curious+awe
101Britannia Coco-nut Dancers — The Nutters performing in 2007 The Britannia Coco nut Dancers or Nutters are a troupe of Lancastrian clog dancers who perform every Easter in Bacup, dancing 7 miles (11 km) across the town.[1] There are eight dancers and a …
102Plava Grobnica — Blue Graveyard memorial plaque on the Vido island. Plava Grobnica, (English: Ode to a Blue Sea Tomb) is an ode written by Serbian poet Milutin Bojić during World War I. It is dedicated to the soldiers that were buried in the sea near Vido island …
103Leibniz (from) to Kant — From Leibniz to Kant Lewis White Beck INTRODUCTION Had Kant not lived, German philosophy between the death of Leibniz in 1716 and the end of the eighteenth century would have little interest for us, and would remain largely unknown. In Germany… …
104Introduction — Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to accompany ritual and …
105bizarre — Synonyms and related words: Gothic, absurd, amusing, antic, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, baroque, beyond belief, brain born, cockamamie, crazy, curious, deformed, deviant, dream built, droll, eccentric, eerie, erratic, extravagant,… …
106mysterious — Synonyms and related words: able, abstruse, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, anagogic, arcane, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, baffling, beclouded, bewildering, bizarre, blind, bothering, buried, cabalic, cabalistic, censored,… …
107weird — Synonyms and related words: Friday, Friday the thirteenth, absurd, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, beyond belief, bizarre, blue, book of fate, cadaverous, cantrip, cast, charm, circumstance,… …
108Crowley, Aleister — (1875–1947) English magician and occultist. Aleister Crowley was adept at dealing with spirits, including powerful DEMONs. Flamboyant and controversial, he practiced outrageous magic of sex, drugs, and sacrifice, yet made significant… …
109weird — weird, eerie, uncanny can all mean fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic. Weird may be used in the sense of unearthly or preternaturally mysterious {when night makes a weird sound of its own stillness Shelley} {weird whispers, bells… …
110notable — adj 1. noteworthy, remarkable, signal, outstanding, noticeable, marked; memorable, unforgettable, Sl. hell of a, special, particular, especial; important, on the map, significant, momentous, meaningful, worthy of notice. 2. extraordinary, unusual …
