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The seven-headed snake
The seven-headed snake represents the Supreme Deity manifesting through His Elohim, or Seven Spirits, by whose aid He established His universe. The coils of the snake have been used by the pagans to symbolize the motion and also the orbits of the celestial bodies. (source)
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Mysterious face of LuSheNa Giant Buddha, praised by tourists as "Oriental Mona Lisa" and "the most beautiful statue in the world". Located in Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, China. Made in 672 of Tang Dynasty, carved during Empress Wu Zetian’ reign according to her own appearance.
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This Art Nouveau storefront in Rue Royale, Brussels, was originally designed by Paul Hankar in 1896 as a shirt shop. After years of abandonment, it was restored & now operates as famed floral artist/designer Daniel Ost’s flower shop.
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Bigger, stronger, faster, meaner, more, more, more
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"The danger of Artificial Intelligence is not that machines increasingly think like humans, but that humans increasingly think like machines." - Joseph Weizenbaum (1923 - 2008), a fathers of A.I.
"It is disastrous that most of my colleagues believe that we can create an artificial human being. This immense nonsense is related to delusions of grandeur. Maybe, if I had known back then what i know now, that i'd have said 'I don't like being in this branch.'" - Joseph Weizenbaum
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The word 'Paris', the capital of France seemingly originated from the 'PARisians (people) of ISis'
Picture: The French 'Declaration of human rights'
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Marduk - a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.
Image: Nineteenth-century engraving by Gustave Doré, showing the scene from "Bel and the Dragon" in which Daniel reveals the deception of the Babylonian priests of Bel, a syncretized form of Marduk.
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Western intellectual culture in a nutshell: White Male Thinkers
"Over 600 pages, Not a single non-white or non-European political thinkers in over 2000 years! Also, not a single woman thinker (neither in the 1st edition of 2003 nor the 2nd edition of 2009). And ready for this, in 2017 edition the editors decided to add ONE woman (of 33 thinkers). and guess what? the one they added is another WHITE, EUROPEAN WOMAN (Hannah Arendt)." - Ahmed Abozaid
