Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
Via Media USA calls realignment efforts ‘stumbling-block’ to Episcopalians
Episcopal News Service
Monday, July 31, 2006
Central Florida group pledges loyalty, seeks healing
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[ENS] A nationwide alliance of Episcopal laity and clergy says that
recent efforts by seven dioceses to seek different alignments within
the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion have made those
dioceses “a stumbling-block to the faithful, and a millstone around
the […]
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Ohhhhhhhhhh-Kayyyyyyyyyy!?!
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
I Love These!!!!
TRACE 171Å image, showing emission from gas at 1 million degrees, of Active Region 9077 on 19 July 2000, at 23:30UT. The image (rotated over 90 degrees, so North is to the left) shows a filament in the process of lifting off from the surface of the Sun. The dark matter is relatively cool, around […]
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Feast of Joseph of Arimathaea
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Too True
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Diversity In Anchorage
Languages
(Published: July 31, 2006)
As Anchorage has become more diverse, the number of languages in the city has increased. In the Anchorage School District this past year, 93 languages were spoken.
Language Speakers
Spanish 1,802
Filipino languages 946
Samoan 833
Hmong 774
Korean 351
Lao 311
Yup’ik 272
Russian 148
Mien 148
Inupiaq 84
Albanian 80
Tongan 72
Thai 67
Chinese 63
Vietnamese 60
Khmer (Cambodia) 54
Japanese 45
German 37
Aleut 22
French 22
Hawaiian 21
Polish 20
Arabic 19
Cupik 17
Portuguese 15
Athabascan 15
Eskimo 15
Creole 14
Siberian Yupik 13
Palau 12
Punjabi 11
Turkish 11
Nuer 11
Serbo-Croatian 10
Ukranian 9
Tlingit 9
Dutch 8
Indonesian 8
Italian 8
Rumanian 7
Greek 7
Amharic 6
Hindi 6
Afrikaans 5
Yoruba 5
Urdu 5
Urdu (Pakistan) 5
Wolof 5
Bengali 5
Ingalik 5
Creole (Africa) 5
Hebrew 4
Pashto 4
Navajo 4
Norwegian 3
Macedonian 3
Ahtna 2
Hungarian 2
Armenian 2
Bosnian 2
Bulgarian 2
Cantonese 2
Mandinka 2
Romany 2
Sinhalese 2
Sugpiaq (Alutiq) 2
Swedish 2
Tamil 2
Twi (Ghana) 2
Arabic (Syria) 1
Burmese 1
Czech 1
Danish 1
Dena’ina 1
East Indian 1
Estonian 1
Gaelic 1
Gujariti 1
Han 1
Holikachuk 1
Ibu 1
Kabyle 1
Latvian 1
Lingala 1
Lithuanian 1
Malay 1
Persian (Iran) 1
Telegu 1
Sioux 1
Slovak 1
Tibetan 1
Yapese 1
Zuni 1
Source: Anchorage School District
RON ENGSTROM / Anchorage Daily News
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
One Of The People Ordained With Her Was From Alaska
Mass held for priest who made history
Mass held for priest who made history
Episcopal pioneer Swanson laid to rest
Monday, July 31, 2006 - Bangor Daily News
The Rev. Katrina Martha Welles Swanson, who died Aug. 27, 2005, was remembered Sunday with a memorial Mass at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor. BANGOR DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO
BAR […]
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Lammas
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Feast of Ignatius of Loyola
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Monday, July 31st, 2006
In land of Jesus, Christians struggle
[Israel]
The Star-Ledger, USA
July 30, 2006
Steve Chambers
www.nj.com0
As conditions worsen, numbers dwindle
BETHLEHEM — Nakla Qaber, whose Greek Orthodox roots stretch back generations in a Christian enclave on the West Bank, runs a successful restaurant at a time when most Palestinians are struggling.
But when it came time for his son and three daughters to make their own way […]