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Wat's Dyke

Wat's Dyke is a 40 mile (64 km) earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey on the River Dee estuary, passing to the east of Oswestry and onto Maesbury in Shropshire, England.


A History Maker

Like Gray's Poor Things the novel takes the form of documentation written by the characters themselves in order to record their experiences for posterity: a Prologue and notes (which make up almost a third of the total text) by "the hero's mother", and the central portion of the book, which is a third person narrative written by its protagonist, Wat Dryhope.

Angkor Wat

A further interpretation of Angkor Wat has been proposed by Eleanor Mannikka.

Arthur's Dyke

Arthur's Dyke is a 2001 British film starring Pauline Quirke and Brian Conley.

The plot follows a group of ramblers as they attempt to recreate their conquest of the Offa's Dyke path 20 years earlier.

Aruṇa

Wat Arun ("Temple of Dawn") is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Yai district of Bangkok, Thailand, on the Thonburi west bank of the Chao Phraya River.

Buddhist chant

They exist in just about every part of the Buddhist world, from the Wats in Thailand to the Tibetan Buddhist temples in India and Tibet.

Devil's Dyke

Devil's Dykes, a series of Roman fortifications between Hungary and Serbia

Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire

According to a plaque at one entrance to the dyke, the land was presented by Lord Brocket in 1937 on the occasion of the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Dhammakaya Movement

Wat Phra Dhammakaya is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province north of Bangkok, Thailand.

Eleanor Mannikka

In her best-known work, Angkor Wat: Time, Space and Kingship, she argues that the dimensions, alignment and bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat encode a message that Suryavarman II was the divinely appointed king.

Ghost of Mae Nak

There is a shrine dedicated to her at Wat Mahabut on Sukhumvit Soi 77 (On Nut) in Bangkok's Suan Luang (formerly Phra Khanong) district.

Hauffiopteryx

Referred specimens from Holzmaden, Germany and Dudelange, Luxembourg include MHH '9', WAT 1, SMNS 51552, SMNS 80225 and probably the poorly preserved SMNS 81965.

Jack Parow

He has contributed and collaborated with many notable artists such as Die Antwoord in their songs Wat Pomp and Doos Dronk and worked with Gazelle and DJ INVIZABLE in Hosh Tokolosh and Francois van Coke in Hard Partytjie Hou, both from Parow's second full-length album, Eksie Ou.

Jerold Wells

Two of his best-known roles were in Time Bandits, where he played Benson, a mentally disturbed follower to Evil, and in Jabberwocky, where he played a footless man known as Wat Dabney.

Khantipalo

Wat BuddhaDhamma is forest monastery situated in the middle of Dharug National Park, just north of Sydney, Australia.

Kurt Edelhagen

In 1957 Popular singer Tony Sandler recorded several songs, such as "Ik weet wat je vraagt", with his orchestra for the POLYDOR label.

Lil'wat First Nation

The Lil'wat First Nation, aka the Lil'wat Nation or the Mount Currie Indian Band, is a First Nations government located in the southern Coast Mountains region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Luang Phor Phet

Notable Luang Phor Phet Buddha images include the Luang Phor Phet of Uttaradit (in the Wat Tha Thanon temple), the Luang Phor Phet of Phichit (in the Wat Tha Luang temple), and the Luang Phor Phet of Nakhon Thai (in the Wat Na Phra That temple).

Luang Pu Waen Suciṇṇo

(As a very popular monk, Luang Pho Waen is often rumoured to have “sacred amulets” - something which Thai people from all walks of life like to receive from revered monks - for their protective value. People from all over Thailand would often travel to Wat Doi Mae Pang to seek these amulets or other sacred objects from him. He would always give the same answer as the one quoted above.)

Mae Sai District

The westernmost part of the district is dominated by the hills of the Daen Lao Range, the most important one is the Doi Tung with the Wat Phra That Doi Tung temple on top.

Mahidol Wittayanusorn School

Initially, classes were temporarily held at Wat Rai Khing in Sam Phran District until the school finally settled at its current location on the Salaya Campus of Mahidol University in 1995.

Nan, Thailand

This small wat diagonally opposite Wat Phra That Chang Kham is composed of a distinctive Lanna/Lan Xang-style chedi with four Buddha niches, a wooden hàw trai - now used as a kùti (monk cell) - and a noteworthy bot with a Luang Prabang-style carved wooden veranda.

Photha Wattana Senee School

Founded by abbot Wat Photharam in 1908, Photha is the old public secondary school in the Ratchaburi.

Ruabon Grammar School

The school originally stood at the top of Ysgoldy Hill, opposite the church, but in 1858 moved to a new site on the Penycae road between Mill Farm and Offa's Dyke.

Siem Reap Province

The province came under the control of the Thai kingdom of Siam in 1795 and was later returned to Cambodia in 1907 after French made a treaty with Siam for exchange of Trat and Dan Sai for the Siamese province of Inner Cambodia which included Phra Tabong (Battambang),Siemmarat (Siem Reap), and Nakhon Wat (Angkor Wat).

Somporn Saekhow

His Buddhist teacher, the famous monk Phra Buddhadasa from the nearby temple Wat Suan Mokkha in Chaiya, encouraged him to teach monkeys in a positive way, without the use of force.

St Briavels

Later King Offa of Mercia built Offa's Dyke from the mouth of the River Wye near Chepstow to Chester and local remains can still be seen in the nearby Hudnalls Wood.

Thai Bangkaew Dog

In this district, near the Yom River, there is a monastery called Wat Bangkaew where it is believed that Thai Bangkaew Dogs originated.

The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse

On November 10, 2012 Ramisco recorded a session for BBC Television with his backing band The Wat Wat Kings at BBC Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland.

Ubon Ratchathani

Wat Nong Pa Pong, for example, is a Buddhist forest monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition, which was established by Venerable Achan Chah Subhaddo in 1954.

Mahachulalongkorn Ratchawitthayalai University is a Bangkok Buddhist university with a small campus on Wat Mahawanaram in the city, and a new and much larger, but isolated campus in Tambon Krasop, northeast of the Ring Road.

WaT

WaT (Wentz and Teppei) is a Japanese pop duo composed of singers/songwriters Eiji Wentz and Teppei Koike.

Wat Aranyawiwake

Wat Aranyawiwake (Thai script: วัดอรัญญวิเวก, RTGS: Wat Aranyawiwek), also known as Wat Ban Pong (Thai script: วัดบ้านปง) is a monastery ("Wat") in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism located in Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand.

Wat Buddhananachat of Austin

Wat Buddhananachat is a Buddhist Temple located about 20 miles southeast of Downtown, on Linden Rd. in Del Valle, Texas.

Wat Ounalom

Wat Ounalom (also Wat Onalaom and several other spellings) is a wat located on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, near the Royal Palace of Cambodia.

Wat Phnom

Wat Phnom appeared on the Travel Channel documentary, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.

Wat Phra Kaew

Considering the long history and Nagasena's (a Brahmin who became a Buddhist sage and lived about 150 BC) prophesy that the Emerald Buddha would bring "prosperity and pre-eminence to each country in which it resides", the Emerald Buddha deified in the Wat Phra Kaew is deeply revered and venerated in Thailand as the protector of the country.

Wat Ratchabophit

Wat Ratchabophit or formally Wat Ratchabophit Sathit Maha Simaram Ratcha Wara Maha Wihan is a Buddhist temple located in on Atsadang Road, Bangkok, along Khlong Lot, not far from Wat Pho and the Grand Palace.

Wat Si Saket

Wat Si Saket was built in 1818 on the orders of King Anouvong (Sethathirath V.) Si is derived from the Sanskrit title of veneration Sri, prefixed to the name of Wat Saket in Bangkok, which was renamed by Anouvong's contemporary, King Rama I.

Wiang Kum Kam

The main temple of the town is Wat Chedi Liam (originally: Wat Ku Kham), which is still occupied by monks.

Yehuda Leib Tsirelson

Yehuda Leib Tsirelson (1859, Kozelets, Chernihiv Oblast – 1941, Kishinev, Soviet Union) wat the Chief Rabbi of Bessarabia, a member of the Romanian parliament, and a prominent Jewish leader and posek.


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