Both Twilight and Twelve received death threats due to misinterpretation of newspaper articles by their peers, many of whom would join the peace movement in the months and years to come.

Sometime during the Twelve Days of Christmas, usually on the night of the " Old Twelfth " ( 17 January ; equivalent to 6 Jan in the old Julian calendar ), people would disguise themselves with old articles of clothing and visit the homes of their friends and neighbours.

In 1865, a majority of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church officially condemned some of Pratt's doctrinal writings, including some of his articles from The Seer:

* Twelve Harper's Magazine articles by Louis Adamic, written between 1930 and 1943 ( only for subscribers )

Especially popular was the last page of each issue, which contained a variety of satirical articles and cartoons under the rubric " Twelve Chairs Club " ( an allusion to the well-known comic novel by Ilf and Petrov ).

Subsequent fellowships such as Narcotics Anonymous have adopted and adapted the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions to their respective primary purposes.

Twelve years later, in 1957, the community adopted a home rule charter.

In this sense Suetonius wrote of The Twelve Caesars, meaning the emperors from Julius Caesar to the Flavians included ( where, after Nero, the inherited name had turned into a title ), and emperors adopted themselves into an Imperial lineage.

In Japan the Twelve Level Cap and Rank System was adopted in 603 during the reign of Empress Suiko.

The Traditions were first published in the April 1946 AA Grapevine under the title Twelve Points to Assure Our Future and were formally adopted at AA's First International Convention in 1950.

The perceived militant attitude adopted by the church caused some leaders, including Thomas B. Marsh, president of the Quorum of the Twelve, to break with Smith and Rigdon.

Twelve days after it had been proposed, the Muslim League adopted the proposal at the Lahore Conference, calling it the Pakistan Resolution.

The practice was later adopted by newly converts to the Roman Catholic faith who associated a pious event of the Twelve Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Upper Room as they prayed for nine days until the Holy Spirit descended on the Feast of the Pentecost.

Twelve years later, on 19 May 1958, the Regiment adopted its current name: Le Régiment de Hull ( RCAC ).

John Twelve Hawks is his " adopted " name, but in the Spiegel interview he states he is not an American Indian.

Article 69 of the church order adopted by the Synod of Dordt states that: " In the churches only the 150 Psalms of David, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Twelve Articles of Faith, the Songs of Mary, Zacharias, and Simeon, the Morning and Evening Hymns, and the Hymn of Prayer before the sermon shall be sung.

* Bernadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969 ( Foreword and Chapter Twelve )

In 1969, after McKay's health failed, and some others within the church leadership thought the doctrinal basis for the exclusion of people of African ancestry from the priesthood was shaky, the remaining First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ( minus Harold B. Lee, who was traveling ) voted to rescind the racial exclusion policy ; however, that vote was reversed when Lee returned and called for a re-vote, arguing that the policy could not be changed without a revelation.

Mel Brooks later made a film, more closely based on the novel, titled The Twelve Chairs ( 1970 ), but with a sanitized " happier " ending ; the story also served as the basis for the film The Thirteen Chairs ( 1969 ) starring Sharon Tate.

From 1949 to 1981, Mr. Edwards made several film appearances, with significant roles in Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ), Operation Pacific ( 1951 ), Gangbusters ( 1954 ), and supporting roles in The Beatniks ( 1960 ) and Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came ( 1969 ).

Ashton was an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles between 1969 and his call to the Quorum of the Twelve.

* Twelve Years of Christmas ( Cheval Books / Random House, 1969 )

Twelve of the first fourteen World Series MVPs were won by pitchers ; from 1969 until 1986, the proportion of pitcher MVPs declined — Rollie Fingers ( 1974 ) and Saberhagen ( 1985 ) were the only two pitchers to win the award in this period.

", another called " Deathmate ", and with Christopher Lee in a 1964 Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode, " The Sign of Satan ", as well as in other series such as Convoy, The Rogues, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1965 ), Tarzan ( NBC series ) ( 1967 ), and It Takes a Thief ( 1969 ).

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

Twelve spies are sent out into Canaan and come back to report to Moses.

Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

Twelve gold ( or yellow ) stars are centered in a circle ( the radius of which is a third of the length of the hoist ) upon a blue background.

The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the Twelve Labors imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus.

* John never lists all of the Twelve Disciples and names at least one disciple ( Nathanael ) whose name is not found in the synoptics ; Nathanael appears to parallel the apostle Bartholomew found in the synoptics, as both are paired with Philip in the respective gospels.

The Twelve Articles ( 1525 ) are considered to be the first record of human rights in Europe.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians.

To this end, he enacted Twelve Decrees that are remarkable for their liberalism and foresight.

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

Twelve months are named and ordered the same as those of the Gregorian calendar, except that the extra month is inserted between June and July, and called Sol.

Some popular Christmas carols are " We Wish You a Merry Christmas ", " Deck the Halls ", " The Twelve Days of Christmas ", " Frosty the Snowman ", " Jingle Bells ", " Silver Bells ", " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ", and " O Holy Night ".

Benjamin Minor ( originally titled Book of the Twelve Patriarchs ) and Benjamin Major are Richard of Saint Victor's great works on contemplation.

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:

However, many of these new small communities failed, but some are growing like the Twelve Tribes Communities that started in the United States and have grown to many tribes around the world.

While references are anecdotal, it seems to be a tradition that morphed into early European Christian tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

* 449 BC: The Twelve Tables are promulgated to the people of Rome — the first public laws of the Roman Republic.

Har answers: Twelve are the Æsir of the race of gods.

The Matins service ( usually celebrated Thursday night ) is officially entitled, " The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ", and is commonly known as the " Matins of the Twelve Gospels ", because interspersed throughout the service are twelve Gospel readings which recount the entire Passion of Christ from the Last Supper to the sealing of the tomb.

XII. 22 Lying Lips are abomination to the Lord ", pp. 519 – 657 in South, R., Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions ( Second Edition ), Volume I, Printed by S. D.

* July 17 – Twelve Christian inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage ( also in North Africa ) ( known as the Scillitan Martyrs ) – they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.

Twelve of these essays are disputed over by some scholars, though the modern consensus is that Madison wrote essays Nos.