Pir - Race tracks. PIR is an initialism for the Phoenix International Raceway PIR is an initialism for the Portland International Raceway ...

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Robert Pirès, Robert Pirès - Playing career, Robert Pirès - Career statistics, Robert Pirès - Club career, Robert Pirès - International career, Robert Pirès - Honors

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pir: "Holy father." Muslim title for a religious leader; applied to leaders of a few Gorakshanatha monasteries.

(See also: Pir, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Two men went into a mango garden. One man started counting the mango trees and the number of fruit each bore and approximate value of the orchard.

The other man went straight to the owner and making his acquaintance was invited by him to pluck and taste the fruit.

One was busy in counting and calculating, the other was enjoying the delicious fruit. Ramakrishna Paramhansa would cite this example to show the difference between the man of dry academics and the man of devotion.

(See also: Importance of emotions in relation with god, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Islam and Hinduism: Symbiotic Mysticism In Devotional Poems

Few have heard of the mystic poems Brahma Prakash or Dasa Avatar by the mediaeval Muslim saint Pir Shams. Both are famous ginans of South Asia's Ismaili community, sometimes also known as Khojas or Aga Khanis in popular parlance.

Ginans are hymn-like poems of spiritual import. They are revered by the faithful in deep veneration as repositories of wisdom and spiritual knowledge, and as transmitting the essential teachings of the Holy Qur'an in the vernacular. Composed in Sindhi, Gujarati, Hindustani and Punjabi among other subcontinental languages, the oldest are ascribed to the pirs or saints who first preached Ismaili Islam in India nearly 1,000 years ago.

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Guru Nanak Meets Bahlol In Baghdad

Baghdad was, in Nanak's time, a centre of Muslim culture - it was home to pirs and sufi fakirs. Guru Nanak stayed in Baghdad for four months and interacted with the holy men there, one of whom was Bahlol.

Guru Nanak sang of the infinity of God and His infinite creation. Bahlol said that the Qur'an had mentioned seven earths and seven heavens only. Guru Nanak urged that the universe was not confined to seven earths and seven heavens but had millions and millions of planets and worlds and the Guru greeted all in the name of Sat Kartar.

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Enchanting Abode of The Double Devta

Having been born into a secular Hindu family which venerates a Sufi saint, I have always thought I had a special advantage over my friends whose faith in their respective religions would perhaps be more limiting than mine. So, while we commemorate the Urs of our Pir, we also celebrate Diwali and New Year at his shrine. Are we Muslim, Hindu, Sufi or Christian?

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Following is a list of ancient monuments in Ujjain. Ancient monuments in Ujjain - Temples. Bade Ganesh. This temple contains a huge artistic sculpture of Ganesha. Chintaman Ganesh. Chintaman means "the assurer of freedom from worldly anxieties". The Ganesh idol in this temple is supposed to be swayambhu - born of itself. The artistically carved pillars in the assembly hall date back to the Paramara period. Pir Matsyendranath. Excavations here have yielded artifacts ...

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The Vaksala Runestone (U 961) is located in Vaksala parish near Uppsala, Sweden. It is one of the ca. 40 runestones made by the successful rune carver Öpir, in Uppland, in the 11th century. The message reads that Ingulfast has made the rune stone on the behest of the widow and the daughter of the deceased. This runestone was moved from the wall of the church yard to its present location. The text reads: h(u)(l)-a + lit + raisa stain + þina at kitilbiarn faþur si ...

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Empiricism comes from the Greek word εμπειρισμός, a noun meaning a "test" or "trial". The -pir- is ultimately related to the -per- of the Latin words experientia and experimentum, both of which mean "experiment," and from which our words "experiment" and "experience" come. (Interestingly, it is also related to the Latin word periculum, "essay, trial, danger," which gives the English word "peril".) Empiricism is therefore the philosophical doctrine (-ism) of "testing" or "experimentation," and has taken ...

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• Empiricism - Empiricism and Science
• Empiricism - Empiricism in history
• Empiricism - Classical Empiricism
• Empiricism - Modern Empiricism
• Empiricism - Radical Empiricism
• Empiricism - Moderate Empiricism
• Empiricism - Other forms
• Empiricism - Criticisms
• Empiricism - Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Empiricism - Constructivism
• Empiricism - Quantum mechanics

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Parrot code has three forms. Bytecode is natively interpreted by Parrot. Parrot Assembly Language (PASM) is the low level language that compiles down to bytecode. Parrot Intermediate Representation (PIR) is a slightly higher level language than PASM and the primary target of language implementations. PIR transparently manages Parrot's inter-routine calling conventions, provides improved syntax, register allocation, register spilling, and more. IMCC is the Intermediate Code Compiler for Parrot and compiles PIR. It is also known as IMC an ...

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Parrot virtual machine, Parrot virtual machine - Static and dynamic languages, Parrot virtual machine - License, Parrot virtual machine - History, Parrot virtual machine - Internals, Parrot virtual machine - Examples, Parrot virtual machine - Registers, Parrot virtual machine - Arithmetic operations, Parrot virtual machine - Culture

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Some 600 years ago, Persian-born Prophet Pir Sadruddin arrived in Sindh in India. There are a number of myths about his origins. The most common consensus among historians is that he was Dai (representative or emissary) of the Nizari branch of the Ismaili sect. Pir Sadruddin lived for some time amongst the rich Hindu landowners known as Thakurs, which are now known as Gujaratis (Patels) or Sindhis. He studied their way of life and of worship. The rich Thakurs were followers of Hinduism. He was a prophet or minor manifestation.Those wh ...

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Khoja, Khoja - The beginning, Khoja - Migration to Africa, Khoja - Jamaat Khanah, Khoja - Religious centres, Khoja - Retention of identity, Khoja - Beyond Africa

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The Expedition Three crew performed four spacewalks to continue the on-orbit construction and maintenance on the International Space Station. The first three spacewalks focused on outfitting the Russian Docking Compartment, which is named Pirs. The fourth spacewalk focused on the removal of an obstruction that was blocking the hard docking of the Progress 6 cargo ship to the station. All four space walks were conducted from Pirs. Expedition Three's excursions brought the total number of station-based spacewalks to six and the number of spacewalks in support of station assembly and maintenance to 30. < ...

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Expedition 3, Expedition 3 - Crew, Expedition 3 - Mission Parameters, Expedition 3 - Mission Objectives, Expedition 3 - Spacewalks, Expedition 3 - Spacewalk 1, Expedition 3 - Spacewalk 2, Expedition 3 - Spacewalk 3, Expedition 3 - Spacewalk 4, Expedition 3 - Mission Patch

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Bade Ganesh. This temple contains a huge artistic sculpture of Ganesha. Chintaman Ganesh. Chintaman means "the assurer of freedom from worldly anxieties". The Ganesh idol in this temple is supposed to be swayambhu - born of itself. The artistically carved pillars in the assembly hall date back to the Paramara period. Pir Matsyendranath. Excavations here have yielded artifacts dating to the 6th and 7th century BC. The shrine is dedicated to a leader of the Natha sect of Sha ...

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Ancient monuments in Ujjain, Ancient monuments in Ujjain - Temples, Ancient monuments in Ujjain - Others

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New Lebanon was formed from the Town of Canaan in 1818. New Lebanon was home to an early settlement of Shakers. Some of the surviving buildings are home to the Darrow School. Others have been converted into a Sufi retreat center called the Abode of the Message. The latter is the residence of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. New Lebanon New York - Past residents of note. Samuel Jones Tilden, New York politician and vice-presidential candidate. See also:

New Lebanon New York, New Lebanon New York - History, New Lebanon New York - Past residents of note, New Lebanon New York - Geography, New Lebanon New York - Demographics, New Lebanon New York - Communities and locations in New Lebanon

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Consequent to the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849 from Sikh rule, and more so after 1857 when the British Crown formally extended its sovereignty over India, a structured administration commenced in the Punjab. To meet the beer requirements of British personnel (mainly army), the Murree Brewery was established in 1860 and incorporated a year later at Ghora Gali, located in the Pir Punjal range of the Western Himalayas at an elevation of 6000' above ...

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Murree Bewries, Murree Bewries - History, Murree Bewries - Recent Growth

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After Alexander's defeat of the last remnants of the Achaemenid Empire under Bessus and Spitamenes in 328 BC, he started a new campaign versus the various Indian kings in 327 BC. Some place the invasion force as 120,000 men, others say that the fighting force was probably no more than 35,000 men, at most a third of it as cavalry. The main train went into modern day Pakistan through the Khyber Pass, but a smaller force under the personal command of Alexander went through the northern route, taking a Fortress at Aornos (modern day Pir-S ...

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Battle of the Hydaspes River, Battle of the Hydaspes River - Combatants, Battle of the Hydaspes River - Location, Battle of the Hydaspes River - Prelude, Battle of the Hydaspes River - Battle, Battle of the Hydaspes River - Aftermath

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Alevis have had an influence even greater than their numbers because of their significant role in Turkish music and poetry. The most important figure is perhaps the mystical poet Yunus Emre, widely regarded as having been Alevi. Other significant poets include Pir Sultan Abdal and Kaygusuz Abdal. Songs attributed to these poet-saints have been not only important to Alevis themselves, but also embraced by musicians on the political left, who saw in the Alevi tradition a link between ...

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Alevi, Alevi - Alevis, Alevi - People, Alevi - Belief, Alevi - Historical, Alevi - Recent History, Alevi - Music and Poetry, Alevi - Name, Alevi - Literature

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PIR was established in 1984 by the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) as a resource to assist researchers in the identification and interpretation of protein sequence information. Prior to that, the NBRF compiled the first comprehensive collection of macromolecular sequences in the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, published from 1965-1978 under the editorship of Margaret O. Dayhoff. Dr. Dayhoff and her research group pioneered in the development of computer methods for the comparison of protein sequences, for the detectio ...

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Protein Information Resource, Protein Information Resource - Protein Information Resource, Protein Information Resource - History, Protein Information Resource - Present, Protein Information Resource - Reference

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The Expedition 9 crew has conducted three spacewalks so far during its stay at the International Space Station and is slated to conduct one more during its tour of duty. The four spacewalks are devoted to ISS maintenance and assembly. All four will be based out of the Pirs Docking Compartment and will use Russian Orlan spacesuits. Before these four extravehicular activities (EVAs), 52 spacewalks had been performed at the ISS, with 27 based out of the Station. Learn more about the spacewalks required to build the International Space Station. EVA Cosmonauts and Astronauts and Suit ID Gennady Padalka (EV1): ...

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Expedition 9, Expedition 9 - Crew, Expedition 9 - Mission Parameters, Expedition 9 - Mission Objectives, Expedition 9 - Spacewalks, Expedition 9 - Mission patch

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