sexual practices play some part. While there is nothing inherently wrong with the notion that sexual acts and religious acts can converge, one must exercise considerable care when trying to apply such principles within a contemporary context. Such magicosexual practices as one finds in the Hindu Ta...
Justine- A feminine form of Justin, found in 0.2% of use in Kent. It was possibly used thanks to St Justina of Padua. Lecia- While Lettice was the common English form of Latin Letitia (ranking at #32 overall), Lecia was the Latinised form of the Old French form Lece. This form w...
1949: Silly Putty finds its purpose Like chocolate chip cookies and penicillin, Silly Putty was created by accident in 1943 during an engineer’s attempt to create synthetic rubber for the war effort. It didn’t fill the government’s need, so it languished in obscurity until this year when...
They flew their seaplanes, nicknamed Passat and Boreas, in fifteen missions across some 370,000 square miles of the continent, taking tens of thousands of photographs and making a colour film of their finds. These included a mountain still known as Ritscher Peak, Schirmacher Oasis (named after...
(IS).But if we want to understand contemporaryjihad, we must examine, at least briefly, the origin of political Islam, orIslamism, which finds its most extreme expression in Salafism, an ideology that seeks to emulate the traditions of theSalaaf(the “pious ...