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Calamity, by The Curtains (2008); Calamity (board game), board game released by Games Workshop in 1983 Calamity, 1982 Czechoslovak film; Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary, 2020 animated film
The Warren Cup, now in the British Museum, depicts sexual intimacy between a young man or a "pederast" – in the broadest sense – and his "catamite" Roman Ganymede as a puer delicatus, with the eagle of Jove
Urban Dictionary added a definition for the term as early as 2008, with one entry listing it as "a laughably poor performance." [ 1 ] Usage of "dumpster fire" remained relatively obscure throughout the early 2010s, but gained widespread usage starting in 2010 in the world of American sports, where teams that performed exceptionally poorly would ...
Along with demands for divestment and financial transparency, protesting students also aim to show solidarity with millions of Palestinian civilians facing calamitous levels of disaster, including ...
"Belial" is applied to ideas, words, and counsel, to calamitous circumstances, and most frequently, to worthless men of the lowest sort, such as men who would induce worship of other gods; those of Benjamin who committed the sex crime at Gibeah; the wicked sons of Eli; insolent Nabal; opposers of God's anointed, David; Rehoboam's unsteady ...
To ward off the misfortunes believed to occur during a yakudoshi, individuals may engage in prayer to Shinto or Buddhist deities, attend rituals, purchase protective charms, make pilgrimages, exchange gifts, or hold special festivities, usually at the beginning or end of the year.
Europe had been battered by both the Thirty Years' War and the overlapping Eighty Years' War (begun c. 1568), exacting a heavy toll in money and lives. The Eighty Years' War was a prolonged struggle for the independence of the Protestant-majority Dutch Republic (the modern Netherlands), supported by Protestant-majority England, against Catholic-dominated Spain and Portugal.
The agency says it "recognizes that tobacco products exist on a continuum of risk, with combusted cigarettes being the deadliest, and that certain non-combusted cigarettes pose less risk to ...