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Noah's ark

Noah's ark \No"ah's ark\, prop. n. The ship built by Noah according to God's command, as related in the bible.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A marine bivalve shell ( Arca No[ae]), which somewhat resembles an ark, or ship, in form.

3. A child's toy, consisting of an ark-shaped box containing many different wooden animals.

4. (Fig.) Anything having a wide and representative assortment of people or objects of a particular class; as, the bar scene in Star Wars was a Noah's Ark of almost every imaginable alien form..

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Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark (; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative ( Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from the flood. According to Genesis, God gave Noah instructions for building the ark. Seven days before the deluge, God told Noah to enter the ark with his household and the animals. The story goes on to describe the ark being afloat throughout the flood and subsequent receding of the waters before it came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat. The story is repeated, with variations, in the Quran, where the ark appears as Safina Nuh ( "Noah's boat"). The Genesis flood narrative is similar to numerous other flood myths from a variety of cultures. The earliest known written flood myth is the Sumerian flood myth found in the Epic of Ziusudra. Searches for Noah's Ark have been made from at least the time of Eusebius (c.275–339 CE) to the present day. There is no scientific evidence for a global flood, and despite many expeditions, no evidence of the ark has been found. The practical challenges associated with building an ark large enough to house all living animal types, and even plants, would have been very considerable.

Noah's Ark (disambiguation)

Noah's Ark was the vessel built by Noah in the Bible and the Quran.

Noah's Ark or Arc can also refer to:

Noah's Ark (album)

Noah's Ark is the second album by sister duo CocoRosie. It was released on September 13, 2005 by Touch and Go Records. In addition to the group's two core members, Bianca and Sierra Casady, the album includes collaborations with a number of other musicians including Antony Hegarty, Devendra Banhart and Spleen.

Noah's Ark (game)

Noah's Ark is a video game developed by PopCap Games and programmed by Richard Cresswell, where the object is to clear as many animals as the player can, two-by-two, from the screen. Two animals that look alike and can be reached without touching other animals can be cleared.

Noah's Ark (UK TV series)

Noah's Ark is a British television series, which aired on ITV. It was first broadcast on 8 September 1997. The final episode was aired on 13 October 1997. There were 6 episodes in the first series. A second series, also of 6 episodes, aired in 1998.

Noah's Ark (book)

Noah's Ark is a picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday in 1977. The text includes Spier's translation of "The Flood" by Jacobus Revius, a 17th-century poem telling the Bible story of Noah's Ark. According to Kirkus Reviews, the poem comprises sixty three-syllable lines such as "Pair by pair" (in translation). "Without revising or even enlarging on the old story, Spier fills it in, delightfully."

For Noah's Ark Spier won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for illustration and the 1982 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books (paperback).

Noah's Ark (1928 film)

Noah's Ark is a 1928 American early romantic melodramatic disaster film directed by Michael Curtiz. The story was by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film starred Dolores Costello and George O'Brien, and released by the Warner Bros. studio. The film was representative of the transition from silent movies to " talkies", although it was essentially a hybrid film known as a part-talkie, that used the new Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. Most scenes are silent with a synchronized music score and sound effects, in particular the biblical ones, while some scenes have dialogue.

Noah's Ark (video game)

Noah's Ark is a platform game for the NES produced by Source R&D and published in 1992 by Konami. It was officially only released in Europe. Unlike most other games based on Biblical content, this one was officially approved by Nintendo. It is very loosely based on the biblical story with the same name.

Noah's Ark (2007 film)

Noah's Ark, El Arca ("The Ark") in the original English/Spanish version, is a 2007 Argentine-Italian film directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini and based on Noah's Ark. The film focuses more on the animals' point of view. The story tends to follow the traditional biblical story; however, both the humans and the animals involved are seen as "talking" creatures throughout the film.

Noah's Ark (miniseries)

Noah's Ark is a 1999 television film directed by John Irvin and starring Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Mark Bazeley, Jonathan Cake, Alexis Denisof, Emily Mortimer, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and James Coburn. The film tells the Biblical story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis. It was initially televised in the United States, that same year, was also televised in Canada, Germany and Portugal, among other countries.

Noah's Ark (1956 TV series)

Noah's Ark is an American drama series which aired on NBC in the 1956- 1957 season.

Along with Richard Boone's Medic, Noah's Ark was one of the early medical shows on American television. It was also an early program to be aired in color at a time when most selections were in black-and-white.

Noah's Ark (Hong Kong)

Noah's Ark is a tourist attraction located on Ma Wan Island in Hong Kong. It is an evangelical Christian theme park centred, according to its own materials, on the themes of nature, art, education and love. The overarching theme of the park is a creationist narrative. It was built by Thomas and Raymond Kwok, Hong Kong real estate developers who, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, between them control a $15 billion fortune. Thomas and his wife converted to Christianity after completing an eleven-week Alpha Course designed to introduce non-Christians to the basic tenets of the faith.

Noah's Ark (fun house)

Noah's Ark is a type of amusement park walk-through attraction built between 1919 and 1936. It features a fun house in the shape of the biblical vessel found in the Genesis flood narrative. As such, most Noah's Arks featured scenes depicting animals and the biblical prophet Noah alongside traditional fun house gags.

Usage examples of "noah's ark".

But after seventeen years of miserable bachelorhood I've come to understand why Noah's Ark was not a singles' cruise.

But it is a crime against the state and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunkard, the voluptuary, the congenital defective, from drifting to death, unless they prove by their own dogged determination to master their circumstances, that they are fit to pull their weight in the Noah's Ark of mankind.

Rather than being an escape from the flood, Noah's Ark was seen as a cause of it.

I suppose the reader has some notion of an American railroad-car, that long, narrow wooden box, like a flat-roofed Noah's ark, with a stove and a convenience, one at either end, a passage down the middle, and transverse benches upon either hand.

Operation 'Noah's Ark' found the British harassing the Axis withdrawal with Beaufighters and canoes, transforming the Iron Ring into an Iron Cage.

A huge wooden Noah's Ark contained almost as many pairs of animals as the original must have done.

It had been raining nonstop for weeks, and joking reports from the lookouts contained sightings of Noah's Ark.