Atlantis is a legendary nation that is said to have been utterly destroyed by some unknown catastrophe and sunk into the sea, leaving almost no trace they ever existed. The most prominent document about Atlantis is from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato around 360 BC. According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval superpower that had… [Read More]
Archives for May 2012
A Look At Hindu Deities
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There are many deities in Hinduism. If you ask one hundred Hindu devotees who the most important Hindu deities are, you will likely get one hundred different answers. Some put the number as high as 330 million. Depictions of Hindu deities often differ because each image shows different symbols of the deity’s qualities. The features,… [Read More]
Alexander The Great And Oracles
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Alexander the Great was an ancient warrior and king of Macedonia who would conquer most of the known world from the Himalayan mountains of Asia to Egypt and doing so in a surprisingly short time and at a surprisingly young age Though Alexander lived only into his thirties, 2000 years after his death, he is… [Read More]
Largest Christian Denominations
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The four largest Christian denominations are Roman Catholicism, the Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, and Anglicanism or Episcopalianism. The Roman Catholic Church comprises over a seventh of the human population, with roughly a billion followers worldwide. This also accounts for about half of the world’s Christians. Though this is not common knowledge, all of the other Christian… [Read More]
