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  1. At the Altar

    At the Altar is a 1909 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey where early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century. A print of this films survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of at the altar in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of at the altar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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  1. The Pope:

    I ask them not to yield to an economic model which is idolatrous, which needs to sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and profit.

  2. Ulysses S. Grant:

    Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.

  3. Seán O'Casey:

    The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

  4. Yossi Tzur:

    (Khudair's) name on the memorial debases the memory of all the other fallen people, he is not part of the Israeli ethos. He is not part of the sacrifice our children made at the altar for the sake of Israel's establishment and existence.

  5. Mathew Morris:

    A grave like this -- very elaborate stone sarcophagus, lead inner casket buried in a very prominent position in the church, close to the high altar -- you've got to think this person was important.


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