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The Sati of Ramabai, Wife of Madhavrao Peshwa (reigned 1761-1772) (Public Domain) — 10 Aug 2020

The Bitter Battle of Bubat: Divorcing the Javanese and the Sundanese

By MartiniF

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The modern-day Java Island of Indonesia now boasts diverse ethnic and religious communities, but the island was once divided by the bitter Battle of Bubat, when a royal wedding turned into a blood bath. The island is traditionally dominated by two...
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The Sati of Ramabai, Wife of Madhavrao Peshwa (reigned 1761-1772) (Public Domain) — 10 Aug 2020

The Bitter Battle of Bubat: Divorcing the Javanese and the Sundanese

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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The modern-day Java Island of Indonesia now boasts diverse ethnic and religious communities, but the island was once divided by the bitter Battle of Bubat, when a royal wedding turned into a blood bath. The island is traditionally dominated by two...
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Hagia Sophia in February 2020 (A.Savin/ Public Domain) — 07 Aug 2020

The Storied Past of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia

By jim willis

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On July 12, 2020, Pope Francis stood silently in a pulpit placed in the large window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Rome. He had just delivered the weekly Angelus prayer given each Sunday, which had lifted up those who work at...
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Hagia Sophia in February 2020 (A.Savin/ Public Domain) — 07 Aug 2020

The Storied Past of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia

By jim willis

History & Tradition

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On July 12, 2020, Pope Francis stood silently in a pulpit placed in the large window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Rome. He had just delivered the weekly Angelus prayer given each Sunday, which had lifted up those who work at...
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Transcript of The Silvery Water by Ibn Umayl at-Tamîmî by An Islamic artist 739H/1339, probably in Baghdad. Topkapi Library (Public Domain) — 31 Jul 2020

Grandfathers of Alchemy, Forefathers Of Chemistry

By ashley cowie

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Alchemy is a word almost everyone has heard of, but few have ever committed more than a handful of hours trying to grasp what this heavily loaded symbolic word actually means, in its entirely. So often the interested are discouraged by the complex...
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Transcript of The Silvery Water by Ibn Umayl at-Tamîmî by An Islamic artist 739H/1339, probably in Baghdad. Topkapi Library (Public Domain) — 31 Jul 2020

Grandfathers of Alchemy, Forefathers Of Chemistry

By ashley cowie

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Alchemy is a word almost everyone has heard of, but few have ever committed more than a handful of hours trying to grasp what this heavily loaded symbolic word actually means, in its entirely. So often the interested are discouraged by the complex...
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Cupid the Honey Thief by Albrecht Dürer (1514) Kunsthistorisches Museum (Public Domain) — 29 Jul 2020

To Bee Or Not to Bee In The History Of Mankind

By Roberto Volterri

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“Sì come schiera d'ape, che s'infiora /as a host of bees, which blooms” said Dante Alighieri in Paradiso, XXXI, v.7The Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the mythology of the Maya, tells how the bee was born from an 'universal beehive' that...
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Cupid the Honey Thief by Albrecht Dürer (1514) Kunsthistorisches Museum (Public Domain) — 29 Jul 2020

To Bee Or Not to Bee In The History Of Mankind

By Roberto Volterri

History & Tradition

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“Sì come schiera d'ape, che s'infiora /as a host of bees, which blooms” said Dante Alighieri in Paradiso, XXXI, v.7The Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the mythology of the Maya, tells how the bee was born from an 'universal beehive' that...
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Five sangomas at an Umgido Ceremony in Zululand (Wizzy/ CC BY-SA 3.0) — 22 Jul 2020

Busakatsi Witchcraft in Africa: Religion Or Criminal Act

By micki pistorius

History & Tradition, Philosophy & Spirituality, Health & Well-being

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The world is under the impression that the scourge of witch hunts came to an end in the 18th century. Cory was among the seven women and one man hanged as witches on September 22, 1692 in America and Anna Göldi was an 18th-century Swiss woman who...
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Five sangomas at an Umgido Ceremony in Zululand (Wizzy/ CC BY-SA 3.0) — 22 Jul 2020

Busakatsi Witchcraft in Africa: Religion Or Criminal Act

By micki pistorius

History & Tradition, Philosophy & Spirituality, Health & Well-being

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The world is under the impression that the scourge of witch hunts came to an end in the 18th century. Cory was among the seven women and one man hanged as witches on September 22, 1692 in America and Anna Göldi was an 18th-century Swiss woman who...
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