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A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journeying (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system. In the spiritual literature of Christianity, the concept of pilgrim and pilgrimage may refer to the experience of life in the world (considered as a period of exile) or to the inner path of the spiritual aspirant from a state of wretchedness to a state of beatitude.
Pilgrims and the making of pilgrimages are common in many religions, including the faiths in ancient Egypt, Persia in the Mithraic period, India, China, and Japan. The Greek and Roman customs of consulting the gods at local oracles, such as those at Dodona or Delphi, both in Greece, are widely known. In Greece, pilgrimages could either be personal or state-sponsored.
In the early period of Hebrew history, pilgrims traveled to Shiloh, Dan, Bethel, and eventually Jerusalem, see also Three Pilgrimage Festivals, a practice followed by other Abrahamic religions. While many religious pilgrims travel toward a specific destination, a physical location is not a necessity. One group of pilgrims in early Celtic Christianity were the Peregrinari Pro Christ, (Pilgrims for Christ), or "white martyrs". They left their homes to wander in the world. This sort of pilgrimage was an ascetic religious practice, as the pilgrim left the security of home and the clan for an unknown destination, in complete trust of Divine Providence. These travels often resulted in the founding of new abbeys and spreading Christianity among the pagan population in Britain as well as in continental Europe.
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
Scott Pilgrim is a series of graphic stories by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It consists of six digest size black-and-white volumes, released between August 2004 and July 2010, by Portland-based independent comic book publisher Oni Press. It was later republished by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins. The series is about 23-year-old Canadian Scott Pilgrim, a slacker and part-time musician who lives in Toronto and plays bass guitar in the band Sex Bob-Omb. He falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona Flowers, but must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her.
A film adaptation of the series titled Scott Pilgrim vs. the World starring actor Michael Cera in the title role was released in August 2010. A videogame of the same name developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade was released the same month.
Creator Bryan Lee O'Malley was inspired to create the series and eponymous character of Scott Pilgrim after listening to Canadian band Plumtree's 1998 single "Scott Pilgrim", a song then-Plumtree singer Carla Gillis describes as "positive, but...also bitter sweet." In particular, O'Malley was inspired by the lyric "I’ve liked you for a thousand years,".
Actors: Robert Pralgo (actor), Shaun O'Rourke (miscellaneous crew), Joel Rogers (actor), Jennifer Massey (actress), John Henry Scott (miscellaneous crew), Leigh Dillon (miscellaneous crew), James Edward Tilden (miscellaneous crew), Bonnie Cole (actress), Carrie L. Walrond (actress), John J. Palomino (actor), Jason MacDonald (actor), Anna Colwell (actress), Meredith Jackson (miscellaneous crew), LaDonna Pettijohn (actress), Luz Kaiolani Feliciano (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Centers on the adventures of a mother and her two adult daughters, both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of witches, who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long Island's secluded seaside town of North Hampton. When one of the daughters becomes engaged to a young, wealthy newcomer, a series of events forces her mother to admit to her daughters they are, in fact, powerful and immortal witches.
Keywords: aunt-niece-relationship, family-relationships, magic, mother-daughter-relationship, sister-sister-relationship, spell, witchActors: Theodore Bouloukos (actor), Leila Jean Davis (actress), Richard Jordan (actor), Kai Issey (actor), Victoria Valles (editor), Michael Sutherland (actor), Daniel Berg (producer), Bill Santiago (actor), Daniel Berg (writer), Daniel Berg (director), Daniel Berg (composer), Victoria Fayne (actress), Rachel Marcus (actor), Rowland Miller (actor), Brooke Regan (actress),
Plot: The Way of Glass is about a troubled college kid, Sophie (Frances Pabón), who thinks she has found a new path, a new teacher, an escape. We follow her home on a pilgrimage, first to see her ambitious, academic boyfriend, Keith (Michael Sutherland), and then to the apartment lousy with ghosts where her older brother, Daniel (Kai Issey) is locked in an uneasy truce with their overbearing mother, Marcy (Rachel Marcus). Young Sophie and her brother grew up in a household run by vaudevillian actors who tended to believe that all problems could be remedied by a tangerine or a bowl of consecrated chicken soup. The two siblings could not find a better match than one another to share their woes, their spiritual and social alienation, their cross-bearing egotism and their insufferable superiority complexes. But Daniel, a bit older and wiser, has been in this game a few extra years, while Sophie is still just a grasshopper. The story is narrated and directed by an omniscient older brother, Teddy (Theodore Bouloukos), a charming writer, teacher and sage of sorts who walks through their lives with a survivor's sense of remorse, nostalgia and fortitude. Overshadowing the story and the heart of the family is the wake of its messianic firstborn kin who, though no longer with them, has never been more present. Don't be misled; though rife with harsh words, piercing discord and cynical tirades, the Glass tale is-without question-a "compound, or multiple, love story, plain and complicated." Based on the words of a great American author, and re-imagined by a team of innovative, young filmmakers, The Way of Glass conjures up a stunning visualization of a classic, cherished story.
Genres: Drama,Actors: James Cromwell (actor), Mark Isham (composer), Dean Hagopian (actor), Michel Perron (actor), Mark Jeffrey Miller (actor), Christopher Heyerdahl (actor), Tantoo Cardinal (actress), Larry Day (actor), Rob Carpenter (actor), Gordon Masten (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Graham Greene (actor), Bram Eisenthal (miscellaneous crew), Judy Dickerson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
Keywords: 1930s, against-the-system, american-indian, based-on-novel, biracial, biracial-child, character-name-in-title, cherokee, child's-point-of-view, child-abuseActors: Maria de Medeiros (actress), Luís Miguel Cintra (actor), Luís Miguel Cintra (actor), Luís Miguel Cintra (actor), Paulo Branco (producer), Maria de Medeiros (actress), João César Monteiro (editor), João César Monteiro (actor), João Perry (actor), João César Monteiro (director), Teresa Madruga (actress), João César Monteiro (writer), João César Monteiro (writer), Cucha Carvalheiro (actress), Ruy Furtado (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Peter Copley (actor), Robert Rietty (actor), John Shirley (editor), Ann Skinner (miscellaneous crew), Robert Hardy (actor), Geoffrey Bayldon (actor), Carlo Ponti (producer), Ronald Lacey (actor), Ron Goodwin (composer), Murray Melvin (actor), George Merritt (actor), Ian Richardson (actor), Richard Williams (miscellaneous crew), Nigel Green (actor), Jerold Wells (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy,Actors: Carla Mancini (actress), Bruno Zambrini (composer), Francesco D'Adda (actor), Adriano Tagliavia (editor), Gino Pagnani (actor), Femi Benussi (actress), Edda Soligo (actress), Luigi Montini (actor), Franco Angrisano (actor), Miranda Campa (actress), Gina Mascetti (actress), Rosita Torosh (actress), Nerina Montagnani (actress), Guerrino Crivello (actor), Giorgio Desideri (costume designer),
Genres: ,Actors: Mark Dignam (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Guy Glover (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Erik Chitty (actor), Michael Barry (producer), Julian Somers (actor), Julian Somers (actor), Keith Pyott (actor), Edward Burnham (actor), Edward Burnham (actor), Hubert Gregg (actor), Oliver Burt (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Mark Dignam (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Guy Glover (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Erik Chitty (actor), Michael Barry (producer), Julian Somers (actor), Julian Somers (actor), Keith Pyott (actor), Edward Burnham (actor), Edward Burnham (actor), Hubert Gregg (actor), Oliver Burt (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Mark Dignam (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Guy Glover (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Erik Chitty (actor), Michael Barry (producer), Julian Somers (actor), Julian Somers (actor), Keith Pyott (actor), Edward Burnham (actor), Edward Burnham (actor), Hubert Gregg (actor), Oliver Burt (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Herbert Smith (producer), Louis Hayward (actor), Leslie S. Hiscott (director), Ernest Sefton (actor), Hal Walters (actor), Michael Barringer (writer), Annie Esmond (actress), Betty Astell (actress), Charles Childerstone (actor), Jay Laurier (actor), Mary Gaskell (actress),
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