Saint Nicholas
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Little is known about the historical Saint Nicholas. The earliest accounts of his life were written centuries after his death and probably contain legendary elaborations. He is said to have been born in the Anatolian seaport of Patara, Lycia, in Asia Minor to wealthy Christian parents. In one of the earliest attested and most famous incidents from his life, he is said to have rescued three girls from being forced into prostitution by dropping a sack of gold coins through the window of their house each night for three nights so their father could pay a dowry for each of them. Other early stories tell of him calming a storm at sea, saving three innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and chopping down a tree possessed by a demon. In his youth, he is said to have made a pilgrimage to Egypt and Syria Palaestina. Shortly after his return, he became Bishop of Myra. He was later cast into prison during the persecution of Diocletian, but was released after the accession of Constantine.
An early list makes him an attendee at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, but he is never mentioned in any writings by people who were at the council. Late, unsubstantiated legends claim that he was temporarily defrocked and imprisoned during the council for slapping the heretic Arius. Another famous late legend tells how he resurrected three children, who had been murdered and pickled in brine by a butcher planning to sell them as pork during a famine.
Fewer than 200 years after Nicholas's death, the St. Nicholas Church was built in Myra under the orders of Theodosius II over the site of the church where he had served as bishop, and his remains were moved to a sarcophagus in that church. In 1087, while the Greek Christian inhabitants of the region were subjugated by the newly arrived Muslim Seljuk Turks, and soon after the beginning of the East–West schism, a group of merchants from the Italian city of Bari removed the major bones of Nicholas's skeleton from his sarcophagus in the church without authorization and brought them to their hometown, where they are now enshrined in the Basilica di San Nicola. The remaining bone fragments from the sarcophagus were later removed by Venetian sailors and taken to Venice during the First Crusade. Provided by Wikipedia
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Setting Up and Running a school Library / by Baird, Nicola
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The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya 1918-77/ by Swainson,Nicola
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Na sala de edição: “Mãe judia, 1964”, de Moacyr Scliar by Nicola Gavioli
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Introduction: Hair in Tibetan Culture by Nicola Schneider
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Cooperative Decay of <i>N</i> Atoms in a Ring Configuration by Nicola Piovella
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Cantelli’s Bounds for Generalized Tail Inequalities by Nicola Apollonio
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The Sublime Authority of Ignorance, Neoliberal Nationalism and the Rise of the Demagogue by Nicola Clewer
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The Future of Teaching? Asimov's Three laws and the Hypothetical Robot Teacher by Nicola Robertson
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La chevelure féminine et la religion (au Tibet) : entre renoncement et pouvoir by Nicola Schneider
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Introduction : Le fait capillaire dans la culture tibétaine by Nicola Schneider
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Allestire prospettive inedite nei piccoli paesi by Nicola Flora
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Las últimas cifras de Margarita de Parma en su primer gobierno de los Países Bajos (1566) by Nicola Florio
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‘Dove si è di casa’. Pratiche di appaesamento dell'orzo in Val di Fiemme by Nicola Martellozzo
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Law of Evidence / by Monaghan, Nicola (Lawyer)
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Now it’s up to the Architects Return to Drawing by Nicola di Battista
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Back to the “new normal”: Researching and publishing in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nicola Luigi BRAGAZZI
Published 2020-12-01
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Refinement of a Previous Hypothesis of the Lyapunov Analysis of Isotropic Turbulence by Nicola de Divitiis
Published 2013-01-01
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