There is debate on whether or not Mother Brain is the true leader of the Space Pirates. According to Super Metroid's manual, Metroid: Zero Mission's manual, and both official mangas, Ridley is the leader of the Space Pirates while Mother Brain is just a biological computer which controls Zebes' defenses. However, the instruction manual for the original Metroid game, the in-game introduction in Super Metroid, and the Nintendo Power comic refer to Mother Brain as the leader of the Space Pirates, with the orig ...

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The future Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo on April 20, 1923 in Canton, Ohio. She was the only child of John and Mae Helen Rizzo (nee Gianfrancisco). Her father abandoned the family when Rita was very young, and her parents divorced in 1929. Her mother maintained full custody of Rita, but struggled with chronic depression and poverty. Rita's childhood was marred by poverty and unhappiness as she grew up during the Great Depression. Looking back upon this time in her life, Mother Angelica described herself and her mother ...

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Mother Angelica, Mother Angelica - Early Childhood, Mother Angelica - Reports of Miracles, Mother Angelica - Early Adulthood and Religious Vocation, Mother Angelica - Early Religious Life, Mother Angelica - Final Vows and Leadership in the Convent, Mother Angelica - Founding of Our Lady of the Angels, Mother Angelica - Founder of EWTN, Mother Angelica - Trivia

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MOTHER, MAIDEN, CRONE - The three aspects of the Triple Goddess.

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A day after the death of Teresa, John Paul II said: "Missionary of Charity: this is what Mother Teresa was in name and in fact". And on her beatification, he developed this idea further. "First and foremost a missionary: there is no doubt that the new Blessed was one of the greatest missionaries of the 20th century. The Lord made this simple woman who came from one of Europe's poorest regions a chosen instrument (cf. Acts 9: 15) to proclaim the Gospel to the entire world, not by preaching but by daily acts of love towards the poorest of the ...

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Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa - Early life and work, Mother Teresa - Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa - Spiritual life, Mother Teresa - International fame, Mother Teresa - Deteriorating health and death, Mother Teresa - Miracle and beatification, Mother Teresa - Political and social views, Mother Teresa - Criticism, Mother Teresa - Baptisms of the dying, Mother Teresa - Motivation of charitable activities, Mother Teresa - Quality of medical care, Mother Teresa - Destination of donations, Mother Teresa - Notes

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In 1952 the first Home for the Dying was opened in space made available by the City of Calcutta. Over the years, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity grew from 12 to thousands serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centers around the world. Mother Teresa created many homes for the dying and the unwanted from Calcutta to New York to Albania. She was one of the pioneers of establishing homes for AIDS victims. For more than 45 years, Mother Teresa comforted the ...

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Following Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization, or sainthood. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of l ...

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Mother Teresa's work inspired other Catholics to affiliate themselves with her order. The Missionaries of Charity Brothers was founded in 1963, and a contemplative branch of the Sisters followed in 1976. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, and the Lay Missionaries of Charity. In answer to the requests of many priests, in 1981 Mother Teresa ...

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By 1976, Mother Angelica had written 50 booklets and recorded 150 audio cassette teaching tapes. When she was given the opportunity to make video tape programs for television, she realized the impact television could have in spreading the Faith. Converting a planned garage behind the monastery into a television studio, Mother Angelica founded the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). EWTN began airing programs on August 15, 1981 via satellite to cable companies and home satellite dishes. In 1992, Mother Angelica also founded WEWN to broadcast ...

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Mother Angelica, Mother Angelica - Early Childhood, Mother Angelica - Reports of Miracles, Mother Angelica - Early Adulthood and Religious Vocation, Mother Angelica - Early Religious Life, Mother Angelica - Final Vows and Leadership in the Convent, Mother Angelica - Founding of Our Lady of the Angels, Mother Angelica - Founder of EWTN, Mother Angelica - Trivia

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Magicant is discovered early on in this game by the lead character, Ninten. After using his telepathy ability on a strange rock-like structure marked "XX" in a cave, he is transported to this mysterious "dream world." This land plays a very important role throughout the rest of Mother. In Magicant, Ninten and his friends first visit an extremely helpful town located there with free hotels and hospitals. It also has three item stores which sell very useful items. Upon leaving the town area the party fights various strange enemie ...

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Magicant, Magicant - Magicant in Mother, Magicant - Magicant in EarthBound

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Mother Hulda tells the tale of a rich widow and her two daughters: the elder was spoilt and idle, the younger one unloved and overworked. Every day she would sit outside the cottage and spin beside the well. One day she pricked her finger on the point of the spindle. When she washed the blood away, the spindle fell from her hand and sank out of sight. When she leapt into the well after it, she found herself in the otherworld of Holda, who kept her as maidservant for several weeks. Then Holda was so impressed by the girl's meekness and industry she sent her ...

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Mother Hulda, Mother Hulda - Plot synopsis, Mother Hulda - Origins, Mother Hulda - Analysis

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Following Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization, or sainthood. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of l ...

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Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa - Early life and work, Mother Teresa - Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa - International fame, Mother Teresa - Deteriorating health and death, Mother Teresa - Miracle and beatification, Mother Teresa - Political and social views, Mother Teresa - Criticism, Mother Teresa - Baptisms of the dying, Mother Teresa - Motivation of charitable activities, Mother Teresa - Quality of medical care, Mother Teresa - Destination of donations, Mother Teresa - Notes

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By 1941, a stomach ailment that Rita suffered from since 1939 demanded medial attention. By November of that year, x-rays revealed serious abnormalities in her stomach and intestines. The pain continued to worsen, with no alleviation. The doctors were unable to do anything to relieve her suffering or remedy the ailment. Once again, Mae and Rita turned to their faith. At this time, Mae heard of a woman by the name of Rhoda Wise. Wise was a convert to Catholicism who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She reported that Jesus appea ...

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Mother Angelica, Mother Angelica - Early Childhood, Mother Angelica - Reports of Miracles, Mother Angelica - Early Adulthood and Religious Vocation, Mother Angelica - Early Religious Life, Mother Angelica - Final Vows and Leadership in the Convent, Mother Angelica - Founding of Our Lady of the Angels, Mother Angelica - Founder of EWTN, Mother Angelica - Trivia

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Julia Ward Howe wrote the original Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870, as a call for peace and disarmament. Excerpt: From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe our dishonor, Nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, Let women now leave all that may be left of home< ...

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Mother's Day, Mother's Day - Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day - Mothering Sunday, Mother's Day - Date

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Mother goddesses have been revered in many societies, though James Frazer (author of The Golden Bough) and those he influenced (like Robert Graves and Marija Gimbutas) advanced the theory that all European and Aegean mother goddess worship had originated in Pre-Indo-European neolithic matriarchies. This has been discounted by modern scholars, most notably by Peter Ucko [1]. The actual cultural and religious context of neolithic figures like the Venus of Willendorf has not been established. Some authors believe they were intended to re ...

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Mother goddess, Mother goddess - Matriarchy and goddess history, Mother goddess - Sumerian Mesopotamian and Greek goddesses, Mother goddess - Celtic goddesses, Mother goddess - Norse goddesses, Mother goddess - Olympian goddesses, Mother goddess - Hinduism, Mother goddess - Shaktism, Mother goddess - Mother goddess worship in Catholicism, Mother goddess - Neopaganism

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Today, membership in the Gold Star Mothers is open to any American woman whose child has died in the line of duty of the United States Armed Forces. Stepmothers and adoptive mothers are eligible for membership under certain circumstances. Husbands of Gold Star Mothers may become Associate Members, who do not vote or pay dues. Gold Star Mothers is made up of local chapters, which are organized into departments. Five members are required to start a local chapter. If no local chapter is ...

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In 1983 Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989 she received a pacemaker. In 1991, after a bout of pneumonia while in Mexico, she had further heart problems. She offered to resign her position as head of the order. A secret ballot vote was carried out, and all the nuns, except herself, voted for Mother Teresa to stay. Mother Teresa agr ...

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Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa - Early life and work, Mother Teresa - Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa - Spiritual life, Mother Teresa - International fame, Mother Teresa - Deteriorating health and death, Mother Teresa - Miracle and beatification, Mother Teresa - Political and social views, Mother Teresa - Criticism, Mother Teresa - Baptisms of the dying, Mother Teresa - Motivation of charitable activities, Mother Teresa - Quality of medical care, Mother Teresa - Destination of donations, Mother Teresa - Notes

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The Gold Star Mothers was founded by Grace Darling Seibold of Washington, D.C. Her son, First Lieutenant George Vaughn Seibold, was killed in aerial combat over France in August, 1918. Mrs. Seibold was already doing volunteer service in veteran's hospitals. After her son's death, she continued this work, and also began organizing a group of other women who had lost their sons in the war. The mothers d ...

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Gold Star Mothers Club, Gold Star Mothers Club - Founding of the Gold Star Mothers, Gold Star Mothers Club - Gold Star Mothers today

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Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, a northern Macedonian town and the capital of the Ottoman province of the Kossovo Vilayet, where her father (of ethnic Albanian origin) was a successful merchant. Her parents had three children, and Agnes Gonxha was the youngest. Her parents, Nikollë (Kolë) and Dranafile Bojaxhiu(also an ethnic Albanian), came from the city of Prizren in the south of Kosovo. They were Catholics, even though most Albanians are Muslim and the majority of the populati ...

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Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa - Early life and work, Mother Teresa - Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa - Spiritual life, Mother Teresa - International fame, Mother Teresa - Deteriorating health and death, Mother Teresa - Miracle and beatification, Mother Teresa - Political and social views, Mother Teresa - Criticism, Mother Teresa - Baptisms of the dying, Mother Teresa - Motivation of charitable activities, Mother Teresa - Quality of medical care, Mother Teresa - Destination of donations, Mother Teresa - Notes

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In October 1950 Teresa received Vatican permission to start her own order, which the Vatican originally labeled as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, but which later became known as the Missionaries of Charity, whose mission was to care for (in her own words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It began as a small Order with 12 ...

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In 1983 Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989 she received a pacemaker. In 1991, after a bout of pneumonia while in Mexico, she had further heart problems. In 1991, returning to her home country, she opened a home in Tirana, Albania. She offered to resign her position as head of the order. A secret ballot vote was carried out, and all the nuns, except herself, voted for Mother Teresa to stay. Mother Teresa agr ...

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Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa - Early life and work, Mother Teresa - Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa - International fame, Mother Teresa - Deteriorating health and death, Mother Teresa - Miracle and beatification, Mother Teresa - Political and social views, Mother Teresa - Criticism, Mother Teresa - Baptisms of the dying, Mother Teresa - Motivation of charitable activities, Mother Teresa - Quality of medical care, Mother Teresa - Destination of donations, Mother Teresa - Notes

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Mother Teresa frequently spoke against abortion and artificial contraception in meetings with high level government officials. In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, she declared, "Abortion is the worst evil, and the greatest enemy of peace... Because if a mother can kill her own child, what will prevent us from killing ourselves or one another? Nothing." In the aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War, it was determined that more than 450,000 women in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) had been systematically raped, giving birth to a fe ...

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In October 1950 Teresa received Vatican permission to start her own order, which the Vatican originally labeled as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, but which later became known as the Missionaries of Charity, whose mission was to care for (in her own words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, pe ...

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Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa - Early life and work, Mother Teresa - Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa - International fame, Mother Teresa - Deteriorating health and death, Mother Teresa - Miracle and beatification, Mother Teresa - Political and social views, Mother Teresa - Criticism, Mother Teresa - Baptisms of the dying, Mother Teresa - Motivation of charitable activities, Mother Teresa - Quality of medical care, Mother Teresa - Destination of donations, Mother Teresa - Notes

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