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Candles Burning On Table In Church

What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

Image of jewish holiday Hanukkah with drawing menorah candles (traditional Candelabra), donuts and dreidels (spinning top) over chalkboard background. Chanukah.

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights

Shofar, Thalit, Torah, Judaism, yom kippur

African American man praying in church with stained glass in background

Why Do People Say “Amen” at the End of a Prayer?

A Jewish man blowing the shofar at the Western Wall (Jerusalem, Israel)during Rosh Hashanah Jewish Holiday on September 18, 2009. (holidays, Judaism, new year)

Discover

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.

Where Is “Old Zealand”?

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Wife of murdered Chabad rabbi gives birth to daughter • Apr. 18, 2025, 4:28 PM ET (Jerusalem Post)

New York street co-named after Chabad's Lubavitcher Rebbe • Apr. 8, 2025, 10:37 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)

UAE sentences killers of Chabad emissary Zvi Kogan to death • Mar. 31, 2025, 5:30 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)

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