query: who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage

pos: Mess of pottage two white men turns away and states, "again, I've sold my birthright. All for a miserable mess of pottage." Mess of pottage A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in exchange for something more distant and perhaps less tangible but immensely more valuable. The phrase alludes to Esau's sale of his birthright for a meal ("mess") of lentil stew ("pottage") in and connotes shortsightedness and misplaced priorities. The mess of pottage motif is a common theme in art, appearing for example in Mattia Bortoloni's "Esau selling his birthright" (1716) and Mattias

pos: Mess of pottage Mess of pottage A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in exchange for something more distant and perhaps less tangible but immensely more valuable. The phrase alludes to Esau's sale of his birthright for a meal ("mess") of lentil stew ("pottage") in and connotes shortsightedness and misplaced priorities. The mess of pottage motif is a common theme in art, appearing for example in Mattia Bortoloni's "Esau selling his birthright" (1716) and Mattias Stomer's painting of the same title (ca. 1640). Although this phrase is often used to describe or allude to

pos: Esau he sold his birthright for. Esau became the progenitor of the Edomites in Seir. In Genesis, Esau returned to his twin brother Jacob, famished from the fields. He begs Jacob to give him some "red pottage" (a play on his nickname, "`Edom", meaning "red".) This refers to his red hair. Jacob offers Esau a bowl of lentil stew in exchange for Esau's birthright ( "bəḵōrāh", the right to be recognized as firstborn son with authority over the family), and Esau agrees. Thus Jacob acquires Esau's birthright. This is believed to be the origin of the English phrase "for a mess

pos: Jacob venison: but Rebecca loved Jacob." () tells the account of Esau selling his birthright to Jacob. This passage tells that Esau, returning famished from the fields, begged Jacob to give him some of the stew that Jacob had just made. (Esau referred to the dish as "that same red pottage", giving rise to his nickname, ("`Edom", meaning "Red").) Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright, to which Esau agreed. As Isaac aged, he became blind and was uncertain when he would die, so he decided to bestow Esau's birthright upon him. He requested

pos: Mess of pottage Esau's bargain, the phrase itself does not appear in the "text" of any English version of Genesis. Its first attested use, already associated with Esau's bargain, is in the English summary of one of John Capgrave's sermons, c1452, "[Jacob] supplanted his broþir, bying his fader blessing for a mese of potage." In the sixteenth century it continues its association with Esau, appearing in Bonde's "Pylgrimage of Perfection" (1526) and in the English versions of two influential works by Erasmus, the "Enchiridion" (1533) and the "Paraphrase upon the New Testament" (1548): "th'enherytaunce of the elder brother solde for a messe of

pos: Toledot of your enemies." And thus David declared in "You have given me the necks of my enemies," as if to say that this was David's patrimony, since said it of his ancestor Judah. Reading Rabbi Eleazar contrasted Esau's jealousy with Reuben's magnanimity. As reports, Esau voluntarily sold his birthright, but as says, "Esau hated Jacob," and as says, "And he said, ‘Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times.'" In Reuben's case, Joseph took Reuben's birthright from him against his will, as reports, "for as much as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright

pos: Vayeshev Reading Rabbi Eleazar contrasted Reuben's magnanimity with Esau's jealousy. As reports, Esau voluntarily sold his birthright, but as says, "Esau hated Jacob," and as says, "And he said, ‘Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times.'" In Reuben's case, Joseph took Reuben's birthright from him against his will, as 1 Chronicles reports, "for as much as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph." Nonetheless, Reuben was not jealous of Joseph, as reports, "And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand." Interpreting the detail of

pos: The Bible and violence God restrains him, promising him numberless descendants. Isaac's son Jacob conspires to gain his elder brother Esau's birthright, but the brothers ultimately reconcile (Genesis 25-33). In Genesis 32:22-32, Jacob meets and wrestles with someone, a man, angel or God, who blesses him and gives him the name Israel. Joseph (Genesis 37-50), Jacob's favorite son, is sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers. Joseph prospers after hardship, with God's guidance, and saves his family from starvation. A new pharaoh (Exodus 1) sees that the Israelites in Egypt have become many and fears they might aid Egypt's enemies. The Egyptians

pos: Jacob and Esau blessing to Esau but, after Esau begs, gives him an inferior blessing (). Jacob and Esau The Book of Genesis speaks of the relationship between fraternal twins Jacob and Esau, sons of Isaac and Rebekah, focusing on Esau's loss of his birthright to Jacob and the conflict that ensued between their descendant nations because of Jacob's deception of their aged and blind father, Isaac, in order to receive Esau's birthright/blessing from Isaac. This conflict was paralleled by the affection the parents had for their favored child: "Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob."

pos: Jacob and Esau Jacob and Esau The Book of Genesis speaks of the relationship between fraternal twins Jacob and Esau, sons of Isaac and Rebekah, focusing on Esau's loss of his birthright to Jacob and the conflict that ensued between their descendant nations because of Jacob's deception of their aged and blind father, Isaac, in order to receive Esau's birthright/blessing from Isaac. This conflict was paralleled by the affection the parents had for their favored child: "Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob." (). Even since conception, their conflict was foreshadowed: "And the children struggled together

neg: Mess of pottage phrase in American fiction is James Weldon Johnson's famous protagonist Ex-Coloured Man who, retrospectively reflecting upon his life as a black man passing for white, concludes that he has sold his "birthright for a mess of pottage". By a conventional spoonerism, an overly propagandistic writer is said to have "sold his birthright for a pot of message." Terry Pratchett has his character Sergeant Colon say this in "Feet of Clay", after Nobby of the Watch has guessed that the phrase is “a spot of massage.” Theodore Sturgeon had one of his characters say this about H. G. Wells in his

neg: Mess of pottage the whole of his active life, his very capacity for labour, in return for the price of his customary means of subsistence, to sell his birthright for a mess of pottage." Swift and Byron use the phrase satirically: "Thou sold'st thy birthright, Esau! for a mess / Thou shouldst have gotten more, or eaten less." The Hindu nationalist V. D. Savarkar borrowed the phrase, along with quotations from Shakespeare, for his pamphlet Hindutva (1923), which celebrated Hindu culture and identity, asking whether Indians were willing to 'disown their seed, forswear their fathers and sell their birthright for a mess of

neg: Pottage other culinary vegetables along with the yam. It may also have fish and/or other meat. In the King James Bible translation of the story of Jacob and Esau in the Book of Genesis, Esau, being famished, sold his birthright (the rights of the eldest son) to his twin brother Jacob in exchange for a meal of "bread and pottage of lentiles" (). This incident is the origin of the phrase a "mess of pottage" (which is not in any Biblical text) to mean a bad bargain involving short-term gain and long-term loss. Pottage was typically boiled for several hours until

neg: Mess of pottage much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living." Another prominent instance of using the

neg: Primogeniture and Asian cultures, religious officials and customs either sanctioned polygyny, use of consorts, or both, or they had no authority of marriage; monarchs could consequently ensure sufficient numbers of male offspring to assure succession. In such cultures, female heads of state were rare. The earliest account of primogeniture to be known widely in modern times is that of Isaac's sons Esau, who was born first, and Jacob, who was born second. Esau was entitled to the "birthright" ("bekhorah" בְּכוֹרָה), but he sold the right to Jacob for a mess of pottage, i. e. a small amount of food. Although the

neg: Mess of pottage camp: "I know not.. / whether those who did our Rights betray, / And for a mess of Pottage, sold away / Our dear bought / Freedoms, shall now trusted be, / As Conservators of our Libertie." As does Henry Ellison (1875) "O Faith .. The disbelieving world would sell thee so; / Head turned with sophistries, and heart grown cold, / For a vile mess of pottage it would throw / Away thy heritage, and count the gold!". Karl Marx' lament in "Das Kapital" has been translated using this phrase: The worker "is compelled by social conditions, to sell

neg: Passing (racial identity) Post-emancipation, passing as white was no longer a means to obtain freedom. As passing shifted from a necessity to an option, it fell out of favor in the black community. In "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson, the narrator closes the novel by saying "I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage," meaning that he regrets trading in his blackness for whiteness. The idea that passing as white was a rejection of blackness was common at the time and holds true to this day. During the reconstruction era, black people slowly gained the constitutional

neg: History of Unix for the Intel platform, which they advertised as free of AT&T code. They ran into legal trouble when AT&T's Unix subsidiary sued BSDi for copyright infringement and various other charges in relation to BSD; subsequently, the University of California countersued. Shortly after it was founded, Bill Jolitz left BSDI to pursue distribution of 386BSD, the free software ancestor of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. Shortly after UNIX System V Release 4 was produced, AT&T sold all its rights to UNIX to Novell. Dennis Ritchie likened this sale to the Biblical story of Esau selling his birthright for the mess of pottage.

neg: Potage used to make potage. The earliest known cookery manuscript in the English language, "The Forme of Cury", written by the court chefs of King Richard II in 1390, contains several potage recipes including one made from cabbage, ham, onions and leeks. A slightly later manuscript from the 1430s is called " Potage Dyvers" ("Various Potages"). The word "pottage" is used in the earliest English translations of the Bible, in relation to the lentil soup for which Esau trades his birthright in ; from this story, the phrase "mess of pottage" means something attractive but of little value being exchanged for

neg: Within Our Gates of the most heartbreaking and provoking scenes of the film, Old Ned after humiliating himself in a room full of Caucasians, closes the door and turns from a smiling buffoon to a repulsed black man. It has all been a performance. Old Ned says to the camera, "Again, I've sold my birthright. All for a miserable mess of pottage." Hopeless and unfulfilled, he states: "Negroes and Whites - all are equal. As for me miserable sinner, hell is my destiny." Uncle Tom characters are a staple in mainstream media. As Old Ned reprimands himself, Micheaux implies that these characters are

neg: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box in which I still keep my fast yellowing manuscripts, the only tangible remnants of a vanished dream, a dead ambition, a sacrificed talent, I cannot repress the thought, that after all, I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage. "Passing" could be interpreted as a decision to avoid the black race. He states that he "regrets holding himself back." He may have

neg: Lentil soup "You, who dare insult lentil soup, sweetest of delicacies." Lentil soup is mentioned in the Bible: In Genesis 25:30-34, Esau is prepared to give up his birthright for a pot of fragrant red lentil soup (a "mess of pottage" in some versions) being cooked by his brother, Jacob. In Jewish tradition, lentil soup has been served at times of mourning; the roundness of the lentil represents a complete cycle of life. Lentil soup may include vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, celery, parsley, tomato, pumpkin, ripe plantain and onion. Common flavorings are garlic, bay leaf, cumin, olive oil, and vinegar. It

neg: A New England Nun a number of religious inferences to the text, which give the piece a feeling for the deep devotion of Louisa to her way of life. For example, "If Louisa Ellis had sold her birthright she did not know it, the taste of the pottage was so delicious, and had been her sole satisfaction for so long". This passage explains the opportunity for marrying had passed the protagonist and her "pottage" was the world she meticulously cared for. The passage expresses an awareness of the loss of a good opportunity, but the greater joy came from the "pottage" of the life

neg: James Watson (radical) his last imprisonment, though he continued to issue books banned by the government. In June 1837 Watson was on the committee appointed to draw up the bills embodying the Chartist demands. He was opposed to the violence of some of the agitators, and, on the other hand, to the overtures made to Whig partisans, whom he denounced. He was averse to "peddling away the people's birthright for any mess of cornlaw pottage". Watson corresponded with Giuseppe Mazzini, and in 1847 joined his Peoples' International League. In 1848 he was one of the conveners of the first public meeting to congratulate

neg: The Touch of the Master's Hand of a sinner that is touched by the hand of God. Mess of pottage is used to describe that for which a sinner might sell his or her soul. This term was first coined by John Capgrave in reference to the Biblical story of Esau selling his birthright to Jacob for lentil stew, found in . Welch's famous poem inspired other works. Contemporary Christian artist Wayne Watson recorded a song by the same name, with lyrics adapted to the music based on this poem. The song was written by John Kramp in 1974 while a freshman at Baylor University and

neg: Isabella Bream Pearce of the WEU's authors and speakers "deprecated the effects of ‘awakening’ working‐class women to feminism, for as Isabella Bream Pearce asserted such women were no longer content to ‘sell [their] birthright … for a “mess of pottage”’, either in their labouring or their intimate lives." The Glasgow branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, from its inception had very strong links with the Independent Labour Party with early support provided by Pearce and from Tom Johnston of the ILP. Teresa Billington-Greig was sent to organise the

neg: Harold A. Lafount the National Association of Broadcasters, he said that "overcommercialization" was indeed a problem, and that radio broadcasters were "selling their birthright for a mess of pottage." After witnessing early mechanical television in action, Commissioner Lafount said that the FRC was doing all it could to help develop the still-infant technology in terms of regulatory issues. He wrote in 1931 that, "I believe that television is destined to become the greatest force in the world. I think it will have more influence over the lives of individuals than any other single force." This remark has been quoted in several books about

neg: Jacob Having made Jacob a ruler over his brothers, Isaac could only promise, "By your sword you shall live, but your brother you shall serve; yet it shall be that when you are aggrieved, you may cast off his yoke from upon your neck" (27:39–40). Although Esau sold Jacob his own birthright, which was his blessing, for "red pottage," Esau still hated Jacob for receiving his blessing that their father Isaac unknowingly had given to him. He vowed to kill Jacob as soon as Isaac died. When Rebecca heard about his murderous intentions, she ordered Jacob to travel to her brother

neg: Edom to the area north of Be'er Sheva. The people appear under a Greek form of their old name, as Idumeans or Idumaeans, and their new territory was called Idumea or Idumaea (Greek: Ἰδουμαία, "Idoumaía"; Latin: "Idūmaea"), a term that was used in New Testament times. The Hebrew word "Edom" means "red", and is derived from the name of its founder, Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, because he was born "red all over". As a young adult, he sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for "red pottage". The Tanakh describes the Edomites as descendants of Esau.

neg: Mess of pottage 1948 short story "Unite and Conquer"; but Roger Lancelyn Green (in 1962) ascribed it to Professor Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. The phrase also appears in Myra Brooks Welch's poem "The Touch of the Master's Hand," in which "a mess of pottage — a glass of wine — a game" stand for all such petty worldly pursuits, contrasted to life after a spiritual awakening. The phrase also appears in the 1919 African-American film "Within Our Gates", as used by the preacher character 'Old Ned' who having ingratiated himself by acting the clown with

neg: Tristan Tzara of social change continued to be inspired by Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautréamont. According to Beitchman, Tzara uses the Symbolist message, "the birthright [of humans] has been sold for a mess of porridge", taking it "into the streets, cabarets and trains where he denounces the deal and asks for his birthright back." The transition to a more radical form of poetry seems to have taken place in 1913-1915, during the periods when Tzara and Vinea were vacationing together. The pieces share a number of characteristics and subjects, and the two poets even use them to allude to one

neg: Tennessee Supreme Court kinds of elections the General Assembly must enact for that purpose. Justice Allison Humphries, in his dissent, opined that the supreme court justices approving the constitutionality of the Modified Missouri Plan had, "like Esau, sold their soul for a mess of pottage" and had made the judicial branch subordinate to the legislative branch. Partially as a result of that decision, the statute was revised in 1974 to remove Tennessee Supreme Court justices from the plan, yet a 1994 revision to what was now called the "Tennessee Plan" extended it once again to supreme court justices. The case of "DeLaney v.

neg: Mess "mittere", meaning "to send" and "to put" (cf. modern French "mettre"), the original sense being "a course of a meal put on the table"; cfr. also the modern Italian "portata" with the same meaning, past participle of "portare", "to bring". This sense of "mess", which appeared in English in the 13th century, was often used for cooked or liquid dishes in particular, as in the "mess of pottage" (porridge or soup). Messing in the Canadian Forces generally follows the British model (see United Kingdom below), from which most traditions have descended. Basic regulations regarding the establishment and administration of messes

neg: Seven deadly sins meals, and the constant eating of delicacies and excessively costly foods. Aquinas went so far as to prepare a list of five ways to commit gluttony, comprising: Of these, "ardenter" is often considered the most serious, since it is extreme attachment to the pleasure of mere eating, which can make the committer eat impulsively; absolutely and without qualification live merely to eat and drink; lose attachment to health-related, social, intellectual, and spiritual pleasures; and lose proper judgement: an example is Esau selling his birthright for ordinary food of bread and pottage of lentils. His punishment was that of the "profane

neg: Mess of pottage pottage'. Perhaps the most famous use in American literature is that by Henry David Thoreau: "Perhaps I am more than usually jealous with respect to my freedom. I feel that my connection with and obligation to society are still very slight and transient. Those slight labors which afford me a livelihood, and by which it is allowed that I am to some extent serviceable to my contemporaries, are as yet commonly a pleasure to me, and I am not often reminded that they are a necessity. So far I am successful. But I foresee that if my wants should be

neg: Pease Pottage The fictional "Doctor Who" character Melanie Jane Bush lived at 36 Down View before joining him ("Business Unusual")—this is a fictitious address, but perfectly possible as both the North and South Downs can be seen from Pease Pottage. Pease Pottage Pease Pottage is a small village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the southern edge of the Crawley built up area, in the civil parish of Slaugham. Pease Pottage is familiar to many drivers for its motorway service station, named after the village, which also serves as a local shop (Marks and Spencer Simply

neg: Julian Pottage Award. Pottage is from Basingstoke. As a player, Pottage has participated in several national and international events, notably winning the Pachabo and Tollemache double in 1999. He lives in Wales in the United Kingdom. Julian Pottage Julian Y. Pottage (born 1962) is a British contract bridge player, writer and teacher, who studied mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge. He is also well known as a collector of bridge problems, and writes a monthly problem column in Britain's "Bridge Magazine". He has written or co-authored 26 books on bridge, including "Bridge Problems for a New Millennium" and "The Extra Edge In Play"

neg: Mess of pottage potage". It can be found here and there throughout the sixteenth century, e.g. in Johan Carion's "Thre bokes of cronicles" (1550) and at least three times in Roger Edgeworth's collected sermons (1557). Within the tradition of English Biblical translations, it appears first in the summary at the beginning of chapter 25 of the Book of Genesis in the so-called Matthew Bible of 1537 (in this section otherwise a reprint of the Pentateuch translation of William Tyndale), "Esau selleth his byrthright for a messe of potage"; thence in the 1539 Great Bible and in the Geneva Bible published by English Protestants

neg: George Joye Some of Joye's wordings were kept or reintroduced in later versions (e.g. "sauing helthe" (Psalms 67:2), "backslide" (Jeremiah 3:6,12,14,22), "a mess of pottage" (Proverbs 15:17), or the proverb "" (Proverbs 16:18). It was also Joye's translation of Psalms 91:5 in his first Psalter ("", where "" refers to bogies or evils spirits), which was copied by Coverdale (1535) and by John Rogers in the Matthew Bible (1537), and which was retained even in the Great Bible (1539). Based on this expression these Bibles are sometimes called the "Bugge Bibles.". George Joye George Joye (also Joy and ) (c. 1495 –

neg: Julian Pottage Julian Pottage Julian Y. Pottage (born 1962) is a British contract bridge player, writer and teacher, who studied mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge. He is also well known as a collector of bridge problems, and writes a monthly problem column in Britain's "Bridge Magazine". He has written or co-authored 26 books on bridge, including "Bridge Problems for a New Millennium" and "The Extra Edge In Play" with Terence Reese (1913–1996). He also co-edited the recent second edition of Clyde E. Love's "Bridge Squeezes Complete". His book "Play or Defend?" won the International Bridge Press Association's 2004 Book of the Year

neg: Red Pottage (novel) writing. This leads Hester into a prolonged nervous illness. Scarlett who has not been entirely frank with Rachel about his past commits suicide when his dishonourable behaviour is revealed to her and she breaks off their engagement. "Red Pottage" caused a scandal when it was first published, in 1899, due to its themes of adultery, the emancipation of women and its satire of the clergy. It was adapted into a silent film in 1918 by Meyrick Milton starring C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Dibley and Gerald Ames. The novel has been republished several times since the 1960s. Red Pottage (novel) Red

neg: Esau his rivalry with Jacob. The Midrash says that during Rebekah's pregnancy whenever she would pass a house of Torah study, Jacob would struggle to come out; whenever she would pass a house of idolatry, Esau would agitate to come out. He is considered to be a rebellious son who kept a double life until he was 15, when he sold his birthright to Jacob. According to the Talmud, the sale of the birthright took place immediately after Abraham died. The Talmudic dating would give both Esau and Jacob an age of 15 at the time. The lentils Jacob was cooking

neg: Pottage into Indian pottage, along with roots like Jerusalem artichoke, pumpkin, squash. Ground nuts like acorns, chestnuts or walnuts were used to thicken the pottage. Pottage Pottage is a term for a thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, grains, and, if available, meat or fish. As explained in The Oxford Companion to Food, it was a staple food for many centuries. The word "pottage" comes from the same Old French root as "potage", which is a dish of more recent origin. Pottage ordinarily consisted of various ingredients easily available to serfs and peasants, and could be kept over the

neg: Mujaddara Mujaddara Mujaddara ( "mujadarah", with alternative spellings in English majadra, mejadra, moujadara, mudardara, and megadarra) consists of cooked lentils together with groats, generally rice, and garnished with sautéed onions. "Mujaddara" is the Arabic word for "pockmarked"; the lentils among the rice resemble pockmarks. The first recorded recipe for "mujaddara" appears in "Kitab al-Tabikh", a cookbook compiled in 1226 by al-Baghdadi in Iraq. Containing rice, lentils, and meat, it was served this way during celebrations. Without meat, it was a medieval Arab dish commonly consumed by the poor, reputed to be a derivative of the "mess of pottage" Jacob used to

neg: Peter Schlumbohm chemical business in exchange for an agreement with family members to support his education for as long as he wished to stay in school. According to Schlumbohm, “My father was horrified when I waived my birthright and ‘lifelong security’ and named my only goal: to find out what had caused the mess of a war and to study as long as I wished to.” Schlumbohm himself professed admiration for the abortive post-war revolutionary movement, recounting his mother’s enthusiasm at the sight of the summary execution of military officers by revolutionary mutineers in Kiel in 1918. A year later, in an

neg: Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty "a mess of politically tainted pottage." In 1989, a motion failed by 6,034 to 5,198 to give $350,000 of the BJC's funding to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. At the same meeting, there was a tense exchange between James Dunn and the PAC chairman, Samuel T. Currin. Currin charged the BJC as soliciting $100,000 to $200,000 in funding outside their constitution. Dunn replied: There are those whose mentality is so conspiratorial, so dark and manipulatively political that they cannot imagine the groundswell of support that has come to the Baptist Joint Committee simply because our funding was cut in San

neg: Red Pottage (novel) Red Pottage (novel) Red Pottage is an 1899 novel by English author Mary Cholmondeley. "Red Pottage" follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband). Hester, a novelist, lives with her judgmental brother, the pompous vicar of the fictional village of Warpington. Hester's brother disapproves of her writing and eventually burns the manuscript of a novel she has been

neg: Pottage that was constantly changing. Pottage consistently remained a staple of the poor's diet throughout most of 9th to 17th-century Europe. When wealthier people ate pottage, they would add more expensive ingredients such as meats. The pottage that these people ate was much like modern-day soups. This is similar to the Welsh cawl, which is a broth, soup or stew often cooked on and off for days at a time over the fire in a traditional inglenook. In Nigeria the words pottage and porridge are synonymous, and such foods are consumed as a main meal. Nigerian yam pottage/porridge includes tomatoes and

neg: Pottage Pottage Pottage is a term for a thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, grains, and, if available, meat or fish. As explained in The Oxford Companion to Food, it was a staple food for many centuries. The word "pottage" comes from the same Old French root as "potage", which is a dish of more recent origin. Pottage ordinarily consisted of various ingredients easily available to serfs and peasants, and could be kept over the fire for a period of days, during which time some of it could be eaten, and more ingredients added. The result was a dish

neg: You Don't Mess with the Zohan unrated edition, a single-disc unrated edition, and a theatrical edition, as well as a Blu-ray edition and UMD for PSP. It has sold over 1.2 million DVD units gathering revenue of $25.1 million. You Don't Mess with the Zohan You Don't Mess with the Zohan is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by Adam Sandler, who also starred in the film. It was the fourth film that included a collaboration of Sandler as actor and Dugan as director. The film revolves around Zohan Dvir (), an Israeli counterterrorist army commando who fakes his own death

neg: Jacob and Esau of stew in exchange for his birthright (the right to be recognized as firstborn) and Esau agreed. The birthright ("bekorah") has to do with both position and inheritance. By birthright, the firstborn son inherited the leadership of the family and the judicial authority of his father. Deuteronomy 21:17 states that he was also entitled to a double portion of the paternal inheritance. Esau acts impulsively. As he did not value his birthright over a bowl of lentil stew, by his actions, Esau demonstrates that he does not deserve to be the one who continues Abraham's responsibilities and rewards under God's

neg: Mess of pottage in Geneva in 1560. According to the OED, Coverdale (1535) "does not use the phrase, either in the text or the chapter heading..., but he has it in 1 Chronicles 16:3 and Proverbs 15:7." Miles Smith used the same phrase in "The Translators to the Reader," the lengthy preface to the 1611 King James Bible, but by the seventeenth century the phrase had become very widespread indeed and had clearly achieved the status of a fixed phrase with allusive, quasi-proverbial, force. In different literary hands, it could be used either earnestly, or mockingly. Benjamin Keach (1689) falls into the former

neg: Birthright Israel to the Israeli economy. The Birthright Israel program has been criticized for its pre-trip screening process. According to Rachel Shabi from Salon.com, political opinions may be taken into account: "Potential candidates who are discovered to have a 'hidden agenda' are not allowed onto the [Birthright] trips". Shabi notes the phenomenon of people who use the Birthright program to obtain free transportation to Israel and then leave the group. The pro-Palestinian Jewish Voice for Peace runs a campaign called Return the Birthright, which criticizes the Birthright Israel program and urges young Jews to boycott it, stating: "it's unjust that we get

neg: Ramon Guthrie 1923). "Megallesia," "S4N", 26th-29th issue, combined (May–August 1923). [By Anne Zimmerman, pseud.] "Melitta," "S4N", 19th issue (February 1922). "Mermaids in Maine," "Dartmouth Quarterly", vol. 9, no. I (Fall 1953), 14-15. "The mess of pottage," "S4N", 4th issue (February 1920). "Mr. H. G. O’Brien as Endymion," "S4N", 32nd issue (February 1924), 12-20. [By Anne Zimmerman, pseud.] "More Helen," "S4N", 16th issue ([February?] 1921). "The pagan’s creed," "S4N", 9th issue (July 1920). "The passing of Jehovah," "S4N", 17th issue ([March?] 1921). Readings from "Graffiti", with introduction by Alexander Laing. Hanover, N. H., 1959. [1 reel of taped voice recording.] Readings from "Graffiti"

neg: This Beautiful Mess This Beautiful Mess This Beautiful Mess is the second studio album by American band Sixpence None the Richer, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). The recording was produced by Armand John Petri, who also managed the band from 1993 to 1997. "This Beautiful Mess" surpassed 50,000 copies sold during its first year of release and laid the foundation for Sixpence's self-titled breakout album two years later. "This Beautiful Mess" won the 1996 Dove Award for "Alternative/Modern Rock Album of the Year." The songs "Within a Room Somewhere" and "I Can't Explain" were both minor hits on the Christian music

neg: Pease Pottage Pease Pottage Pease Pottage is a small village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the southern edge of the Crawley built up area, in the civil parish of Slaugham. Pease Pottage is familiar to many drivers for its motorway service station, named after the village, which also serves as a local shop (Marks and Spencer Simply Food and W H Smith) for the residents of the village (a footpath was constructed to allow pedestrian access from the village). It is located at the junction of the M23 and the A23 on the London to

neg: Carole Boyd vocal roles for the popular children's programme" Postman Pat". Since 1991, she has voiced every woman and child in the franchise - including Sara Clifton, Dr Gilbertson, Mrs Goggins, Miss Hubbard, Mrs Pottage, Dorothy Thompson, Lucy Selby, Tom and Katy Pottage, Charlie Pringle, and Julian Clifton, among others (with the exception of Granny Dryden, who continued to be voiced by Ken Barrie prior to his death in 2016). In 2006, she played Esther Hartlieb in the film "The Thief Lord". In Attonic Betty: Misson Earth, she was voiced by Attonic Betty and Tanya Bennett. Married to Patrick Harrison, Boyd has

neg: This Beautiful Mess None the Richer" producer Steve Taylor directing. All songs written by Matt Slocum, except where noted. This Beautiful Mess This Beautiful Mess is the second studio album by American band Sixpence None the Richer, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). The recording was produced by Armand John Petri, who also managed the band from 1993 to 1997. "This Beautiful Mess" surpassed 50,000 copies sold during its first year of release and laid the foundation for Sixpence's self-titled breakout album two years later. "This Beautiful Mess" won the 1996 Dove Award for "Alternative/Modern Rock Album of the Year." The songs

neg: Severus Scroll of Narbonne, in the first half of the 11th century; they are similar to the ones quoted in the second century CE by Rabbi Meir, who thus probably knew this Torah scroll. The thirty-three quoted variants from the Masoretic text are mostly minor differences due the weakening of gutturals. Some relevant variants are ""garments of light"" in place of ""garments of skin"" in () and ""he sold his sword"" in place of ""he sold his birthright"" in (). Severus Scroll The Severus Scroll (or Codex Severi) was a lost scroll containing the Torah. A very few sentences of it have

neg: Pottage with broth and either cow milk or almond milk. The pottage was thickened with egg yolk and flavored with sugar and spices. Pottage had long been a staple of the English diet. During the Middle Ages it was usually made with wheat, barley, rye, or oats . Native American cuisine also had a similar dish, but it was made with maize rather than the traditional European grain varieties.An early 17th century British recipe for pottage with made by boiling mutton and oatmeal with violet leaves, endive, chicory, strawberry leaves, spinach, langdebeefe, marigold flowers, scallions and parsley. In the cuisine of

neg: Birthright Israel the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013, Leonard Saxe of Brandeis University presented evidence that program participants tend to marry later than their peers, and are more likely to marry within the faith than a similar group of Jewish young people who choose not to participate in Birthright. Saxe hypothesizes that participants' delayed marriage age may be motivated by the goal of finding a Jewish spouse. The findings also show that one out of four Birthright participants ends up marrying another Birthright participant. Birthright Israel has inspired similar programs for other diasporas with similar goals, including Birthright Armenia for the

neg: Pease Pottage above sea level, some above the nearby Gatwick Airport. Pease Pottage is also an old name for pease pudding. It has been said that the village name came from serving Pease Pottage to convicts either on their way from London to the South Coast or from East Grinstead to Horsham although this seems implausible and it is not clear why convicts would travel along either route. The name Pease Pottage Gate first appears on Budgen's Map of Sussex made in 1724 at the southern end of a road from Crawley where it met the Ridgeway, and is on the border

neg: Seudat mitzvah the lentil stew Jacob was preparing (Genesis 25:29), and for which Esau sold his birthright, was the "seudat havraah" for his father Isaac who was beginning to sit "shiva" for "his" father Abraham. These include three meals on the Sabbath, as well as two (dinner and lunch) on each festival day making four each (outside Israel) for Shavuot, Rosh HaShana, Sukkot, two each for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, eight (outside Israel) for Passover. The Passover Seders are "seudot mitzvah". Except for "Seudah Shlishit" (the "third meal" of Shabbat) all of these meals are preceded by "Kiddush" (the blessing, made

neg: Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance fully comfortable here." He considered the game "a product on store shelves [that is] still in development", but praised the ambition of its designer Bob Clardy, who he compared to Gary Grigsby and Norm Koger. Smith summarized, "[I]f you're a strategy gamer, "Birthright" might be the sleeper hit of '97." According to GameSpy in 2004, "players justifiably ignored "Birthright: Gorgon's Alliance", which eventually sunk into well-deserved obscurity". Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance is a 1997 strategy video game developed by Synergistic Software and distributed by Sierra On-Line. The game is based on the Birthright campaign setting for

neg: Birthright, Texas Birthright, Texas Birthright, also known as Lone Star, is an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. Birthright is located on Farm to Market Road 71 north of Sulphur Springs. Birthright was founded "circa" 1870 by E. C. Birthright, who opened a store at the site. A post office opened at Birthright in 1871; Edward McLaughlin was the first postmaster. By 1885, the community had four mill-gins, three churches, and the Lone Star School. A newspaper called the "Lone Star Appeal" was being printed in Birthright by 1890, at which time its population was 250. The population fell to

neg: H. G. Wells happen in the near future. Wells's literary reputation declined as he spent his later years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries as well as by younger authors whom he had previously influenced. In this connection, George Orwell described Wells as "too sane to understand the modern world". G. K. Chesterton quipped: "Mr Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for a pot of message". Wells had diabetes, and was a co-founder in 1934 of The Diabetic Association (now Diabetes UK, the leading charity for people with diabetes in the UK). On 28 October

neg: Birthright (Robinson novel) was changed to fit in with the run of Bernice audio dramas, with alterations to the plot including the use of Time Rings, and Ace's role being replaced by Bernice's ex-husband Jason Kane. Big Finish had no license to do "Doctor Who" stories at the time and had been adapting later Benny-led New Adventures, before then converting the "Doctor Who" stories "Birthright" and "Just War" in this manner. The audio drama also features Colin Baker, better known for playing the Sixth Doctor in the "Doctor Who" television series. Birthright (Robinson novel) Birthright is a novel by Nigel Robinson from the

neg: Firstborn (Judaism) begat Sidon his firstborn" (Genesis 10:15), whereas the feminine noun, and female equivalent, is "bekirah" (בְּכִירָה), first-born daughter, such as Leah (Genesis 29:26). Derived from "bechor" is the qualitative noun "bekhorah" "birthright" (בְּכוֹרָה), related to primogeniture, such as that which Esau sold to Jacob. In the plural this qualitative noun "birthright" can also mean "firstlings", as when Abel brought out the "firstborn" ("bekhorot" feminine plural בְּכֹרֹות) of his flock to sacrifice (Genesis 4:4). The earliest account of primogeniture to be widely known in modern times involved Isaac's son Jacob being born second () and Isaac's son, Esau being born first

neg: Pease Pottage later a shop and a Jet petrol station opposite, with the Busy Bee restaurant behind. The Grapes pub (closed in 2008 and demolished in 2010) was further south, and had a tin church next to it. It was originally the toll house, and the name came from grapes growing in a greenhouse next door. To the south of Pease Pottage is Tilgate Forest Row which had three shops, a blacksmith and post office. The Pease Pottage Cricket Field was between here and Pease Pottage (now a car breakers yard). The cricket field was made in 1874, but was ploughed up

neg: Pease Pottage to Brighton. There was "a large archway made of evergreens, with VICTORIA REGINA worked on it in various coloured dahlias". Pease Pottage would have benefited from the toll roads, but lost the Crawley-Horsham traffic in 1823 with the opening of the new McAdam road through Faygate, and the London and Brighton Railway completed in 1841 which skirted along the eastern boundary of Pease Pottage cutting through Tilgate Forest alongside Standford Brook and through a tunnel under High Street. The Pease Pottage tollgate was removed in 1877. In 1896 on the day after the red flag law expired, 25 cars left

neg: Mary Cholmondeley the book's great success, however, the author received little money for it because she had sold the copyright. A silent film, "Red Pottage" was made in 1918. "Diana Tempest" was reissued in 2009 for the first time in a century. Later works such as "Moth and Rust" (1902) and "Notwithstanding" (1913) were less successful. "The Lowest Rung" (1908) and "The Romance of his Life" (1921) were collections of stories, the latter, her final book, dedicated to the essayist and critic Percy Lubbock. Lubbock later commemorated her in "Mary Cholmondeley: A Sketch from Memory" (1928) Mary Cholmondeley Mary Cholmondeley ((usually pronounced

neg: Seven deadly sins person . . . who, for a morsel of meat sold his birthright." We learn that "he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully, with tears." Greed (Latin, ), also known as avarice, cupidity, or covetousness, is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of desire. However, greed (as seen by the Church) is applied to an artificial, rapacious desire and pursuit of material possessions. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." In Dante's Purgatory, the penitents

neg: Pease Pottage services Pease Pottage services Pease Pottage services is a motorway service station on the M23 motorway near Crawley in West Sussex, southern England. It is owned by Moto. Facilities on the site include Marks & Spencer Foodhall & WHSmith. Burger King, Costa Coffee (With Costa Express), Greggs, Krispy Kreme & The West Cornwall Pasty Company all have outlets. Also free WiFi is offered on the site for all, there are a few gambling machines in a separate area and toilets. Also the BP station here offers LPG The service station is one of fourteen for which large murals were commissioned from

neg: Birthright (Robinson novel) Birthright (Robinson novel) Birthright is a novel by Nigel Robinson from the Virgin New Adventures. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". Although part of the main run of New Adventures featuring the Seventh Doctor, the Doctor only appears in the beginning and end of the novel; most of the story involves his companions Bernice Summerfield and Ace. The events in this book occur simultaneously (from the point of view of the characters) to those in the New Adventure "Iceberg", which was written by former "Doctor Who" actor David Banks. A

neg: Pease Pottage the east along Parish Lane. To the west are three Bronze Age tumuli. Pease Pottage lies on an ancient, pre-Roman trackway that ran in an east to west direction along the Forest Ridge from Ashdown Forest through West Hoathly, Turners Hill and Pease Pottage to Horsham. This pre-historic ridgeway pre-dated the predominantly north–south-oriented Roman roads built by the Romans to link the south coast of England to London, and to connect with the strategically important Wealden iron industry, such as the London to Brighton trunk road east of Pease Pottage and Stane Street further to the west. The ridgeway, running

neg: Pease Pottage Brighton road, where the A264 to Horsham joins. The village itself has a florist's shop, a pub, a car breaker's yard, playing fields, a golf driving range (currently closed) and course (also closed), some small industrial units and offices. The Church of the Ascension, a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church in Slaugham, opened in 1875 but is no longer in use. The Pease Pottage Radar is located around half a mile west of Pease Pottage, and is visible from much of the village. It is an Air Traffic Control Radar for NATS and takes advantage of a position

neg: Pease Pottage London for Brighton, but half had broken down by Crawley. This event is still celebrated in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run which still goes past Pease Pottage on the first Sunday in November. London to Brighton road traffic revived the fortunes of Pease Pottage. The green in front of the Black Swan in the centre of the village was like a fairground with charabancs parked, stalls, flower sellers, strolling players etc. between the wars. The pub dates back to the 19th century. A pond in front of it was filled in 1883. A smithy was next door, and

neg: Birthright Israel 2010, Birthright launched an extension program called Birthright Excel. Birthright Excel is a 10-week summer program where students can either create a venture or intern with a business. Eligible individuals are those who have at least one parent of recognized Jewish descent, or who have converted to Judaism through a recognised Jewish movement, and who do not actively practice another religion. They must also be between the ages 18 to 32, post-high-school, have neither traveled to Israel before on a peer educational trip or study program past the age of 18 nor have lived in Israel past the age of

neg: RAF Kirton in Lindsey 1 ACC moved to RAF Scampton. During the same period the Junior Ranks Mess, accommodation blocks and dental centre were all closed. Junior Ranks were moved to accommodation at RAF Scampton, while the Officers' Mess again became a Combined Mess for Officers, Warrant Officers and SNCOs. The Gym and a number of Service Families Accommodation were retained until 2014 when the final occupants vacated and the houses were handed back to Annington Homes who put them on the open market. The technical site was also sold by the MOD in 2014 to Acorn Recyclers. Parts of the site are now

neg: Pease Pottage services artist David Fisher in the 1990s, designed to reflect the local area and history. Pease Pottage services Pease Pottage services is a motorway service station on the M23 motorway near Crawley in West Sussex, southern England. It is owned by Moto. Facilities on the site include Marks & Spencer Foodhall & WHSmith. Burger King, Costa Coffee (With Costa Express), Greggs, Krispy Kreme & The West Cornwall Pasty Company all have outlets. Also free WiFi is offered on the site for all, there are a few gambling machines in a separate area and toilets. Also the BP station here offers LPG

neg: Fire Emblem Fates "Conquest" a "dark fantasy epic" that asked difficult moral questions, and generally cited the gameplay as harder and consequently more rewarding than that of its counterparts despite sharing tutorial deficiencies with "Birthright". He also shared his opinions on the music and graphics with "Birthright". Jose Otero, writing for IGN, frequently noted the game's challenge, while generally sharing his praises with Sullivan's review of "Birthright", including slow online elements. A point of praise not shared with "Birthright" was its mission variety. Peter Brown, reviewing the game for GameSpot, praised the gameplay variety and the characters' development and meaningful use in battle,

neg: This Unruly Mess I've Made through some complicated soul-searching." Writing for "Rolling Stone", Mark Seliger said of the album, "On "Unruly Mess", Macklemore's confrontational side returns..." Ray Rahman of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the album a grade of B−, saying, ""Unruly Mess" sees him embracing his role as a social justice champion, sent to expand the minds of his (mainly young, white, suburban) audiences." The album debuted at number 4 on the "Billboard" 200, with 61,000 album-equivalent units; it sold 51,000 copies in its first week in the United States. The album debuted at number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album dropped to

neg: Birthright Israel Armenian diaspora, Reconnect Hungary for young adults of Hungarian diaspora, and Birthright Greece for the Greek diaspora. Birthright Unplugged was founded to counterbalance Birthright Israel, with the goal of exposing Jewish and non-Jewish visitors to Palestinian communities inside and outside of Israel. Birthright Israel Taglit-Birthright Israel (), also known as Birthright Israel or simply Birthright, is a not-for-profit educational organization that sponsors free ten-day heritage trips to Israel for young adults of Jewish heritage, aged 18–32. "Taglit" is the Hebrew word for "discovery." During their trip, participants, most of whom are visiting Israel for the first time, are encouraged to

neg: Giants (Welsh folklore) himself as "Hot Pottage" to the first sister, and "Warm Porridge" to the second sister and as "a morsel of bread" to the third, and when the first sister called for help against Hot Pottage Cribwr answered: Wench, let him cool; and in the same manner he answered the second sister, when she sought assistance against Warm Porridge. And the third sister called out that the Morsel of Bread was choking her; and to this he answered, Wench, take a smaller piece. And when Cribwr reproached Arthur for killing his sisters Arthur replied: "Cribwr take thy combs" "And cease with

neg: Birthright Unplugged Birthright Unplugged Birthright Unplugged is an educational organization, designed as a response to the Birthright Israel trips. The name "Birthright Unplugged" is a spin on the "Birthright Israel" program. According to Birthright Unplugged, it was founded in 2003 by Dunya Alwan and Hannah Mermelstein. Alwan serves as the organization's current director. In 2005, Birthright Israel filed a "cease and desist" complaint against Birthright Unplugged for trademark infringement, alleging "unfair competition". The Unplugged trip seeks to expose mostly North American people to the Palestinian side of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through travel and conversations with a range of Palestinian activists. In six

neg: Birthright: The Book of Man and the domain of Alexander the Great. "Birthright" can also be seen as the antithesis of the science fictional stereotype of vicious, dangerous aliens who threaten humanity, as seen e.g. in "Starship Troopers," the "Predator" and "Alien" movies, and many others. In "Birthright", it is humanity itself that is the most vicious and dangerous of galactic races. This much less common theme is also found in the short story "With Friends Like These" as well as "The Damned" trilogy by Alan Dean Foster. Birthright: The Book of Man Birthright: The Book of Man is a science fiction novel (or a

neg: Cappelletti convention consider but so many likely situations that support a 3NT call for our partnership!! Cappelletti convention Cappelletti (also called Hamilton and Pottage) is a bridge bidding convention for the card game contract bridge, primarily used to interfere over opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening. Usually attributed to Michael Cappelletti and his longtime partner Edwin Lewis, origin of the concept is also claimed by Fred Hamilton, John Pottage and Gerald Helms. Cappelletti is a defensive bidding convention particularly recommended for use against a weak 1NT opening (12-14 HCP) but can also be used against stronger 1NT openings (15-17 HCP). The High Card

neg: Cappelletti convention Cappelletti convention Cappelletti (also called Hamilton and Pottage) is a bridge bidding convention for the card game contract bridge, primarily used to interfere over opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening. Usually attributed to Michael Cappelletti and his longtime partner Edwin Lewis, origin of the concept is also claimed by Fred Hamilton, John Pottage and Gerald Helms. Cappelletti is a defensive bidding convention particularly recommended for use against a weak 1NT opening (12-14 HCP) but can also be used against stronger 1NT openings (15-17 HCP). The High Card Points (HCP) range for Cappelletti overcalls is 9-14 points. Its strength is that, by

neg: Ex-Mormon into the snares of the evil one." Young also said that "[if] there is a despicable character on the face of the earth, it is an apostate from this Church. He is a traitor who has deceived his best friends, betrayed his trust, and forfeited every principle of honor that God placed within him. They may think they are respected, but they are not. They are disgraced in their own eyes. There is not much honesty within them; they have forfeited their heaven, sold their birthright, and betrayed their friends." Ex-Mormon Ex-Mormon or post-Mormon refers to a disaffiliate of The

neg: Firstborn (Judaism) () and entitled to the "birthright", but eventually selling it to Isaac's second son, Jacob, for a small amount of food () A similar transfer is shown by the writer of 1 Chronicles 5:1-2 where, although the tribe of Judah prevailed above their brethren, nevertheless the "birthright", the double portion of two tribal allotments, was Joseph's. According to the Law of Moses, the firstborn may be either the firstborn of his father, who is entitled to receive a double portion of his father's inheritance (compared to the other siblings), (Deuteronomy 21:17) or the firstborn of his mother. The Egyptians also

neg: Pease Pottage a new road to Handcross, and another new road was built on the other side of the A23 to Woodhurst. Tilgate Forest Row is now separated from Pease Pottage by ten traffic lanes. A large number of houses have been built since 1946 when Pease Pottage consisted of a few buildings near the crossroads, and a few isolated buildings on the A23. The first development was west along Horsham Road, mainly bungalows. This was followed by modern estates behind the Black Swan, and to the west of the old A23 (now Brighton Road South). The last of these was on

neg: Superman: Birthright character. Clark Kent's discovery that the "S" symbol was a symbol for "hope" on Krypton is inspired by "Birthright". Superman: Birthright Superman: Birthright is a twelve-issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics in 2003 and 2004, written by Mark Waid and drawn by Leinil Francis Yu. Originally, this series was intended to be a non-canon version of Superman, showcasing his origin and updating him for the 21st century. Soon after, it was decided to adopt the series as canon, and thus it replaced John Byrne's "The Man of Steel" series as Superman's canonical origin story. This editorial position

neg: Daniel Brenner of a doctoral program at New York Theological Seminary for clergy who work within a religiously diverse context. It is the first doctoral level program of its kind in the United States. Brenner also created a program with Columbia University's Center for the Study of Science and Religion for religious leaders. Brenner became the vice president of the Birthright Israel Foundation in 2007. He then founded and became executive director of Birthright Israel NEXT, an organization with the mission of engaging young adults in Jewish community life. Under Brenner's leadership, Birthright Israel NEXT launched NEXT Shabbat and grew into a

neg: Pottage New England, pottage began as boiled grain, vegetables, seasonings and meat, fowl or fish. This simple staple of early American cuisine eventually evolved into the chowders and baked beans typical of New England's cuisine. A version of "scotch barley broth" is attested to in the 18th century colonial recipe collection called "Mrs Gardiner's Family Receipts". Indian succotash, sometimes called "pondomenast" or "Indian pottage" was made with boiled corn and, when available, meat like venison, bear, moose, otter, raccoon or beaver. Dried fish like shad, eel, or herring could be used in place of the meat. Kidney beans were sometimes mixed

neg: His Birthright His Birthright His Birthright is a 1918 American drama film directed by William Worthington for Haworth Pictures Corporation. Sessue Hayakawa produced the film and played the lead role. The rest of the cast includes Marin Sais, Howard Davies, Mary Anderson, and Hayakawa's wife Tsuru Aoki. As described in a film magazine, Yukio is a Japanese-American whose father, a naval officer, failed to return to his mother after the honeymoon. The mother commits harakiri and the son becomes determined to kill his father and goes to America. Influenced by a female German spy, Yukio steals an important document from his father,

neg: Sword and Crown of the original Birthright rules, "supplies plenty of staging tips and helpful NPCs — too helpful, some might say", noting that a bandit conveniently volunteers too much information about his family at one point. He admitted that the adventure doesn't break any new ground, and relies on "AD&D" conventions rather than concepts unique to the Birthright setting, so that the adventure acts as a bridge "intended to ease the transition from standard "AD&D" to the more sophisticated Birthright setting". Swan recommended that, for a beginner on a budget looking to buy a Birthright adventure, to "go with "Sword and Crown"

neg: His Birthright join the U.S. army and fight in World War I, a cause in which Japan and America are united. A partial copy with three reels exists at the EYE Film Instituut Nederland film archive. His Birthright His Birthright is a 1918 American drama film directed by William Worthington for Haworth Pictures Corporation. Sessue Hayakawa produced the film and played the lead role. The rest of the cast includes Marin Sais, Howard Davies, Mary Anderson, and Hayakawa's wife Tsuru Aoki. As described in a film magazine, Yukio is a Japanese-American whose father, a naval officer, failed to return to his mother

neg: Isaac Isaac's blessing. While Esau was hunting, Jacob, after listening to his mother's advice, deceived his blind father by misrepresenting himself as Esau and thereby obtained his father's blessing, such that Jacob became Isaac's primary heir and Esau was left in an inferior position. According to Genesis 25:29–34, Esau had previously sold his birthright to Jacob for "bread and stew of lentils". Thereafter, Isaac sent Jacob into Mesopotamia to take a wife of his mother's brother's house. After 20 years working for his uncle Laban, Jacob returned home. He reconciled with his twin brother Esau, then he and Esau buried their

neg: Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance is a 1997 strategy video game developed by Synergistic Software and distributed by Sierra On-Line. The game is based on the Birthright campaign setting for "Dungeons & Dragons" and is available for MS-DOS and Windows. "Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance" is a turn-based strategy game where the player is one of the heirs to a throne, a descendant of the royal bloodline on a quest to take over the world. Players take on the role of ruler, or regent as they are called in "Birthright," of a nation in the Land of "Anuire"

neg: Fire Emblem Fates of all versions including the Special Edition placed the game third overall in software sales, tripling the equivalent first-month sales of "Awakening". When the physical versions released in the UK, "Birthright" was the better-selling edition, coming in at No. 5 in the all-format charts behind multi-platform releases "Doom", "" and "". "Conquest" came in at No. 11 in the all-format charts. In platform-specific charts, "Birthright" and "Conquest" reached No. 6 and No. 8 respectively. In a financial briefing at the end of the 2015–2016 fiscal year, the physical versions were said to have sold a combined total of 1.84 million