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The Laws of Magic and the Magic of Laws: A Study of the Unbreakable Vow from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a Legal and Ontological Perspective

open access: yesCognitio, 2021
This work analyses the «Unbreakable Vow» as developed in the plot of the novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a legal and ontological perspective.
Marco Mazzocca
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A Woman\u27s Kind of Love: Female Longing in the Tamil Alvar Poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In the eighth section of Andal\u27s Nacciyar Tirumoli, a woman calls to the clouds and bids them to take a message of love to her delinquent lover, Vishnu, here figured as the lord of Venkatam. In the opening verse of the decad, she begins by plaintively
Venkatesan, Archana
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Le vœu de Louis XIII et la naissance de Louis XIV : observations iconographiques sur la célébration du roi très chrétien

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2012
The French Grand Siècle remains a privileged field for the study of the dialectical relationship between art and power. Through the analysis of images representing Louis XIII’s vow, which showed how the King of France consecrated his kingdom to God ...
Léo Minois
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The political vow of Jephthah in Judges 11:30-31

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2021
This study responds to Jephthah’s ambiguous vow that led to a heart-wrenching and outrageous tragedy. There are conflicting ideologies held by Jephthah and the Deutronomist tradition in laying the biblical theology foundations.
Makmur Tore, Nelci N. Ndolu
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What “Persuades” God to Respond to the Psalmist’s Cry? Use of Rhetorical Devices Related to “Vows of Future Praise” in Some Psalms of Lament

open access: yesOld Testament Essays, 2022
Psalms of lament characteristically include affirmations of trust and sometimes a vow to praise God in the future. This article questions the motivation behind such vows by looking carefully at whether future praise is conditional on God’s positive ...
June Dickie
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Black Genius Flexin’: The Radical Potential of a Dreams Assessment in Participatory Research

open access: yesJournal of Participatory Research Methods, 2023
The devastation of COVID-19 and racial violence in 2020 suffocated the dream potential of Black families in North Carolina. That same year, Village of Wisdom (VOW) received rapid funding and leveraged this funding to support an inaugural group of five ...
Dawn X Henderson   +6 more
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The vow of Ivan Crnojević to the Virgin Mary in Loreto under the shadow of the ottoman conquest [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2017
This paper looks at the circumstances in which Ivan Crnojević, a fifteenth-century ruler of Zeta (historic region in present-day Montenegro), made a vow to the Virgin in a famous pilgrimage shrine, the Santa Casa in Loreto (Italy), where he was ...
Živković Valentina
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A toy model for quantum mechanics

open access: yes, 2007
The toy model used by Spekkens [R. Spekkens, Phys. Rev. A 75, 032110 (2007)] to argue in favor of an epistemic view of quantum mechanics is extended by generalizing his definition of pure states (i.e.
A. Zeilinger   +17 more
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Correction: Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives – A Pharmacist’s Vow amid COVID-19

open access: yesINNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2021
An earlier version of this article (https://doi.org/10.24926/iip.v12i2.3411) included a layout error that misnumbered the references, resulting in errors for references 16-36.
Nicole D. Avant
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About an Oirat Written Monument Devoted to the Tradition of ‘Matsg’ Ritual Performance

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article describes a Buddhist text in Clear Script relating to the gso-sbyong class and discovered in Uvs Province (Western Mongolia) under the title “Bacaq barixu yosun orošibo” - from the perspective of the tradition of home prayers of the Kalmyks ...
G. B. Korneev
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