A Wisdom Archive on Memory

MEMORY (spiritual memory) - recall of past lives or ancient civilizations (universal memory) recall of one’s eternal journey and purpose on the Earth (yin( vision of the future. (yang) vision of the past. (NAD)

 
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Her feast is celebrated 2 June. Two communes in France are named after her. See Sainte-Blandine. ...

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In 1926, the city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was renamed Frunze in his honour. It reverted back to its former name in 1991. Frunze himself is still commemorated in the city, however: a street and a museum in the centre of the city are named after him. The Frunze Military Academy, one of the most respected in the former USSR, was also named in his honour. Also, the honorific title of the Soviet 2nd Rifle Division was at some point the 2nd Belarusian Red Banner Rifle Division in the name of M.V. Frunze. A Metro station in Moscow was named Frunzenskaya in his honour, and a stone carving of his l ...

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The idea of king Philip confining and murdering his own son contributed to the anti-Spanish Black Legend. The opera 'Don Carlos' by Giuseppe Verdi is based on the 1787 drama by Friedrich Schiller which is loosely based on the historical conflict between Carlos and his father. The opera was first performed in French in Paris in 1867. Later, an Italian version was prepared that is referred to as Don Carlo. ...

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Around his tomb in the abbey sprang up the town of St-Gilles-du-Gard. His cult spread rapidly far and wide throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, as is witnessed by the numberless churches and monasteries dedicated to him in France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Great Britain; by the numerous manuscripts in prose and verse commemorating his virtues and miracles; and especially by the vast concourse of pilgrims who from all Europe flocked to his shrine. He is th ...

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In 1991 the life and death of Father Kolbe were put to screen by Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi in the film Life for Life (Zycie za Zycie), with a noted musical score written by Wojciech Kilar, who later edited the material into a full length composition for orchestra in 1994. In July 1998 the Church of England unveiled a statue of Kolbe on the west door of Westminster Abbey in London, UK, as part of a monument to the memory of ten 20th-century martyrs. The Brisbane school "Kolbe College" bore his name until it was later changed to Mt Maria Petrie in 2003. However, its Logo still bears the words "Ed ...

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His works have inspired a number of movies, television shows and comic strips. Visitors to Paris can see a monument in his honor at Place Marcel-Aymé, in the Montmartre Quarter. The statue is based upon his short story Le passe-muraille (The Walker through Walls). ...

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In 1891, a bronze statue of Muravyov was erected on one of the Amur River's cliffs near Khabarovsk. In 1929, it was taken off and replaced with a statue of Lenin, which stood there until 1989. In 1992, the remains of Muravyov-Amursky were brought from Paris to be re-buried in the central part of Vladivostok. A monument to Muravyov-Amursky in Khabarovsk was restored in 1993. ...

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Godhra is a major electoral issue as Gujarat goes to the polls. The likes of Gujarat’s politicians could not have occasioned Basile’s remark: ''Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.’’ This is not so when memory is used to imagine annihilation, reason for carnages, exhort those in majority to shun their conscience, and banish civilised thoughts of religious coexistence.

 
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One feature of the Cocoa environment that is certainly unusual, if not unique, is its facility for managing dynamically allocated memory. Cocoa's NSObject class, from which most classes, both vendor and user, are derived, implements a reference counting scheme for memory management. Objects derived from the NSObject root class respond to a retain and a release message, and keeps a retain count, which can be queried by sending a retainCount message. A newly allocated object, created with alloc

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