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unusual facts about The Beginning and the End



Alfredo Ripstein

Ripstein had collaborated with his son Arturo on several films, including the 1999 adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel No One Writes to the Colonel and The Beginning and the End, adapted from the novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz.


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Ōsaka no onna

Although the single, which followed the Enka style, received much critical acclaim and even won some awards, it sold rather poorly, causing either Shimatani, avex, or both to decide that "Ōsaka no onna" was to be both the beginning and the end of Shimatani's enka career, and to be her only 8 cm (3 inch) single.

Paschal candle

--red on purp., see history --> signify that God is the beginning and the end (from the Book of Revelation)

SALEM-Immanuel Lutheran College

The cross at the top represents the school's Christianity background; the grid (fish net) and the pearl at the centre symbolizes Tai Po at its early stages; the source of book, with pages printed Greek alphabets Alpha and Omega, can be derived from an Biblical scripture: "I (the God) am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end." (Upper part of Revelation of John, 21:6), and also indicated the thought of Christian education.