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The Swedish 🇸🇪 Myths: The Best Place to Live? 🧊 Let the Experts to Answer
Is it true that Swedes are suicide-prone? And what about Swedish sin — does it exist? All nationalities are subject to myths, but all groups do in fact have distinctive characteristics.
5 Most versatile US movie actors for students to look up to
During college, students need all types of entertainment to get by smoothly. This is their growth period when they explore new genres of music, movies, hobbies, and anything else of interest.
About Saratoga Horse Racing and The Latest Picks
Save this page and come back for free Saratoga choices each time you bet. The picks we have here are for free and sourced from different in-house handicappers. These aren't the run-of-the-mill free bets like you'll find on any other websites.
National Parks and Nature Reserves in Israel
Get to know the national parks and nature reserves that you shouldn't miss in Israel.
The Scotch Whisky Briefing for 2014
Here is the Scotch whisky briefing for 2014.
Romanian Culture on its Radical Changes and Modernization
The period of radical changes and modernization of Romanian culture coincided with the creation of the national state, upon the union of Moldavia and Wallachia, in 1859. The national identity was thus defined in relation to European model. Later on, the few decades of peace of the interwar period, after the completion of all the Romanians' union into one state in 1918, were devoted to the synchronization with European culture.
Illustrating the Pentecostal Experience of the Holy Spirit
Searching for God, for truth, and for faith is often a long and arduous process in a person's life. For some it takes a lifetime to find their truth, others were raised in the tradition in which they find truth, and still others come to it at a crucial point in their lives and literally feel as if they have been born again, into a truth where they can place their faith.
In Bapu's Company
They call it the pathology of normality. We psychoanalysts believe that if everything about a person is normal, there must be something wrong, explains Sudhir Kakar. But it's when everything is not normal about a person that he sits down to write a book.
An Old Practice of Lunar New Year in Indonesia
Jakarta (AFP) — Chinese-Indonesian Anatasha Eka will happily accept a red envelope stuffed with "good luck" cash from her grandmother and visit a temple for Lunar New Year -- despite being among a swelling number of young evangelical Christians here shrugging off Chinese tradition.
Arabic Brilliance Untold Story
Next year, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and the 150th of the publication of his On The Origin of Species, which revolutionized our understanding of biology.
Explore the Celtic Nations
Discover and learn more about the Celtic nations.
Florida's Phosphate
The phosphate industry is Florida's third largest industry, after tourism and agriculture. About 4,000 men and women are employed in Central Florida by the industry at a total annual payroll estimated at $300 million. In addition, approximately 20,000 more support jobs exist.
Roman Empire: The Greatest Empire
This work was carried out within the scope of History A, in compensation for the missing material. We write about the end of the greatest empire ever, the Roman, an ironic and tragic end for the people announcing tragedies. And also the coming of the Suevi, a Nordic people who occupied northern Spain and Portugal during the barbarian invasions of the 3rd century AD. Ç.
A Holiday Tree or a Christmas Tree?
Here we go again. To call a Christmas tree or not to call it a Christmas tree. It is a Christmas Tree for Christ's sake, pardon the pun. I, for one, a Muslim, am not offended by the presence of a beautifully decorated tree adorning homes stores and offices. It's rather pleasant to look at, to say nothing of the goodies underneath it.
Utopia Artistic Dimension
"I am only interested by the diverging conscience because only in it we can find utopic energies." Harald Szeeman Utopia experimented as pure experience, as basic parallel research, free from the need to be efficient, links that which is possible to the impossible through the practice of calculations, whether parallel or not, whose poetical result allows the meeting of science and art as an "interconnection of fields of knowledge."
War Poets Collection: Arras and Captain Satan
About the year 1640, James Howell, an English traveller spoke of "the Netherlands" as "the cockpit of Christendom." Some one suspecting him of cynicism has altered the phrase to "the cockpit of Europe." Howell was not, of course, referring to the Dutch Netherlands, for within its frontiers comparatively few battles have been fought, but to the Low Countries, comprising what is now Belgian Flanders and the old French province of Artois.
Middle Ages in Europe
The medieval forms in the history of Europe during the period between antiquity and the early modern period . Traditionally situated is done by Italian humanists introduced period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the Renaissance as from the 14th century in Italy began.
World Wide Web: Short History
The Internet can be traced back to the invention of computers and networking in the 1950s. In the early 1960s the Department of Defense finalized the first Computer Network, ARPANET. While working with ARPANET, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web to harness the Internet and connect his hypertext documents together. ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990 but limited private connections to the Internet in several larger cities by the late 1980s were growing and when NSFNET was decommissioned in 1995, they removed the last restrictions to public use of the Internet, paving the way to a commercially viable superhighway.
German: Belgium's One of the Official Language
German is one of the three officially recognized languages in Belgium along with Dutch and French. There are some 100,000 German speakers in Belgium today; 69,000 living in the areas where German is officially recognized around St Vith and Eupen, and some 20,000-25,000 in the unrecognized areas which include Montzen and Arel.
The Culture and Education in Belgium
In Flanders, the development of (cultural) competences is an important strategic objective of the government as a whole. The "Vision 2050. A long-term strategy for Flanders" identifies lifelong learning as a priority.
GALA Hispanic Theater History
2005 was a banner year for GALA as it moved into its long-awaited home at the Tivoli and became a permanent national Hispanic theater. 2006 marks GALA’s 30th year in existence as it celebrates its transition from Act One, as a groundbreaking yet somewhat nomadic theater, to Act Two, as a national center for Latino performing arts.
Belgian State And Church
The Belgian Constitution of 1831 determines until now the relationship between State and Church. In 1831 there were many debates between Catholics and Liberals about the influence of the Church. The result is the Constitution, a historic compromise.
Know More About Belgium
The Flemish Region covers 13,512 km2 and has a population of 5,824,628. With almost 431 inhabitants per square kilometer, the Flemish region represents one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
The History of GALA
2005 was a banner year for GALA as it moved into its long-awaited home at the Tivoli and became a permanent national Hispanic theater. 2006 marks GALA’s 30th year in existence as it celebrates its transition from Act One, as a groundbreaking yet somewhat nomadic theater, to Act Two, as a national center for Latino performing arts.