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  2. Aṅguttara Nikāya - Wikipedia

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    Paṭṭhāna. The Aṅguttara Nikāya ( aṅguttaranikāya; lit. 'Increased-by-One Collection', also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the fourth of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of ...

  3. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    In the Judaic worldview, the meaning of life is to elevate the physical world ('Olam HaZeh') and prepare it for the world to come (' Olam HaBa '), the messianic era. This is called Tikkun Olam ("Fixing the World"). Olam HaBa can also mean the spiritual afterlife, and there is debate concerning the eschatological order.

  4. Life - Wikipedia

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    Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction. All life over time eventually reaches a state of ...

  5. List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

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    List of countries by population (United Nations) This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2022 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]

  6. Machu Picchu - Wikipedia

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    Area. 38,160.87 ha. Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. [2] [3] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [4] above ...

  7. Kehidupan - Wikipedia

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    Kehidupan. The opening riff by Ian Antono and lyrics sung by Ahmad Albar. The hard-rock influence has been cited as a possible reason for the song's continuing popularity. " Kehidupan " ("Life") is a 1988 single by God Bless from their third album, Semut Hitam ( Black Ants ).

  8. Great Wall of China - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wall of China ( traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from ...

  9. 2020 Darfur attacks - Wikipedia

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    The 2020 Darfur attacks were three mass shootings that occurred in July 2020 in Darfur, Sudan.Sudan's leadership and the joint United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur have connected the massacres to land conflicts relating to farming rights, typically between non-Arab tribal farmers, such as the Masalit people, and Arab Bedouin tribes, whom the government believes to be the attackers.