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@Ticia_Verveer World War II
Representation of the zodiac sign Sagittarius.
The myth of Hermann remains tainted by the militant nationalism that would later be associated with Hitler.
Rabbi Yitzhak Finkler, the Grand Rebbe of Radoszyce, asked Moshe Winterter, also an inmate in the camp, to make a shofar for the holy observance of Rosh Hashana in 1943 (5704). In spite of the danger to his own life, Moshe created one. 
The women dressed in tunics long mantles, decorated with clavus, stones or gold colored parts, perform with clappers, an organ, a double flute, metal sounding bows, a cithara and castanets.
Although believed that ancient Egyptian women wore such dresses in daily life, most examples have been found in a burial context. 
The kabbalistic tree chart (Ilan Sefirot) shows the structure of the Divine Emanation according to the Kabbalah. Around the chart is an orchard with 4 trees: vine, apple, palm and olive. Symbols of the Zodiac and the 7 planets are among the leaves of the apple and the olive trees
The Holy Women at the Tomb (or The Three Marys at the Tomb).
The word 'aten' means 'the disk,' which can be placed in a solar context, the moon or the surface of a mirror. 
The Spring Equinox is mentioned in this 3,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Mesopotamia. 
Discovery at 'flower burial' site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites m.phys.org/news/2020-02-d…
"Of particular interest was a pottery sherd engraved with ancient Canaanite script. There, the letter “samek” appears, marked by an elongated vertical line crossed by three perpendicular shorter lines" 
‘Parthenon vandal’ helps shine a light on Elgin marbles 
“Stonehenge. Trilithons B and C from the southwest. Photographed by the Ordnance Survey Department, Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:F.R.S.:&c.Director. 1867” 
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