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Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Camel at Khor Rori, Oman; mammal.

Do Camels Store Water in Their Humps?

Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

6 Lost Civilizations

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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Anglican religious community Anglican Evangelical latitudinarian High Church Low Church Church of England Lambeth Conference archbishop of Canterbury churchwarden Lambeth Quadrilateral Lutheranism Baptist Methodism Calvinism Church of Christ free church The Protestant Heritage Society of Friends Pietism prosperity gospel

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George Berkeley

George Berkeley

Irish philosopher

Colenso, detail of an oil painting by Samuel Sidley, 1866; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Colenso

Anglican bishop of Natal, South Africa

John Strachan

British clergyman

Justinian

Romanian Orthodox patriarch

Robert Machray

Scottish archbishop

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Holy week. Easter. Valladolid. Procession of Nazarenos carry a cross during the Semana Santa (Holy week before Easter) in Valladolid, Spain. Good Friday

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