Ariana Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2021 Tucked near a highway underpass, a greenhouse glows faintly in the cold night. 2022 Harry has often spoken with anguish and bitterness about what happened to Diana all those years ago when she was cast out of the royal family after her divorce from Prince Charles and later died in a car wreck in a Parisian underpass, the paparazzi in hot pursuit. 2022 The underpass will be named for Phil Alperson, who died in 2020 and had overseen the project for the county’s transportation department before his retirement. 2023 On Roanoke’s Fairway Ranch neighborhood Facebook page, the usual gripes focused on why the underpass on Byron Nelson Boulevard was once again closed, or the pack of wild hogs wandering in front of Cox Elementary. Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. He is also author of numerous books, including Looking for a Miracle.Recent Examples on the Web The next morning, a cyclist called 911 after riding through a pool of blood by the I-17 underpass at Castles N' Coasters, close to where Brosso's head had been recovered 10 months earlier. Joe Nickell is Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and writes the "Investigative Files" column for the organization's science magazine, Skeptical Inquirer. Some of the zealous then proclaimed the salvaged image "another miracle." To obliterate the graffiti, state transportation workers covered the image with brown paint, but a nearby carwash's employees subsequently used a degreaser to remove most of the fresh paint and polish. After a suspect was arrested, his niece said he had felt people venerating the stain were violating the second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." ), a prohibition against idolatry. Indeed, on the night of May 5, 2005, a man used black shoe polish to write "Big Lie" over the stain. and the Protestant Reformation.) It remains an often emotional issue. (Historically it became an issue of the iconoclastic crisis of 724-843 a.d. To many, outright image worship smacks of idolatry. Some skeptics said the stain-which the Illinois Department of Transportation attributed to salt runoff-most resembled a chess pawn. It was subsequently purchased by an online casino () for publicity purposes. A more recent instance was the face of a woman (looking more like a Hollywood starlet than the Virgin it was said to be) scorched onto a grilled cheese sandwich. Highly publicized simulacra include the figure of the Virgin formed by a stain on a store's bathroom floor, the face of Jesus in a giant forkful of spaghetti illustrated on a billboard, a Christ portrait in skillet burns on a tortilla, a faceless Madonna on the glass façade of a finance building and another on a hospital window, and an image of Jesus in the foliage of a vine-covered tree. Frequently, the discerned image is a face or other human shape because infants begin to recognize people as soon as they can see.) (The best known simulacrum is the Man in the Moon. In fact, the image is merely another simulacrum-a "Rorschach Icon" in which a random pattern is "recognized" by the mind's tendency, known as pareidolia, to interpret vague images as specific ones.
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