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Pocong (from Javanese: ꦥꦺꦴꦕꦺꦴꦁ, romanized: pocong, lit. 'wrapped-in-shroud') is a ghost that looked like person who is wrapped in a funeral cloth. [1] In Islamic funeral, a shroud called a " kain kafan " (in Indonesian and Malays) used to wrap the body of the dead person. The dead body is covered in white fabric tied over the head ...
t. e. The Javanese script (natively known as Aksara Jawa, Hanacaraka, Carakan, and Dentawyanjana) [1] is one of Indonesia 's traditional scripts developed on the island of Java. The script is primarily used to write the Javanese language, but in the course of its development has also been used to write several other regional languages such as ...
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ / GAL-il-AY-oh GAL-il-AY, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/ GAL-il-EE-oh -, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a ...
Yin and yang ( English: / jɪn /, / jæŋ / ), also yinyang [1] [2] or yin-yang, [3] [2] is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary (rather than opposing) forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole ...
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. / 34.38500°N 109.27306°E / 34.38500; 109.27306. The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting him in his afterlife.
Salisburia macrophylla Reyn. Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as ginkgo or gingko ( / ˈɡɪŋkoʊ, ˈɡɪŋkɡoʊ / GINK-oh, -goh ), [5] [6] also known as the maidenhair tree, [7] is a species of gymnosperm tree native to East Asia. It is the last living species in the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago, and ...
Syed (Malay), Sayyid or Sayed (Philippines), is a title inherited by male descendants, through the male line, from Muhammad via his grandsons Hassan and Hussein. Female descendants are known as Syarifah, Sharifah, or Sayyidah. Meor is a title inherited by the male issue of a Syarifah and non-Syed father.
Torii mark the entrance to Shinto shrines and are recognizable symbols of the religion. Shinto ( Japanese: 神道, romanized : Shintō) is a religion originating from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion.