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1 hour ago · A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away from strict Amish rules, when teenagers can experiment with the modern vices ...
May 11, 2024 · Don’t reach for your spreadsheet. Those who have an appetite for interviews that are conducted in the spirit of a blood sport will have been well and truly satiated by the recent interrogation of the Act Party’s arts, culture, and heritage spokesperson by Steve Braunias. The literary editor of the Newsroom news site, Braunias has something ...
22 hours ago · Christianity (/ k r ɪ s tʃ i ˈ æ n ɪ t i / or / k r ɪ s t i ˈ æ n ɪ t i /) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers, comprising around 31.2% of the world population.
22 hours ago · Estonia is a multinational country in which over a hundred languages are spoken, according to data from one previous census held in 2000. In 2000, 67.3% of the country's adult population spoke Estonian as their first language whereas over 30% of the population spoke other languages at native level. [355]
22 hours ago · American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. [1] Centered on 14.3°S 170.7°W, it is east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 500 kilometers (310 mi) south of ...
- 77 sq mi (200 km²)
- Pago Pago
- 970 m (3,170 ft)
22 hours ago · Background Main articles: Davidian Seventh-day Adventist, Mount Carmel Center, Branch Davidians, and David Koresh The Branch Davidians (also known as "The Branch") were a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Shepherd's Rod (Davidians) following the death of the Shepherd's Rod founder Victor Houteff. Houteff founded the Davidians based on his prophecy of an imminent ...
22 hours ago · It was influential on world cinema and led to a rush of coming-of-age films in art house theatres. Cinematographer Subrata Mitra developed the technique of bounce lighting , to recreate the effect of daylight on sets, during the second film of the trilogy [96] and later pioneered other effects such as the photo-negative flashbacks and X-ray ...
