Sackcloth (Hebrew: שַׂק śaq) is a coarsely woven fabric, usually made of goat's hair. The term in English often connotes the biblical usage, where the Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible remarks that haircloth would be more appropriate rendering of the Hebrew meaning.. In some Christian traditions (notably Catholicism), the wearing of hairshirts continues as a self-imposed means of ...

Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States.Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the southernmost city in Canada and marks the southwestern end of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.The city's population was 229,660 at the 2021 …

Sanbenito (Spanish: sambenito; Catalan: gramalleta, sambenet) was a penitential garment that was used especially during the Spanish Inquisition.It was similar to a scapular, either yellow with red saltires for penitent heretics, or black and decorated with devils and flames for impenitent heretics to wear at an auto-da-fé (meaning "act of faith").

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people.Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother at …

Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white.It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed of black and white. It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash and of lead.. The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English …

During that same time, two witnesses, dressed in sackcloth, will prophesy and this torments the nations. The first mention of the Beast is told to John, who will overcome the two witnesses and kill them. For three and a half days, the people of the earth will celebrate the death of the two witnesses who've tormented them for three and half years.

A sack usually refers to a rectangular-shaped bag.. Sack may also refer to: . Bags. Flour sack; Gunny sack; Hacky sack, sport; Money sack; Paper sack; Sleeping bag; Stuff sack; Knapsack; Other uses. Bed, a slang term; Sack (band), an Irish band Sack (comics), a Marvel Comics villain Sack (surname), a surname Sack (unit), an English unit of weight or mass used for coal and …

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain is a 1951 Technicolor religious drama film made by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.It was directed by Henry King and produced by Lamar Trotti from a screenplay by King and Trotti. The story is based on a 1910 novel by Corra Harris about a minister and his wife in southern Appalachia (specifically Mossy Creek, Georgia) in the early 20th century.

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy; the …

Gibeon (Hebrew: גִּבְעוֹן ‎, Gīḇəʻōn; Greek: Γαβαων, Gabaōn) was a Canaanite and, later, an Israelite city which was located north of Jerusalem.According to Joshua 10:12 and Joshua 11:19, the pre-Israelite-conquest inhabitants, the Gibeonites, were Hivites; according to 2 Samuel 21:2 they were Amorites.The remains of Gibeon are located in the southern portion of the ...