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RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Israel kept up the pressure on Palestinian militants to release a captive Israeli soldier Wednesday, sending its warplanes to bomb a Hamas training camp after knocking out electricity and water supplies for most of the 1.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip...

26 June 2006 – The Million Faces Petition, which organizers billed as the world’s largest appeal for tougher global controls on the arms trade, was presented to Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in New York by a consortium of international groups as well as the one millionth petitioner – a...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese militia fighters on Tuesday released two of seven Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers they have been holding hostage in the violent east of the country for over a month, U.N. officials said. ADVERTISEMENT "Two of our men have been released. They were freed early this...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations meant to lift crippling international aid sanctions. ADVERTISEMENT "We have an agreement...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - One of Iraq's largest Sunni Arab groups endorsed the prime minister's national reconciliation plan on Tuesday, and the government announced new benefits to help freed detainees return to normal lives. ADVERTISEMENT The political moves came a day after bombs killed at...

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) thought he had a deal when President Bush, faced with a veto-proof margin in Congress, agreed to sign a bill banning the torture of detainees. Not quite. While Bush signed the new law, he also quietly approved another document: a...

Ibn Rustah (in Persian: ابن رسته) was a 10th century Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan, Persia (See Encyclopaedia Iranica [1]). He wrote a geographical compendium. The information on his home town of Isfahan is especially valuable. Ibn Rustah states that, while for...

Ahmad ibn Fadlan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Ibn Fadlan) Jump to: navigation, search Ahmad ibn al-'Abbās ibn Rashīd ibn Hammad ibn Fadlan (أحمد ابن العباس ابن رشيد ابن حماد ابن فضلان) was a 10th century Muslim writer and traveler who wrote an account of his travels as...

Shirk (Arabic شرك) is the Islamic concept of the sin of polytheism specifically, but in a more general way refers to serving anything other than the One God; i.e. wealth, lust, the ego, etc. It is the vice which is opposed to the virtue of tawhid, literally "declaring [that which is] one", often...

Mass grave of communist soldiers, personal effects uncovered in Vietnam -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 14:45 on June 26, 2006, EST. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A mass grave with more than 100 sets of remains believed to be those of communist...

The al-Aqsa Intifada (Arabic: ,انتفاضة الاقصى, Intifādat El Aqsa or Intifādat Al Aqsa; Hebrew: אינתיפאדת אל אקצה (or hyphenated אינתיפאדת אל-אקצה), Intifadat El Aqtzah) is the wave of violence that began in September 2000 between Palestinian Arabs and Israelis; it is also called the Second...

Zionism is a political movement and ideology that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated over 3,200 years ago and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states have existed up to the 2nd century. While Zionism is based in part upon...

NEW YORK - The New York Times is defending itself from criticism about a report on secret financial monitoring of terrorists, saying it found arguments by Bush administration officials against publishing it "puzzling" and "half-hearted." ADVERTISEMENT In a note on the paper's Web site...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The abduction of an Israeli soldier has laid bare deep rifts inside Hamas, with militants from the group claiming responsibility and Palestinian government officials insisting they knew nothing of the operation. ADVERTISEMENT Hamas leaders hotly denied a split. But...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's sectarian violence of the past four months has pushed the number of displaced people to above 130,000, parliament heard on Monday as members urged ministers to give more aid and security to contain the crisis. ADVERTISEMENT "There should be more field visits...

Ramshackle-looking Canadian base hospital works miracles on Afghan wounded -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 15:35 on June 25, 2006, EST. By JOHN COTTER KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Despite the hideous burns that cover his body and the...

Celts pushed west by Germanic migration Celts were pushed westwards by successive waves of Germanic invaders, perhaps themselves at times pressured by Huns and Scythians or simply population pressures in their homeland of Scandinavia and Northern Germany. With the fall of the Roman Empire the...

Got to post this because i like the bagpipes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vy-1tGFjVw&search=Amazing%20Grace

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Anglo-Saxon religion Main article: Anglo-Saxon mythology The indigenous pre-Christian belief system of the Anglo-Saxons was a form of Germanic paganism and therefore closely related to Norse mythology, as well as other Germanic pre-Christian cultures. Christianity (both Celtic and Roman)...