Sentences with phrase «many slavic»

It was an interest in vampires, long a part of Slavic culture, that fed Bobbi Duncan's desire to study Russian.

While completing a doctorate degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, «A large Philadelphia law firm approached me with a request to translate thousands of pages in an international litigation case,» says Stejskal, now 48.

We reviewed one of the most popular hardware bitcoin wallets called Trezor, translated into vault in Slavic.

For many Ukrainians, national identity is inextricably linked with Kiev's legacy as the birthplace of Slavic Christianity.

For instance, the ecumenical openness of an otherwise profoundly traditional church is of crucial importance, especially in light of conservative and traditionalist circles in the Greek and Slavic worlds.

He remained in France until 1960, when he took a position at the University of California, Berkeley, as a professor of Slavic literature.

Looks like some pseudo-swami-guru-self-help something - or - other, translated from German or Slavic language with a request for a $ 10 bank deposit to somewhere in Bosnia??

Pogroms were carried out by slavic nations during the second world war.

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

One could argue that that distinction was based on a Germanic assessment of Celtic people, and in fact, uncomfortably close to the Nazi view that Slavic people were subhuman, despite their blond hair and blue eyes.

This way of speaking presumes a fraternal coexistence of the Slavic peoples — Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian — in a single «Orthodox Civilization.»

However, how Russia's new laws will be applied is «a very huge question mark,» Slavic Gospel Association communications manager Joel Griffith told Mission Network News.

The European continent was born from the rise of the Carolingian Empire and the shift of the Roman Empire to Byzantium, with its mission toward the Slavic peoples.

It extended as far north as the Slavic world and created its own Greco - Roman world that distinguished itself from the Latin Europe of the West by introducing variants in the liturgy and in the ecclesiastical constitution, adopting a different script, and renouncing the use of Latin as the common language.

So, some of the women you think might be Hispanic or Greek or Russian / Slavic... might be Muslims.

More than one Slavic prince engineered the conversion of his subjects.

It may have been fear of German aggression which led the Moravian Slavic prince, Rastislav, to send to Constantinople for missionaries.

Again and again German priests and monks insisted that missions among the Slays on their eastern borders must be conducted by them, and opposed the use of translations of the sacred books and the liturgy into Slavonic, presumably because it would encourage Slavic political and ecclesiastical independence of their rule.

Perhaps it was as a diversion from writing books on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky that the author, a professor of Slavic languages at Northwestern, decided to write on the shortest of literary genres, the quotation.

While Greek - speaking missionaries like Cyril and Methodius did not teach their Slavic disciples to read Greek, Western missionaries had to provide the nations they converted with the rudiments of Latin and the means of learning it.

The Slavic Church has always felt the need for freedom.

Members of the Egyptian Coptic, Ethiopian, most Slavic Orthodox, and Georgian Orthodox churches, with some Greek Orthodox faithful, will mark the festival on January 7.

The third was the Slavic world of Orthodox Christianity that maintained varying and complex relations with Constantinople.

Orthodoxy became an essential part of Eastern Slavic identity, whether a particular person was a believer or not.

the asyrian church, the armenian apostolia, the syriac orthodoxy, the ethiopic orthodoxy, the slavic orthodoxy, the greek orthodoxy, the georgian orthodoxy, the roman catholics, and the protestants — all include books, parts of books — as well as exclude books, in all their cannons.

An eminent historian of Slavic Christianity, Williams correctly notes that Wojtyla's Polish inheritance gave him an appreciation of civil liberties, e.g., «Our second emerging motif is the long tradition of civil liberty in Poland and the indisposition on the part of Poles to use coercion in the realm of conscience.»

COMING NEXT... LEARN TRUTH ABOUT DAVID DUKE OR OBAMA OR RATHER US GOVERNMENT — 70 YEARS OLD NEWS (including Eastern European Ethnic cleansing for the sake of Slavic super state or Soviet Union number two).

Today's ideologized Russian Orthodoxy looks like a Slavic version of Japanese Shintoism.

All the expected topics are here: the founding of Constantinople, the building of the great church of Agia Sophia, the rule of Justinian and the codification of Roman law, the shimmering mosaics of Ravenna, the harsh consequences of the rise of Islam, the place of icons in Byzantine life and the iconoclastic controversy, the conversion of the Slavs and the creation of an alphabet for the Slavic tongue, Mount Athos, the outstanding historian Anna Komnene, the arrival of the Crusaders, the siege of Constantinople.

Later, I followed up with an account of a crucial but almost totally neglected union struggle among Slavic miners in eastern Pennsylvania,

«Parts of the New Testament have been preserved in more manuscripts than any other «ancient» work, having over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.»

Poland is the largest of the West Slavic states, it exercised a marked influence in the past on the history of Eastern Europe.

The New Testament has been preserved in more than 5,800 Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Ethiopic and Armenian.

Though race is sometimes correctly designated by basic biological types as Caucasian, Mongolian, or Negroid, in practice it is more often indicated by color, as black, white, red, yellow, or brown; or by nationality, as Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Mexican; or by geographical origin, as Oriental, Asiatic, European, African; or by a combination of ethnic, national, and geographical factors, as Nordic, Teutonic, Slavic, Latin American, French Canadian.

The Slavic peoples in Central Europe were badly divided politically.

Except in Bohemia, Protestantism never gained a large continuing following among Slavic peoples.

When we speak of Christianity, and of its importance to European cultural history, we commonly assume that Christianity belongs to European culture, that it is a part of that culture, an element among other elements: e.g., Jewish ethics, Greek democracy and philosophy, pagan sacrality, Roman law and organization, not to mention the customs of the Germanic, Slavic, and Hungarian tribes who were invaders.

In Western Europe it had had a major share in the acculturation of the Germanic and Slavic peoples and had shared in the emergence of a civilization which was an heir of the Greco - Roman pre-Christian and «Christian» world.

This means that in addition to Greek, we have something like 8,000 manuscripts in Latin, and an additional 8,000 or so manuscripts in other languages such as Syriac, Armenian, Ethiopic, Coptic, Gothic, Slavic, Sahidic and Georgian.»

They were, quite simply, ancestors of people speaking modern Indo - European languages» English, Greek, Celtic, the Germanic, Romance, and Slavic groups, and the groups of Iran, Pakistan, and Northern India.

But the application of the law has been seen as «a very huge question mark,» as Slavic Gospel Association communications manager Joel Griffith told Mission Network News after the law's passage last summer.

Such honesty would bring clarity to the situation and allow a nonpolitical and nonaggressive Orthodoxy to separate itself from the political and aggressive pretender to the Slavic world's Christian inheritance.

Heavily Hispanic with a high percentage of peoples of Slavic origin, with a number of nearby ranches and their cowboys, the town is five miles from an Apache reservation.

The Babka is the European cousin of coffee cake, the rich yeast bread derives its name from bacia, a Slavic term of endearment for grandma, which the Encyclopedia of Jewish Food points out may have been because the fluted tube pans in which babkas were originally baked gave the cakes the appearance of an old woman's pleated skirt.

(The original Slavic word could refer to any sort of porridge.)

She enjoys re-creating her deeply rooted Slavic recipes with nourishing ingredients all the while keeping her home and homeschooling their children.

Cravings for slavic foods come strong with the arrival of summer or holidays when I miss my family the most.

Simple and tasty Slavic culture and other recipes with step - by - step photo instructions on Valya's Taste of Home blog.

If you are not familiar with Maslenitsa, or a pancake week, it's a Slavic festival that celebrates the end of winter and the start of [Continue Reading...]

Preserved peppers included whole, very hot, red and green peppers (much like hot New Mexican); long strips of fleshy, bright red Macedonian peppers, mild to medium - hot in taste; long, thin, hot green, red, and orange pickled peppers; and Bulgarian letcho (sort of like a Slavic version of ratatouille) made from red and green sweet peppers, onions, tomatoes, and tomato paste.