase of Chris Ofili's The Upper Room ( paintings ) | The Upper Room.

In 2005, Fraser Kee Scott, owner of A Gallery, demonstrated with the Stuckists art group outside the Tate Gallery against the gallery's purchase of The Upper Room, a work by Chris Ofili, then a serving Tate trustee.

* In 2005, there was a scandal over the Tate's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room for £ 705, 000, and accusations of conflict of interest In July 2006, the Charity Commission completed an investigation into this and censured the gallery for acting outside its legal powers

As such the sunflower at the centre would double as a Masonic Blazing Star, echoing the Garter Blazing stars at the centre of the Red Velvet Room ceiling and in the centre of the floor in the Upper Tribunal.

1: Marble Hall ; 2: Great Staircase ; 3: Bedchamber, now Blue Room ; 4: Sweatmeat closet ; 5: Back stairs & east entrance ; 6: Chapel Drawing Room ; 7: Chapel ( double height ); 8: Tyrconnel Room ; 9: Saloon ; 10: Red Drawing Room ; 11: Little Parlour ( now Tapestry Room ); 12: School Room ; 13: Closet ; 14: Back stairs & west entrance ; 15: Service Room ( now Breakfast Room ); 16: Upper storey of kitchen, ( now Hondecoeter Room ); Please note: This is an unscaled plan for illustrative purposes only.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Arnulf was, according to most sources, the illegitimate son of Carloman, King of Bavaria, and his concubine Liutswind, perhaps of Carantanian origin, and possibly the sister of Ernst, Count of the Bavarian Nordgau Margraviate in the area of the Upper Palatinate, or perhaps the burgrave of Passau, as some sources say.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand ; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.

The Air Force was founded in 1964 as the Escadrille de la République de Haute-Volta ( EHV ) or the Republic of Upper Volta Air Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Army.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

In ancient Egypt, the bee was seen to symbolize the lands of Lower Egypt, with the Pharaoh being referred to as " He of Sedge and Bee " ( the sedge representing Upper Egypt ).

Gate House, with the rest of Upper Burwash, opened in 1913 and has held students every year since then except 1995, when it was renovated.

The old Bishopric of Bamberg was composed of an unbroken territory extending from Schlüsselfeld in a northeasterly direction to the Franconian Forest, and possessed in addition estates in the Duchies of Carinthia and Salzburg, in the Nordgau ( the present Upper Palatinate ), in Thuringia, and on the Danube.

Bamberg was chosen for its location in Upper Franconia, reasonably close to the residences of the members of the dissident northern Nazi faction but still within Bavaria.

In 1495, Basel was incorporated in the Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle ; the Bishop of Basel was added to the Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

Some anthropologists, such as Tim White, suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period.

Speakers from the different states of Austria can easily be distinguished from each other by their particular accents ( probably more so than Bavarians ), those of Carinthia, Styria, Vienna, Upper Austria, and the Tyrol being very characteristic.

Once again Abd al-Rahman had to be concerned with developments in the Upper March.

Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from the New Testament writings found in Bahnasa, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

The most that can be said about built structures under Diocletian's reign is that he rebuilt and strengthened forts at the Upper Rhine frontier ( where he followed the works made under Probus's reign, both along the Lake Constance-Basel as well as along the Rhine – Iller – Danube line ), in Egypt, and on the frontier with Persia.

Upper levels of degree are anyway shown in the title, as those who obtain a master's degree can be referred to as " dottore / dottoressa magistrale " ( masterly doctor ) while those who achieve the relatively new program of " dottorato di ricerca " ( research doctorate, equivalent of a Ph. D .), carry the title of " dottore / dottoressa di ricerca " ( research doctor ), which can be abbreviated as " Dott.

The border came to be understood as being along the shore of the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill van Kull, and Arthur Kill.

High German in this broader sense can be subdivided into Upper German ( Oberdeutsch, this includes the Austrian and Swiss German dialects ), Central German ( Mitteldeutsch, this includes Luxembourgish, which is now a standardized language ), and High Franconian which is a transitional dialect between the two.

An exceptionally well-preserved skull of Estemmenosuchus, a therapsid from the Upper Permian shows smooth, hairless skin with what appears to be glandular depressions.

Conversely, since Imhotep was known as the " Son of Ptah ," his mother was sometimes claimed to be Sekhmet, the patron of Upper Egypt whose consort was Ptah.

" While Dorchester planned for a defensive war, Simcoe urged London to declare war: " Upper Canada is not to be defended by remaining within the boundary line.

The committee recommended that Upper Silesia be divided between Poland and Germany according to the preferences shown in the plebiscite and that the two sides should decide the details of the interaction between the two areas – for example, whether goods should pass freely over the border due to the economic and industrial interdependency of the two areas.

* The Emireh point from the Upper Paleolithic is almost the same as one found in Châtelperrón, which is likely to be contemporary, although they are slightly shorter and also appear to be fashioned from a blade and not a bladelet.

For instance, in the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa, the end of the Upper Paleolithic period coincides with the end of the Aterian tradition of producing laminar microliths, and deposits can be dated by the presence or absence of these artifacts.

Nilo-Saharan genetic unity would necessarily be much older still and date to the late Upper Paleolithic.

He recommended that self-government be granted and that Lower and Upper Canada be re-joined in an attempt to assimilate the French Canadians.

In connection with this, he promoted a radical solution in the disputed area of Upper Silesia, claimed by both Poland and Germany ; his suggestion that this area be granted at least provisional independence led to his being publicly accused of being a traitor to Germany.

In 1820 a child in the Upper South had a 30 % chance to be sold south by 1860.

Upper Silesia, in 1945, had a considerable number of Roman Catholic mixed bilingual inhabitants that spoke both German and Polish dialects, and their Polish linguistic skills were solid enough for them to be allowed to remain in the area.

In exchange for this concession, Michigan would be granted the western three-quarters of the Upper Peninsula ( the easternmost portion had already been included in the state boundaries ).