Easter (Old English: Ēostre) or Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic: פַּסחא Pasḥa; from Hebrew: פֶּסַח Pesaḥ) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament. Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday,Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
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This is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-year-old boy, Felix, who is trapped together with his classmates and teacher Jasna in an unmoving column of vehicles on a high mountain road, because of army barricades. The heroes of the story are involuntarily caught between the two enemy military groups. On this day in June, many others find themselves on this road together with the pupils on their school bus - people from various European countries who are traveling south: Frenchmen, Italians, Hungarians, Germans, and, of course, Slovenians; a blend of different professions, nationalities and religions. All of them are individuals who, on a warm summer day, suddenly find themselves in the midst of war.
Keywords: 1990s, former-yugoslavia, italian, school-bus
Plot
A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Mixed race daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the troubled world around her. She tries passing for white, but it leads to sorrow in post-Civil War America. Everywhere she goes, she faces obstacles and hardships while searching for happiness and a place to belong.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, african-american, antebellum, baby, baby-girl, based-on-novel, biracial, biracial-child, bonnet
Discover The Roots Of A New Generation.
Queen: Home is where you are loved.
Col. James Jackson Jr.: Queen, remember there is some good in everyone.
Queen: You my family! MY PEOPLE!::Sally Jackson: Queen, you must not think of us in that way.
For 20 years he's been singing to the country. But he never figured he'd be living his own love songs.
[Lily is on her first tour with Buck's band]::Bo: Anybody on this bus got a college education?::Lily Ramsey: I do; just graduated in June.::Bo: Good. Then you can get up and get us a beer.
Plot
With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship. As soon as he sets foot on board, Simon encounters various eccentric characters (including quick-tempered, authoritarian, whisky- addicted captain Hogg)and gets involved in many an embarrassing situation (including seasickness). In Rio he gets to know Hélène Colbert , a sexy young French singer and falls under her spell. When woman hater Hogg is forced to take on two female characters, Muriel Mallet, the daughter of the shipping company and her friend ... Hélène on his freighter, Simon is delighted!
Keywords: based-on-novel, doctor, nurse, sequel
HILARITY ON THE HIGH SEAS! (original print ad - all caps)
A comedy that's all wet.
Plot
In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. When the rude Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is sexually harassed by her boss Mr. Bert Easter; however, she likes her Jewish neighbor Sam that has a crush on her. On the next morning, Frank tells that is traveling to Stanford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home in an announced tragedy.
Keywords: 1920s, adultery, african-american, ambulance, anti-semitism, asian-american, based-on-play, birth, boss-secretary-relationship, childbirth
Emma Jones: The trouble with a bath is by the time you're through you're just as hot!
[With Steve Hogarth on vocals and Steve Rothery on guitar, ]
[both from Marillion. ]
- (";Uncovered"; show at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London - 1/31/95)
- Steve Hogarth and John Helmer
(Marillion - from the album ";Season's End";)
A ghost of a mist was on the field
The grey and the Green together
The noise of a distant farm machine
Out of the first light came
A tattered necklace of hedge and trees
On the southern side of the hill
Betrays where the border runs between
Where Mary Dunoon's boy fell
Easter here again
A time for the Blind to see
Easter
Surely now can all of your hearts be free
Out of the port of Liverpool
Bound for the North of Ireland
The wash of the spray and horsetail waves
The roll of the sea below
And Easter here again
A time for the Blind to see
Easter
Surely now can all of your hearts be free
What will you do?
Make a stone of your Heart?
Will you set things right
When you tear them apart?
Will you sleep at night
With the Plough and the Stars alight?
What will you do?
With the wire and the gun?
That'll set things right
When it's said and done?
Will you sleep at night?
Is there so much love to hide?
Track 2 of _Season's End_
A ghost of a mist was on the field
The grey and the Green together
The noise of a distant farm machine
Out of the first light came
A tatered necklace of hedge and trees
On the southern side of the hill
Betrays where the border runs between
Where Mary Dunoon's boy fell
Easter here again
A time for the Blind to see
Easter
Surely now can all of your hearts be free
Out of the port of Liverpool
Bound for the North of Ireland
The wash of the spray and horsetail waves
The roll of the sea below
And Easter here again
A time for the Blind to see
Easter
Surely now can all of your hearts be free
What will you do?
Make a stone of your Heart?
Will you set things right
When you tear them apart?
Will you sleep at night
With the Plough and the Stars alight?
What will you do?
With the wire & the gun?
That'll set things right
When it's said and done?
Will you sleep at night?
Is there so much love to hide?
Forgive
Forget
Sing 'Never again'
You were born from sin
And if that ain't a curse
Than I don't know what is
Like abraham and altar
The son you can't keep
Would the shepherd shed the blood
Of his most precious sheep
Did Job ever ponder
The price of his piety
Was Methuselah tired
Did Lazarus want sleep
Praise be Thomas
For fingering the wound
'Cause if he had his doubts
Then perhaps we should too
And does the bride beg
For a barren womb
Did god give the gift
Of a gamble to you
Golden velvet robes on Pope Paul, he's talking--he's stalking devils of flesh. Rides through the streets instead of walking. I think his holy story is a mess. All I did last Easter all I did was paint some eggs. It was a resurrection holy day-- no more nails in the holy legs. Only one true holy book in your hand. Singing in latin nobody understands. Licking wafers paper thin. Ah, stupid christian isn't it grand? Is that your reason for this day? Do you have a little something holy you'd like to say? Something about a magic, sacred, holy day. You look holy and humble on your knees, but it looks funny when you run that way. Pope Paul taking all your money for turning your feet into clay (pigeon).
Tomorrow's never far off if you can hear the toll of the bell
Days of thrill, adventures when you had me under your spell
When we'd ride the midnight trolley to make the end of the day
On a cloudless night while galaxies twinkled away.
But on a darkened journey, I prayed my patience would last
I put aside my future for a way to return to the past
When we had our time in the spotlight but stayed out late in the rain
With the pale and fleeting flowers all melting away.
Oh, what a feeling is holding me
I wasn't fooled by the passing of days
I just couldn't see.
There's a storm of cherry petals, a pink and grey wedding cake
But the morning bell rings and the city is finally awake.
Oh, for a mystery
When the whole world's in love
There's hope
For silly me.
I've heard of scattered lovers living lives of quiet despair
I never got the message, if you called, I just wasn't there
I keep dreaming of a mountain, I wake up just as you fall
To a trembling candle while shadows dance on the wall.
I don't wanna run around
Run outside your kitchen
In the front yard outside where the children play
Sandbox drifting in the land outside
You're missing
Sail until Sunday
Just till the evening's gray
It's Easter
Into the sun
With Cecilia
It's Easter
The sun
And Cecilia
I don't wanna lay against duct tape cracked or crooked
In the out door
Left outside in the rain
Bus ride longing for the face that I've been missing
Seventeen looking for a day I long again
It's Easter
Into the sun
With Cecilia
It's Easter
The sun
I don't want to run around, run outside you kitchen.
In the front yard, outside where the children play.
Sandbox drifting in the land outside your missing.
Sail until Sunday just till the evenings gray.
It's Easter, the sun & Cecilia.
I don't want to lie against duck-tape cracked or crooked.
In the out door, left outside in the rain.
Bus ride longing for the face that I've been missing.
Seventeen looking for a day I long again.
It's Easter, the sun & Cecilia.
Easter Sunday, we were walking
Easter Sunday, we were talking
Isabel, my little one, take my hand
Time has come
Isabella, all is glowing
Isabella, all is knowing
And my heart, Isabella
And my head, Isabella
Frederick and Vitalie
Savior dwells inside of thee
Oh, the path leads to the sun
Brother, sister, time has come
Isabella, all is glowing
Isabella, all is knowing
Isabella, we are dying
Isabella, we are rising
I am the spring, the holy ground
The endless seed of mystery
The thorn, the veil, the face of grace
Brazen image, the thief of sleep
The ambassador of dreams, Prince of peace
I am the sword, the wound, the stain
Scorned, transfigured child of Cain
I rend, I end, I return
Again, I am the salt, the bitter laugh
I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star
The ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ
Dying and drying as I rise tonight
(Isabella, we are rising)
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising
Isabella, we are rising