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The Falun Gong qigong movement uses a symbol that features a large swastika surrounded by four smaller (and rounded) ones, interspersed with yin-and-yang symbols. Heathenry. The swastika is a holy symbol in neopagan Germanic Heathenry, along with the hammer of Thor and runes. This tradition – which is found in Scandinavia, Germany, and ...
Ivan IV Vasilyevich ( Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; [d] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [ O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, [note 1] was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. [4]
644066940. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
The 2018 Surabaya bombings were a series of terrorist attacks that initially occurred on 13 May 2018 in three churches in Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia and the capital of East Java province. The explosions occurred at Immaculate Saint Mary Catholic Church ( Gereja Katolik Santa Maria Tak Bercela, SMTB) on Ngagel Madya Street ...
The yangban ( Korean : 양반; Hanja : 兩班) were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. The yangban were mainly composed of highly educated civil servants and military officers—landed or unlanded aristocrats who individually exemplified the Korean Confucian form of a "scholarly official".
On 7 October 2023, during the Re'im music festival massacre, Shani Nicole Louk ( Hebrew: שני ניקול לוק ), a 22-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist and influencer, was killed. Shortly after the attack, a video circulated showing her body paraded through the streets of Gaza by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck.
The Great (TV series) The Great. (TV series) The Great (titled onscreen as The Great: An Occasionally True Story and in one episode as The Great: An Almost Entirely Untrue Story) is an alternate historical and satirical comedy - drama television series very loosely based on the rise to power of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. The series ...
Che Guevara. Ernesto " Che " Guevara ( Spanish: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa]; [3] 14 June 1928 [1] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and ...