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  2. Aniconism in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Islam. In some forms of Islamic art, aniconism (the avoidance of images of sentient beings) stems in part from the prohibition of idolatry and in part from the belief that the creation of living forms is God 's prerogative. The Quran itself does not prohibit visual representation of any living being. The hadith collection of Sahih Bukhari ...

  3. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The same is generally true for other animals having their young touched by humans as well, with the possible exception of rabbits (as rabbits will sometimes abandon their nest after an event they perceive as traumatizing). [454] Eating rice, yeast, or Alka-Seltzer does not cause birds to explode and is rarely fatal.

  4. Animals in Islam - Wikipedia

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    According to Islam, human beings are allowed to use animals, but only if the rights of the animals are respected. The owner of an animal must do everything to benefit the animal. If the owner fails to perform their duties for the animal, the animal goes to someone else. The duties humans have to animals in Islam are based in the Quran, Sunnah ...

  5. Electromagnetic radiation and health - Wikipedia

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    The field strength of electromagnetic radiation is measured in volts per meter (V/m). [ 2]: 139. The most common health hazard of radiation is sunburn, which causes between approximately 100,000 and 1 million new skin cancers annually in the United States. [ 3][ 4] In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for ...

  6. Aniconism in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    A number of verses in the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) refer to prohibitions against the creation of various forms of images, invariably linked directly with idolatry. The strongest source is based on what Judaism counts as the second of the Ten Commandments : Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness ...

  7. Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. [ 1] It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. [ 2] Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces, such as seasons and weather.

  8. Human interactions with insects - Wikipedia

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    The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.

  9. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    Tetrachromacy. The four pigments in a bird's cone cells (in this example, estrildid finches) extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet. [ 1] Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types ...