Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raka ah are the prescribed movements and words followed by Muslims during salah (worship). After turning to God in mind (niyyah) and ritual cleansing (wudu), the worshipper will stand quietly (qiyam) while reciting the first verses of the Qur'an. The second part of the rak'ah involves bowing low (ruku') with hands on knees, as if waiting for God's orders. The third movement (sujud) is to prostrate oneself on the ground, with forehead and nose on the floor and elbows raised, in a posture of submission to God. The fourth movement is to sit (julus) with the feet folded under the body. The prayers end as the...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Rakovac Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Раковац / Manastir Rakovac) is a Serb Orthodox monastery on the Fruska Gora mountain in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. According to a legend written in 1704, Rakovac Monastery was founded by a certain man, Raka, courtier of Despot Jovan Brankovic. The legend states that Raka erected the monastery in 1498. The earliest historical records mentioning the monastery are dated to 1545/1546. Rakovac Monastery was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia. Данное издание не...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In Hindi, Raksha means 'protection'. This word is derived from the Sanskrit language. Raksha is the basic spirit with which the festival Rakshabandhan is celebrated. In this festival, a sister ties a string, known as Rakhi, around the wrist of her brother, asking him to protect her. The brother reciprocates by gifting his sister a present and renewing his vow to protect her. Rakshabandhan is considered to be a festival that ties two people. A girl can tie a rakhi to a person who is not even her brother but the rule is that she has to continue tying it all her life. It is so because once a brother, always a...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Rakshasa or alternately rakshas, is a demon or unrighteous spirit in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Rakshasas are also called man-eaters ("Nri-chakshas," "Kravyads") or cannibals. A female Rakshasa is called a Rakshasi, and a female Rakshasa in human form is a Manushya-Rakshasi. According to the Ramayana, Rakshasas were created from Brahma's foot; other sources claim they are descended from Pulastya, or from Khasa, or from Nirriti and Nirrita. Legend has it that many Rakshasas were particularly wicked humans in previous incarnations. Rakshasas are notorious for disturbing sacrifices, desecrating graves, harassing priests, possessing human beings, and so on. Their fingernails are venomous, and...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raktabija was an asura (loosely translated as demon) who fought together with Shumbha and Nishumbha against Durga and Kali or Chamunda. Raktabija had a boon that whenever a drop of his blood fell on the ground, a duplicate raktabija would be born at that spot (rakta=blood, bija=seed; this is a bahuvrihi or exocentric compound, "he for whom each drop of blood is a seed"). In South Indian texts, the name is sometimes written raktabhija, and in the East, it is sometimes written raktabIj. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralang Monastery is a Buddhist monastery of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism in southern Sikkim, northeastern India. It is located six kilometres from Ravangla. According to legend, Ralang was built after the fourth Chogyal came back from his pilgrimage, when the Karmapa performed the Rabney (blessing). He threw grains from his residence in Tsurphu Monastery in Tibet and where the grains fell, eventually, became the site for the Ralang Monastery. The monastery underwent reconstruction in 1975-1981 and in 1995, a new monastery, known as Palchen Choeling Monastic Institute was built by the 12th Gyaltsab...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Raleigh North Carolina Temple is the 68th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Groundbreaking services for the Raleigh North Carolina temple were held on February 6, 1999. After the temple was completed, about 31,000 people toured the temple during the open house. Church President Gordon B. Hinckley dedicated the temple on December 18, 1999. The temple features art glass windows and a white marble exterior. The classic modern design features a lone spire topped with a gold statue of the angel Moroni. The Raleigh North Carolina Temple has two ordinance rooms, two sealing rooms,...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Ovadal (born August, 1951) is the pastor of Pilgrims Covenant Church in Monroe, Wisconsin. He is a Reformed Baptist, although his church is not part of any formally recognized denomination. He is noted for impassioned street preaching and picketing in various cities. Ovadal is highly opposed to abortion, public nudity, homosexuality, and ecumenism; his vigorous public actions against them have resulted in frequent scrapes with the law. Vehemently anti-Catholic, he openly calls the pope "antichrist," and led protests in front of movie theaters showing Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralph Eugene Diffendorfer (1879 – January 31, 1951) was an American clergyman, born at Hayesville, Ohio, and educated at Ohio Wesleyan University, Drew Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary. He was assistant secretary of the Epworth League from 1902 to 1904, and from 1904 to 1916 was secretary of the Missionary Education Movement in the United States and Canada. The following year (1916–1917) he was educational secretary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension and the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was associate secretary of the Centenary Commission...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Niger, Latin Radulphus Niger or Radulfus Niger, anglicized Ralph the Black (c. 1140-c. 1217), was an Anglo-French theologian and one of the English chroniclers. He was from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and became Archdeacon of Gloucester. From around 1160 to 1166, Niger studied in Paris, where he was a student of John of Salisbury and Gerard la Pucelle, and, at some point in his life, probably also in Poitiers. At Paris, he may also have been a teacher of rhetoric and dialectics. Niger was part of Thomas Becket's entourage during the latter's exile in France in the early 1160s and played an important role in connecting the exiled archbishop with Pope Alexander III's German ally Conrad of...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Father Ralph W. Beiting, founder of the Christian Appalachian Project and a Roman Catholic priest, was born and raised in northern Kentucky. He began dreaming of helping people in Appalachia help themselves out of poverty in 1946 when, as a seminarian, he accompanied several priests on preaching trips to the mountains of eastern Kentucky. The oldest of eleven children who grew up during the Great Depression, Ralph Beiting was no stranger to need, but the soul-shattering poverty he observed in Appalachia planted the seeds of a vision that eventually became the Christian Appalachian Project. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Wendell Burhoe (May 21 or June 21, 1911-May 8, 1997) was an important twentieth century pioneer interpreter of the importance of religion for a scientific and technological world. He was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1980. Ralph Wendell Burhoe was born on 21 June 1911, in Somerville, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University from 1928 to 1932 as a student of meteorology and climatology, though never completing his degree. He then entered Andover Newton Theological School. Burhoe spent eighteen months in theological study at Andover. Instead of becoming a minister as he had planned, he returned to Harvard University as an employee of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, finding...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Milner (born at Flacsted, Hampshire, England, early in the sixteenth century; executed at Winchester, 7 July 1591) was an English Roman Catholic layman. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. The greater part of his life was probably passed in his native village, where, being practically illiterate, he supported his wife and eight children by manual labour. He was brought up an Anglican, but became a Catholic convert. On the very day of his first Communion, however, he was arrested for changing his religion and committed to Winchester jail. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who became well-known as the advocate for pioneer outreach among unreached people groups. He was the founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM), William Carey International University, and the International Society for Frontier Missiology. His 1974 presentation at the Congress for World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland - an event organized by American evangelist Billy Graham - was a watershed moment for global mission. Данное издание не является...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralph Bathurst (1620 – June 14, 1704) was an English theologian and physician. He was born in Hothorpe, Northamptonshire in 1620 and educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. He graduated with a B.A. degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1638, where he had a family connection with the President, Ralph Kettell (1563–1643). He originally intended a career in the Church of England, and was ordained in 1644, but his prospects were disrupted by the English Civil War, and he turned to medicine. He collaborated with Thomas Willis, and worked on rewriting Willis's major publication Cerebri Anatomi....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Read is a Pentecostal Christian pastor in the Assemblies of God and was the Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Australia from 1969 to 1977. Read had been associated with Baptist and Methodist churches prior to receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1938. Ten years later he joined the Assemblies of God, assisting the Sturgeons on their evangelistic campaign in 1948 and, afterwards, accepting an appointment to pastor a Pentecostal assembly in Orange, today known as "Orange Christian Ministry Centre". He was later to teach at "Richmond Temple's Bible College", and thereafter to minister in various AOG churches and, for a time, was editor of the AOG denominational magazine "The...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Reverend Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache MA JP was a British clergyman in the Church of England. He is best known for the unusual and increasingly eccentric names that he chose for his numerous children. Born Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache, he was the eldest son of the Hon. Reverend Hugh Francis Tollemache (1802–1890) and his wife, Matilda, the daughter of Joseph Hume. His father was the fourth son of William Talmash, Lord Huntingtower, the eldest son and heir of John Manners and Louisa Tollemache, 7th Countess of Dysart. He was a Church of England clergyman, serving as rector of Harrington in Northamptonshire for 58 years. Данное издание не является...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Ralph Sherwin (19 October 1550 – 1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic martyr and saint. He was born at Rodsley, Derbyshire, and was educated at Eton College. In 1568, he was nominated by Sir William Petre to one of the eight fellowships which he had founded at Exeter College, Oxford, probably influenced by Sherwin's uncle, John Woodward, who from 1556 to 1566 had been rector of Ingatestone, Essex, where Petre lived. A talented classical scholar, Sherwin graduated Master of Arts on 2 July 1574, and the following year converted to Roman Catholicism and fled abroad to the English College at Douai, where he was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Cambrai on 23 March 1577. On 2...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralph Earle, Jr. (January 17, 1908 – May 23, 1995) was a biblical scholar. He was born in Dighton, Massachusetts. He authored and edited many scholarly articles and books, including several Bible commentaries. He served as a pastor in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and Everett, Massachusetts while on faculty at alma mater Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts from 1933 to 1945. He was an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene. Earle was founding Professor of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri from 1945 to 1977 and served on the Committee on Bible Translation...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Shaa (died 1484), sometimes called John Shaa, was a 15th century English theologian, the half-brother of the Lord Mayor of London, Edmund Shaa. Shaa (pronounced and sometimes spelled "Shaw") played a minor but pivotal role in the Wars of the Roses by preaching a sermon in 1483 which claimed that Edward IV had already been betrothed to another woman at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, and that Edward V was therefore illegitimate and had no claim to the throne. Shaa appears as "Shaw" in Shakespeare's play Richard III. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Leo Hayes (September 21, 1884–July 5, 1970) was a 20th century bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Helena in the state of Montana from 1933–1935, and as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Davenport in the state of Iowa from 1944-1966. Between those two appointments he served as the rector of the Pontifical North American College from 1935-1944. Hayes was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Patrick Nagle and Mary Jane (O'Donnell) Hayes. He received his high school and college education at Holy Ghost College (now Duquesne University). Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralph de Diceto (d. c. 1202) was archdeacon of Middlesex, dean of St Paul's Cathedral (from c. 1180), and author of two chronicles, the Abbreviationes Chronicorum and the Ymagines Historiarum. He is first mentioned in 1152, when he received the archdeaconry of Middlesex. He was probably born between 1120 and 1130; of his parentage and nationality we know nothing. The common statement that he derived his surname from Diss in Norfolk is a mere conjecture. Dicetum may equally well be a Latinized form of Dissai, or Dicy, or Dizy, place-names which are found in Maine, Picardy, Burgundy and Champagne. Данное...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Edward Dodge (January 25, 1907 – August 8, 2008) was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1956. He was the youngest of four children of Ernest and Lizzie Longshore Dodge of Dickinson County, Iowa. After high school graduation, Dodge followed his father and older brother into farming. The family attended the Methodist Episcopal Church in Terril, Iowa. It was there that his Pastor suggested God might be calling Dodge to preach. In spite of scoffing at the idea initially, Dodge earnestly wrestled with the possibility for several years. Finally, he decided to pursue this call, trusting that if God willed it, seemingly impassible doors would...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralph Bass (May 1, 1911 – March 5, 1997), born in The Bronx, New York of an Italian-American-Catholic father, and a German-American-Jewish mother, was an influential rhythm and blues (R Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ralph Corbie (Corby, Corbington, at times Corrington) (25 March 1598, near Dublin - 7 September 1644) was an Irish Jesuit. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. A brother of Ambrose Corbie, from the age of five he spent his childhood in the north of England. Then going over seas he studied at Saint-Omer, Seville, and the English College, Valladolid; where he was ordained. Having become a Jesuit about 1626, he came to England about 1631 and laboured at Durham. He was seized by the Parliamentarians at Hamsterley, 8 July 1644, when clothed in his Mass vestments, conveyed to London, and committed to Newgate...

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