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Commemorating Jesus’ birth? Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary as a fulfillment of the Old Testament's Messianic prophecy. The Bible contains two accounts describing the events surrounding Jesus' birth. These biblical accounts are found in the Gospel of Matthew, namely Matthew 1:18 and the Gospel of Luke, specifically Luke 1:26 and 2:40. According to these accounts, Jesus was born to Mary, assisted by her husband Joseph, in the city of Bethlehem. Although nominally a Christian holiday, Christmas is also widely celebrated by many non-Christians, and many of its popular celebratory customs have pre-Christian or secular themes and origins. Popular modern holiday customs include gift-giving, music, an exchange of greeting cards, church celebrations, a special meal, and the display of various decorations, including Christmas trees, lights, garlands, mistletoe, nativity scenes, and holly. In addition, several similar mythological figures, known as Saint ...

Dreamhost deal Mecca Pilgrimage 2010 - slideshow with music "To learn about a religion is to understand its people." Hajj ( Arabic : حج ‎ Ḥajj ) is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca , Saudi Arabia .  It is currently the world's largest annual pilgrimage and is Islam's fifth pillar. This religious duty must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people and their submission to God ( Allah in the Arabic language). The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to the 12th day of Dhu al-Hijjah , the 12th and last month of the Islamic calendar . Because the Islamic calendar is lunar, eleven days shorter than the Gregorian calendar Ihram is the name given to the particular state where Muslims live while on the pilgrimage. Used in the Western world, the Gregorian date of the Hajj changes from year to year. The Hajj is associated with the life of the  Islamic...

 This article should get some of us more rational regarding the big hype about 2012, Planet X, and Doomsday... being reasonable is the hardest thing to do when overcome with extreme feelings of fear, despair, or even rapture. So open your mind to the idea that it could all be a spook, and we will all laugh about it on December 22, 2012. Otherwise, would you want to be the one to clean up the mess that Doomsday will leave behind? Would you want to survive Doomsday? Leave your comment: The Mayans Never Predicted the Doomsday Before continuing, it's worth emphasizing that this mesoamerican calendar (used by several cultures -- including the Maya -- in Central and South America before European colonization) does not predict an apocalypse. It never did, despite what the movie "2012" told us . The Mayan civilization existed from 250-900 A.D. in the current geographical location of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador,  and some of Honduras. Archaeologists...

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1492 Christopher Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue... Christopher Columbus was a man of his time; like all settlers, he was looking to make money, and slavery was one way... In 1485 the inquisition was at its pinnacle; Spain was ruled by the Catholic King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Columbus was already a middle age man when he approached Spain's queen and king. He dreamed of a fantastic voyage over the sea and bringing back gold, spices, and slaves like Marco Polo and others have done over land and, like them, received great wealth, honor, and titles in return. Quick Facts Christopher Columbus was a brilliant navigator. Christopher Columbus never set foot on mainland North America. The closest he got was one of the present-day Bahamas islands. Columbus did not have any women on his first two voyages. In 1498, Columbus recruited one woman for every ten men on his third voyage. Neither Columbus nor the Vikings discovered the "New World," as people settled it centurie...

How can we ever be the leader of the civilized world when our government acts like the government we sanction for their Human Right Violation. British Channel 4 engaged the Team Delta Cadre to recreate the Guantanamo Bay interrogation experience. At the production company’s request, along with Team Delta’s standard interrogation approach, the cadre reenacted several events reported at Guantanamo. In most cases, these reenacted events were counterproductive to the interrogation plan developed by Team Delta. This plan had learned 80% of the requested intelligence within the first few hours of capture. Prisoner 73 on his experience: Total deprivation of sleep, food and water. Exposure to extreme heat and cold. Up to 20 minutes in stress positions. Up to 2 hours listening to white noise… Plus, any other interrogation technique deemed acceptable by the interrogation team’ By any standards, the waiver I signed for “Guantanamo Guidebook” was unique. Two weeks later, when I was lying naked...

The world's most Failed States. " Somalia" Powered by GoodWidgets.com For the last half-decade, the Fund for Peace, working with Foreign Policy, has been putting together the Failed States Index , using a battery of indicators to determine how stable -- or unstable -- a country is. But as the photos demonstrate, sometimes the best test is the simplest: You'll only know a failed state when you see it. 1. SOMALIA FSI score: 114.3 (out of 120) Somalia has topped the Failed States Index for the last three years -- a testament to the depth of the country's long-running political and humanitarian disaster and, as James Traub writes , to the international community's inability to find an answer. After two decades of chaos , the country is mainly under the control of Islamist militant groups, the most notorious and powerful of which is al-Shabab. A second faction, Hizbul Islam, rivals the former in brutality -- it recently executed two Somalis for the crime o...