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Explanations in English were added to this manuscript by a nineteenth-century American missionary. [ 1] An omen (also called portent) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. [ 2] It was commonly believed in ancient times, and still believed by some today, that omens bring divine messages ...
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
Divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.') [ 2] is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice. [ 3] Using various methods throughout history, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or ...
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Jeff Cox, CNBC. July 24, 2024 at 3:56 PM. Spencer Platt. Wall Street’s favorite recession signal started flashing red in 2022 and hasn’t stopped — and thus far has been wrong every step of ...
The Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters, Weyward Sisters or Wayward Sisters, are characters in William Shakespeare 's play Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The witches eventually lead Macbeth to his demise, and they hold a striking resemblance to the three Fates of classical mythology. Their origin lies in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a ...
Zac Anderson and David Jackson, USA TODAY. August 10, 2024 at 5:06 AM. The calendar says 2024. But for Donald Trump and his Republican presidential campaign, the last few days have felt like 2016 ...