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1 day ago · Islam (4.6%) Buddhism (0.2%) Judaism (0.1%) Hinduism (0.1%) Yazidism (0.1%) other religions (0.3%) Christianity is the largest religion in Germany. It was introduced to the area of modern Germany by 300 AD, while parts of that area belonged to the Roman Empire, and later, when Franks and other Germanic tribes converted to Christianity from the ...
7 hours ago · Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global, peer-led mutual-aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined twelve-step program. [1] AA’s Twelve Traditions, besides stressing anonymity and the lack of a governing hierarchy, establish AA as free to all, non-promotional, non-professional ...
1 day ago · Frederick II(German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussiafrom 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollernmonarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussiaafter annexing Royal Prussiafrom the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealthin 1772. His most significant accomplishments ...
7 hours ago · Dante, lost in his selva oscura at the pivotal age of 30, created a durable poetic image of human freedom laced with despair. Rubens’s Het Steen, a dawn vista made by the artist at nearly 60, with but a few years left to live, erased the despair. The dark woods give way to glowing meadows amenable to meandering.
7 hours ago · Witchcraft is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic or supernatural powers to inflict harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. [1] According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "Witchcraft thus defined ...
1 day ago · Such composers as Rodgers and Hart (in their 1934 song "Blue Moon"), and Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser (in their 1938 "Heart and Soul") used a I–vi–ii–V-loop chord progression in those hit songs; composers of doo-wop songs varied this slightly but significantly to the chord progression I–vi–IV–V, so influential that it is sometimes referred to as the '50s progression.
