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One holy place is known for aiding in a more earthly endeavor: securing a visa to go overseas.

A xenomorph inches close enough for the crab to raise its claws in defense before backing away from its tiny earthly cousin.

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It’s a lesson, this richly satisfying production suggests, that no earthly power can destroy except death — and possibly not even that.

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The world’s luckiest man has finally used all his earthly good fortune.

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“Perhaps those people will escape earthly justice, the justice of man, but when it comes to the justice of our Father God, no one escapes,” he said.

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