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Different Easter traditions around the world
The significance of Easter eggs and bunnies in modern culture
The importance of the holiday in the Christian faith
The Origin Of Zodiac Signs
- We don't really know who first came up with the idea of looking at things in nature and divining influences on humans.
- Some form of astrology shows up in various belief systems in ancient cultures.
- In Ancient China, noblemen looked at eclipses or sunspots as portents of good or bad times for their emperor.
- The Sumerians and Babylonians, by the middle of the second millennium BC, appeared to have had many divination practices - they looked at spots on the liver and the entrails of animals.
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The 12 Signs Of The Zodiac
- These Western, or tropical, zodiac signs were named after constellations and matched with dates based on the apparent relationship between their placement in the sky and the sun.
- The Babylonians had already divided it into 12 equal signs by 1500 BC
- Ptolemy, the author of the ...
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Astrology Vs Astronomy
- For centuries, astrology (looking for signs based on the movement of the celestial bodies) was considered basically the same thing as astronomy (the scientific study of those objects).
- But its popularity relies on factors that numbers can't compute, and the appeal of looking to the s...
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Summer Solstice Horoscopes
- Although astrology is not itself a science, humans have been looking up at the stars to plan their lives for thousands of years
- Farmers used the skies as a calendar as long as the Ancient Egyptians
- Travellers used them as a compass to find directions
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Up In The Sky- The Answers To Our Lives
While some horoscopes sites may promise predictions based on the “movement” of the stars, it’s the Earth that’s moving, not the stars. The reason why stars look like they’re moving, both throughout the night and over the course of the year, is because the Earth rotates on its axis and orbits aro...
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The Library of Alexandria
- The ancient world's intellectual jewel was established by general Ptolemy I Soter after Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C.
- At its peak, it may have included over 500,000 papyrus scrolls containing works of literature and texts on history, law, mathematics, and science. ...
The discovery of sushi
Nowadays sushi is maybe the most cherished dish in Japan. And most of us tend to believe that it originates from Japanese areas. However, Sushi has first appeared and started being cooked in Thailand and Vietnam, as sources state. Then, it became known in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines a...
The domesticated cat
Cats and humans have enjoyed a mostly symbiotic relationship for thousands of years. When and where cats first became domesticated has been a riddle for scientists.
- Some clues first came from the island of Cyprus in 1983, when archaeologists found a cat's jawbone dating back 8,000 ye...
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