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3 hours ago · In her book on sacred landscapes and gender, Cole articulates how rites performed by women in Artemis cults strengthened the larger polis community. 24 Female priesthoods represent another productive strand of research that powerfully articulates the very real public authority of sacerdotal women in the classical polis. 25 Although not exclusively focused on women, the recent work on ancient ...
1 day ago · William Maher (/ m ɑːr /; born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is popularly known for the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and the similar late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002), originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC.
1 day ago · 1537: Boston born English Protestant clergyman and historian John Foxe whose famous literary work, Book of Martyrs “included stories of Jews” and whose writings on Jews show how a powerful writer conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-concious, Protestant English national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology, race, and politics” “took his bachelor’s degree today ...
3 hours ago · James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
1 day ago · From top to bottom, left to right: President Sukarno addressing protestors in front of the Merdeka Palace during the 17 October affair; supporters of the Bolivian National Revolution; a tsunami produced by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Russia that killed 2,336 people reaches Midway Atoll; The Catalina shot down by Soviet forces while searching for the missing Hugin; the 1952 Winter Olympics ...
1 day ago · The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother's attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.
1 day ago · Emily Dickinson Title page of the copy of the Bay Psalm Book held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Puritan poetry was highly religious, and one of the earliest books of poetry published was the Bay Psalm Book (1640), a set of translations of the biblical Psalms ; however, the translators' intention was not to create literature, but to create hymns that could be used in worship. [8]
