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Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.. The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the ...
The Tel Dan Stele, with mention of the "House of David" highlighted in white. Very little is conclusively known about the House of David. The Tel Dan Stele mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD", [6] (interpreted as "House of David") and thus far is the only extrabiblical explicit mention of David himself. The stele is dated to ...
Catholics use images, such as the crucifix, the cross, in religious life and pray using depictions of saints. They also venerate images and liturgical objects by kissing, bowing, and making the sign of the cross. They point to the Old Testament patterns of worship followed by the Hebrew people as examples of how certain places and things used ...
Davos, an exclusive ski resort near Zurich in Switzerland, hosts the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum which began on Monday. Delegates from big business, governments, civil society ...
Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Ranges. The municipality covers nearly the entire valley of the Landwasser, and the centre of population, economic activity and administration is two adjacent villages, Davos Dorf (engl.:
The world is in a “sorry state" because of myriad interlinked challenges including climate change and Russia's war in Ukraine that are “piling up like cars in a chain reaction crash,” the U ...
"The Great Reset" was the theme of the 2021 World Economic Forum annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, scheduled for January 2021. [7] Due to disruption from COVID-19, the summit was postponed to May 2021, and again to 2022. [8] [9] The Davos 2022 theme was "History at a Turning Point", and the Russian invasion of Ukraine dominated the summit. [10]
Switzerland’s skies are ablaze with jets carrying business and political leaders, news pundits and billionaires into Davos for the World Economic Forum, an annual event where the elite hash out ...