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Section II : The Mother/Child, and Origin of the Child Sub-Section I: The Child in Assyri Sub-Section II: The Child in Egypt Sub-Section III: The Child in Greece Sub-Section IV: The Death of the Child Sub-Section V: The Deification of the Child

An interesting thing is happening right now and its really a fantastic opportunity to highlight just how useful our current roster of audio books is in the context of how home schoolers and others can remind our fellow Americans that yes, our Founding Fathers did get it right - and that includes on the topic of slavery, and where can you find the truth? How can you give others the truth? How can we all join together to undermine America's historical class who does not want anybody to know the real American history? Slavery was indeed bad. Let's get that...

Illustrative photo of a woman brushing her teeth. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash 90) Israeli tap water will no longer contain fluoride after Tuesday, following a decree by Health Minister Yael German earlier this month discontinuing the practice. The decision has been lauded by various rights groups, but criticized by many in the medical and dental communities as a serious mistake. Fluoride is commonly added to national water supplies by governments throughout the world in order to prevent tooth decay, but critics say overconsumption of the invisible, odorless, tasteless gas is a health hazard. Israel originally mandated water fluoridation in 1970...

Putin probably has all the pro-Russian territory of Ukraine already. Ukraine will not give up territory without a fight. Putin will probably effectively insist to the end that: 1. Russian assets to be returned by the EU, US & UK (over a specified time), 2. Ukraine to not be a threat to Russia as follows: a. Ukraine to be neutral, b. Ukraine not to be a member of any military alliance, c. Ukraine not to have secret treaties, d. no foreign military personnel, or any that have been employed by a NATO member government, to be on territory under control...

Does anyone know where to find the facts that Trump solved/ended 6 wars? Even the AI chats are calling him a liar stating things like he stopped it for one day, he had nothing to do with it or it never really ended. Thanks

What if the internet as you know it—teeming with human creativity, genuine conversations, and authentic connections—was already gone? Bold as it sounds, the Dead Internet Theory suggests that much of the web has been overtaken by bots, algorithms, and now, generative AI. Imagine scrolling through your favorite platform, only to realize that the content you’re consuming, the comments you’re reading, and even the conversations you’re having might not be from real people at all. As generative AI continues to evolve, this once-fringe theory is gaining unsettling credibility. Could it be that the internet has quietly transformed into a machine-driven echo...

A prominent Al Jazeera journalist was killed in an airstrike alongside four of his colleagues as Israel’s military accused him of posing as a reporter to run a Hamas terrorist cell. Anas Al Sharif, a 28-year-old correspondent, was among those killed Sunday when the strikes hit a tent near Al Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City, Gaza officials and Al Jazeera confirmed. “Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, calling him a “terrorist” who “posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.”

Violet, 5, wants to know: what was life like before refrigerators? And Ellinor, 6, asks: how did they make ice in the old times? In this episode, we learn about the history of ice harvesting and the industry that built up around it, where ice cut from lakes in New England was shipped to as far away as India and the Caribbean.

Background: There are forces that create major shifts, and in the last years there has been a lot of talk about how "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy That is what I am seeing in the real estate sector. Does anybody have any solid sources on the topic that puts things together (an analytical piece that shows where policy changes are driving what is happening), concerning who actually owns the real estate in the US? It appears, but I have no solid sources, that real estate is getting bought up by commercial investors, and often is longer for...

Even with public trust at an all-time low, Wikipedia continues to maintain people's confidence. How do they do it? Former CEO of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher delves into the transparent, adaptable and community-building ways the online encyclopedia brings free and reliable information to the public -- while also accounting for bias and difference of opinion. "The seeds of our disagreement can actually become the roots of our common purpose," she says.

It is a valid question to ask what has happened with this woman Sade Perkins who made very inappropriate comments about the victims of the Kerrville area floods that killed over 100 people. It seems like the media completely buried the story about her ugly comments. The pediatrician who made comments was in the news far longer and did not make near the comments this Sade Perkins made. Then, Perkins posted something somewhere showing her weapons and basically threatening anyone who criticized her. How was she able to do that and get away with it? If I were to make...

Antifa has become one of the most polarizing forces in modern American politics. Labelled by critics as a violent extremist group and by supporters as anti-fascist defenders, its true identity lies somewhere between the headlines and the chaos in the streets. But where did Antifa come from, and how did it rise to prominence in the 21st century? In this episode, we trace Antifa's ideological roots back to pre-WWII Europe, where militant resistance groups first confronted fascist movements. We explore how those ideals evolved over decades and crossed into the U.S., merging with elements of anarchism, socialism, and direct-action activism....

The Autobiography of Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge was a great man and president, and his legacy is entirely unique. Sure, it is due in part to the timing of when he became President but the thing of it is that as President, he acted accordingly. He was the only President in U.S. history who defeated both the left-wing progressives(the Wilsonians) and the right-wing progressives.(The Bull Moosers) Some people are placed in a position of greatness. Acting great once in that position is left solely to the man. It is Calvin Coolidge, he is why the Progressive Era came to an end....

Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the United States, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down.

Desperate to win back male voters, Democrat strategists propose bold new ideas. Will they work, or backfire spectacularly? Transcript linked below video, but the video is worth the four minutes it takes to watch it.

To my darling husband Joseph Fontaine Baugher, of 35 beautiful married years! You have been my whole world. We met in 1965 in the Physics Department at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island. I was Physics Department secretary on the fourth floor of the newly built Barus Holly modern science building. You were an adorable young Physics graduate student working for your Ph.D. Not only were you brilliant but also a gentleman. You had eyes only for me. Our Physics Department was also fun. Chairman of our Physics Department, Phil Bray was a character. Finally, in 1969, you received your...

Residents of Tuvalu, one of the world’s lowest-lying island nations, are preparing for a historic migration as the impacts of climate change push the country closer to becoming uninhabitable. Thousands of Tuvaluans have applied for a new visa program that allows them to relocate to Australia in response to rising sea levels threatening their homeland. The Pacific Engagement Visa, part of a treaty between Australia and Tuvalu, is the world’s first climate migration agreement. It offers Tuvaluan citizens the opportunity to permanently move to Australia to escape the imminent threat of flooding back home. Only 280 people will be accepted...

From Auschwitz to Abortion: The Tragedy of Henry Morgentaler It has long haunted me how Henry Morgentaler, sometimes referred to as Canada’s “father of abortion,” survived Nazi concentration camps only to go on to perpetrate similar horrors against the smallest and most vulnerable members of the human family: preborn children. How did a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland—someone who endured the worst of man’s inhumanity to man at the infamous Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Dachau—go on to dehumanize and destroy tens of thousands of preborn human beings, robbing them of their most fundamental right: the right to life?...

Bill Cosby said that when he learned of the death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played his son on "The Cosby Show," he spoke with Phylicia Rashad, who played the mother. "We were embracing each other over the phone about a dearly beloved friend ... Malcolm was always embracing relationships with everybody he worked with," Cosby told "CBS Weekend News" anchor Jericka Duncan in an interview. Warner's death shocked the entertainment world Monday when it became known that the performer drowned in Costa Rica the day before during a family vacation. The 54-year-old was apparently pulled out to sea by a...

When you are accused, criticized, or attacked, what is your first instinct? To defend yourself. To explain your intentions. To set the record straight. But Niccolò Machiavelli, the master strategist of power, would tell you this is a fatal error. Every word you spend on defense is a word that solidifies your position as the weak one, the one on trial. You are playing their game, on their terms, and you have already lost. In this brutally effective video, “NEVER Defend Yourself - Machiavelli’s Trick to Flip the Power Instantly,” we break down one of the most potent psychological tactics...