In the Islamic and Christian traditions, the Seven Sleepers, otherwise known as the Sleepers of Ephesus and Companions of the Cave, is a medieval legend about a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus (modern-day Selçuk, Turkey) around AD 250 to escape one of the Roman persecutions of Christians and emerged some 300 years later. . Another …

The Seven Dials Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 24 January 1929 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.. In this novel, Christie brings back the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George …

Sister Nivedita (Bengali pronunciation: [bhagini nibedita] listen (help · info) born Margaret Elizabeth Noble; 28 October 1867 – 13 October 1911) was an Irish teacher, author, social activist, school founder and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland.She was engaged to marry a Welsh youth, but he died soon after their engagement.

My Sister's Keeper (2004) is the eleventh novel by the American author Jodi Picoult. It tells the story of thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she is told to donate a kidney to her elder sister Kate, who is gradually dying from acute leukemia .

Thirty-three amendments to the United States Constitution have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of these, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution. The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified …

The following is a list of the Catholic cathedrals in the United States.The Catholic Church in the United States comprises ecclesiastical territories called dioceses led by prelate bishops.Each bishop is assigned to a cathedral from which he is pastor to the people of his diocese. Some dioceses also have a co-cathedral or a pro-cathedral.This is a complete list of the 193 …

The following sortable table comprises the 200 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the United States of America.. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: . The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.; The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the …

In Greek mythology, the stars of Pleiades represented the Seven Sisters.The constellation was also described as ἑπτάποροι "heptaporoi", by poet Aratus.. Norse mythology. To the Vikings, the Pleiades were Freyja's hens, and their name in many old European languages such as Hungarian compares them to a hen with chicks. In contemporary Danish the cluster is known as …

Middle Island is a small island, just 18.5 hectares (46 acres) in area. It is the southernmost point of land in Canada, located at 41°41'N, 82°41"W (41.685,-82.684), or about 41.7 degrees north latitude.It lies in Lake Erie, just south of Pelee Island, and is part of Point Pelee National Park.It forms part of the province of Ontario.The southernmost part of the island lies some 150 metres ...

In Australia and New Zealand, the series was aired on Nickelodeon and the Seven Network; in the United Kingdom, Sister, Sister was aired on Nickelodeon, and on Channel 4 between 1995 and 2000 as the channel had the terrestrial rights to the show. In the UK, Nickelodeon aired Sister Sister again in 2009 but only showed episodes from the first ...