A vigil, from the Latin vigilia meaning wakefulness (Greek: pannychis, ÏÎ±Î½Î½ÏÏÎ¯Ï or agrypnia á¼Î³ÏÏÏÎ½Î¯Î±), is a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion for devotional watching, or an observance. The Italian word vigilia has become generalized in this sense and means eve (as in on the eve of the war).
NIAC Calls for White House Aide Sebastian Gorkaâs Resignation or Dismissal. âWe call on Sebastian Gourka to immediately resign his post as Trumpâs top counterterrorism aide. Antisemitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin and cannot be allowed in the most sacred halls of Americaâs democracy.
T he house in Nashville is gleaming white, with symmetrical wings and four twenty-foot-high Victorian columns. Under the soaring portico stands Al Gore, dressed in his casual uniform a button-down blue dress shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots. This is Goreâs White House, a 10,000-square-foot mansion he and Tipper renovated in 2007. Itâs currently uninhabited but for his dog, Bo (by strange coincidence, the name of the dog in the real White House, too), a chow mix, who is barking wildly.