Even last century scholars had begun to search for the cities in Asia Minor whose names have become so familiar to the Christian world through the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of St. Paul.

Its eyes, though wild, were still all dewy bright / With love, and kept all phantom fear aloof / From the poor girl by magic of their light, / The while it did unthread the horrid woof / Of the late darken'd time,— […]

The end stages of apoptosis are often characterized by the appearance of membrane blebbing, the appearance of highly condensed chromatin and activation of an endonucleolytic process, that leads to the cleavage of chromosomal DNA into oligosomal DNA that can be observed as a distinct laddering pattern on an ethidium bromide-stained agarose gel.

Just as Kiddushin takes place when the groom puts a ring on his bride's finger, so we, too, wind a strap around our finger and are sanctified unto the Holy One, blessed be He.