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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. Amnesty International:

    When I look back at that visit and see now how it has been remembered, I think about myself at age 13. I was going to Catholic school, I was an altar boy, the youth group I went to took place in a convent. Everything I did, my whole life, the Church was at the center of it, and I think about how Pope John Paul II said Pope John Paul II loved me -- well, Pope John Paul II didn't.

  2. Sigmar Gabriel:

    What we can't do is sacrifice German companies and German jobs on the altar of open markets when in reality there isn't a level playing field. Open markets require the same rules of the game, this is not about protectionism but about creating fairness ... It's not about a specific company or country. It's about open markets based on fairness, on fair competition under the same conditions.

  3. Carly Fiorina:

    Those livelihoods, those communities are being sacrificed not at the altar of science, but at the altar of ideology.

  4. Civil War-era:

    We can not sacrifice progress on the altar of purity.

  5. Colleen Thompson:

    Even with the statues above the altar covered and some of the windows boarded [ in preparation for a possible Russian invasion ] — it was inspiring.


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