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Rock City; Rock n' Roll Capital Of The World; The 216 – Referring to the local area code [31] [32] The CLE; Cleveland Heights. C-Heights [citation needed] Columbus. The Arch City [33] Buckeye City [citation needed] Cowtown [19] The Discovery City [34] C-bus; Indie Arts Capital of the World [35] Somaliwood [36] (a reference to the local Somali ...
Sati (/ ˈ s ʌ t iː /, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. ' truthful' or 'virtuous '), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी, IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī, lit. 'daughter of Daksha'), is the Hindu goddess of marital felicity and longevity, and is worshipped as an aspect of the mother goddess Shakti.
The word sati, therefore, originally referred to the woman, rather than the rite. Variants are: Sativrata, an uncommon and seldom used term, [19] denotes the woman who makes a vow , to protect her husband while he is alive and then die with her husband. Satimata denotes a venerated widow who committed sati. [20]
With new direct flights from London, getting to the Ohio city that’s usually just flown over is a cinch, says Laura Millar Why Cincinnati deserves to be your next US city break Skip to main content
The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City". The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856. [1] The first known repeated effort to label Chicago with this nickname is from 1876 and involves Chicago's rivalry with Cincinnati. The popularity of the ...
If you want to learn all about the history of coffeecake in Cincinnati, please take a look at my predecessor Polly Campbell's excellent piece, "How Cincinnati became the capital of coffeecake ...
I have been at The Enquirer for 25 years, long enough that stories we covered when I first started are now fodder for a history column.
Sati (Hindu goddess), Shiva's first wife, and after her death, reincarnated as Shiva's next wife, Parvati, also related to the practice Sati (practice), historical Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself after her husband's death, usually on her husband's funeral pyre Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, India