• Vigiles or more properly the Vigiles Urbani ("watchmen of the City") or Cohortes Vigilum ("cohorts of the watchmen") were the firefighters and police of...
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    A vigil, from the Latin vigilia meaning 'wakefulness' (Greek: pannychis, παννυχίς or agrypnia ἀγρυπνία), is a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion...
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    In Christian liturgy, a vigil is, in origin, a religious service held during the night leading to a Sunday or other feastday. The Latin term vigilia,...
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  • village in the parish of Santa Eulalia de Vigil, Asturias, Spain The Vigil, an 1884 painting by John Pettie Vigiles, firefighters and nightwatchmen of Ancient...
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  • The Vigil of the Princes refers to occasions when members of the British royal family have "stood guard" during the lying in state of one of their relatives...
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    A candlelight vigil or candlelit vigil or candlelight service is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to pray, show...
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    The Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil, the Great Vigil of Easter, or Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil on the Holy Night of Easter is a liturgy...
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  • Vigil is a 1984 New Zealand drama film directed by Vincent Ward and starring Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr, Fiona Kay, and Gordon Shields...
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  • The House of Vigil [biˈxil] is a noble family that first began in the Kingdom of Asturias around the 5th to 8th century. The family originated from the...
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    "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" (Latin: Vigiles et Sancti) is a popular Christian hymn with text by Athelstan Riley, first published in the English Hymnal...
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    also employed to fight fires. Roman Emperor Augustus created the Vigiles. The Vigiles were an organization of freedmen that fought fires. They would use...
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  • "Dindicodes" vigil is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1926. It is found in Myanmar. Wikimedia Commons has...
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  • Vigil Games was an American game development company owned by THQ. It was formed by comic artist Joe Madureira and David Adams in 2005. Vigil Games was...
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    Timothy B. Vigil (/ˈvɪdʒəl/) is an American comic book artist known for horror works, including the series Faust, which Vigil co-created with writer David...
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  • Stephanie Vigil (/viˈhɪl/) is an American politician who is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 16th district, which is located...
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  • district from 1970 to 1998. Vigil was the son of Maclovia Lujan and Samuel Vigil Sr. He attended New Mexico Highlands University. Vigil served in the United...
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    Vigil, formerly known as Lagrange, is a space weather mission developed by the European Space Agency. The mission will provide the ESA Space Weather Office...
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    buildings include: AD 6, which led to the introduction of the Cohortes Vigiles AD 12 which destroyed the Basilica Julia AD 14 at the Basilica Aemilia...
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    attorney (procureur) for the Paris parlement. His most important work is the Vigiles de Charles VII à neuf psaumes et neuf leçons [fr] (1493, edited 1724),[citation...
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  • Hunter: The Vigil is a tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing on August 14, 2008, and is the sixth game in their game...
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  • "Manhattan Vigil" is the fifth episode of the fourteenth season of the American police procedural Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the 300th overall...
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  • Philip Vigil (born c. 1986) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Colorado State University Pueblo, a position he has...
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  • Vigil is a British police procedural drama television series created by Tom Edge and produced by World Productions. The series premiered on BBC One on...
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    The Vigil House (Spanish: Casa Vigil) is a historic late 19th-century residence located in the Pueblo barrio, the former administrative and historic center...
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  • Vigil in the Night is a 1940 RKO Pictures drama film based on the 1939 serialized novel Vigil in the Night by A. J. Cronin. The film was produced and...
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    Vigils for Peace (German: Mahnwachen für den Frieden) is the name of regular series of vigils that have taken place on Mondays in many cities in Germany...
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  • Carabus vigil, is a species of ground beetle in the large genus Carabus. "Carabus vigil - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2020-12-31...
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    academics say Halloween began independently as a Christian holiday, being the vigil of All Hallows' Day. Celebrated in Ireland and Scotland for centuries, Irish...
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  • The Vigil Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a Grade III sprint race open to horses...
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    Zachary Vigil (born March 28, 1991) is an American former professional football linebacker. He played college football at Utah State and was signed by...
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