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unusual facts about initiation



A. Hyatt Mayor

In 1966 he retired from the Museum as curator emeritus and directed his efforts to various art-related projects and writings, in particular his translation and updating of the catalogues of Max Lehrs and the initiation, with Anthony Blunt and others, of the massive and still ongoing Illustrated Bartsch series of print catalogues.

Arnold van Gennep

The Rites of Passage was highly influential in the structuring of Joseph Campbell's 1949 text, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, as Campbell divides the journey of the hero into three parts, Departure, Initiation, and Return.

Barly Baruti

Baruti is the co-founder of the Atelier de Création et de l'Initiation à l'Art (Creative Workshop for an Initiation to Art) to encourage talented youth in Kinshasa.

BDP1

TFIIIB150 is a subunit of the TFIIIB transcription initiation complex, which recruits RNA polymerase III to target promoters in order to initiate transcription.

Big Secrets

Other mysteries explored in the series include Mount Weather, the number stations, backmasking on records, the secrets of Scientology, the true identities of The Residents, the initiation rites of the Freemasons and of college fraternities, anti-counterfeiting devices on money and documents, and the magic of David Copperfield.

Bodo Brahma Dharma

Bodo Brahma Dharma was a new religion agitated by Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma in the early 20th century in Dhubri District of Assam among the Bodo people after initiation in the Brahmo faith and the teachings of the Adi Brahmo Parambrahma in 1906 at Kolkatta and assisted by Rupnath Brahma.

Boys Do Cry

Meanwhile, as part of an initiation into an after-school club, Meg and Chris sneak into George W. Bush's Crawford ranch to steal a pair of his underwear.

Caudle

In a description of an initiation ceremony at Merton College, Oxford in 1647, caudle is described as a "syrupy gruel with spices and wine or ale added".

Cis-natural antisense transcript

RNA polymerases will then begin transcribing the gene at the transcription initiation site laying down nucleotides in a 5' to 3' direction.

Cista

Cistae mystica were used in the initiation ceremony of the cult of Bacchus or Dionysus, as well as an early gnostic sect called the Ophites.

Coming of age

In the traditional faith of the Yoruba people of West Africa and the myriad of New World religions that it subsequently birthed, men and women are often initiated to the service of one of the hundreds of subsidiary spirits that serve the Orisha Olodumare, the group's conception of the Almighty God.

Courson-les-Carrières

It extends to the west on the plateau of limestone portlandiens, whose stone has been worked and includes a visit to Aubigny in the commune of Taingy, who served in numerous monuments of Paris, whose city hall, a workshop size and initiation size is maintained.

Coven Celeste

Since Heather Botting's initiation by Turner in 1966, the coven has remained matrilineal, with the Bottings' granddaughters Phaydra and Ariadne Gagnon inheriting the athame as high priestesses.

Devadasi

Gough Kathleen, "Female Initiation Rites on the Malabar Coast", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, No. 85, 1952.

Dongshan Liangjie

A large portion of Master Dongshan's fame came from his initiation of the Verses of the Five Ranks.

Dweller on the threshold

Alice Bailey in Esoteric Astrology suggests that Mars and Saturn are involved in the third initiation, the initiation where illusion is finally overcome.

Galen L. Stone

Stone was honored for his philanthropy by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity in 1917 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Guadalajara Macrobus

The initiation of work on the system was announced by Jalisco Governor Emilio González Márquez on February 29, 2008.

Gurukula

Vedic school of thought prescribes an initiation (Upanayana, a compulsory sanskara or activity for a Hindu living) to all individuals, including women, before the age of 8 or latest by 12.

Hell night

Hazing, a ritualistic test used as a means of initiation into a social group

Hsp90 inhibitor

Mitochondrial Hsp90 is involved in complex signaling pathway that prevents initiation of induced apoptosis.

Jacek Kugler

His extensions of the theory of power transition explain the initiation of World War I and II and account for peaceful relations among major powers during the Cold War.

Jardin Exotique de Monaco

Among the notable figures prominent in the initiation of the Jardin Exotique de Monaco was local civil engineer Louis Notari, also a noted Monégasque language writer.

John Omoniyi Abiri

He subsequently secured appointment in 1976 at the then University College, Ilorin, later University of Ilorin, where he served as the first Head of Department and dean of the Faculty of Education with responsibility of providing leadership in the formulation and initiation of the degree programmes of that faculty.

Jonang

Taranatha's influence on Gelugpa thinking continues even to this day in the teaching of the present 14th Dalai Lama, who actively promotes initiation into Kalachakra.

Kazi Dawa Samdup

1916 of Punakha from whom he received initiation and instruction.

Knight Kadosh

The 1918 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia stated that, in the ceremony in use in the Southern Jurisdiction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the United States, purported to have been written by Albert Pike, the Papal tiara is trampled during the initiation.

Kriyā

The story of Lahiri Mahasaya receiving initiation into Kriya Yoga by the yogi Mahavatar Babaji in 1861 is recounted in Autobiography of a Yogi.

Lazy initialization

Scala has built-in support for lazy variable initiation.

Mafia initiation ritual

To become a full member of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra – to become a “man of honour” – an aspiring member has to pass a Mafia initiation ritual.

Marrack Goulding

According to Simon Chesterman of the New York University School of Law, the period of Goulding's service as head of UN peacekeeping – which saw the initiation of sixteen new missions – "may come to be regarded as its heyday".

Mizuage

Mineko Iwasaki, a geisha that Arthur Golden met while writing Memoirs of a Geisha described mizuage in her autobiography as being an initiation party, symbolized on the geisha-to-be by a change in hairstyle rather than the loss of virginity.

Mozart and Freemasonry

This figure appears in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute in the overture, suggesting the opening of the Masonic initiation.

Myogenic contraction

The resulting influx of Ca2+ ions lead to the initiation of excitation-contraction coupling and thus contraction of the myocyte.

Myxobacteria

At a molecular level, initiation of fruiting body development is regulated by Pxr sRNA.

Post-transcriptional regulation

Poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) binds to a long poly(A) tail and mediates the interaction between EIF4E and EIF4G which encourages the initiation of translation.

Proactive law

Thus, the proactive law approach challenges the traditional backwards and failure oriented approach to law by acting in anticipation of legal disputes, taking control of potential problems, providing solutions, and self-initiation, instead of reacting to failures and shortcomings.

Pseudouridine

It is commonly found in tRNA, associated with thymidine and cytosine in the TΨC arm and is one of the invariant regions of tRNA.The function of it is not very clear, but it is expected to play a role in association with aminoacyl transferases during their interaction with tRNA, and hence in the initiation of translation.

Robert L. Hirsch

Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy.

Societas Rosicruciana

The transition of this member, Illustrious Frater Sylvester Clarke Gould, late of Manchester, N. H., on July 19, 1909, prevented the fulfillment of his personal ambition, and the actual work of organization and institution devolved upon the Imperator and Supreme Magus of the Society, George Winslow Plummer, who had received full initiation

Suchandra

In response to his request, the Buddha gave the first Kalachakra tantra initiation and teachings at Amaravati, a small town in Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India, supposedly emanating at the same time he was also delivering the Prajna Paramita sutras at Vulture Peak Mountain at Rajgir in North India.

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Twenty-two years after his initiation into a secret society known as the "Brotherhood of the Bell" or "the Bell", Dr. Andrew (Andy) Patterson (Glenn Ford) is requested to be the "senior" of a new initiate, Phillip Everest Dunning (Robert Pine).

Timothy A Stewart

From 1984 to 2003 Stewart was a scientist at Genentech where he developed the concept that the type I interferons might be a significant component in the initiation or progression of type I diabetes.

Tran Ngoc Chau

The Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), an American agency, was founded in 1967 at the initiation of Robert Komer.

Vexillology

Dr. Sheldon Cooper (Physicist), a character on the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", portrayed by Jim Parsons, who started his own video podcast called Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun With Flags as seen in "The Beta Test Initiation".

Walter S. Gamertsfelder

These included accommodation of faculty leaves for service in the nation's war effort and the initiation of programs for faculty retraining and reassignment as enrollment dwindled to just over two hundred men, and needs for teaching Army Specialized Training Corpsmen and Reservists who were assigned to the campus developed.

Walter Samuel Millard

Salim Ali credited his initiation into ornithology as a young boy to Millard, who helped identify a Yellow-throated Sparrow he had shot.

Woman's film

The escape can take the form of a journey to another place such as the USSR in Letter to Brezhnev (1985) and Greece in Shirley Valentine (1989) or education as in Educating Rita (1983) and sexual initiation as in Wish You Were Here (1987).

Yaya Coulibaly

Born in a family of puppeteers with roots in the Bamana, he began his initiation into the of puppet and masquerade figures at the age of ten as an apprentice to his father.


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