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A certain book by a famous author has been released in a new second edition. Unfortunately, it appears some changes have been made for the worse.
For instance, in the first edition:
"[..] a message for you about the next age, and the one just past."
This has been changed in the se...
The title of New Martyr or Neomartyr (, neo, the prefix for "new"; and μάρτυς, martys, "witness") of the Eastern Orthodox Church was originally given to martyrs who died under heretical rulers (the original martyrs being under pagans). Later the Church added to the list those martyred under Islam and various modern regimes, especially Communist ones, which espoused militant atheism. Officially, the era of the New Martyrs begins with the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Among those commemorated are not only those who gave their lives in martyrdom, but also those who are accounted as confesso...
Society of the Godless (); other names include Союз воинствующих безбожников (The Union of Belligerent Atheists or The League of the Militant Godless) and Союз безбожников (The Union of the Godless), was a mass volunteer antireligious organization of Soviet workers and others in 1925–1947. It "consisted of Party members, members of the Komsomol youth movement, workers and army veterans".
S.o.G. was an antireligious movement that developed in Soviet Russia under the influence of the ideological and cultural views and policies of the Communist Party.
S.o.G. embraced workers, peasants, stud...
State atheism has been defined as the official "promotion of atheism" by a government, typically by active suppression of religious freedom and practice.
State promotion of atheism as a public norm was first practised during a brief period in Revolutionary France. Since then, such a policy was repeated only in Revolutionary Mexico and some communist states. State atheism may include active opposition to religion, and persecution of religious institutions, leaders and believers. However, whether such persecution was truly motivated by atheism is disputed by others.
The Soviet Union had ...
I wrote code to detect a problem where live video playout of a file had moved beyond the end of the clip on disk. The clip itself may be growing due to an ongoing recording or a transfer of the file across a network. The error message described the effect ("displayed black") followed by a helpf...
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The Eastern Arabic numerals (also called Arabic-Indic numerals and Arabic Eastern Numerals) are the symbols () used to represent the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Arab world and other countries using the Arabic alphabet.
Other names
They are sometimes also called "Indic Numerals" in English. However, this nomenclature is sometimes discouraged as it leads to confusion with the numerals used in the scripts of India (see Indian numerals).
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There is substantial variation in usage of glyphs for the Eastern Arabic-Ind...
Euhemerus ( [Euhēmeros], "happy; prosperous") (late 4th century BC) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedon. Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messina in Sicily as the most probable location, while others champion Chios, or Tegea.
Euhemerism
He is chiefly known for a rationalizing method of interpretation, known as Euhemerism, that treats mythological accounts as a reflection of historical events, but shaped by retelling and traditional mores.
The intellectual climate was prepared for this development, Jean Seznec observed at the start of his Survival...
Spanish Train and Other Stories is the second album by Chris de Burgh, released by A&M Records in 1975.
Track listing
# "Spanish Train" – 5:00
# "Lonely Sky" – 3:52
# "This Song For You" – 4:14
# "Patricia the Stripper" – 3:30
# "A Spaceman Came Travelling" – 5:10
# "I'm Going Home" – 3:34
# "The Painter" – 4:20
# "Old Friend" – 3:40
# "The Tower" – 5:22
# "Just Another Poor Boy" – 4:46
All songs written by Chris de Burgh.
Personnel
* Chris de Burgh – Acoustic Guitars, Lead and all Backing Vocals, Piano on The Tower and This Song For You
* Barry de Souza – Drums
* Ray Glynn – Electric ...
Far Beyond These Castle Walls is the first album by Chris de Burgh, released by A&M Records in 1975.
Track listing
All compositions by Chris de Burgh
#"Hold On" – 4:03
#"The Key" – 4:08
#"Windy Night" – 4:53
#"Sin City" – 4:35
#"New Moon" – 4:59
#"Watching the World" – 3:32
#"Lonesome Cowboy" – 4:23
#"Satin Green Shutters" – 5:02
#"Turning Round", released outside the UK and Ireland as "Flying" – 6:24
#"Goodnight" – 2:07
Production
*Produced & Engineered By Robin Geoffrey Cable
*Assistant Engineer: Mike Stavrou
Personnel
*Chris De Burgh: Lead & Backing Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guita...
"Turtles all the way down" is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the Unmoved mover paradox. The phrase was popularized by Stephen Hawking in 1988. The "turtle" metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of a "primitive cosmological myth", viz. the flat earth supported on the back of a World Turtle.
A comparable metaphor describing the circular cause and consequence for the same problem is the "chicken and egg problem".
Another metaphor addressing the problem of infinite regression, albeit not in a cosmological context, is Quis custodiet ip...
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Modern English seems to require this verb in several circumstances, where most other European languages don't seem to need it. (See? I just used it.)
For example, in questions: "Do you have a dog?" Whereas, "Have you a dog?" would be normal in other languages or in the English of days gone by....Transcript for
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