Two animistic theories of the origin of religion have been put forward. The one, often termed the "ghost theory," mainly associated with the name of Herbert Spencer, but also maintained by Grant Allen, refers the beginning of religion to the cult of dead human beings. The other, put forward by Dr. E. B. Tylor, makes the foundation of all religion animistic, but recognizes the non-human character of polytheistic gods. Although ancestor-worship, or, more broadly, the cult of the dead, has in many cases overshadowed other cults or even e ...

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Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

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Animism, Animism - Overview, Animism - Origins, Animism - Plant souls, Animism - Object souls, Animism - Animism and death, Animism - Evil spirits, Animism - Differences between animism and religion, Animism - Animism and the origin of religion, Animism - Animism and mythology, Animism - Animism in philosophy, Animism - Tylor, Animism - List of phenomena believed to lead to animism, Animism - The new animism

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Animals are generally considered to have evolved from flagellate protozoa. Their closest living relatives are the choanoflagellates, collared flagellates that have the same structure as certain sponge cells do. Molecular studies place them in a supergroup called the opisthokonts, which also include the fungi and a few small parasitic protists. The name comes from the posterior location of the flagellum in motile cells, such as most animal sperm, where ...

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Animal, Animal - Characteristics, Animal - Structure, Animal - Reproduction and development, Animal - Origin and fossil record, Animal - Groups of animals, Animal - Deuterostomes, Animal - Ecdysozoa, Animal - Platyzoa, Animal - Lophotrochozoa, Animal - History of classification, Animal - Usage of the word animal, Animal - Examples, Animal - Reference

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In religion, the term "Animism" is used in a number of ways. Animism (from animus, or anima, mind or soul), originally means the doctrine of spiritual beings. It is often extended to include the belief that personalized, supernatural beings (or souls) endowed with reason, intelligence and volition inhabit ordinary objects as well as animate beings, and govern their existence (pantheism or animatism). More simply, the belief is that "everything is alive", "everything is conscious" or "everything has ...

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OVAs originated during the late 1970s. As the VCR became a widespread fixture in Japanese homes, the Japanese anime industry grew to behemoth proportions. Demand for anime was massive, so much so that consumers would willingly go directly to video stores to buy new animation outright. While "direct-to-video" was a pejorative in the United States for works that could not make it onto TV or movie screens, in Japan the demand was so great that direct-to-video became a necessity. Many popular and influential series such as Bubblegum Crisis and Tench ...

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The origins of Japanese animation are hard to define. In pre-movie times versions of Shadow play (imported from China) existed, which also had incredible impact on the development of animation in Japan as well as the animation pioneer Emil Cohl, who inspired a lot of Japanese artists. The first documented time an animated movie was shown to the public was in the Kabukiza (cinema centre in Tokyo). It was named "Tekugukan". The earliest known anime (discovered in 2005) was produced circa 1907 and consists of fifty frames drawn directly ...

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History of anime, History of anime - Origins, History of anime - The First Generation of Japanese Animators, History of anime - The Second Generation of Japanese Animators, History of anime - During the War, History of anime - Toei Animation and Mushi Productions, History of anime - The 70s, History of anime - The Golden Age of Anime, History of anime - The 90s to present

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Like anime made for television broadcast, OVAs are broken into episodes. OVA media (tapes, Laserdiscs, or DVDs) are usually sold with just one episode each. Episode length varies from title to title, and might be anywhere from a few minutes to two hours or more per episode. An episode length of 30 minutes is quite common, but this is by no means the rule. In some cases, the length of episodes in a speciffic OVA may vary greatly (in GaoGaiGar Final, the first 6 episodes last around 30 minutes, while the last 2 episodes last 40 and 50 minutes ...

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Original Video Animation, Original Video Animation - The OVA format, Original Video Animation - History, Original Video Animation - Other Forms of an OVA, Original Video Animation - Source

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Ironically, Re-Animator is often considered to be one of the few (if not the only) accurate film treatments of Lovecraft's original work. Even more ironically, some of the weakest of Lovecraft's work was the inspiration for it. Lovecraft originally serialised the story (entitled Herbert West: Reanimator) in the amateur press, in a magazine of one of his friends. In correspondence with others, he claimed to be unhappy with the work, only writing it because he was being paid five dollars for each of the installments. He wa ...

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Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. In general they are multicellular, capable of locomotion and responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their development as embryos, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on. The name animal comes from the Latin word animal, of which animalia is the plural, and ultimately from anima, meaning vita ...

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Animal - Characteristics Animal - Structure Animal - Reproduction and development Animal - Origin and fossil record Animal - Groups of animals
Animal - Deuterostomes Animal - Ecdysozoa Animal - Platyzoa Animal - Lophotrochozoa
Animal - History of classification Animal - Usage of the word animal Animal - Examples Animal - Reference

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The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a name used internationally by animal liberation activists who engage in direct action on behalf of animals, or in protest of the animal testing, vivisection, fur, meat, egg, or dairy industries. Some governmental agencies and private citizens label the ALF "ecoterrorists", while supporters consider them more akin to "freedom fighters". Any non-violent direct action that furthers the cause of animal liberation may be claimed on behalf of the ALF, so long as it is consistent ...

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Articuno (#144) - Zapdos - Moltres (#146) ³ Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow Zapdos (サンダー Thunder in Japan, Zapdos in Germany and Electhor in France) is a fictional character in the Pokémon franchise. Zapdos is one of the three Legendary Birds, which also include Articuno and Moltres. Zapdos - Name origin. "Zapdos" originates from the words "zap", because it is an electric-type, and "dos", Spanish for "two", because it is numerically the seco ...

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A dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. The dye is usually used as an aqueous solution, and may require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber. In contrast, a pigment generally has no affinity for the substrate, and is insoluble. Archaeological evidence shows that, particularly in India and the Middle East, dyeing has been carried out for over 5000 years. The dyes were obtained from either animal, vegetable or mineral origin, ...

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Dye - Animal origin Dye - Vegetable origin Dye - Inorganic dyes
Dye - Food dyes Dye - Other Dye - Chemical classification

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The ALF's roots can be traced to 19th century England, and a small group of activists called the Bands of Mercy, which was set up in 1824 to thwart fox hunters (Best, 2004). In 1965, the group was re-created, this time called the Hunt Saboteurs Association; it laid false scents, blew hunting horns to send the hounds in the wrong direction, set off smoke bombs, and members lay down between the hunters and the fox. In 1972, activists Ronnie Lee and Cliff Goodman revived the 19th century name and set up the Band of Mercy, a more militant group, ...

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Animal Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front - Origins, Animal Liberation Front - Structure and aims, Animal Liberation Front - Actions, Animal Liberation Front - Attitude toward violence, Animal Liberation Front - Some targets in North America

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NationalKakuna - Beedrill (#15) - Pidgey JohtoKakuna - Beedrill (#29) - Ledyba Hoenn Kakuna - ...

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The ALF's roots can be traced to 19th century England, and a small group of activists called the Bands of Mercy, which was set up in 1824 to thwart fox hunters (Best, 2004). In 1965, the group was re-created, this time called the Hunt Saboteurs Association; it laid false scents, blew hunting horns to send the hounds in the wrong direction, set off smoke bombs, and members lay down between the hunters and the fox. In 1972, activists Ronnie Lee and Cliff Goodman revived the 19th century name and set up the Band of Mercy, a more militant group, ...

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Animal Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front - Origins, Animal Liberation Front - Structure and aims, Animal Liberation Front - Actions, Animal Liberation Front - Attitude toward violence, Animal Liberation Front - Direct action in North America

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Aristotle divided the living world between animals and plants, and this was followed by Carolus Linnaeus in the first hierarchical classification. Since then biologists have begun emphasizing evolutionary relationships, and so these groups have been restricted somewhat. For instance, microscopic protozoa were originally considered animals because they move, but are now treated separately. In Linnaeus' original scheme, the animals were one of three kingdoms, divided into the classes of Vermes, Insecta, Pisces, Amphibia, Aves, and Mamma ...

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With a few exceptions, most notably the sponges (Phylum Porifera), animals have bodies differentiated into separate tissues. These include muscles, which are able to contract and control locomotion, and a nervous system, which sends and processes signals. There is also typically an internal digestive chamber, with one or two openings. Animals with this sort of organization are called metazoans, or eumetazoans when the fo ...

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Nearly all animals undergo some form of sexual reproduction. Adults are diploid or occasionally polyploid. They have a few specialized reproductive cells, which undergo meiosis to produce smaller motile spermatozoa or larger non-motile ova. These fuse to form zygotes, which develop into new individuals. Many animals are also capable of asexual reproduction. This may take place through parthenogenesis, where fertile eggs are produced ...

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The sponges (Porifera) diverged from other animals early. As mentioned, they lack the complex organization found in most other phyla. Their cells are differentiated, but not organized into distinct tissues. Sponges are sessile and typically feed by drawing in water through pores all over the body, which is supported by a skeleton typically divided into spicules. The extinct Archaeocyatha, which have fused skeletons, ...

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Animal, Animal - Characteristics, Animal - Structure, Animal - Reproduction and development, Animal - Origin and fossil record, Animal - Groups of animals, Animal - Deuterostomes, Animal - Ecdysozoa, Animal - Platyzoa, Animal - Lophotrochozoa, Animal - History of classification, Animal - Usage of the word animal, Animal - Examples, Animal - Reference

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Some well-known types of animals, listed by their common names: alligator alpaca ant antelope badger bat bear bee beetle bird bison butterfly cat chicken chimpanzee cockroach coral cow crocodile deer dinosaur dog dolphin earthworm elephant elk fish fly fox frog< ...

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Animal, Animal - Characteristics, Animal - Structure, Animal - Reproduction and development, Animal - Origin and fossil record, Animal - Groups of animals, Animal - Deuterostomes, Animal - Ecdysozoa, Animal - Platyzoa, Animal - Lophotrochozoa, Animal - History of classification, Animal - Usage of the word animal, Animal - Examples, Animal - Reference

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