Thelonious Sphere Monk (/θəˈloʊniəs/ October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style...
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A monk (/mʌŋk/; from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery...
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Sphere Monk III (born December 27, 1949) is an American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader. He is the son of jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Born in...
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Monk is an American police procedural comedy drama detective mystery television series that originally ran on the USA Network from July 12, 2002, to December...
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Monk on Monk is an album by the drummer T. S. Monk, recorded in 1997 and released on the N2K label. The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "To celebrate...
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up monk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A monk is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle. Monk may also refer to: Monk (nickname)...
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The Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an American rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany, in 1964. Assembled by five...
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Thelonious Monk. Contents Top 0–9 A B C E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U W A contrafact based loosely on rhythm changes in C, and was copyrighted by Monk under...
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Carthusians (redirect from Carthusian monk)
Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has its own rule, called the Statutes, and their life...
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Bhikkhu (redirect from Buddhist monk)
states: [266–267] He is not a monk just because he lives on others' alms. Not by adopting outward form does one become a true monk. Whoever here (in the Dispensation)...
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The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796 across three volumes. Written early in Lewis's career, it was published...
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Benedictines (redirect from Benedictine monk)
wear white. They were founded by Benedict of Nursia, a 6th-century Italian monk who laid the foundations of Benedictine monasticism through the formulation...
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The sea monk (also monk-fish or monkfish) was a sea creature found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand in 1546. It was described as...
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Monk Fryston is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire...
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Degrees of Eastern Orthodox monasticism (redirect from Schema-monk)
Eastern Orthodox monk or nun passes through in their religious vocation. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the process of becoming a monk or nun is intentionally...
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Adrian Monk, portrayed by Tony Shalhoub, is the title character and protagonist of the USA Network television series Monk. He is a renowned former homicide...
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Sophie Charlene Akland Monk (born 14 December 1979) is a British-born Australian singer, actress, television personality, and model. She was a member of...
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by Timoon Animation and SAMG Animation. Season 1 of Monk Little Dog premiered on June 16, 2009 on Canal+ in France and ran until June 11, 2010. In the...
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Tang Sanzang (redirect from Monk of Tang)
Tang Sanzang is a Buddhist monk and pilgrim who is a central character in the 16th century novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. His birth surname...
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Gerry Hutch (redirect from Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch)
ascetic lifestyle" since leaving prison in 1985, he was nicknamed "The Monk" by Irish Times journalist Harry McGee. He is the reputed head of the Hutch...
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Trappists (redirect from Trappist Monk)
individual who obtained income from the monastery but was not a professed monk and otherwise had no monastic obligations. The second son of Denis Bouthillier...
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The Monk Skin Tone Scale is an open-source, 10-shade scale describing human skin color, developed by Ellis Monk in partnership with Google and released...
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Miles & Monk at Newport is a split album featuring separate performances by the Miles Davis sextet and the Thelonious Monk quartet at the Newport Jazz...
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Shaolin Monastery (redirect from Shaolin monk)
pp. 10–11 Shahar 2008, p. 9 "Shaolin Monk Corps--Shaolin Temple". www.shaolin.org.cn. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 26 August...
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other symbols instead of Coptic letters. Marina, distinguished as Marina the Monk and also known as Marina the Syrian, Marinos, Pelagia (this being the Greek...
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Black Monk Time is the only studio album by German-based American garage rock band The Monks, released in March 1966 through Polydor Records. The album's...
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Thích Quảng Đức (redirect from Monk on fire)
1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the...
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Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie is a 2023 American comedy mystery film directed by Randy Zisk. It is a sequel to the USA Network television series Monk...
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The Monk is an epithet for: Abraham the Monk, Christian monk who converted to Judaism about 614 Cosmas the Monk, 7th-century Sicilian monk Epiphanius the...
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characters from Monk, an American comedy-drama detective television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk. Monk's assistant...
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