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…of parental consent and choosing of a wedding date were all features of a fashionable arranged marriage. Arranged marriages are almost alien to us nowadays in a society where we are striving for equality between the sexes so we find the concept a lot harder…

…is found painted on the wall. The Mosque are often brightly decorated on the outside with strings of colored lights that sometime spell out messages. The Turkish wedding is a short ceremony in the city hall, then a private reception with food, drink, and music…

…weddings of the time. The two went on to record a top five hit with "Mockingbird" in 1974. In the mid-'70s Taylor finally underwent a successful cure for heroin addiction (1981, www.james-taylor.com/text/NYT4-81.txt). The marriage was strained as Simon…

…. The use of charms and ceremonies was against what the humanists believed. The humanists reverted back to the ways of the Classics, believing that everything must have a logical scientific explanation. The humanistic views on religion eventually led…

…went on to the ceremonial capital at Persepolis. Persepolis gave Alexander a great deal of wealth/treasure that would require 20,000 mules and 5,000 camels to remove it. Before leaving Persepolis, Alexander burned the palace of the great king for reasons…

…companion of a hoodlum, and in retaliation the hood slashed Capone's face. Needless to say what happened to the hoodlum. (The Mafia Encyclopedia 61) On December 18, 1918, Capone was wed at the age of 19, to a 21 year old Irish girl named Mae Coughlin. A short…

…perception of America’s upper class, snobbishly rich. Cassidy flaunts his money in Marion’s face. He talks of his eighteen-year-old daughter who is getting married the next day. As her wedding gift he is buying her a house with forty thousand dollars cash. He…

…steps to walk a mile. The jurisdiction to legislate who can and who cannot marry is federal. The provinces had jurisdiction over the ceremonial requirements of marriage. Though neither provincial nor federal legislation explicitly bars same sex couples from…

…. Claudius has sent Cornelius and Voltimand with a letter to the bedridden king of Norway to restrain his nephew. The suit of Laertes asks if he should leave for France after attending Denmark for the coronation ceremonies. And his father and the king give him…

…received a lot of attention as an up and coming politician. In 1975 Bill and Hillary got married at a house that Bill had just bought. In a small private ceremony, at the wedding reception he announced his intention to run for office in 1976…