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The great banyan tree is revered by the people of Indian-origin religions such as Hinduism (including Vedic, Shaivism, Dravidian Hinduism), Buddhism and Jainism. A small temple dedicated to Thimmamma is beneath the tree. The residents of the region strongly believe that if a childless couple worships Thimmamma they will beget a child in the ...
Viscount Chelmsford. During the early 20th century the Marri had become more restive. The First World War, a major draw on British manpower, began in 1914.The Marri carried out a series of raids in 1915 and 1916 for which they received light punishment from the British administration. [6]
The heaviest periods of fighting occurred during 1553–1557, 1570–1572 and 1581–1584. [23] In 1572, the last Siberian khan, Kuchum , sent an army consisting of Bashkirs , Khanty , Mansi and Mari vassals to carry out reconnaissance into the lands held by the Stroganovs and to devastate the settlements there. [ 24 ]
The Marri are a Balochi-speaking tribe of the Baloch people, who inhabit a large arid region in northeastern Balochistan, Pakistan. The Marri area is bounded to the west by the plains of Sibi. To the north are the Kakar and Loni tribes of the Pashtuns; to the east lie the lands of the Khetrans, to the south the Bugti tribe. [1]
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Calinda is a kind of stick-fighting commonly seen practiced during Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. [1] It is the national martial art of Trinidad and Tobago . French planters with their slaves, free coloureds and mulattos from neighboring islands of Grenada , Guadeloupe , Martinique and Dominica migrated to Trinidad during the Cedula of ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...