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Monday, 25 September 2023
14 facts about Swan Lake
14 facts about Swan Lake
One of the world’s most famous ballet performances
A classic ballet in four acts, telling the story of love confronting evil. Although modified, each version delights with beautiful music composed by P ...

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Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx is not actually a real sphinx.
According to ancient Greek mythology, the sphinx is a figure with a woman’s head, a lion’s body and ...
Orsay Museum
The original collections of the Museum d'Orsay were made up of various previous collections or parts of collections from other museums.
Among them was the collection of the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, whose building was intended ...
Eastern Orthodox Church
The basis of Orthodoxy is life and worship, as well as doctrinal teaching of faith and morals.
The principal truths of faith in Orthodoxy are the statements contained in the Apostolic Creed (the ...
Amish
Mennonites are more tech-savvy.
First of all - most of the Amish people refused to use cars as a way of transport. They travel by ho ...
The Scream by Edvard Munch
A simplified version of the painting's motif has been used in pictogram form by the U.S. Department of Energy as a hazard symbol warning of the presence of radioactive waste.
Judaism
One of the most important prayers in Judaism is the Kaddish.
It is part of all Jewish communal prayers. It is a liturgical formula in Aramaic that praises God's ...
Kayan
The Kayan are an ethnic subgroup of the Red Karen, the people of Myanmar.
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is an Asian country in the southeastern part of the continent, wit ...
Eastern Orthodox Church
The principles of Orthodoxy were shaped from the first to the eighth century at universal councils and synods, except for Nice I and Constantinople.
At one of these synods, held in Orleans in 533, it was determined that women could not participate i ...
Amish
Places of gathering.
The Amish gather in homes or barns, while the Mennonites chose meetinghouses as places of worship. I ...
Athena Goddess
She has helped the heroes many times.
Among others, she helped Perseus kill Medusa and Heracles during his work, when she helped him kill ...