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  2. Ouroboros - Wikipedia

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    The ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth; the snake's skin-sloughing symbolises the transmigration of souls. The snake biting its own tail is a fertility symbol in some religions: the tail is a phallic symbol and the mouth is a yonic or womb-like symbol.

  3. Lampshades made from human skin - Wikipedia

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    Some human remains at Buchenwald, including a lampshade allegedly made of human skin. There are two notable reported instances of lampshades made from human skin.After World War II it was claimed that Nazis had made at least one lampshade from murdered concentration camp inmates: a human skin lampshade was claimed to have been displayed by Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto ...

  4. Trombicula - Wikipedia

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    Trombicula. Trombicula, known as chiggers, red bugs, scrub-itch mites, or berry bugs, are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) in the Trombiculidae family. In their larval stage, they attach to various animals and humans, then feed on skin, often causing itching and trombiculosis. These relatives of ticks are nearly microscopic, measuring ...

  5. Irasutoya - Wikipedia

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    Irasutoya ( Japanese: いらすとや, derived from Japanese: イラスト, romanized : irasuto, lit. 'illustration' and Japanese: 屋, romanized : -ya, lit. 'shop') is a website operated by illustrator Takashi Mifune that offers gratis clip art illustrations. These works can be used for both commercial and non-commercial applications, but ...

  6. Clip art - Wikipedia

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    Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form. Since its inception, clip art has evolved to include a ...

  7. Blooper - Wikipedia

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    The term "blooper" was popularized in the United States by television producer Kermit Schaefer in the 1950s; the terms "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake) and "breakdown" had been in common usage previously. Schaefer produced a long-running series of Pardon My Blooper! record albums in the 1950s and 1960s which featured a mixture of actual ...

  8. Aniconism in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Interior of the Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran. In some forms of Islamic art, aniconism (the avoidance of images of sentient beings) stems in part from the prohibition of idolatry and in part from the belief that the creation of living forms is God 's prerogative. The Quran does not prohibit visual representation of any living being.

  9. Melqart - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Melqart. Melqart ( Phoenician: 𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕, romanized:Mīlqārt) was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. He may have been central to the founding-myths of various Phoenician colonies throughout the Mediterranean, as well as the source of several myths ...