name of the fruit used as slang for homosexual men, probably because it is also a euphemism for penis. This expression, which also uses the plural form, bananas, belongs to “Fruits, Vegetables and Plants” set, which so many insults have generated worldwide. ...
Religious services and other Easter celebrations vary throughout the regions of the world and even from country to country. In the United States, many "sunrise services" are held outside, often in gardens or beside lakes where baptisms (representing rebirth) can be held on Easter morn...
The city’s clubs have also been the beating heart of the LGBTQ+ community. “For many in the scene, they literally have nowhere to go,” notes Ana Subeliani, an activist in Tblisi. “A lot of people get ostracised and cut off from their families when they come out. They find new ...
Many people believe that the only way to know you’re walking a “proper” or valuable is if you get the approval of social institutions (or shall I say social marketplaces) in the form of degrees and PhDs. The deep distrust we are conditioned to develop in ourselves paralyzes our abili...
As soon as money enters the picture, the skeptics are going to win some ground. The rise of money-making "exorcism ministries" around the world leads many people who might otherwise reserve judgment to outright reject the validity of the Catholic view of possession and exorcism, even though th...
Alas, many enthusiasts either didn't believe their ears or thought the Blue Oval badge too proletarian. In any case, production was slightly more limited than even SVT had planned: about 10,000 in 1998-99, plus a handful more in phaseout 2000. Ford was somewhat wide of the mark wit...
The Gregorian calendar, the most commonly used calendar worldwide, is a solar calendar based exclusively on the movement of Earth around the sun. It is derived from a calendar Julius Caesar instituted in 46 B.C. The Julian calendar calculated the length of the year at 365.25 days, so it ...
He’s surfing more on an Alpha to Omega plane with the whole Orthodox world and Christendom in general, whereas Duke is just another rube who is lost in space and evolved from monkeys. Long live Aristotle and King David and King Solomon and down with the David Dukes. May the David ...
”From the answers, the OECD guesstimates how many future scientists may be entering university. On average, the number was encouraging –26% of 15-year-oldsworldwide think that their future career (as physicians, engineers, science-teachers, chemists, computer scientists, researchers, etc.) will...
real idea. There are currently between 2.3 and 2.5 billion Christians in the world, about a third of the total global population. While this includes many semi- and minimally active members, it begs the question, exactly how many church buildings would be needed to accommodate this entire ...