In Jewish teaching, this holy day is the anniversary of the creation of the world.
On Wednesday, a double car bombing struck a Baghdad bus station where Shiite pilgrims gathered for the holy day.
The blast happened in the run-up to Arbaeen, a Shia holy day.
The holy day commemorates the end of a 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed and one of the most revered Shiite figures.
The Magners League may be sponsored by a Tipperary cider company, but as the fixture has been scheduled for Good Friday, it fell foul of laws preventing the opening of bars on the Christian holy day.
What came out is that we were at the start of the Jewish high holy day season, which means colder weather and three weeks of big social meals, long religious services, broken routines, and children out of school.
His decision to have the sycophant group remain in the back of the Duke's apartment in the shadows during Gilda's confessional "Tutte le feste (Each holy day)" was jarring, and there the chorus remained through Damrau's chilling high note that ended the "Si, vendetta" duet.
An Algerian university student sarcastically congratulated Zawahiri for killing sixty Muslims in Algeria on a holy feast day.
The latest trouble began after a procession through the church on Holy Cross Day - marking the discovery of the cross which some believe was used for the crucifixion.
The holy grail is a Day Zero attack, preventing something which has never been seen before.
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KARBALA, Iraq (CNN) -- Crowds of Shia Muslims Wednesday chanted and danced in the streets of this holy city on the final day of a pilgrimage long suppressed under Saddam Hussein's rule.
Both retail giants have recently made high-profile advances in the race towards same-day delivery, the holy grail of online commerce.
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The trail extends, for the adventurous, into a five-day circuit along the Holy Ridge, a narrow craggy ridgeline with sheer drops of 1, 000m on both sides.
Tradition dictates that Ramadan, like other holy months in the Islamic calendar, begins the day after the thin crescent of the new moon is first seen with the naked eye.
"The evil administration represented by Bush and Blair are haunting the people of Iraq not just by bombs they are dropping every day on the citizens and invading their holy land which they are going to be buried in, but now they are preventing food and medicine from the people of Iraq, " al-Salih told reporters in Baghdad Tuesday.
Just as well that there is no Father's Day in Vatican City, seat of the Holy Father.
According to the Holy See's constitution, a 15-20 day waiting period must be observed after the papacy becomes vacant.
Baroness Warsi's two-day delegation of seven British ministers to the Holy See will include an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, who visited the UK in 2010.
Although people bathe every day throughout the festival, there are three especially holy days when bathing brings even greater merit.
The two had gone missing on Easter, when they called 911 to report they were lost and out of water after wandering off Holy Jim Trail during what they expected would be an easy day hike.
These are the holy grails of the baseball-collecting world, items hardcore collectors dream will one day be found.
Give us strength this day and keep us always in your care as we pray in your holy name.
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Apple's appearance comes just a day after the same panel branded Apple's complex structure the "Holy Grail of tax avoidance".
Khamenei, speaking on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, a festive end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, countered by comparing Obama to his predecessor.
The square overflowed with some 250, 000 pilgrims, tourists and Romans eager to join the new pope at the start of solemn Holy Week ceremonies, which lead up to Easter, Christianity's most important day.
However some opinions will count more than others when extrapolating the impact of the debate come election day and the opinions that will matter the most will be that of suburban women the Holy Grail of the 2012 presidential election.
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