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The Humr (also known as Humur, Arabic: همور, romanized: Hūmūr, lit. 'red') are one of two branches of the Messiria, a subgroup of the Baggara ethnic group, native to the south-west province of Kordofan, Sudan. Speakers of Chadian Arabic, the Humr live in the area surrounding the towns of Babanusa, Muglad and Al Fula (Arabic: الفولة).
The most important written source of Amish theology, according to Oyer, is "1001 Questions and Answers on the Christian Life". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Hutterites possess an account of their belief written by Peter Riedemann ( Rechenschafft unserer Religion, Leer und Glaubens ) and theological tracts and letters by Hans Schlaffer , Leonhard Schiemer and ...
The concept of "humors" may have origins in Ancient Egyptian medicine, [1] or Mesopotamia, [2] though it was not systemized until ancient Greek thinkers. The word humor is a translation of Greek χυμός, [3] chymos (literally 'juice' or 'sap', metaphorically 'flavor').
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a literary reference book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall, Professor of English at Sussex University, with an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. [1] [2] Each title is accompanied by a brief synopsis and critique briefly explaining why the book was chosen ...
A similar view is defended by G. E. Moore's open-question argument, intended to refute any identification of moral properties with natural properties, which is asserted by ethical naturalists, who do not deem the naturalistic fallacy a fallacy. The is–ought problem is closely related to the fact–value distinction in epistemology.
Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.
Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, [1] even by merely ...
Relief theory suggests humor is a mechanism for pent-up emotions or tension through emotional relief. In this theory, laughter serves as a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological stress is reduced [1] [3] [7] Humor may thus facilitate ease of the tension caused by one's fears, for example.