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oblate

1
having an equatorial diameter of greater length than the polar diameter

oblate

2
a person dedicated to a monastic or religious life
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Gacis will be flown Saturday to Tamontaka in Datu Odin, Maguindanao to be buried in the Oblate Cemetery.
Oblate priest Prospero Gacis dies
In addition, both Oblate and Anglican clergy relied on music and objects to help anchor their rituals, which helped enhance the appeal of a text-driven religion to non-literate people.
FAITH, LAND, AND DISEASE: Religious Change among the Nineteenth Century Dene and Cree of Northern Alberta and Northwest Territories
Foran challenges the orthodox notion that Oblate commentators simply discovered and described a singular, empirically existing, and readily identifiable Metis population.
Defining Metis
Favorite is red, ranging from rounded to oblate, with very good taste perfectly suitable for fresh eating.
Historic American tomatoes: try a variety that harkens back to the days of the early frontier vegetable garden
Prolongement d'un projet d'abord lance en 1983 par la Conference oblate canadienne, mais abandonne en 2001 pour des raisons financieres apres la publication de quelques monographies, cette publication repond a un certain nombre d'inquietudes liees a la decroissance des effectifs Oblats canadiens et l'age avance des membres.
Pierre Hurtubise, o.m.i., ed., Un passe a decouvrir ou redecouvrir / A Past to Be Visited or Revisited. Actes du Premier Symposium consacre a l'histoire des missions oblates aupres des Premieres Nations / Proceedings of the First Symposium Dedicated to the History of the Oblate Missions to the First Nations
29] proposed a three-dimensional fundamental solution in terms of the oblate spheroidal coordinates transforming the solid harmonic functions in Lamb's solution.
Eigenfunction Expansions for the Stokes Flow Operators in the Inverted Oblate Coordinate System
Of the roles available to people who do not want to live in the monastic community as the sisters do, she felt most called to be an oblate.
Walking with the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine
Father Baratto is one of a kind, you only have to say his name and immediately think of a courageous missionary who is one of the veteran Oblate Priests devoted to their ministry for the glory of God and their faithful congregations.
The Catholic priest who chooses the bush
The Oblate congregation was founded in the 17th century by a wealthy scion of the French aristocracy, the now St.
'Oblates of Mary' marks 75 years in Mindanao
If the sun were very slightly oblate, its gravitational field would produce an additional drift of Mercury's perihelion.
August 1964
The shape of pollen grains of ten jujube cultivars were mostly oblate spheroidal and were rarely subprolate.
Pollen grain morphological characteristics of ten Iranian jujube (Ziziphus jujuba.) cultivars by using scanning electron microscopy
Oblate from Ireland, St Mirren from Scotland, Wales U18 national squad and then Preston, Sheffield and Sefton from England all took part.
Panthers U18s show their claws; BASKETBALL

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