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Advent is a season in the Christian calendar preceding Christmas. It is synonymous with the secularized Christmas season. Advent may also refer to: Religion * Second Coming, the return of Jesus to Earth in Christian belief * Nativity Fast, Advent in the Eastern Orthodox Church * ''The Advent'' (magazine), a magazine published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Places * Advent, Cornwall, United Kingdom, a civil parish * Advent, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community Technology * Advent Computers, a computer brand produced by British company DSG International * Advent Corporation, a company founded by Henry Kloss that made speakers and home audio equipment * Advent Software, a financial software company based in San Francisco * Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology, or ADVENT, an aircraft engine development program run by the US Air Force * Advent (Voxx International), a brand of speakers, hi-fi equipment and computer peripherals Computer games * '' Colossal Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advent
Advent is a Christian season of preparation for the Nativity of Christ at Christmas. It is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity. The name was adopted from Latin "coming; arrival", translating Greek ''parousia''. In the New Testament, this is the term used for the Second Coming of Christ. Thus, the season of Advent in the Christian calendar anticipates the "coming of Christ" from three different perspectives: the physical nativity in Bethlehem, the reception of Christ in the heart of the believer, and the eschatological Second Coming. Practices associated with Advent include Advent calendars, lighting an Advent wreath, praying an Advent daily devotional, erecting a Christmas tree or a Chrismon tree, lighting a Christingle, as well as other ways of preparing for Christmas, such as setting up Christmas decorations, a custom that is sometimes done liturgically through a hanging of the greens ceremony. The equivalent of Advent in Eastern Christianity is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advent Rising
''Advent Rising'' is an action-adventure third-person shooter video game developed by GlyphX Games and published by Majesco Entertainment. The game was released on May 31, 2005, for Xbox and on August 9, 2005, for Microsoft Windows. Its story was created by Donald and Geremy Mustard and featured a script written by science fiction writers Orson Scott Card and Cameron Dayton; the full orchestral soundtrack was done by Tommy Tallarico and Emmanuel Fratianni. As of September 14, 2006, Steam began offering ''Advent Rising'' for download. Much-hyped ''Advent Rising'' was the first in a planned trilogy which also saw the development of a game that would take place alongside ''Advent Rising'', called ''Advent Shadow'' for the PSP. Despite a large advertising campaign including promotion in cinemas, the game's retail performance fell far short of expectations. By the end of 2005, Majesco had completely revised its business plan to focus towards handheld games and canceled plans for fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventism
Adventism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that believes in the imminent Second Coming (or the "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ. It originated in the 1830s in the United States during the Second Great Awakening when Baptist preacher William Miller first publicly shared his belief that the Second Coming would occur at some point between 1843 and 1844. His followers became known as Millerites. After Miller's prophecies failed, the Millerite movement split up and was continued by a number of groups that held different doctrines from one another. These groups, stemming from a common Millerite ancestor, became known collectively as the Adventist movement. Although the Adventist churches hold much in common with mainline Christianity, their theologies differ on whether the intermediate state of the dead is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether the wicked are re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Treadwell
James Treadwell is a British former academic, now an author of novels. Biography Born in West London, he was influenced in his youth by reading Roger Lancelyn Green’s Myths of the Norsemen, Barbara Leonie Picard’s retellings of the Iliad and Odyssey, and fantasy series including the Narnia, Middle Earth, Gormenghast, Earthsea, and Pern stories and Susan Cooper’s Britain. He frequently played Dungeons & Dragons at school. He continued to read fantasy at university. Treadwell became an academic specialising in 18th- and 19th-century British literature. He wrote on history before leaving academia to become a full-time writer of fantasy novels. He has lived in Oxford and Montréal, before settling in London. Advent The first book of his Advent Trilogy was released in 2012. Treadwell's intention is to explore the terror that would result if magic were to become reality rather than escapism. In the story, magic was once an actual daily reality on Earth, but was destroyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advent (film)
''Advent'' (Original Asturian ''Ad-vientu''; ) is a 2016 Spanish and Chinese co-production psychological drama film, written and directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi, and produced by the film company of the directors, ''Almost Red Productions'', and ''Arkadin Ediciones'' in association with ''Producciones Viesqueswood''. The film represents the first movie of the directors filmed entirely in Spain and it is spoken in a local language, the asturian language (something unusual in the Spanish cinema). It was shot in Asturias, with locations in the medieval center of the city of Avilés, the historical Cemetery La Carriona and some beaches and walkways of Carreño, mainly in Perlora and Xivares. Advient is a psychological mystery drama film that tells the story of Suso, a dazed young unemployed man that tries to discover the identity of an unusual girl, who he spies on a secluded beach, as she reminds him of his dead mother. She runs throwing herselfoff a cliff, but i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morningrise
''Morningrise'' is the second studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 24 June 1996 in Europe by Candlelight Records and on 24 June 1997 in the United States by Century Black. The recording sessions took place at Unisound studio, in Finspång, during March and April 1996, and once more the band used producer Dan Swanö. ''Morningrise'' was the last Opeth album produced by Swanö. It was also the last Opeth release with drummer Anders Nordin and bassist Johan De Farfalla. ''Morningrise'' showcases Opeth's signature style, exploring the dynamics between the combination of black metal and death metal vocals, and guitar parts with lighter progressive and acoustic elements. Recording and production After touring, Opeth returned home to rehearse frequently, and booked Unisound Studio again to record the album. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advent (band)
Advent is a hardcore band from Kernersville, North Carolina. The band featured members of an earlier post-hardcore band named Beloved (band), Beloved, and was formed in 2005 after the break of Beloved. The band had released two albums under the label Solid State Records. The band announced in July 2011 that they had disbanded, and held two final shows on September 2 and 3 in South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively. The band, as of 2015, had reunited and is releasing a new album titled, ''Pain and Suffering''. The band has recently signed to Bridge 9 Records, Bridge 9. The group has been called "...one of the state's heaviest exports..." History Advent formed in 2005 after the disbanding of Beloved (band), Beloved. Members Joe Musten, Johnny Smrdel and Matt Harrison formed the band and added Michael Rich and Chris Ankelein. The band signed to Solid State Records soon after formation then released ''Remove the Earth (album), Remove the Earth'' in 2008. Harrison departed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Advent
The Advent is a British electronic music act. It was founded in 1993 by Cisco Ferreira and Colin McBean. Soon after leaving school, Ferreira began working as an engineer at Jack Trax Records, a job which enabled him to glimpse first-hand the work of such artists as Derrick May and Marshall Jefferson. He began recording in 1988 with C.J. Bolland as Space Opera (eventually releasing four singles for R&S Records) and also recorded the first single for Fragile ("Why Don't You Answer" as himself) before meeting McBean, a top DJ who had worked with Keith Franklin of Bang the Party as the DJ team KCC. History The pair began recording together in 1990; their first activity was an engineering job for Fade to Black (aka Jay Denham), but later they debuted on vinyl with their first single, recorded for inclusion on a sampler by Network Records. The official debut of The Advent came in 1994, just after Ferreira signed to Internal Records (also the home of Orbital). He convinced McBe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advent (publisher)
Advent:Publishers is an American publishing house. It was founded by Earl Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club, including Sidney Coleman, in 1955, to publish criticism, history, and bibliography of the science fiction field, beginning with Damon Knight's ''In Search of Wonder''. With books like ''In Search of Wonder'' and James Blish's ''The Issue at Hand'', Advent became the genre's first scholarly publisher. Authors Authors in the field who have either written or edited Advent books, or been the subject of an Advent book, include: * Cy Chauvin * Reginald Bretnor *Theodore Cogswell *Robert A. Heinlein *Cyril Kornbluth *Alfred Bester *Robert Bloch *L. Sprague de Camp * Howard DeVore *E. E. Smith * Ron Ellik *Lloyd Arthur Eshbach *Damon Knight *Alexei Panshin *Donald H. Tuck *Harry Warner Jr Footnotes on First Beginnings: Advent & the UofCSF Club… “After exchanging a few letters with Mari Wolf (who was conducting “Fandora’s Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advent International
Advent International is a global private equity firm focused on buyouts of companies in Western and Central Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. The firm focuses on international buyouts, growth and strategic restructuring in five core sectors. Since its inception in 1984, Advent has invested $56 billion in private equity capital and, through its buyout programs, has completed more than 375 transactions in 42 countries. Advent operates from 14 offices in 11 countries, with affiliates in additional countries, and employs over 240 investment professionals. History Advent is a Boston, Massachusetts spin-out from TA Associates by Peter Brooke. Brooke had founded TA Associates in 1968 after having expanded the venture capital operations of TA's parent Tucker Anthony & R.L. Day. In 1985, Advent raised its first fund – a $14 million corporate venture capital program for Nabisco. In 1987, the firm raised the $225 million International Network Fund, its first institutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XCOM 2
''XCOM 2'' is a 2016 turn-based tactics video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the sequel to 2012's reboot of the series, '' XCOM: Enemy Unknown''; it takes place 20 years after the events of ''Enemy Unknown''. XCOM, a military organization trying to fight off an alien invasion, has lost the war and is now a resistance force against the occupation of Earth and the established totalitarian regime and military dictatorship. Gameplay is split between turn-based combat in which players command a squad of soldiers to fight enemies, and strategy elements in which players manage and control the operations of the Avenger, an alien ship that is used as a mobile base for XCOM. Following players' feedback on ''Enemy Unknown'', Firaxis added procedural generation of maps and mod support to the game. The developers set the game after the bad ending of the 2012 reboot because it allowed them to change gameplay, introduce various new features and redesign some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sins Of A Solar Empire
''Sins of a Solar Empire'' is a 2008 science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that incorporates some elements from 4X games; its makers describe it as "RT4X". Players are given control of a spacefaring empire in the distant future, and are tasked with conquering star systems using military, economic and diplomatic means. The game was released on February 4, 2008, receiving positive reviews and multiple awards from the gaming press. Its first content expansion, titled ''Entrenchment'', was released as a download on February 25, 2009, and its second content expansion, titled ''Diplomacy'', was released as a download on February 9, 2010. A package combining the original game with the first two expansions was released at that time, with the title ''Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity''. A third expansion, the stand-alone ''Rebellion'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
