The Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball was a yearly cult ceremony in St. Louis, Missouri, over which a mythical figure called the Veiled Prophet presided....
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The following is a list of Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball themes. The events were formerly held each year in St. Louis, Missouri. Where there is no listing...
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Al-Muqanna The Veiled Prophet (opera), an 1877 romantic opera by Charles Villiers Stanford, based on the Moore poem Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball, annual celebratory...
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Alonzo W. Slayback (section Veiled Prophet celebration)
officer in the Confederate Army and a founder of the Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball in St. Louis, Missouri. He was shot and killed in self-defense by the...
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Fair Saint Louis (category Parades in the United States)
It is funded by the Veiled Prophet Organization. The event originally named "V.P. Fair" was a successor to the Veiled Prophet Parade, which began as a St...
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Bengal Lancers (category Armoured and cavalry regiments of the Indian Army from 1947)
Lancers (television series) Bengal Lancers in the St. Louis Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball Brenkley, Stephen (20 January 2002). "Meet Charlie — from the...
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of the first Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball when he was hurt badly by two hoodlums who took a wallet, a ring, and sketches of the ball. Nevertheless...
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Shillelagh (section Curing and polishing)
knife worn as part of Scottish Highland attire Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball § Notable VP Parade incidents and activities O'Donnell, Patrick Denis (1975)...
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This is a list of women who have been particularly honored at the Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, Missouri, as either belle or queen. The custom of singling...
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Veiled Prophet Ball was an observance in St. Louis, Missouri, beginning in 1967 in which an African-American man was named the Black Veiled Prophet and...
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Chase Park Plaza Hotel (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
including St. Louis native Lou Thesz and Buddy Rogers, wrestled on the program. Hotels portal Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball#After coronation "Historic Hotels...
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1875, and reprinted by the same newspaper on October 6, 1878. Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball for the second use of this woodcut Edgar F. Raines, Jr., "The...
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Al-Muqanna (section Name and early life)
the Veiled Prophet Organization and concocted a legend of Mokanna as its founder. For many years the organization put on an annual fair and parade called...
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St. Louis Country Club (category Golf clubs and courses in Missouri)
Golf Association and the Ladies Golf Union. Official website 2014 Curtis Cup site Golf course information Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball § After coronation...
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Charles E. Slayback (section Later years and death)
2021-06-10. Merkel, Jim. "THIS WEEK IN SOUTH SIDE HISTORY: Veiled Prophet ball and parade were attempts to assert control". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2021-06-10...
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August Anheuser Busch Sr. (category American racehorse owners and breeders)
Clara, August Jr., and Alice Busch. The Busches were among prominent families who participated in the Veiled Prophet Ball, and in 1922, Alice Busch...
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style of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, which had similarly inspired the Veiled Prophet celebration in St. Louis The name "Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben" is believed...
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and publicity director of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. Stevens was one of the organizers of St. Louis's Veiled Prophet Ball and Parade in...
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Frank Nuderscher (section Background and training)
illustrations, and magazine covers. Succeeding Oscar E. Berninghaus, Nuderscher created the designs and drawings for the floats in the Veiled Prophet Parade between...
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Joseph W. Postlewaite (section Birth and early life)
published in 1880, "The Veiled Prophets Grand March," which was written for and performed at that year's Veiled Prophet Ball. Over the span of his career...
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Orleans Mardi Gras krewes and Ku Klux Klan iconography, the Veiled Prophet Society undertook an annual parade and masqued ball to assert the cultural superiority...
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Erwin Rommel (redirect from Erwin Rommel and Nazism)
extremely unclear bulletins on the day's movements. In other words, he "veiled" them from headquarters, sometimes for days, only to report an entirely...
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in translation: the case of 'The Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians' and 'Histoire secrette de La reine Zarah, et des Zaraziens'. 2018. Reading:...
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Smith had admitted to him that Rockwell had done the deed and that Rockwell had made a veiled threat on Bennett's life if he publicized the story. Smith...
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Mary, mother of Jesus (redirect from Blessed Virgin Mary and Christian Churches)
countenance," and "that veiled and immortal Countenance." The Bahá'í writings claim Jesus Christ was "conceived of the Holy Ghost" and assert that in...
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television series hosted by Don Wildman and airing on the Travel Channel. The show uncovers stories of history and unsolved mysteries behind America's national...
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Dancer (1929) The Veil of Twilight (2014) The Veiled Adventure (1919) Veiled Aristocrats (1932) The Veiled Woman (1929) The Veils of Bagdad (1953) The Vein...
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relationships between men were rare during the early part of the 20th century, and nearly non-existent before then, due to the taboo nature of homosexuality...
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events as the Veiled Prophet Ball and the Municipal Opera. In January 1939 in southern Missouri Witman documented hundreds of sharecroppers and their families...
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