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1 day ago · Religious violence covers phenomena in which religion is either the subject or the object of violent behavior. [1] All the religions of the world contain narratives, symbols, and metaphors of violence and war. [2] Religious violence is violence that is motivated by, or in reaction to, religious precepts, texts, or the doctrines of a target or ...
21 hours ago · Religious Racketeers (1938) Houdini Picture Corp. Film Developing Corp. Filming locations; Unmade Movies; Deconstructing Houdini '53; Spiritualism. The Margery Files; Houdini and Conan Doyle; Houdini's Spirit Lecture; Congressional testimony; 1925 radio address on spiritualism (transcript) Houdini on the Bible, Freud, spirits, and spells; Rose ...
5 days ago · These notable electric chair executions include modern and long-gone famous men and women, from politicians to religious leaders to writers. Everyone on this list has executed by electric chair as a cause of death somewhere in their public records, even if it was just one contributing factor for their death.
5 days ago · The Reverend Canon William V. Rauscher was a magician, a psychic researcher, a biographer, and an Episcopal priest who served as rector of Christ Church in Woodbury, New Jersey, for 36 years.
2 days ago · Chapter 16: Look at those! Houdini returns to the United States. We know that via a stock establishing shot of the Statue of Liberty. This also tells us he has returned to New York City. The following scene is short, but there is a lot to love, and it contains a shot that has obsessed me for years. As triumphant music swells, we get a close-up ...
21 hours ago · Tragically, she later passed away on Mount Arafat in Mecca. Attiyat’s story is just one among 1,301 tales of pilgrims who died during this year’s Hajj. Following numerous reports by international news agencies about hundreds of deaths, the Saudi Press Agency published a statement four days after the Hajj season ended.
4 days ago · Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or their lack thereof. The tendency of societies or groups within societies to alienate or repress different subcultures is a recurrent theme in human history.
