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Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may...

A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors)...

The status of women in Mormonism has been a source of public debate since before the death of Joseph Smith in 1844. Various denominations within the Latter...

The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939...

Propaganda techniques are methods used in propaganda to convince an audience to believe what the propagandist wants them to believe. Many propaganda techniques...

James Jesse Strang (March 21, 1813 – July 9, 1856) was an American religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch. He served as a member of the...

Sacred groves, sacred woods, or sacred forests are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature...

An exarchate is any territorial jurisdiction, either secular or ecclesiastical, whose ruler is called an exarch. Byzantine Emperor Maurice created the...

Political abuse of psychiatry, also known as punitive psychiatry, refers to the misuse of psychiatric diagnosis, detention, and treatment to suppress individual...

Kneeling is a basic human position where one or both knees touch the ground. According to Merriam-Webster, kneeling is defined as "to position the body...

Tāpatraya refers to the three sources of Tāpa (literally, heat, or suffering) recognised in Hindu philosophy: Ādhyātmika — the suffering caused by 'internal'...

Stanborough Park Church is a Seventh-day Adventist church located in the grounds of Stanborough Park in Watford, Hertfordshire. The foundation stone of...

45°38′57″N 13°46′30″E / 45.6491369°N 13.7750379°E / 45.6491369; 13.7750379 The Jewish Museum “Carlo and Vera Wagner", is located in via del Monte 5/7...