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DEFINITION: A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
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Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated annually on February 14. Christian stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14 are presented in Martyrologies.
In 269 A.D. a written account of Saint Valentine of Rome imprisonment for performing weddings for soldiers, who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his judge, and before his execution he wrote her a letter signed “Your Valentine” as a farewell.
The day first became associated with “romantic love” within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
The earliest description of February 14 as an annual celebration of love appears in the Charter of the Court of Love. The charter, allegedly issued by Charles VI of France at Mantes-la-Jolie in 1400 A.D., describes lavish festivities to be attended by several members of the royal court, including a feast, amorous song and poetry competitions, jousting and dancing. Amid these festivities, the attending ladies would hear and rule on disputes from lovers.
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Books are valuable possessions. Books require thousands of hours, or even a lifetime to write, edit, and print. Before the advent of the printing press in the 14th century books were written by hand — one at a time — and only aristocrats and priests could read them. Historically, wealthy and educated persons collected books in private libraries. Each book had a label, or “book plate” placed on the inside front cover of the book to identify the owner. A bookplate, also known as ex-librīs [Latin, “from the books of…”], is usually a small print or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate its owner. Simple typographical bookplates are termed “booklabels”. Bookplates typically bear a name, motto, device, coat-of-arms, crest, badge, or any motif that relates to the owner of the book, or is requested by him from the artist or designer. The name of the owner usually follows an inscription such as “from the books of . . . ” or “from the library of . . . “, or in Latin, ex libris …. Bookplates are important evidence for the provenance of books.Here are a few examples of Book Plates for Greta Garbo, Douglas Fairbanks, Sigmund Freud, and others:
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HERE IS ANOTHER LINK:
http://cdm.lib.udel.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/wab&CISOSTART=1,21
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“The Self, the Spirit, creates illusion.
The delusion of Beings is that All is not an illusion.
One creates illusion, enjoying, renewing, destroying.
Creation and Joy of Being are The Way of All-Mother.
Beings pretend to be forms to play a game.
Beings may endows forms with sensation and feels pleasure therein.
Pain is a game of suffering forms.
Without a form, can one suffer?
One may forget One’s Self and become a form.
One becomes form: One loses The Way of All-Mother.
Benevolent Creation is Pleasure.
All-Mother is The Way of Eternal Pleasure”
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE OF THE AUDIOBOOK — Domain Expeditionary Force Rescue Mission
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