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  2. Midwifery - Wikipedia

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    Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn), [1] in addition to the sexual and reproductive health of women throughout their lives. [2]

  3. Tomb of Sand - Wikipedia

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    Tomb of Sand (originally titled Ret Samadhi, Hindi: रेत समाधि) [2] is a 2018 Hindi-language novel by Indian author Geetanjali Shree. It was translated into English by U.S. translator Daisy Rockwell. [3] In 2022, the book became the first novel translated from an Indian language to win the International Booker Prize. [4] [5] [6] [7]

  4. Hierakonpolis - Wikipedia

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    Possible illustration of the conflict between Abydos and Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), on the Gebel el-Arak Knife, Louvre Museum, 3300–3200 BCE. [1]Nekhen (/ ˈ n ɛ k ə n /, Ancient Egyptian: nḫn), also known as Hierakonpolis (/ ˌ h aɪər ə ˈ k ɒ n p ə l ɪ s /; Greek: Ἱεράκων πόλις, romanized: Hierákōn pólis, meaning City of Hawks or City of Falcons, [2] [3] a reference ...

  5. Tomb of the Dancers - Wikipedia

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    In any case, the tomb's frescoes are the oldest example of figurative painting in Apulia, together with another tomb in Gravina di Puglia. The Peucetians borrowed the practice of painting tombs from the Etruscans, who had an important influence on their culture. [2] The tomb is named after the dancing women which appear on the frescoes in the tomb.

  6. Tin Hinan Tomb - Wikipedia

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    The tomb's entrance, located in the Bardo National Museum. Tin Hinan is the name given by the Tuareg to a 3rd- or 4th-century woman of prestige whose skeleton was found in a pre-Islamic tomb in the Ahaggar Mountains. Tin Hinan is sometimes referred to as "Queen of the Hoggar", [3] [4] and by the Tuareg as Tamenokalt [5] which also means "queen ...

  7. Bujang Valley - Wikipedia

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    A seated Bodhisattva carved in terracotta, from site 21/22. The Bujang Valley (Malay: Lembah Bujang) is a sprawling historical complex and has an area of approximately 224 square kilometres (86 sq mi), with the discovery of a set of new iron smelting sites, Sungai Batu site enlarging the settlement area to 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi).

  8. The Garden Tomb - Wikipedia

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    The Garden Tomb (Arabic: بستان قبر المسيح, Hebrew: גן הקבר, literally "the Tomb Garden") is an ancient rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem that functions as a site of Christian pilgrimage attracting hundreds of thousands of annual visitors, especially Evangelicals and other Protestants, as some Protestant Christians consider it to be the empty tomb from whence Jesus of Nazareth ...

  9. Santa Maria sopra Minerva - Wikipedia

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    Santa Maria sopra Minerva is one of the major churches of the Order of Preachers (also known as the Dominicans) in Rome, Italy.The church's name derives from the fact that the first Christian church structure on the site was built directly over (Italian: sopra) the ruins or foundations of a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, which had been erroneously ascribed to the Greco-Roman ...