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Akko

NOUN
  1. a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

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  • Pontifical vestments are the liturgical head-covering, excepting in the Armenian Rite where the priest also wears such a covering for the head, the sakkos, the omophorion, the epigonation, and the epimanikia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • Between fights with Dakko and Skaw in the LS, it was simply the worst night of my life. Terrarose Diary Entry
  • Contemporary descriptions of the 1291 fall of Acre "Akko" in modern Israel easily rival any of the horrors of the First Crusade. Jay Rubenstein: Crusade vs. Jihad: Which Is Worse?
  • Byzantine mitre and epigonation, but not the omophorion or sakkos. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • In some ways Lewis's theory is the diametric opposite of the equally clear-cut theory first proposed by Jaakko Hintikka (that Cubism is rigorously and defensibly realism) - a theory Lewis in effect ascribes to Clark.
  • Cadoc took an embroidered mantle off its hanger and fitted it over the fine linen sakkos and be-jeweled dalmatic that enrobed him. The Boat of a Million Years
  • Wel, kitteh, synce yuu bees soe guud ayt maff, weez gunna geyt yuu a part-tyme jawb az an akkountint foar teh lokal “Felines iyn Dystress”, ov coarse; I did the math - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • When exposed by breaking open the quartz, the paakkonenite crystals are virtually identical in appearance to stibnite and exhibit a similar ease of bending.
  • So the only update I could say would be that we have tried to apply for more funding to extend the projects, because we only worked on two sites in the West Bank, just small sites, and a large one in Israel -- Akko, which is a World Heritage Site. Heritage in the Landscape of War
  • The modifications of the sakkos, and the way of its being tied, are chiefly illustrated by vase-paintings. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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