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	AudioLatinProverbs.com: Sic transit gloria mundi
		As for the origins of the phrase, a very similar sentiment is expressed in the highly influential 15th-century treatise by Thomas a Kempis, "On the Imitation of Christ." In section 1.3.6, he remarks, "O quam cito transit gloria mundi," "Oh how quickly passes the glory of the world."
		This remark is the culmination of a series of very pointed observations about the vanity of learning and academic pursuits.
		So here is today's proverb read out loud - and remember that in the very moment as you are listening to these words, the world and its glories are in transit, as ever:
	proverbs.bestlatin.net /audioproverb/2006/11/sic-transit-gloria-mundi.html (621 words)

	The Case of Tunisia
		A radical change in social behavior can be noted starting from 3,000 B.C. The proto-historic necropolis spread, which seem to indicate the existence of hierarchical social organization, as testimonies by the famous tomb of Tin Hinan the Tuareg Queen, which was found in Abelessa (Tamanrasset, Algeria).
		The progressive transition towards forms of agricultural life was the consequence of the great climatic fluctuations.
		"Sic transit gloria mundi": many centers today are just archeological sites that related to places of the dead.
	www.phoenicia.org /cartunis.html (3687 words)

	Pope.y2u.co.uk - The Office of Pope
		There the Pope was crowned with the triregnum and he gave his first blessing as Pope, the famous Urbi et Orbi ("to the City [Rome] and to the World").
		Another famed part of the coronation was the lighting of a torch which would flare brightly and promptly extinguish, with the admonition Sic transit gloria mundi ("Thus fades worldly glory").
		Traditionally, the new pope takes the Papal oath (the so-called "Oath against modernism") at his coronation, but Popes John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI have all refused to do so.
	pope.y2u.co.uk (3766 words)

	Sean Henry \| Sic Transit Gloria Mundi Maquette \| 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE
		Sic transit gloria mundi: So passes away earthly glory - the phrase as applied to these two figures speaks of hierarchy.
		Whether these figures are the same man in two different states, or two different men, one highly aware, the other pensive, can be left to our imagination.
		All contents © copyright 1992-2007 Cass Sculpture Foundation.
	www.sculpture.org.uk /work/000000300243 (72 words)

	IOBA Standard - Printable Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It wasn't until the late 18th century that autograph collecting, in its modern sense, had evolved into a worldwide past time for millions of people from all socioeconomic levels of humanity.
		While the number of collectors continued to expand, the hobby went through a natural transition to focus on the most popular figures in human culture - those in power and those in vogue.
		Sic transit gloria mundi, and we might add, libri, and thus the sands of that time began running out with the last years of the millennium.
	www.ioba.org /newsletter/V13/printable.php (20927 words)

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	www.tauntinghappyfunball.com /golden-dawn.html (509 words)

	Sic Transit
		3814 Livingston Street N.W. Washington, D.C. "Sic Transit."
		Something akin to these thoughts constitutes a kind of leitmotif that carries through at least some of the little essays that Ambassador Keeley has recklessly agreed to publish here, in his "Five and Ten Press."
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	fiveandtenpress.com /sictransit.htm (307 words)

	The Spensarium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Drama of the Gifted Child is the first step toward helping readers reclaim their lives by discovering their own needs and their own truth.
		paraphrase of "Sic transit gloria mundi" which translates to "So passes away the glory of the world."
		Cobb Salad was created in 1926 to utilize leftovers in the refrigerator at Bob Cobb's Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
	www.linkingpage.com /spenser/thinair.html (4081 words)

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