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9 unusual facts about Mystic


Beautiful Assassin

Our first residency begins this December on Enders Island, off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut, and I am busy gathering a great stable of writers to teach in the program.

Henry C. Allen

Henry Crosby Allen (May 13, 1872, Paterson, New Jersey - March 7, 1942, Mystic, Connecticut) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1905 to 1907.

Interstate 95 in Connecticut

Just short of three miles (5 km) later, I-95 enters Mystic and interchanges with Allyn Street at Exit 89 and Route 27 at Exit

Leonard P. Moore

He assumed senior status on March 1, 1971, serving in that capacity until his death, in Mystic, Connecticut.

Merrick Alpert

Alpert lives in Mystic, Connecticut with his wife, Alexandra, whom he met during the 2000 Presidential Election when he traveled with Al Gore to California.

Mystic Ballet

The Mystic Ballet, based in Mystic, Connecticut is a dance company and performing arts educational institution.

Sally Caldwell Fisher

Her painting "Maine Regatta" has been chosen to be the poster for 2007 Wooden Boat Show in Mystic, Connecticut.

Stackpole Rocks

The feature is named after Edouard Stackpole, Curator of the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut, historian of early American whaling and sealing in the South Shetlands.

Tish Rabe

Tish Rabe is a children's book author who lives in New York City, New York and Mystic, Connecticut.


1390s in poetry

Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death (died 1518), mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India

1518 in poetry

Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death (born 1398 or 1440), mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India

1542 in poetry

June 24 – St. John of the Cross, in Spanish: "San Juan de la Cruz", born "Juan de Yepes Alvarez", (died 1591), Spanish mystic, poet, writer, Carmelite friar and priest, who was a major figure of the Catholic Reformation

Administrative divisions of Connecticut

Some examples of villages, neighborhoods, and sections that have given their names to post offices or CDPs are Falls Village, Mystic, Niantic, Quaker Hill, South Kent, Stafford Springs, and Whitneyville.

Asik

Ashik, a mystic troubadour or traveling bard, in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran

Bastien Salabanzi

He won the WSR05 skateboarding contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2005 and Mystic Skate Cup in Prague - the famous contest from the World Cup series held traditionally in Prague.

Belva Ann Lockwood

One of the figureheads is displayed in the museum at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut.

Bhima Bhoi

Bäumer, Bettina and Johannes Beltz 2010 (eds.), Verses from the Void: Mystic poetry of an Oriya saint, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers.

DSV Turtle

It now resides at the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut

E. Ann Matter

She has written extensively on the life and work of seventeenth-century Italian Catholic nun and mystic, Sister Maria Domitilla Galluzzi.

Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio

Mother Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio (San Gervasio d’Adda, 4 September 1907 – 10 August 1990) was an Italian nun, visionary and mystic, from the Roman Catholic Church.

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

A brief discussion of Joan's sword, obtained from the church of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois and its relation to other famous swords with mystic powers such as those of King Arthur (Excaliber), Roland (Durendal), El Cid (Tizona and Colada), Charlemagne (Joyeuse), and others.

Harry Stewart

Yogi was originally a Hindu mystic from Stockholm, but in time his crystal ball act was abandoned in favor of more homespun humor.

Henry Nicholis

Hendrik Nicholis (or Hendrik Niclaes, Heinrich Niclaes) (c.1501–c.1580) was a German mystic and founder of the Christian sect "Family of Love" (a.k.a. "Familists", "Familia Caritatis" or "Hus der Lieften").

Holy minimalism

Examples include Arvo Pärt (an Estonian Orthodox), John Tavener (a British composer who converted to Russian Orthodoxy), Henryk Górecki (a Polish Catholic), Alan Hovhaness (the earliest mystic minimalist), Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Hans Otte, Pēteris Vasks and Vladimír Godár.

I Go to Rio

The melody of the opening piano riff of the song has been re-used by Chocolate in "Ritmo de la noche", well as Mystic/The Sacados and Safri Duo's cover versions, and Coldplay in "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall".

Isaac ben Moses of Vienna

From among the many scholars at Ratisbon he selected for his guide the mystic Yehuda ben Samuel HaChasid.

James Brown Craven

He was the author of Count Michael Maier, doctor of philosophy and of medicine, alchemist, Rosicrucian, mystic, 1568–1622: life and writings published in 1910.

Jason Boesel

On May 5 Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band released their second album Outer South - in which Boesel wrote and sings lead for two tracks.

Kirill Pavlov

Cyril Pavlov (born 1919), Russian Orthodox Christian mystic, elder, wonder-worker and Archimandrite

Lorenç Mallol

Lorenç presented a certain vers figurat (figured verse), Sobre·l pus alt de tots los cims d'un arbre, to the Consistori del Gay Saber in Toulouse, a mystic allegory of Jesus Christ (Ihus lo salvaire), who is the auzel(l)et tot blanch (little all-white bird), and the Jews, who are a corps mot vils (most vile corpse).

Matthias Joseph Scheeben

Matthias Joseph Scheeben (Meckenheim, Bonn, 1 March 1835 – Cologne, 21 July 1888) was a German Catholic theological writer and mystic.

Ms. Mystic

Ms. Mystic once called upon Mother Nature for help, and she responded by creating the superhero team Urth 4.

Mystic Ark

A sequel for the Sony PlayStation, Mystic Ark: Maboroshi Gekijo, was released in 1999.

Mystic Ark (ミスティックアーク Misutikku Āku) is a 1995 role playing game released for the Super Famicom and developed by Produce and distributed by Enix.

Mystic Highland Pipe Band

The Mystic Highland Pipeband plays at the Country Dancers annual Robert Burns Suppers and have performed the popular 'Reel of the 51st Division' at one of the suppers.

Mystic Meg

Comedian Brian Conley based one of his sketch characters Septic Peg on Mystic Meg.

Mystic Pizza

The most notable scenes that take place in Mystic are at the Mystic Seaport planetarium and at the drawbridge, where Jojo gets angry that Bill changed the name of his boat.

Mystic Seaport Light

Mystic Seaport Lighthouse was built in 1966 and is a replica of the 1901 Brant Point Light in Massachusetts.

Neten Chokling

The film is about the adventurous years of the legendary buddhist mystic, Milarepa (1052-1135), who is one of the most widely known Tibetan Saints, and who initially set out for vengeance and retribution.

One Armed Boxer

This group consists of two karate experts and their teacher, a Judo master, a Taekwondo expert, two Thai boxing fighters, a Yoga expert, and two mystic Tibetan lamas (who are later revealed in the sequel to be students of an Imperial Assassin).

Our Lady of Medjugorje

A 2009 paper by Yale Divinity School student Daniel Klimek details the intricate connection between the Medjugorje apparitions and the writings of Italian mystic Maria Valtorta.

Paolo Rustichelli

The song "Full Moon" from Mystic Jazz was composed for Carlos Santana and became an evergreen in various Santana albums and collections, among them Multi-Dimensional Warrior 2009, Spirits Dancing in the Flesh, The Best of Santana.

Paulinus II of Aquileia

It was at the itinerant palace school (schola palatina) that Paulinus would stay for about ten years and make the acquaintance of other leading scholars of the age, including Peter of Pisa, Alcuin of York, Fardulf, Arno of Salzburg, Albrico, Bona, Riculph, Raefgot, Rado, Lullus, Bassinus, Fuldrad, Eginard, Adalard and Adelbert.

Ramdevji

The priest of the temple, considering the king to be mad, asked the king to go to the mystic Dwarika to speak to the Lord.

Raul Seixas

Through Coelho, Seixas was introduced to the work of controversial English mystic Aleister Crowley, which influenced their collaboration.

River Oaks Theatre

The River Oaks Theatre is one of a handful of sites in the Houston area that carries on the tradition of showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight, which can be seen on the second Saturday of every month, complete with the "Royal Mystic Order of Chaos" shadow cast .

Sam Cardon

Sam Cardon is a composer whose credits include 15 large-format films:"Titans Of The Ice Age", "Mummies", "Mystic India", Texas, The Big Picture, "Forces Of Nature", Lewis and Clark,The Legendary Journeys, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, Mysteries of Egypt, Olympic Glory, Whales, Building the Dream at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California; Treasure of the Gods at Zion National Park, Utah and The Secret of San Francisco at Pier 39.

Sidi Arif Mosque

The real name of the Arif bellah who the mosque was named after him is still mysterious to know because the term Arif was used by Sufi authors like Abu Abd al–Rahman al–Sulami (d. 1021) to mean "a gnostic, mystic; a seeker of marifa (spiritual knowledge)", similar in meaning to the terms salik, zahid, faqir, etc.

Summit cross

Further layers of Christian imagery as perceived by the Romantic generation made summit crosses a motif favoured by the painter Caspar David Friedrich in more than one of his mystic landscapes.

Świny, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

In the 16th century the Lords of Świny (von Schweinichen noble family) hosted a circle of mystics, among them Jakob Böhme, Abraham von Franckenberg and Angelus Silesius.

The Black Order

Part III "The Black Order" of Track 10 "The Mystic Prophecy of the Demonknight" of Triumph or Agony, the sixth studio album released by the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire

The Two Headed Freap

2009 - Vijay Iyer covered "Mystic Brew" on his 2009 album Historicity.

William Flete

He was an English mystic, and lived in the latter half of the fourteenth century; educated at Cambridge, he afterwards joined the Austin Friars in England.

William Patrick Patterson

The rare-born Danish mystic Sunyata, who was given this name in 1936 by Ramana Maharshi, lived with Patterson starting in 1982 and introduced him to Advaita Vedanta.

William Quan Judge

William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society.

Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin

Yaakov Yitzchak was a descendant of Isaiah Horowitz (Hebrew: ישעיה הלוי הורוביץ), also known as the Shelah ha-Kadosh (Hebrew: של"ה הקדוש), a prominent Levite rabbi and mystic.


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