* 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera.

The Twelve Traditions informally guide how individual AA groups function, and the Twelve Concepts for World Service guide how the organization is structured globally.

A spiritual awakening is achieved by following the Twelve Steps, and sobriety is furthered by volunteering for AA and regular AA meeting attendance or contact with AA members.

This lineage of ordination is traceable, according to " apostolic " churches, to the original Twelve Apostles, thus making the Church the continuation of the early Apostolic Christian community.

The Book of Jeremiah () is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Isaiah () is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, preceding Ezekiel, Jeremiah and the Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah and preceding the Book of the Twelve.

Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve ; the distinction ' minor ' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the " Major Prophets ".

In Judaism, Obadiah is considered a “ later prophet ” and this Masoretic Text is chronologically placed in the Tanakh under the section Nevi ' im in the last category called The Twelve Prophets.

The Book of Haggai is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and has its place as the antepenultimate of the Minor Prophets or the " Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Zechariah, attributed to the prophet Zechariah, is included in the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and is the penultimate book of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and this collection appears in all copies of texts of the Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC.

President of the Church Harold B. Lee taught " The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained by the body of the Church.

In another record by Petrus Olai called " Danmarks Tolv Herligheder " ( Twelve Splendours of Denmark ), in splendour number nine, the same story is re-told almost to the word ; however, a paragraph has been inserted correcting the year to 1219.

Not numbered among the Twelve Apostles, unless he is identified as James the Less, James was nonetheless a very important figure: Paul described him as " the brother of the Lord " in Galatians 1: 19 and as one of the three " pillars of the Church " in 2: 9.

Some scholars have argued that since the author of that letter has not identified himself as an apostle and actually refers to the apostles as a third party, he cannot be identified with the Jude who is listed as one of the Twelve.

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.

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

Twelve students who studied under St. Finnian became known as the Twelve Apostles of Ireland ; Columba was one of them.

He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament.

Much later, the X-Men found evidence in one of Destiny's journals of a group known as the Twelve, including Xavier, Magneto, Cyclops, Phoenix, Iceman, Polaris, Storm, Cable, Bishop, Sunfire, Mikhail Rasputin and the Living Monolith.

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.

In the 2006 Battlestar Galactica episode " Collaborators ", the acting president of the Twelve Colonies authorized a Star Chamber which was known as ' The Circle '.

The also helped attract popular and international support by organizing a group of prominent Nicaraguan professionals, business leaders, and clergymen ( known as " the Twelve "), who called for Somoza's removal and sought to organize a provisional government from Costa Rica.

It was widely known that the Twelve Years ' Truce was set to expire in 1621, and throughout Europe it was recognized that at that time, Spain would attempt to reconquer the Dutch Republic.

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.

* 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.

On the Atlantic coast of the peninsula, the range is known as the Twelve Apostles.

All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of our galaxy, a human civilization lives on a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol.

The Twelve Colonies have warred for decades with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human race.

Also constructed during this era were the Coffee Palace, a row of workers ' cottages known as the ' Twelve Apostles ' and six terraced cottages, built using bricks from the demolished convict separate apartment cells.

The formation eventually became known as the Twelve Apostles, despite only ever having nine stacks.

Twelve dozen ( 12 < sup > 2 </ sup > = 144, the duodecimal 100 ) are known as a gross ; and twelve gross ( 12 < sup > 3 </ sup > = 1, 728, the duodecimal 1, 000 ) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk.

The small settlement was known as “ The Twelve ” and as “ Murray ’ s District ” to military and civic officials but to the local residents in 1796 and earlier as St. Catharines.

The first Welland Canal was constructed from 1824 to 33 behind what is now known as St. Paul Street, using Twelve Mile and Dick's Creek.

It is not known when these short works were collected and transferred to a single scroll, but the first extra-biblical evidence we have for the Twelve as a collection is c. 190 BCE in the writings of Jesus ben Sirach, and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests that the modern order was established by 150 BCE.

Vincent Cassel ( born 23 November 1966 ) is a Cesar Award-winning French actor best known to English-speaking audiences through his film performances in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, as well as Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.

The Southern Agrarians ( also known as the Twelve Southerners, the Vanderbilt Agrarians, the Nashville Agrarians, the Tennessee Agrarians, or the Fugitive Agrarians ) were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the South, who joined together to write a pro-Southern agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays published in 1930 entitled I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition.

Worley discounted concerns that Wright was pursuing his own interests and wrote of it: "' Twelve Years ' is convincingly Northup's tale and no one else's because of its amazing attention to empirical detail and unwillingness to reduce the complexity of Northup's experience to a stark moral allegory.

The Proclamation was especially authoritative because it was issued in the name of the three members of the First Presidency and the twelve members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, each of the fifteen signatories being considered by the LDS Church an apostle as well as a " prophet, seer, and revelator.

The central entertainment and commercial hub is the Twelve Corners, so named because three intersecting roads, Winton Road, Monroe Avenue and Elmwood Avenue, define 12 distinct corners.

Twelve is convenient because its multiples and divisors are convenient: 12 = 2 × 2 × 3, 3 × 4 = 2 × 6, 60 = 12 × 5, 360 = 12 × 30.

Thus, Joseph F. Smith ( ordained apostle 1866, added to the quorum 1867 ) became president of the church in 1901, because he was the living apostle who had become a member of the Quorum of the Twelve at the earliest date.

Records like these are quite distinct from the rhetorical speeches often inserted by ancient historians – it was accepted practice for the writer to invent these himself – and on the few occasions when historians ( such as Sallust in his work on Catiline or Suetonius in his Twelve Caesars ) include such documents, they have generally been regarded as genuine ; but almost all those found in the Historia Augusta have been rejected as fabrications, partly on stylistic grounds, partly because they refer to military titles or points of administrative organisation which are otherwise unrecorded until long after the purported date, or for other suspicious content.

However, in 1865, a majority of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church officially condemned Pratt's doctrinal declarations contained in The Seer, mostly because of Pratt's vocal opposition to the Adam-God theory ; thus, Pratt's views in the periodical are not considered authoritative.

Twelve nuns and employees of the temple, including then-abbess Venerable Yi Kung who would later resign from the abbotship because of the scandal, refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

Elder Harold B. Lee of the Council of the Twelve In 1930 Lee was challenged by a calling as president of the LDS Church's Pioneer Stake in Salt Lake City, because the 1929 Great Depression in the United States left more than half of its members without jobs.

" Twelve points were deducted from Kyler for the faking, but he regained 6 points because Turbo was disqualified for the punch.

Twelve inch discs were used because, when 136 grooves per inch were used, they could hold up to six and a half minutes of music.

Twelve fastest crews were the lucky ones to get to Spain, because on July 23 and 24, the whole rest of crews were grounded in Pau due to bad weather over the Pyrenees.

However, " because President Romney ’ s health him from taking an active part in Church administration ," Howard W. Hunter, who ranked next in seniority, was made Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve.

Richards was called, sustained, and set apart as only the Acting Presiding Patriarch to the LDS Church because he was not a direct descendant of the first Latter Day Saint patriarch, Joseph Smith, Sr. During his tenure as Acting Presiding Patriarch, Richards remained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and retained his seniority within that body.

replies were made, in substance, that the saints would know in due season, but that nothing could be done until the Twelve got home, because the appointment of a prophet and the directions for salvation of the church from the perils they were in, was contained in sealed packages directed to them.

( This rare and virtually unique disciplinary procedure was used for Cowley because his former fellow apostles in the Quorum of Twelve disagreed over whether to leave him undisciplined or to disfellowship or even excommunicate him.

According to academic Shklovsky few comprehended « The Twelve » poem and condemned it because everyone was used to take Blok seriously only.

Blok did not recite " The Twelve " himself because he could not do it well.

Twelve manuscripts have survived, many of which are in remarkably good condition, because they were stowed away securely due to their illegality.

However, none of them became members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles upon their ordination because the Quorum already had twelve members.

If a writer consistently avoids reporting, e. g., the weaknesses of the Twelve, even when there are earlier sources that provide lurid details of their follies, one could draw the conclusion that the later editor / author held the Twelve in higher esteem, either because of the editor's presuppositions, or because the editor was perhaps trying to reinforce the legitimacy of those chosen by Jesus to carry on his work.