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The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland. Nessie is usually categorized as a type of lake monster. Along with Bigfoot and the Yeti (the "Abominable Snowman"), Nessie is one of the best-known mysteries in cryptozoology though most mainstream scientists and other experts find current evidence supporting Nessie unpersuasive ...

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• Loch Ness Monster - History of alleged sightings
• Loch Ness Monster - Ancient
• Loch Ness Monster - Recent and Principal
• Loch Ness Monster - Theories
• Loch Ness Monster - Evidence
• Loch Ness Monster - Evidence for
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• Loch Ness Monster - The Loch Ness Monster and popular culture
• Loch Ness Monster - Literature
• Loch Ness Monster - Movies
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• Loch Ness Monster - Games
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The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written some 600 years ago by an anonymous author in an unidentified alphabet and unintelligible language. Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers — including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame — who all failed to decipher a single word. This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into the Holy Grail of histori ...

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• Voynich manuscript - Roger Bacon
• Voynich manuscript - John Dee
• Voynich manuscript - Edward Kelley
• Voynich manuscript - Wilfrid Voynich
• Voynich manuscript - Jacobus Sinapius
• Voynich manuscript - Jan Marci
• Voynich manuscript - Raphael Mnishovsky
• Voynich manuscript - Anthony Ascham
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about contents and purpose
• Voynich manuscript - Herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Sunflowers
• Voynich manuscript - Alchemy
• Voynich manuscript - Alchemical herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Astrological herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Microscopes and telescopes
• Voynich manuscript - Multiple authors
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about the language
• Voynich manuscript - Letter-based cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Codebook cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Visual cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Micrography
• Voynich manuscript - Steganography
• Voynich manuscript - Exotic natural language
• Voynich manuscript - Polyglot tongue
• Voynich manuscript - Constructed language
• Voynich manuscript - Hoax
• Voynich manuscript - Influence on popular culture

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An unusual depiction of a religious figure is when a well-known religious figure is shown on something on which you would not normally expect to see them. It is a specific form of pareidolia and usually involves just the face. Unlike weeping statues, which generally occur in a religious venue, these depictions can be found in many unusual and unexpected locations. One recurring source is food, with many representations shown on them. The most commonly reported occurrences involve images of Jesus and other people associated with ...

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• Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Chicago underpass
• Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Mary and Jesus pretzel
• Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich
• Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Ghana
• Unusual depiction of a religious figure - The NunBun
• Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Created depictions
• Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Icon-caviar

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Zeitoun, also El-Zeitoun or Zeitun, is a town near Cairo, Egypt. It is noted for its Marian apparitions. According to purported witnesses, the Virgin Mary appeared in different forms over the Coptic Virgin Mary Church at Zeitoun for a period of 2–3 years beginning on April 2, 1968. The apparitions lasted from a few minutes up to several hours and were sometimes accompanied by dove-shaped luminous bodies. They were purportedly seen by millions of Egyptians and foreigners, including Copts, Orthodox and Roma ...

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Marian apparitions are events in which the Virgin Mary is purported to have supernaturally appeared to one or more persons, typically but not always Christians, often Catholics in various settings. They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the sobriquet which was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition, or on her reported clothing and hairstyle. They have been interpreted as psychological (pareidolia), and as religious phenomena, occasionally as theophanies. Apparitions sometimes recur at ...

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• Marian apparitions - List of Marian apparitions
• Marian apparitions - Papal Marian apparitions
• Marian apparitions - Criticism and Controversy

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Our Lady of Guadalupe or the Virgin of Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic icon and arguably Mexico's most popular image: Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is quoted as saying that "the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments, have faith only in the Virgin of Guadalupe and the National Lottery" (Paz 1976). Most often described as a manifestation of the Virgin Mary, she is said to have appeared to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzi ...

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• Our Lady of Guadalupe - History and Legend
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Traditional Legend of the Virgin of Guadalupe
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Historical Documentation of the Apparition
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Guadalupe as Symbol of Mexico
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Popularity of the Virgin of Guadalupe
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Interpretations of the Image
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Origin of the Name
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - The Tilma
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Tonantzin and Other Virgins

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According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, the era of public revelation ended with the death of the last Apostle and when the New Testament was finished. A Marian apparition, if genuine, is treated as private revelation that may emphasise some facet of the received public revelation for a specific purpose, but it can never add anything new. At most the Church will declare an apparition as worthy of belief, but belief is never required. The Holy See has officially confirmed the apparitions at Guadalupe, Lou ...

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Marian apparitions, Marian apparitions - Catholic belief, Marian apparitions - Papal Marian apparitions, Marian apparitions - Criticism, Marian apparitions - List of Marian apparitions

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Most interpretations of the photo suggest that the feature is a natural landform, one of many mesas that scatter Cydonia. In this view of things, the appearance of a face is given by a combination of the angle of the lighting (with the sun low on the Martian horizon at the time the photo was taken), the low resolution of the photo tending to smooth out the irregularities of the surface, and the human brain's tendency to recognize familiar patterns, especially faces (pareidolia). Finally, a gap in the data sent back by Viking 1 created a black spot exactly where a nostril would be located on a human face. ...

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Face on Mars, Face on Mars - Interpretations, Face on Mars - Original caption, Face on Mars - Fiction

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Since Jurgenson's report, thousands of people all over the world have attempted to replicate the spirit voices phenomenon, claiming success in many cases. They use no special equipment to capture voices such as these, only a microphone and a means of recording, such as a tape/minidisc/CD recorder or a computer, and patience. It is said it can take months of diligent recording before voices appear. Proponents recommend the use of headphones, because the voices are often faint, and a computer for processing the recordings is very helpful. See also:

Electronic voice phenomenon, Electronic voice phenomenon - History, Electronic voice phenomenon - Modern EVP, Electronic voice phenomenon - Raudive voices, Electronic voice phenomenon - Spiricom, Electronic voice phenomenon - Instrumental transcommunication, Electronic voice phenomenon - Recording EVP, Electronic voice phenomenon - Theories, Electronic voice phenomenon - Classification, Electronic voice phenomenon - EVP in fiction

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Our Lady of Guadalupe - Traditional Legend of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Nican Mopohua is considered to be the "primordial account" of the apparition because it is written in the indigenous Nahuatl language. It describes the 1531 meeting between La Virgen and Saint Juan Diego on Tepeyac. In the Nican Mopohua, "it had been ten years since [...] Mexico had been conquered" when Juan Diego, a widowed convert to Roman Catholicism, was on his way to "attend to divine things" when, upon passing the hill ...

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe - History and Legend, Our Lady of Guadalupe - Traditional Legend of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe - Historical Documentation of the Apparition, Our Lady of Guadalupe - Guadalupe as Symbol of Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe - Popularity of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe - Interpretations of the Image, Our Lady of Guadalupe - Origin of the Name, Our Lady of Guadalupe - The Tilma, Our Lady of Guadalupe - Tonantzin and Other Virgins

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Mochi - Confectionery. Many types of traditional wagashi (Japanese traditional sweets) are made with mochi. For example, daifuku is a soft round mochi stuffed with sweet filling, for example a sweetened red bean paste. Ichigo daifuku is a version containing a whole strawberry inside. Kusa mochi is a green variety of mochi flavored with yomogi (mugwort). When daifuku is made with kus ...

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Mochi, Mochi - Mochitsuki, Mochi - Popular uses for mochi, Mochi - Confectionery, Mochi - Grilled & fried mochi, Mochi - Soup, Mochi - New Year specialties, Mochi - Other, Mochi - Other Facts

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Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Chicago underpass. An emergency turnoff area underneath the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago was the host to one depiction in April 2005. An image of the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared on a wall, though the authorities put it down to salt staining. [1] ...

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Unusual depiction of a religious figure, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Unexpected occurrences, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Chicago underpass, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Mary and Jesus pretzel, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Ghana, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - The NunBun, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Created depictions, Unusual depiction of a religious figure - Icon-caviar

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Mochi - Confectionery. Many types of traditional wagashi (Japanese traditional sweets) are made with mochi. For example, daifuku is a soft round mochi stuffed with sweet filling, for example a sweetened red bean paste. Ichigo daifuku is a version containing a whole strawberry inside. Kusa mochi is a green variety of mochi flavored with yomogi (mugwort). When daifuku is made with kus ...

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Mochi, Mochi - Mochitsuki, Mochi - Popular uses for mochi, Mochi - Confectionery, Mochi - Grilled and fried mochi, Mochi - Soup, Mochi - New Year specialties, Mochi - Other, Mochi - Other facts

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Since Jurgenson's report, thousands of people all over the world have attempted to replicate the spirit voices phenomenon, claiming success in many cases. They use no special equipment to capture voices such as these, only a microphone and a means of recording, such as a tape/minidisc/CD recorder or a computer, and patience. It is said it can take months of diligent recording before voices appear. Proponents recommend the use of headphones, because the voices are often faint, and a computer for processing the recordings is very helpful. See also:

Electronic voice phenomena, Electronic voice phenomena - History, Electronic voice phenomena - Modern EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Raudive voices, Electronic voice phenomena - Spiricom, Electronic voice phenomena - ITC, Electronic voice phenomena - Recording EVP, Electronic voice phenomena - Theories, Electronic voice phenomena - Classification, Electronic voice phenomena - EVP in fiction

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The Loch Ness Monster is well known throughout the United Kingdom and the United States. Loch Ness Monster - Literature. A Saint story titled "The Convenient Monster" written by Leslie Charteris featured the Loch Ness Monster. The story appeared in the 1962 collection Trust the Saint and was included in The Fantastic Saint (1982). The story was also made into an episode that first aired November 4, 1966, in t ...

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Loch Ness Monster, Loch Ness Monster - History of alleged sightings, Loch Ness Monster - Ancient, Loch Ness Monster - Recent and Principal, Loch Ness Monster - Theories, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence for, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence against, Loch Ness Monster - The Loch Ness Monster and popular culture, Loch Ness Monster - Literature, Loch Ness Monster - Movies, Loch Ness Monster - Television, Loch Ness Monster - Media, Loch Ness Monster - Games, Loch Ness Monster - Reference, Loch Ness Monster - Loch Ness Monster Researchers

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The Loch Ness Monster is well known throughout the United Kingdom and the United States. Loch Ness Monster - Literature. A Saint story titled "The Convenient Monster" written by Leslie Charteris featured the Loch Ness Monster. The story appeared in the 1962 collection Trust the Saint and was included in The Fantastic Saint (1982). The story was also made into an episode that first aired November 4, 1966, in t ...

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Loch Ness Monster, Loch Ness Monster - History of alleged sightings, Loch Ness Monster - Ancient, Loch Ness Monster - Recent and principal sightings, Loch Ness Monster - Theories, Loch Ness Monster - Paranormal theories, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence for, Loch Ness Monster - Evidence against, Loch Ness Monster - The Loch Ness Monster and popular culture, Loch Ness Monster - Literature, Loch Ness Monster - Music, Loch Ness Monster - Movies, Loch Ness Monster - Television, Loch Ness Monster - Media, Loch Ness Monster - Games, Loch Ness Monster - Reference, Loch Ness Monster - Loch Ness Monster Researchers

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It has been claimed that apparitions were experienced by a number of popes, including Pope Leo XIII in 1884, Pope Pius XII at various stages during his papacy, and Pope John Paul II in 1981, while he recovered from an assassination attempt which occurred on the anniversary of the Fatima apparition. John Paul II's particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary was indicated in his coat of Arms (image, left), which contains a large letter "M," representing Mary at the foot of the Cross, as well as his motto "Totus Tuus," ("Totally yours ...

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Marian apparitions, Marian apparitions - List of Marian apparitions, Marian apparitions - Papal Marian apparitions, Marian apparitions - Criticism and Controversy

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Many theories have been advanced as to the nature of the Voynich manuscript "language". Here is a partial list: Voynich manuscript - Letter-based cipher. According to this theory, the Voynich manuscript contains a meaningful text in some European language, that was intentionally rendered obscure by mapping it to the Voynich manuscript "alphabet" through a ciphe ...

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Voynich manuscript, Voynich manuscript - Description, Voynich manuscript - Illustrations, Voynich manuscript - The text, Voynich manuscript - History, Voynich manuscript - Theories about authorship, Voynich manuscript - Roger Bacon, Voynich manuscript - John Dee, Voynich manuscript - Edward Kelley, Voynich manuscript - Wilfrid Voynich, Voynich manuscript - Jacobus Sinapius, Voynich manuscript - Jan Marci, Voynich manuscript - Raphael Mnishovsky, Voynich manuscript - Anthony Ascham, Voynich manuscript - Theories about contents and purpose, Voynich manuscript - Herbal, Voynich manuscript - Sunflowers, Voynich manuscript - Alchemy, Voynich manuscript - Alchemical herbal, Voynich manuscript - Astrological herbal, Voynich manuscript - Microscopes and telescopes, Voynich manuscript - Multiple authors, Voynich manuscript - Theories about the language, Voynich manuscript - Letter-based cipher, Voynich manuscript - Codebook cipher, Voynich manuscript - Visual cipher, Voynich manuscript - Micrography, Voynich manuscript - Steganography, Voynich manuscript - Exotic natural language, Voynich manuscript - Polyglot tongue, Voynich manuscript - Constructed language, Voynich manuscript - Hoax, Voynich manuscript - Influence on popular culture

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In 1870, in an effort to combat an influx of lesser-valued American currency the Dominion of Canada issued a 25 cent bill (commonly known as a "Shinplaster"). This was intended as a temporary measure, however these bills were reissued in 1900 and 1923. They were recalled by the then newly-formed Bank of Canada in 1935. ...

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In its first banknote issue in 1935, the Bank of Canada printed a $500 bill. As with the $1000 bill, the $500 bill had two versions: one in English, one in French. No bill of this denomination has been printed since. The bill was coloured sepia, or burnt sienna; the front featured Sir John A. Macdonald, and the back depicted a fertility allegory. ...

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Withdrawn Canadian banknotes, Withdrawn Canadian banknotes - Twenty-five-cent bill, Withdrawn Canadian banknotes - Twenty-five-dollar bill, Withdrawn Canadian banknotes - Five-hundred-dollar bill, Withdrawn Canadian banknotes - One-dollar bill, Withdrawn Canadian banknotes - Thousand-dollar bill, Withdrawn Canadian banknotes - Two-dollar bill, Withdrawn Canadian banknotes - 1954 Devil's Head Series

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