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unusual facts about invocation


Create: New Student Orientation

Create Kickoff Event - formerly the Invocation Ceremony, is an assembly-like gathering of all new students and UBC's VIPs.


1936 Democratic National Convention

South Carolina Senator Ellison D. Smith walked out of the convention hall once he saw that a black minister was going to deliver the invocation.

2009 Coke Zero 400

The invocation and the national anthem were preempted in favor of the trailer for the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, causing an outrage among NASCAR fans.

2010 Subway Fresh Fit 600

The pre race ceremonies started with a moment of silence for the fallen coal miners in West Virginia; then Phoenix International Raceway's chaplain Ken Bowers gave the invocation.

2011 Budweiser Shootout

Next, Bob Hadley, of Westside Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Florida, said the invocation, and actress Amber Heard gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

2013 Coca-Cola 600

After the invocation was delivered by Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson, Grand Marshall Sergeant Aaron Causey, with his wife and United Service Organizations' Alan Reyes delivered the command to start engines.

Aftermath Music

Runemagick "Invocation Of Magick" (2006) Digipack CD -lim 999 ex.

Al-Nasir

His long reign of forty-seven years is chiefly marked by ambitious and corrupt dealings with the Tartar chiefs, and by his hazardous invocation of the Mongols, which so soon brought his own dynasty to an end.

Arthur Foxton Ferguson

The premiere of the Vaughan William's Two Vocal Duets ("The Last Invocation" and "The Bird's Love Song") in 1904, which were the composers' first settings of Walt Whitman, were sung by Foxton Ferguson and Beatrice Spencer who had also sung the premieres of two of the German duets together.

Casével

Casével's only church, to the invocation of São João Baptista dates back to the 14th century, and was repaired several times, including in 1533 and again in 1940-1950 after it had been abandoned.

Cirion

Cirion then swore an oath of unending mutual aid and friendship in return, cementing it with an invocation in Quenya of the Valar and Eru.

Constitutional references to God

The invocation of God and Jesus in the Preamble of the Constitution of Ireland has been cited in Supreme Court rulings.

Deo Vindice

The Confederate Senator Thomas Semmes, in proposing this motto, took pains to stress that the CSA had "deviated in the most emphatic manner from the spirit that presided over the construction of the Constitution of the United States, which is silent on the subject of the Deity", and he clearly expected this invocation to bring his side victory.

Donn Moomaw

During this time, he became friends with California Governor Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy; Moomaw later gave the invocation and benediction at Reagan's 1981 presidential inauguration.

Dorje Shugden

Joseph Rock witnessed and documented a public invocation of the Panglung oracle in Kham (Eastern Tibet) in 1928.

Java remote method invocation

The Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) is a Java API that performs the object-oriented equivalent of remote procedure calls (RPC), with support for direct transfer of serialized Java objects and distributed garbage collection.

Jayrock

Jayrock allows clients such as client-side web page JavaScript, to be able to call into server-side methods using JSON as the wire format and JSON-RPC as the procedure invocation protocol.

John Bale

He obtained the living of Thorndon, Suffolk, but in 1534 was summoned before the Archbishop of York for a sermon against the invocation of saints preached at Doncaster, and afterwards before John Stokesley, Bishop of London, but he escaped through the powerful protection of Thomas Cromwell, whose notice he is said to have attracted by his miracle plays.

Kościuszko Park

Two unique structures of wooden building in Upper Silesia, a manorial granary from 1688 (burnt in 1970) and the Church of St. Michael Archangel, a wooden church under the invocation of St. Michael from 1510 moved from Syrynia, were placed in the park.

Laurence I. Barrett

Revelations included Richard Darman's successful attempt to stall the invocation of Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution when President Reagan was receiving treatment following the 1981 assassination attempt on him.

Leaving Rivendell

# "Sam's Invocation of Elven Hymn to Elbereth Gilthoniel" (Peter Hall)

Leon Tourian

Archbishop Tourian, upon his arrival to deliver an invocation, ordered the removal of the red, blue, and orange Tricolor of Democratic Republic of Armenia (1918–1920) from the stage before he would step out on it.

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

At the start of a meeting, after an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance, all items that do not have "holds" placed on them by a Supervisor or a member of the public, or are mandatory public hearings, are approved on a consent calendar.

McGulpin Point Light

An invocation by Frank Ettawageshik, of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, was followed by a "stirring performance by four Native American drummers." The official relighting was switched on by United States Senator Debbie Stabenow and James Tamlyn, Emmet County Board of Commissioners chairman.

Meir Soloveichik

In August 2012, he gave the invocation at the opening session of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe

Modern commentators on the Inferno view it as some kind of demonic invocation to Satan.

The double mention of "papé" together with "Satan" (here interpreted as the fallen angel Satan) and the break (the comma) in the hendecasyllable, gives it a tone of a prayer or an invocation to Satan (although there is no verb traceable).

Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions

Both the title of the episode and the invocation spoken by the character of Sammael refer to four of the nine choirs of angels in Christian mythology.

Property Law in Colonial New York

English structural influence was due in large part to the widespread textual invocation of Blackstone.

Restoring Courage tour

It featured an invocation by Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, remarks by Beck, actor and activist Jon Voight, the screening of the documentary film Kleiner Rudy by Michelle Stein Teer about her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Rudy Wolff and personal family memoirs, a short documentary about a solemn tour by Beck and his wife Tania of Auschwitz, and a panel discussion including Beck, Rabbi David Greenblatt of United With Israel, David Brog of Christians United for Israel, and author Mike Evans.

Synod of Homberg

On the following day (Tuesday, October 23), when the synod was on the point of closing, there appeared unexpectedly Master Johann Sperber, of Waldau, near Kassel, who made a vain attempt to justify the invocation of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, by the angelic salutation in the first chapter of Luke.

Tamunangue

It is celebrated in Lara State in Venezuela on the June 13 every year as festival to St. Anthony of Padua the patron saint of that state.It is usually began with an invocation to Virgin Mary.It is combination suite of music,dance with drums.It is a mixture representing native Indians, the Spanish and African traditions.

Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Upon assuming the role of White House Chief of Staff in 1987, Howard Baker was advised by his predecessor's staff to be prepared for a possible invocation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment due to Reagan's perceived laziness and ineptitude.


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