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  2. Zipporah at the inn - Wikipedia

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    24. On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord met him and tried to kill him. 25. But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched his feet with it, and said, "Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!" 26. So he let him alone. It was then she said, "A bridegroom of blood by circumcision."

  3. Dante's Satan - Wikipedia

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    Dante's Satan remains a common image in popular portrayals. The answer to the question of how Satan wound up in the bottom of the pit in Dante's Inferno lies in Christian theological history. Some interpretations of the Book of Isaiah, combined with apocryphal texts, explain that Satan was cast from Heaven, and fell to earth. [5]

  4. Adrian Carton de Wiart - Wikipedia

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    Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, [1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/ d ə ˈ w aɪ. ər t /; [2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was an officer in the British Army.He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries. [3]

  5. Paresthesia - Wikipedia

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    In older individuals, [definition needed] paresthesia is often the result of poor circulation in the limbs (such as in peripheral vascular disease), most often caused by atherosclerosis, the build-up of plaque within artery walls over decades, with eventual plaque ruptures, internal clots over the ruptures, and subsequent clot healing, but ...

  6. Nocturnal emission - Wikipedia

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    Due to the difficulty in collecting ejaculate produced during nocturnal emissions, relatively few studies have examined its composition. [4] [5]In the largest study, which included nocturnal emission samples from 10 men with idiopathic anejaculation, the semen concentration was equivalent to samples obtained from the same men by penile vibratory stimulation, although the proportions of sperm ...

  7. Masonic ritual and symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Freemasons, as speculative masons (meaning philosophical rather than actual building), use this symbolism to teach moral and ethical lessons, such as the four cardinal virtues of Fortitude, Prudence, Temperance, and Justice, and the principles of "Brotherly Love, Relief (or Morality), and Truth" (commonly found in English language rituals), or ...

  8. Australopithecus africanus - Wikipedia

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    Cast of Taung child from the collection of the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1924, Australian anatomist Professor Raymond Dart, since 1923 working in South-Africa, was informed by one of his students, Josephine Salmons, that monkey fossils (of Papio izodi) had been discovered by shotfirer M.G. de Bruyn in a limestone quarry in Taung, South Africa, operated by the Northern Lime Company.

  9. Hippocrates - Wikipedia

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    Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, translit. Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.