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ANCESTRAL LAND - Taoist term for third eye. (NAD)

 
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Sraaddha ceremony
According to Hinduism, when a person dies, he either travels to heavenly worlds or to the ancestral worlds depending upon his previous deeds. We are told that the departed souls can be elevated to higher planes of existence and pushed further on the scale of evolution if their direct descendents on earth, especially the male progeny perform some annual rites and make sacrificial offerings to them. With such rites, not just one but the entire family of ancestors would be benefited and spiritually uplifted.
 

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Debates over the ancestral origins of Ancient Egypt continue to this present day, despite numerous conclusive scientific studies which all seem to point in the same direction. Because the Badarians were obviously ancestors of the ancient Egyptians, numerous anthropological studies were performed after two successful excavations were made in the mid- to late-1920s. Summarizing the results of them all, in 1971 Physical Anthropologist Eugen Strouhal, discusses and re-analyzes over a dozen independent scientific studies (a couple of which were h ...

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The queen's biographer Olwen Hedley stated that Queen Charlotte's personal physician, Christian Friedrich, Baron von Stockmar, described his patient as having "true mulatto features" ("ein wahres Mulattengesicht"), presumably meaning that she appeared to have African blood. Some researchers have noted that Queen Charlotte was a descendant, through at least three and possibly through as many as six lines, of Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a Portuguese noblewoman who lived in the 15th century. Castro was a descendant of the 13th-ce ...

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Race in biomedicine - The effects of racial and ethnic identities on health. Racial and ethnic groups can exhibit substantial average differences in disease incidence, disease severity, disease progression, and response to treatment (LaVeist 2002). In the United States, African Americans have higher rates of mortality than does any other racial or ethnic group for 8 of the top 10 causes of death (Hummer et al. 2004). U.S. Latinos have higher rates of death from diabetes, liver disease, and infectious diseases tha ...

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The Badarian culture provides the earliest direct evidence of agriculture in Upper Egypt. It flourished between 4400 to 4000 BCE, and might have already existed as far back as 5000 BCE. It was first identified in Badari, near Sohag. About forty settlements and six hundred graves have been located. Social stratification has been inferred from the burying of more prosperous members of the community in a different part of the cemetery. The Badarian economy was mostly based on agriculture, fishing and animal husbandry. Tools includ ... Including:

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