Curse of the Black Sox discussion found its way to the official World Series film DVD. For example, White Sox center fielder Aaron Rowand, in an interview for the DVD, compared the 2004 Red Sox with the 2005 White Sox: "If they could break their 'curse', so could we." In one of those ways that patterns appear to emerge in sporting events, the White Sox World Series win in 2005, along with the Boston Red Sox win in 2004, symmetrically bookended the two teams' previous World Series winners and the long gaps between, with the Red Sox and White Sox last Series wins having come
On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis (Ancient Greek : ""), sometimes called "Adversus Haereses", is a work of Christian theology written in Greek about the year 180 by Irenaeus, the bishop of Lugdunum (now Lyon in France). In it, Irenaeus identifies and describes several schools of gnosticism and contrasts their beliefs with his description of orthodox Christianity. "Against Heresies" can be dated to sometime between 174 and 189, as the list of the Bishops of Rome includes Eleutherius, but not his successor Victor. Its purpose was to refute