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INDIA BREEDS TURTLES TO CLEAN GANGES.(Main)
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Byline: JOHN WARD ANDERSON Washington Post
Every day thousands of Hindus flock to the shores of the great Ganges River here, where they drink and bathe in the holy water as partially cremated corpses float past them, and nearby drains spew millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.
While the faithful seem unfazed, the Indian government - concerned that religious rituals and social customs have helped turn India's most sacred river into a 1,568-mile health hazard - has devised a solution for the most unsightly problem: specially bred snapping turtles ...
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Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...a "missing piece in the puzzle of English puritanism." Burke Griggs examines John Walker's attempts to unseat Edmund Calamy's accounts of Nonconformist suffering by producing an empirically based understanding, rather than a Foxean martyrology...
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Ho! Ho! . . . Oh!; There's No Light Without the Dark
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...outlawed Christmas revels, declaring the day an occasion for fasting and humiliation. On Christmas Day, 1644, Mr. Edmund Calamy preached before the House of Lords, "And truly I think that the superstition and profanation of this day is so rooted...
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The persecution of Thomas Emlyn, 1703-1705.(United Kingdom)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...1682. At Doolittle's academy, Emlyn was educated alongside the next generation of leading dissenters, including Edmund Calamy, Matthew Henry and Thomas Rowe. In 1683, without apparently having obtained, any religious orders, Emlyn became...
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