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  2. Ostrich egg - Wikipedia

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    Ostrich eggs are the largest of all eggs, [4] though they are actually the smallest eggs relative to the size of the adult bird — on average they are 15 cm (5.9 in) long, 13 cm (5.1 in) wide, and weigh 1.4 kilograms (3.1 lb), over 20 times the weight of a chicken's egg and only 1 to 4% the size of the female. [5]

  3. Here be dragons - Wikipedia

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    The Psalter world map with dragons at the base. Dragons appear on a few other historical maps: The T-O Psalter world map (c. 1250 AD) has dragons, as symbols of sin, in a lower "frame" below the world, balancing Jesus and angels on the top, but the dragons do not appear on the map proper.

  4. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The lethek is mentioned only once in the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint translates it by the Greek term nebeloinou (νέβελ οἴνου), meaning wine-skin. These measurements were related as follows: 1½ eggs = Quarter of a log [29] (also used for a cup of wine) 6 eggs (beitza) = 1 log [29] 4 log (24 eggs) = 1 kab [29] 6 kab (144 eggs ...

  5. Easter egg - Wikipedia

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    The practice of decorating eggshells is quite ancient, [12] with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old. [13] In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were ...

  6. Calling All Eggheads! 75 Easter Trivia Questions and ... - AOL

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    It's officially Easter!The festive day, feted with bunnies and colored eggs, has a variety of historical origins and is considered one of the holiest and most important Christian holidays. The ...

  7. Christian symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Crucifix, a cross with corpus, a symbol used in the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglicanism, in contrast with some other Protestant denominations, Church of the East, and Armenian Apostolic Church, which use only a bare cross Early use of a globus cruciger on a solidus minted by Leontios (r. 695–698); on the obverse, a stepped cross in the shape of an ...

  8. Animals in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Fowl — This word which, in its most general sense, applies to anything that flies in the air (Genesis 1:20, 21), including the "bat" and "flying creeping things" (Leviticus 11:19-23 A.V.), and which frequently occurs in the Bible with this meaning, is also sometimes used in a narrower sense, as, for instance, III K., iv, 23, where it stands ...

  9. Crowns of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Atef, the Crown of Osiris, is a combination of Upper Egypt's White crown, the Hedjet, and ostrich feathers on either side. It also often has a golden disc at its tip. The ostrich feathers, similar to those representing ma’at, symbolize truth, justice, morality, and balance. [2]