• A Time of Gifts (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the...
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    known as Jewelers of America as a result of an organizational merger) introduced an expanded list of gifts. The revamped list gave a gift for each year up...
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    it is important to consider what Fröbel expected the gifts to achieve. He envisaged that the Gifts will teach the child to use his (or her) environment...
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    Simple Gifts Pendyrus Choir Choral performance of Pendyrus Choir Problems playing this file? See media help. "Simple Gifts" is a Shaker song written and...
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  • The Gift of Time is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1987. It was his first recording for Columbia Records after twelve...
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    Baby shower (section Gifts)
    through giving gifts and spending time together. The term shower is often assumed to mean that the expectant parent is "showered" with gifts. A related custom...
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    stores under the name Spencer Gifts, Adler sold Spencer Gifts to entertainment conglomerate MCA in 1967. In 2003, Spencer's Gifts was completely rebranded...
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    The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are an enumeration of seven spiritual gifts first found in the book of Isaiah, and much commented upon by patristic...
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  • Patrick Leigh Fermor (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond...
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  • the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has...
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    ("a peak in a mountain range of discovery") of Patrick Leigh Fermor's autobiographical account of his walking tour across Europe in A Time of Gifts. The...
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    especially as a favor, including forgiveness and kindness. Gifts are often presented on occasions such as birthdays and holidays. In many cultures gifts are traditionally...
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    Folk-Survivals". The Journal of American Folklore. 27 (105): 328–330. doi:10.2307/534625. JSTOR 534625. p65 A Time of Gifts Penguin Books. London 1977....
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  • foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34. The first book in the series, A Time of Gifts, recounts Leigh Fermor's journey...
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  • ministrations of their guitarist will prove as therapeutic for them as for you and me, but I say trust a bohemian bearing gifts. How often do we get a great love...
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    manifested in advocacy of the recovery of spiritual gifts in the Church today, but also encompasses any tradition that does not argue the gifts have necessarily...
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    of gifts used to purchase clothes for his wife, Victoria Starmer. The gifts had been given by Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, who had also given Starmer a number...
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  • literal meaning of the phrase is "I fear the Danaans [Greeks], even those bearing gifts" or "even when they bear gifts". Most printed versions of the text have...
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  • A War of Gifts: An Ender Story is a 2007 science fiction novella by American writer Orson Scott Card. This book is set in Card's Ender's Game series and...
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    Hoʻokupu is a Hawaiian language term for gifts and offerings. The ceremony dates back hundreds of years, to a time when the average Hawaiian subsisted...
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  • The Greatest of All Time (also marketed as GOAT) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by AGS Entertainment...
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  • able to deliver all of the gifts to the recipients at a mutually convenient time before or after the event, for the convenience of both the givers and...
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    Barron Hilton (category American people of German descent)
    him, he pledged 97 percent of his wealth to the humanitarian work of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. At the time, the gift was projected to increase the...
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  • Heart of Time (2018 hardcover reprint) The Khokarsa series, set circa 10,000 BC with the John Gribardsun version of Tarzan (from Time's Last Gift) as a supporting...
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    2017, as part of Christmas Fantasy event. Similar to Once Upon a Time, Disney Gifts of Christmas uses projection mapping, lasers, fire and searchlights...
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  • the Gifts is a 2016 British post-apocalyptic adventure film directed by Colm McCarthy and written by Mike Carey. The film is based on the book of the...
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  • contain more shots of the Union Pacific 844, in addition to the full Shining Time Station theme song. For the Christmas special "'Tis A Gift" the footage used...
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  • A Time of Gifts. Fermor compares him to Marcel Proust's character Charles Swann, and notes that Schey's "extraordinary good looks were marked by a kind...
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    Pargeting (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Leigh, "A Time of Gifts," at 147 (New York Review Books, 2005)(ISBN 978-1-59017-165-3). Webster's Dictionary.  This article incorporates text from a publication...
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  • govern giving a gift in a gift culture; although there is some expectation of reciprocity, gifts are not given in an explicit exchange of goods or services...
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