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10 hours ago · Stories about the Pleiades cluster go back thousands of years, including in the Bible and even more ancient civilizations. The Pleiades are depicted on the Nebra Sky Disc I wrote about in the first of my August columns. The Nebra Sky Disc is the oldest concrete representation of the sky that had been in use 3,600 to 4,300 years ago.
10 hours ago · It was ultimately somewhat taken up by Lutherans, even though Martin Luther himself insisted on Christian or evangelical as the only acceptable names for individuals who professed faith in Christ. French and Swiss Protestants instead preferred the word reformed ( French : réformé ), which became a popular, neutral, and alternative name for Calvinists.
10 hours ago · Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. The Brontës (/ ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and ...
10 hours ago · The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) [8] also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) [9] or simply as the Malankara Church, [10] is an autocephalous [11][12][5] Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. It serves India's Saint Thomas Christian (also known as Nasrani) population.
