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Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public...

Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms...

Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honour of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children's...

George Philip Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/ LAY-kof; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's...

Mortuary Chapel, Handsworth Cemetery is a Grade I listed chapel in the Church of England in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. It was designed by the architect...

Kolob is a star or planet described in the Book of Abraham, a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Several Latter Day Saint denominations hold...

Fand ("tear", "teardrop of beauty") or Fann ("weak, helpless person'") is an otherworldly woman in Irish mythology. The two forms of her name are not phonetic...

The Mingun Pahtodawgyi (မင်းကွန်းပုထိုးတော်ကြီး, IPA: [mɪ́ɰ̃ɡʊ́ɰ̃ patʰóu dɔ̀ dʑí]) is an incomplete monument stupa in Mingun, approximately 10 kilometres...

Joseph Breuer, also known as Yosef Breuer (March 20, 1882 – April 19, 1980) was a rabbi and community leader in Germany and the United States. He was rabbi...

Vichāra, (Pāli: vicāra) in Indian philosophy, means deliberation; It is the faculty of discrimination that discerns the Real, Brahman, from the unreal...

Ganga Sahai, also known as Ganga Sahaya, was a late 19th-century Sanskrit scholar. He was the Dewan of Bundi State in British India from 1877 to 1913....