A general view of Ayyavazhi may seem make it similar to, or serves as an offshoot of, Hinduism. But in regards to religious practices, belief, and sociology, Ayyavazhi differs from traditional Hinduism. Hindu's view Vedas, rather than the Akilam, as Books of Perfection. Ayyavazhi also believe they were, (but not rather than Akilam) at one point, but feel they were corrupted by later, and that Kaliyan bought the Vedas as a Boon and so all the Previous religious books including Agamas and Puranas lost their Substances, and so Akilattira ...

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• Ayyavazhi and Hinduism - Similarities between Ayyavazhi and Hinduism
• Ayyavazhi and Hinduism - Religious Practices
• Ayyavazhi and Hinduism - Theology

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Hinduism (सनातन धर्म; also known as Sanātana Dharma, and Vaidika-Dharma) is a worldwide religious tradition that is based on the revealed knowledge of the Veda and the direct descendant of the Vedic religion. It encompasses many religious traditions that widely vary in practice, as well as many diverse sects and philosophies. It is the world's ...

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• History of Hinduism - Hinduism in Medieval Ages
• History of Hinduism - Islamic Invasion
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Stage fatalities bring a new level of environment interaction within the series. A stage fatality occurs when a player uses a part of the stage or map to execute a fatality that is not a standard character fatality. Some examples of stage fatalities are having the victim fall into a pool of acid or a pit of razor-sharp spikes, or to be run over by a subway train. Stage fatalities are present in the series from Mortal Kombat through Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, with the only exception ...

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Fatality, Fatality - The Beginning, Fatality - Reaction, Fatality - Variations, Fatality - Stage Fatalities, Fatality - Hara Kiri, Fatality - Trivia, Fatality - External link

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Before the fatality was discovered by arcade gamers, Mortal Kombat was yet another fighting game with seven characters. Many gamers left Street Fighter II and other games for Mortal Kombat, because it featured blood and the ability to perform fatalities. The new feature addition helped make Mortal Kombat a successful game franchise that challenged the supremacy of Street Fighter II. The fatality concept caused considerable controversy, and many parents disapproved of the violence and the brutal ending ...

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Fatality, Fatality - The Beginning, Fatality - Reaction, Fatality - Variations, Fatality - Stage Fatalities, Fatality - Hara Kiri, Fatality - Trivia, Fatality - External link

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With Street Fighter II dominating arcades, Mortal Kombat co-creators Ed Boon and John Tobias wanted to create a fighting game that retained Street Fighter's gameplay without being a complete copy. Originally, the project revolved around actor Jean Claude Van Damme; this idea was eventually dropped and Mortal Kombat was born. Tobias and Boon, wanting to produce the best game they could, spent a great deal of time brainstorming and evaluating ideas. They started with Street Fighter II and retained many ...

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Fatality, Fatality - The Beginning, Fatality - Reaction, Fatality - Variations, Fatality - Stage Fatalities, Fatality - Hara Kiri, Fatality - Trivia, Fatality - External link

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She has existed, in one form or another, in folklore and myth in nearly all cultures. Some of the earliest examples include the Sumerian goddess Ishtar and the Biblical Delilah. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the femme fatale became ubiquitous in Western culture and can be found in the works of Oscar Wilde, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, among others. This is likely to have been a reaction to women's movements and the changing role of women at the time. With the introduction of film noir in the 1940's, the femme ...

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Femme fatale, Femme fatale - History, Femme fatale - Famous femmes fatale, Femme fatale - Fictional characters, Femme fatale - Mythology, Femme fatale - Historical figures, Femme fatale - Films, Femme fatale - Games

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Both fictional and factional are listed. Femme fatale - Fictional characters. Poison Ivy Catwoman, one of whose nicknames is actually the wordplay feline fatale. BloodRayne Ada Wong Ava Lord from Sin City Morrigan Aensland Carmen Circe Darla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Delilah Inque of Batman Beyond Minerva Mink Mirage Medea Morgause Faith (character) From Buffy the Vampire Slayer La Bel ...

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Femme fatale, Femme fatale - History, Femme fatale - Famous femmes fatale, Femme fatale - Fictional characters, Femme fatale - Mythology, Femme fatale - Historical figures, Femme fatale - Films, Femme fatale - Games

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Femme fatale - Fictional characters. Poison Ivy Catwoman, one of whose nicknames is actually the wordplay feline fatale. BloodRayne Ada Wong Morrigan Aensland Carmen Circe Delilah Inque of Batman Beyond Minerva Mink Mirage Medea Morgause Faith (character) From Buffy the Vampire Slayer La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats Justine ...

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Femme fatale, Femme fatale - History, Femme fatale - Famous femmes fatale, Femme fatale - Fictional characters, Femme fatale - Mythology, Femme fatale - Historical figures, Femme fatale - Films

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Another interesting type of fatality is the Hara Kiri. The Hara Kiri (which is Japanese for a certain type of suicide) that the person finks one knife on its belly, is a special move in which the player can perform upon defeat at the end of the last match. Rather than be finished off by his opponent, the loser takes his or her own life. The Hara Kiri usually has the player stab himself with a weapon, cut off his or her own head, etc. The Hara Kiri made its debut in Deception and seems to be a popular feature with the fans. It is unknown whether or not the Hara Kiri will remain ...

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Fatality, Fatality - The Beginning, Fatality - Reaction, Fatality - Variations, Fatality - Stage Fatalities, Fatality - Hara Kiri, Fatality - Trivia, Fatality - External link

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She has existed, in one form or another, in folklore and myth in nearly all cultures. Some of the earliest examples include the Sumerian goddess Ishtar and the Biblical characters Lilith, Eve, Delilah and Salomé. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the femme fatale became ubiquitous in Western culture and can be found in the works of Oscar Wilde, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, among others. This is likely to have been a reaction to women's movements and the changing role of women at the time. With the introduction of ...

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Femme fatale, Femme fatale - History, Femme fatale - Famous femmes fatale, Femme fatale - Fictional characters, Femme fatale - Mythology, Femme fatale - Historical figures, Femme fatale - Films

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The Fatal Fury series chronicles the rise of the "Hungry Wolf" Terry Bogard (hence the Japanese title, which translates to Legend of the Hungry Wolf), and the simultaneous fall of the criminal empire of Geese Howard. Like many other SNK titles of the time, the first installment takes place in a fictitious American city called Southtown. Brimming with violence and corruption, Southtown forms the ideal backdrop for the annual King of Fighters fighting tournament, organized by the notorious crimelord Geese. No fighter has ever managed to beat his right-hand man and appointed champion, Billy Kan ...

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Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury - Gameplay, Fatal Fury - Story, Fatal Fury - The Interconnecting Plots, Fatal Fury - Games, Fatal Fury - Canonical games, Fatal Fury - Non-canonical games, Fatal Fury - Related games, Fatal Fury - Characters, Fatal Fury - Characters from Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury - Characters with appearances outside this series, Fatal Fury - Other characters, Fatal Fury - Abbreviation confusion, Fatal Fury - Movies

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The book Fatal Vision was written by Joe McGinnis, the author of Selling of the President 1968. McGinniss and MacDonald made arrangements to work together shortly after the murders with the expectation, at least on MacDonald's part, that the subsequent book would show MacDonald's innoncence. McGinnis had special access to MacDonald and his legal team, even living with MacDonald during the murder trial. The book covers events until MacDonald ...

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Fatal Vision, Fatal Vision - Book, Fatal Vision - Miniseries

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According to the urban legend reference website Snopes.com, there have been at least two documented instances in which people have died apparently of laughter, one in 1975 and one in 2003 [1]. Since asthma attacks are fatal more often than is usually thought, and since laughter is a strong trigger for a minority of sufferers, the numbers of people who have died of laughter may very well be much larger. On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, England, literally died laughing while watching an e ...

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Fatal hilarity, Fatal hilarity - In fiction, Fatal hilarity - In reality, Fatal hilarity - In history

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Dan Gallagher appears to be a happily married New York attorney living in Manhattan with his beautiful wife and his young daughter whom he adores. They have a wonderful life until the day he becomes acquainted with Alex Forrest, an editor from a publishing company, at a business party where he and Alex immediately connect and strike up a conversation. Dan and his wife, Beth, are interested in buying a house in Bedford where she and her daughter travel for the weekend. Dan spends the weekend with Alex while his wife and daughter are away. Wha ...

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Fatal Attraction, Fatal Attraction - Synopsis, Fatal Attraction - Awards, Fatal Attraction - Finances, Fatal Attraction - Main cast, Fatal Attraction - Trivia

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David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest deals with a video tape containing a movie so entertaining that anyone watching it loses all desire to do anything else, eventually becoming comatose and dying. The only person who could watch the movie was the director, who was too insane to be affected by its humor. In the Monty Python sketch "The Funniest Joke in the World", the eponymous joke is so lethal that it is used against the Germans by the British during World War II. The team of translators tasked with translating it to German survive their assignment only by translating a single word per person. Germany ...

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Fatal hilarity, Fatal hilarity - In fiction, Fatal hilarity - In reality, Fatal hilarity - In history

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Fatal Fury - Canonical games. These are the games that are considered part of the Fatal Fury story: Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (Neo-Geo, SNK 1991) aka Garou Densetsu: Shukumei no Tatakai - Japan The first game of the Fatal Fury series allowed players to select one of three characters, Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, and Joe Higashi, as they battled a gauntlet of computer-controlled opponents ending with Billy Kane and Geese Howard. When two player ...

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Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury - Gameplay, Fatal Fury - Story, Fatal Fury - The Interconnecting Plots, Fatal Fury - Games, Fatal Fury - Canonical games, Fatal Fury - Non-canonical games, Fatal Fury - Related games, Fatal Fury - Characters, Fatal Fury - Characters from Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury - Characters with appearances outside this series, Fatal Fury - Other characters, Fatal Fury - Abbreviation confusion, Fatal Fury - Movies

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Fatal Fury contained many characters, some appearing in other series as well. These are the characters who appeared in a fighting capacity at some point in the series, listed in alphabetical order: Fatal Fury - Characters from Art of Fighting. Ryo Sakazaki (リョウ・サカザキ) Fatal Fury - Characters with appearances outside this series. These include characters that have appeared in The King of Fighters series, as well as the SNK vs. ...

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Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury - Gameplay, Fatal Fury - Story, Fatal Fury - The Interconnecting Plots, Fatal Fury - Games, Fatal Fury - Canonical games, Fatal Fury - Non-canonical games, Fatal Fury - Related games, Fatal Fury - Characters, Fatal Fury - Characters from Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury - Characters with appearances outside this series, Fatal Fury - Other characters, Fatal Fury - Abbreviation confusion, Fatal Fury - Movies

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The main fighting game feature that the original Fatal Fury was known for was the two-plane system. Characters would fight from two different planes, and by stepping between the planes, attacks could be dodged with ease. Later games drop the two-plane system, replacing it with a complex system of dodging. Characters often had moves that could attack across the two planes, attack both planes at once, or otherwise ...

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Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury - Gameplay, Fatal Fury - Story, Fatal Fury - The Interconnecting Plots, Fatal Fury - Games, Fatal Fury - Canonical games, Fatal Fury - Non-canonical games, Fatal Fury - Related games, Fatal Fury - Characters, Fatal Fury - Characters from Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury - Characters with appearances outside this series, Fatal Fury - Other characters, Fatal Fury - Abbreviation confusion, Fatal Fury - Movies

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hinduism:

vedic knowledge and teachings

(See also: hinduism, Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Hinduism: modern name for the Vedic teaching

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The fatal cubes provide an source of extreme stress to the characters, since they not only kill, but kill in an extremely violent, horrific manner. The fatal cubes encountered by the characters kill in the following ways (method, and character killed (if any) noted: A sharp wire mesh that passes through your body, cutting it into squares (killed Alderson) A motion-activated flamethrower (successfully avoided by throwing boot into cube) Highly corrosive acid sprayed onto face (killed Rennes by completely ...

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Cube film, Cube film - Plot summary, Cube film - Power Struggles and Character Development, Cube film - The fatal cubes, Cube film - Purpose of the cube puzzle, Cube film - Production details, Cube film - Sequels, Cube film - Cast, Cube film - Similar works

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Hinduism:

The predominant religion of India; broadly encompasses various offshoots like Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism et al, developed over the centuries by alteration of the earlier Vedic doctrines of the Aryan race.

(See also: Hinduism, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)