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  2. Man's Search for Meaning - Wikipedia

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    Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.

  3. The old man lost his horse - Wikipedia

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    The first known version of the story is found in the Huainanzi, which was compiled around 139 BCE. [citation needed] Among chengyu ( Chinese: 成語; pinyin: chéngyǔ ), traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, one finds the saying. Chinese: 塞翁失馬,焉知非福. The old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best.

  4. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Behenchod (बहनचोद, بہنچود; English: Sisterfucker), also pronounced as behanchod is sometimes abbreviated as BC, is a Hindustani language vulgarism. It is a form of the profanity fuck. The word is considered highly offensive, and is rarely used in literal sense of one who engages in sexual activity with another person's sister ...

  5. Karma - Wikipedia

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    Karma ( / ˈkɑːrmə /, from Sanskrit: कर्म, IPA: [ˈkɐɾmɐ] ⓘ; Pali: kamma) is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences. [ 1] In Indian religions, the term more specifically refers to a principle of cause and effect, often descriptively called the principle of karma, wherein ...

  6. Ramayana - Wikipedia

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    Hindu mythology. The name Rāmāyaṇa is composed of two words, Rāma and ayaṇa. Rāma, the name of the main figure of the epic, has two contextual meanings. In the Atharvaveda, it means 'dark, dark-coloured or black' and is related to the word rātri which means 'darkness or stillness of night'.

  7. PDF - Wikipedia

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    A PDF file is often a combination of vector graphics, text, and bitmap graphics. The basic types of content in a PDF are: Typeset text stored as content streams (i.e., not encoded in plain text ); Vector graphics for illustrations and designs that consist of shapes and lines;

  8. Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    "you are getting out, this is what you deserve." [244] In September 2012, he escaped Sri Lanka by boat to Australia. He was subsequently admitted into a mental hospital in Brisbane due to a deterioration in his mental state. Whilst there, a Tamil Gynaecologist provided him with numerous menstrual pads due to rectal bleeding. He was also ...

  9. Omen - Wikipedia

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    Explanations in English were added to this manuscript by a nineteenth-century American missionary. [ 1] An omen (also called portent) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. [ 2] It was commonly believed in ancient times, and still believed by some today, that omens bring divine messages ...