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Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics,/organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may. Or may not contain various elements ranging from the——divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings. (Full article...)
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- ... that the Grave with the Hands commemorates a married couple, divided by, society. And religion, with hands clasped over a cemetery wall after death?
- ... that Freedom of Religion South Africa filed an unsuccessful lawsuit to keep child spanking legal?
- ... that religious studies scholar C. Jouco Bleeker believed that religions are like acorns?
- ... that Catherine de Parthenay, a 16th-century Huguenot leader, was a member of "a highly successful network of information" during the French Wars of Religion?
- ... that Gherardo Gambelli, the incoming archbishop of Florence, served as a prison chaplain in Chad for over a decade?
- ... that Musa va 'Uj depicts figures from all three Abrahamic religions?
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Image 1Tibetan prayer flag, by Moumine (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 2Meleager et Atalanta at Calydonian Boar, by Giulio Romano and François Louis Lonsing (edited by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 3al-Wakwak, unknown author (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 4Ruth in Boaz's Field, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 6Giant Suttung and the Dwarfs at Suttungr, by Louis Huard (restored by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 10Revelation 22:17 at Book of Revelation, by Joseph Martin Kronheim (edited by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 11Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant, by Benjamin West (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 12Folio from a Quran, unknown author (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 13Giant Skrymir and Thor at Útgarða-Loki, by Louis Huard (edited by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 15Mandala, unknown author (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 17Folio 27r at Lindisfarne Gospels, by Eadfrith of Lindisfarne (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 18The Punishment of Loki, by Louis Huard (edited by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 19Shroud of Turin, by Giuseppe Enrie (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 20Psalm 23, unknown author (edited by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 21Woman lighting a diyo during Tihar, by Mithun Kunwar (edited by Radomianin) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 23Nisse, by Jenny Nyström (restored by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 24Battle at Lanka, Ramayana, by Sahibdin (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 25Omer calendar at Counting of the Omer, by Baruch Zvi Ring (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 26Birmingham Quran manuscript, unknown author (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 28B'nai B'rith membership certificate, by Louis Kurz (edited by Durova and Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 29Young monks in Cambodia at Buddhism in Cambodia, by JJ Harrison (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 30Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith at Death of Joseph Smith, by G.W. Fasel and Charles G. Crehen (edited by Adam Cuerden) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 31Achilles sacrificing to Zeus for Patroclus' safe return at Ambrosian Iliad, unknown author (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 32Cheyenne sun dance gathering, by Henry Chaufty (edited by Durova) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 33Nias megalith, by Ludwig Borutta (edited by Durova) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 34The Virgin in Prayer at Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church, by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 37A Word of Comfort caricature at Joseph Priestley, by Dent William (edited by Durova) (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 39Lion of Babylon, unknown author (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 40A Virgin with a Unicorn, by Domenichino (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 41Devotees during Lathmar Holi, by Narender9 (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Image 42All Saints' Day at a cemetery, by Poco a poco (from XIV:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology)
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Portrait by Hans Asper, 1531 (Kunstmuseum Winterthur)
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Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century.
Zionism (derived from Zion) is an ethnic or ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe, with an eventual focus on the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in Mandatory Palestine, a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition, and an area of central importance in Jewish history and religion. Following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Zionism became the ideology supporting the protection and development of Israel as a Jewish state, in particular, a state with a Jewish demographic majority, and has been described as Israel's national or state ideology. (Full article...) -
Image 2Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected to go to the gas chambers.
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and POWs; the term Holocaust is sometimes used to refer to the persecution of these other groups. (Full article...) -
Image 3Cruise at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $5 billion in North America and over $12 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing box-office stars of all time. He is one of the world's highest-paid actors. (Full article...) -
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Albert Einstein (/ˈaɪnstaɪn/ EYEN-styne; German: [ˈalbɛɐt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, and was thus a central figure in the revolutionary reshaping of the scientific understanding of nature that modern physics accomplished in the first decades of the twentieth century. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. (Full article...) -
Image 5Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. Such machines may be called AIs. (Full article...)
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Jesus (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion. Christians believe Jesus to be the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited Jewish Messiah, or Christ, that is prophesied in the Old Testament. (Full article...) -
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Jonestown Cottages
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. (Full article...) -
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (from Sanskrit 'great-souled, venerable'), first applied to him in South Africa in 1914, is now used throughout the world. (Full article...) -
Image 9Hanks at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks's films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America. (Full article...) -
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Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often considered to be one of the greatest songwriters in history, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career. He rose to prominence in the 1960s, when songs such as "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. Initially modeling his style on Woody Guthrie's folk songs, Robert Johnson's blues, and what he called the "architectural forms" of Hank Williams's country songs, Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. (Full article...)
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