He pointed specifically to projects in Alabama that have received federal monies: a ferry in Gee's Bend that restarted service in 2006, and a 56-foot-tall cast-iron statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of the fire and forge, in Birmingham.

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He started with the small quatrefoil lights of the Holy Spirit and the crucifixion, proceeding down through the main panels of Christ and his followers on the mountain, with all the way the white shaft of God's transfiguring light growing broader through the fire-and-storm colours of the glass.

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John Kerry had the faith and God had the power in the exalted realm of valor under fire.

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Something about the camps and Ogoun, voodoo god of iron, fire and war.

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For most people, knowing they're running late for work strikes the fear of God within them and as a result, they move like there's a fire under their feet to get ready.

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Tens of thousands of people come here every year to visit a cave where Abraham may have been born and a fishpond marking the site of the pyre where he was almost burned up by Nimrod, except that God transformed the fire into water and the coals into fish.

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Kept continuously alight, the holy fire represents the ancestors of the villagers, who acts as intermediaries to the Himba's god, Mukuru.

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