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Les bâtisseurs est le tome 22 de la «Saga des Limousins». Il se déroule entre les années 1122 et 1128.
Dans ce livre nous verrons comment les Bâtisseurs et autres tailleurs de pierres de la famille des seigneurs de Châlus auront des idées novatrices en matière de construstion d'églises et comment ils vont les mettre en oeuvre sur l'abbatiale de Saint-Denis et la cathédrale de Sens. En Europe le pape et l'empereur mettront enfin un terme...
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"SILVER STAR "For gallantry in action on 19 December 1944 in * * *. When medical personnel was not available to render aid to a unit suffering heavy casualties near * * * Chaplain Kimball, displaying great personal bravery, volunteered to pass through fierce enemy machine gun fire in an effort to render treatment and to evacuate the wounded. While on his courageous mission, he was ambushed by infiltrating Germans and received severe wounds which resulted...
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Analyzes the place of beauty in the Sufi understanding of God, the world, and the human being through the writings of Sufi scholar and saint Rūzbihān Baqlī.
According to Muhammad, "God is beautiful and He loves beauty." Yet, Islam is rarely associated with beauty, and today, a politicized Islam dominates many perceptions. This work tells a forgotten story of beauty in Islam through the writings of celebrated but little-studied Sufi scholar and...
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"When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary--an astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia--reveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed. The...