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Beetle - Pests. There are several serious agricultural and household pests represented by the order, these include : The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) is a notorious pest of potato plants. Adults mate before overwintering deep in the soil, so that when they emerge the following spring, females can lay eggs immediately, once a suitable host plant has been found. As well as potatoes, this can be any one of a number of plants from the potato family (Solanaceae) such as n ...

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The exaltation of cats in Ancient Egypt most likely began with their contribution to agriculture. Feral cats, or "reed cats", naturally preyed upon the rats and other vermin that would otherwise eat from the royal granaries. They earned their place in towns and cities by killing mice, poisonous snakes and other pests. The two main breeds of cat native to Egypt were the jungle cat Felis chaus and the African wildcat Felis silvestris lybica. The latter of these was more commonly domesticated, largely due to its temperament. The jungle cat was not nearly as peaceful, ...

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Cats in Ancient Egypt, Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in other religions, Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in everyday life in Ancient Egypt, Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in Egyptian mythology, Cats in Ancient Egypt - Bubastis and the Cult of the Cat, Cats in Ancient Egypt - Funerary traditions, Cats in Ancient Egypt - The decline of cat-worship

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In many human cultures throughout history, human corpses were usually buried in soil. Burial grounds have been uncovered all over the world. Mounds of earth, temples, and underground caverns were used to store the dead bodies of ancestors. In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker to mark the place is used in almost every modern culture, although other means such as cremation are becoming more popular in the west (cremation is the norm in India). Different cultures bury their dead in different ways. Some of these practices are heavily ritualized; others are simply practical. See also:

Burial, Burial - Reasons for human burial, Burial - Burial practices, Burial - Prevention of decay, Burial - Inclusion of clothing and personal effects, Burial - Body positioning, Burial - Marking the location of the burial, Burial - Unmarked grave, Burial - Multiple bodies per grave, Burial - Cremation, Burial - Live burial, Burial - Burial of animals, Burial - Exhumation, Burial - Alternatives to burial

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The rate and the manner in which an animal body decomposes is strongly affected by a number of factors. In a roughly descending degree of importance, those factors include: Temperature The availability of oxygen Prior embalming Cause of death Access by insects Burial, and depth of burial Access by scavengers Trauma, including wounds and crushing blows Humidity, or dryness Rainfall Body size and weight Clothin ...

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Decomposition, Decomposition - Constituent factors, Decomposition - Decomposition process, Decomposition - Embalming, Decomposition - Importance to forensics, Decomposition - Books

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Francis Xavier devoted much of his life to missions to remote countries. As King John III of Portugal desired Jesuit missionaries for the Portuguese East Indies, he was ordered there in 1540. He left Lisbon on April 7, 1541, together with two other Jesuits and the new viceroy Martin de Sousa, on board the Santiago. From August of that year until March 1542, he remained in Mozambique, and reached Goa, India, the capital of the then Portuguese colonies, on May 6. His official role in Goa was Apostolic Nuncio. He spe ...

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Francis Xavier, Francis Xavier - Early life, Francis Xavier - Missionary work, Francis Xavier - Death, Francis Xavier - Legacy, Francis Xavier - Recognition

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Police investigating the disappearance of store clerk Bernice Worden in Plainfield, Wisconsin, on November 16, 1957, suspected Gein to be involved. Upon entry to the shed on his property, they made their first horrific discovery of the night, Worden's corpse. She had been decapitated, and was hanging upside down by the ankles and split open down the torso like a deer. The mutilations had been performed post mortem; she had been killed with a c ...

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The exact history of human interaction with cats is still somewhat vague. The earliest written records of attempts to domesticate cats date back to ancient Egypt, circa 4000 BC, where cats were employed to keep mice and rats away from grain stores. However, a gravesite discovered in 1983 in Shillourokambos, Cyprus, dating to 7500 BC, contains the skeletons of a ceremonially buried human and a type of young cat. Since cats are not native to Cyprus, this suggests that cats were domesticated (or just tamed) at least this early. The cat found in ...

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Mad scientist - Precursors. Since ancient times, popular imagination has circulated on archetypal figures who wielded esoteric knowledge. Shamans and witch doctors were held in reverence and fear of their rumored abilities to conjur beasts and create demons. They shared many of the same perceived characteristics that have been passed onto mad scientists such as eccentric behavior, living as ...

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The first major, modern treatise on a crocodylian was Hugh B. Cott's Scientific results of an inquiry into the ecology and economic status of the Nile crocodile (Crocodilus niloticus) in Uganda. Their size, repute, widespread range, and overlap with humanity has continued to make them particularly well known among the crocodylians. Like all crocodiles, they are quadrupeds with four short, splayed legs; long, powerful tails; a scaly hide with rows of ossified scutes running down their back and tail; and mighty jaws. They have nicitating membranes to protect their eyes, and despite the myths they do have ...

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Nile crocodile, Nile crocodile - Biology and appearance, Nile crocodile - Size, Nile crocodile - Reproduction and maturity, Nile crocodile - Diet and eating behavior, Nile crocodile - Habitat and range, Nile crocodile - Environmental status, Nile crocodile - Gods mummies and magic, Nile crocodile - Fiction, Nile crocodile - Alternate names, Nile crocodile - Classification

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Horus - Sky God. Originally, Horus was the god of the sky, and the son of Ra, the creator (whose own birth was thought due to the Ogdoad). His mother was originally said to have been Hathor, since Hathor was considered as a representation of the Milky way, which encirles the sky, specifically as the cow whose milk produced it, and so Hathor was thought of as Ra's wife. One title that was often given to this form was Nenwen (also spelt Nenun), roughly meaning the exposed ...

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Horus, Horus - Mythology, Horus - Sky God, Horus - Sun God, Horus - Conquerer of Set, Horus - Brother of Isis, Horus - Son of Osiris, Horus - Mystery Religion, Horus - Horus and Jesus, Horus - Neith's nativity, Horus - See Also

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Under Ptolemy Soter, efforts were made to integrate Egyptian religion with that of their hellenic rulers. Ptolemy's policy was to find a deity that should win the reverence alike of both groups, despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of the previous foreign rulers (i.e Set who was lauded by the Hyksos). Alexander had attempted to use Amun for this purpose, but he was more prominent in Upper Egypt, which was not so popular with those in Lower Egypt, where the Greeks had stronger influence. Nethertheless, the Greeks had li ...

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Apis Egyptian mythology, Apis Egyptian mythology - The Ka of Ptah, Apis Egyptian mythology - Ka of Osiris, Apis Egyptian mythology - From bull to man

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Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal town in the Nile Delta. Its site is in the eastern outskirts of modern-day Alexandria, around 25 kilometres from the centre of that city. The god Osiris was worshipped at Canopus under the form of a vase with a human head. Through an old misunderstanding, the name "canopic jar" was applied by early Egyptologists to any vase with a human or animal head. ...

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Canopic jar, Canopic jar - The name canopic jar

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By the hellenic era, Greek awareness of Osiris had grown, and attempts had been made to merge greek philosophy, such as Platonism, and the cult of Osiris (especially the myth of his resurrection), resulting in a mystery religion. Gradually, this became more popular, and was exported to other parts of the greek sphere of influence. However, these mystery religions valued the change in wisdom, personality, and knowledge of fundamental truth, rather than the exact details of the acknowledged myths on which their teachings were superimposed. Thu ...

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Osiris, Osiris - Early Mythology, Osiris - God of the Dead, Osiris - Centipede, Osiris - Father of Anubis, Osiris - Father of Horus, Osiris - Ram God, Osiris - Mystery religion, Osiris - Rituals, Osiris - Serapis, Osiris - Destruction, Osiris - Osiris in popular culture

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Palermo is among the richest cities of monuments in Italy, and perhaps in the world. It is also the main centre of Norman architecture in Europe. Palermo - Churches. The Cathedral of Palermo (a former mosque turned into a church from 1135) San Giovanni degli Eremiti (1132) Martorana (Santa Maria dell'Ammiragliato, 1143) San Cataldo (12th century) Santa Maria della Gangia San Giuseppe dei Teatini Oratori ...

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In the Disney movie The Three Lives of Thomasina, the eponymous cat 'dies' during the movie and imagines herself going to cat heaven, presided over by a great statue of the cat goddess. In an episode of The West Wing, an unexpected filibuster is blamed, in part, on C.J. Cregg breaking an ancient statue of the goddess Bast. Bast appears as a minor, but influential, character in two of Neil Gaiman's works, The Sandman and American Gods. In Sandman, Bast appears as a friend and confidant of Dream, at on ...

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Bast goddess, Bast goddess - Bast in Popular Culture

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Mad scientists are typically characterized by obsessive behaviour and the employment of extremely dangerous or unorthodox methods. They often are motivated by revenge, seeking to settle real or imagined slights, typically related to their unorthodox studies. Their laboratories often hum with Tesla coils, Van de Graaff generators, Jacob's ladders, perpetual motion machines, and other visually impressive electrical oddments, or are decorated with test tubes and complicated distillation apparatus con ...

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The Nile crocodile is called Mamba in Swahili, Garwe in Shona, Ngwenya in Ndebele, and Olom in a Nubian dialect. The binomial name Crocodylus niloticus is derived from the Greek kroko ("pebble"), deilos ("worm", or "man"), referring to its rough skin; and niloticus, meaning "from the Nile River". ...

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Nile crocodile, Nile crocodile - Biology and appearance, Nile crocodile - Size, Nile crocodile - Reproduction and maturity, Nile crocodile - Diet and eating behavior, Nile crocodile - Habitat and range, Nile crocodile - Environmental status, Nile crocodile - Gods mummies and magic, Nile crocodile - Fiction, Nile crocodile - Alternate names, Nile crocodile - Classification

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Because Sicily is not as prosperous as the mainland Italian regions, immigrants or guestworkers rarely make headway into Palermo, except for illegal immigrants. Despite the immigrant population, the city is one of the fastest growing in Italy considering that the population under 14 still outnumbers those over 65. Palermo - Historical population. ...

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Palermo, Palermo - History, Palermo - Demographics, Palermo - Historical population, Palermo - Main monuments, Palermo - Churches, Palermo - Palaces and Museums, Palermo - Teatro Massimo, Palermo - Other interesting sights, Palermo - Patron Saints, Palermo - Transport

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On November 21, he fainted after celebrating Mass. He died on the island on December 2, 1552, at age 46, without having reached mainland China. He was first buried on a beach of Shangchuan island. His intact body was taken from the island in February 1553. It was temporarily buried in St. Paul's church in Malacca on March 22, 1553. An open grave in the church now marks the place of Xavier's burial. Pereira came back from Goa, removed the corpse shortly after Ap ...

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Francis Xavier, Francis Xavier - Early life, Francis Xavier - Missionary work, Francis Xavier - Death, Francis Xavier - Legacy, Francis Xavier - Recognition

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Francis Xavier accomplished a great deal of missionary work, both as organizer and as pioneer. By his compromises in India with the Christians of St. Thomas he developed the Jesuit missionary methods along lines that subsequently became fateful for his order. The instruction he dispensed in connection with baptism was superficial. He combined missions with politics, and approved of the extension of Christianity force (cf. his letter to King John ...

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Francis Xavier is a Catholic saint. He was beatified by Paul V on October 25, 1619, and was canonized by Gregory XV on March 12, 1622, at the same time as Ignatius Loyola. The Japanese university Sophia University was initiated in his honour in Tokyo 1913. In the Philippines, there is a Xavier School, an elite private institution offering primary and secondary educational services. In 1839, Theodore James Ryken founded the Xaverian Brothers, or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier (CFX). Currently, over 20 colleges or high schools in the United States a ...

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Francis Xavier, Francis Xavier - Early life, Francis Xavier - Missionary work, Francis Xavier - Death, Francis Xavier - Legacy, Francis Xavier - Recognition

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In the Middle Ages, cats were often thought to be witches' familiars (e.g. greymalkin of the first witch in Macbeth's famous opening scene), and during festivities were sometimes burnt alive or thrown off tall buildings. The human killing of cats in the middle ages has also been cited as one of the reasons for the spread of the plague, which was spread by the increased rodent population caused by the death of so many cats. ...

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