Madame Bovary (2014)
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Greek love is a term originally used by classicists to describe the primarily homoerotic customs, practices, and attitudes of the ancient Greeks. It was frequently used as a euphemism for both homosexuality and pederasty.
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The Bielefeld conspiracy is a satirical conspiracy theory that claims that the city of Bielefeld, Germany, does not exist, and is instead an illusion propagated by various forces to distract or mislead the German public.
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Meet Wilhelm!
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On 19 November, 2016 the Jubilee Act would be carried out, attended by President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Beata Szydło where Jesus Christ was proclaimed King of Poland, although, there was no formal constitutional amendment to implement this proclamation.
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The 2006 Mumbai sweet seawater incident was a phenomenon during which residents claimed the water at Mahim Creek had suddenly turned sweet. Within hours, residents of Gujarat claimed that seawater at Tithal beach had also turned sweet. This caused a mass hysteria of people coming to drink the water.
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TIL that Matthew McNulty was actually born and raised in Germany for the first ten years of his life, before moving to the UK.
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The Ouzel Galley was an Irish merchant ship in the late 1700s that was presumed lost with all hands when she failed to return within the next three years. After a further two years had past she mysteriously reappeared with her full complement of crew and a cargo of exotic goods and piratical spoils.
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Church of St Mary and St Gabriel in Devon, England, dating to Norman times. [2000x1335]
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Basílica Menor de Nossa Senhora das Dores, the oldest church in Porto Alegre, Brazil, dating to 1807. Photo by me. [3060x4080]
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Unitarianism is a nontrinitarian sect of Christianity that affirms the unitary nature of God as the singular and unique creator of the universe, believes that Jesus Christ was inspired by God in his moral teachings and that he is the savior of mankind, but he is not equal to God himself.
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Church of the Annunciation, Walsingham, England [1800x2048]
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The Mill (2013-2014), a British period drama series based on real-life stories and people of the textile mill workers at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire in 1830s Britain during the Industrial Revolution.
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Sir David Attenborough OM GCMG CH CVO CBE FRS FSA FRSA FLS FZS FRSGS FRSB (b. 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and writer.
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Belinda Dann was an Indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation. She was taken away from her family to be integrated with White society at a young age (6, 7, or 8) and only reunited with family in 2007 at the age of 107, when she met her 97-year-old brother for the first time.
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St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, Gary, Indiana, USA [3240x4320]
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A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one.
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The Abbaye Saint-Michel, the headquarters of the Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X, in Brenne, France. [3264x2448]
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In 1556 on the Island of Guernsey, two sisters and their mother were burned at the stake together for being protestant. One of the sisters was pregnant and the infant burst out of his burning mother's body, only to be thrown back into the flames.
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2024 TV series)
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Throughout history, printers' errors and translation mistakes have appeared in a number of published Bibles. Bibles with features considered to be erroneous are known as Bible errata, and were often destroyed or suppressed due to their contents being considered heretical.
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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was an American socialite. She was the daughter of a Baltimore merchant and the first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother. All Patterson's direct descendants now live in Europe, and all of them belong to the Scandinavian aristocracy.
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Convento del Carmen de Pastrana, founded by St. Teresa of Avila in 1569. [3872x2592]
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St Andrew-by-the-Ford, a church of Saxon origin in Ford, West Sussex, dating to between AD 700 and 1040, with later Norman additions. I took this photo when I lived nearby in 2015. My grandfather officiated there on occasion. [2592x1944]
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