first named Pesayak Towne and laterNew Milford, was probably renamed for the home of the Reverend Abraham Pierson, who went there fromNewark-on-Trent, England. Another version holds that the name was of biblical significance (New Ark). Newark became the seat of Essex county (1682) and was...
Ea had the humans build an ark and mankind was spared. If this story sounds familiar, it should; foundational Mesopotamian religious stories about the Garden of Eden, the Great Flood, and the Creation of the Tower of Babel found their way into the Bible, and the Mesopotamian religion influenc...
creation of the hypostyle mosque (seehypostyle hall) inIraqand Egypt. InIrana mosque plan consisting of foureyvans(vaulted halls) opening onto a centralcourtwas used. These brick-built mosques also incorporated domes and decorated squinches (seeByzantine architecture) across the corners of the ...
3-d printers have caught on and sell like hotcakes, since they allow rapid creation of a personalized idol of whatever you are worshipping that day. 96. Cheli or the Island of Compliments – a former kingdom north of Corsica, now an independent republic after periods of French and ...