Their sacrifice marked forever by those simple words "Mort Pour La France".
The spread in the 6th century bce of the related concepts of reincarnation, of karma, and of the attainment of release (moksha) from this cycle (samsara) by meditation rather than through sacrifice marked the end of the Vedic period.
President Arroyo said today that she was declaring a cease-fire in deference to the Muslim holiday of Id al-Adha, the Islamic feast of sacrifice marking the end of hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
The truce, for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim feast of the sacrifice which marks the end of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, began on Friday morning.
Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
In a message marking Eid al-Fitr, Buhari called on all Nigerians to accept the lessons of self-denial and sacrifice that marked the month of fasting, as the country sought to overcome the damage wrought by years of bad governance.
A BrdU pulse was administered to 4 week old Hq and WT littermates 2 h before sacrifice to mark cells that were currently in S-phase.
He is the man who united Germany in 1990, settled the country's borders, bound his united country to Europe by sacrificing the mark in favor of the euro and so solved the "German question" that had haunted Europe since the modern German state's foundation in 1871.
Spanish priests wrote that the Tequesta performed child sacrifices to mark the occasion of making peace with a tribe with whom they had been fighting.
As they saw it, they were being asked to sacrifice the D-mark, the secure anchor of German prosperity and of Europe's monetary system, for the benefit of others.
Families were searching over the weekend for the perfect sheep for Eid al-Adha -- "the feast of the sacrifice" meal to mark the end of the annual Islamic pilgrimage season.
