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Chashme Baddoor (slogan) Chashm-e-Baddoor ( Persian, Urdu: چشمِ بد دور, Hindi: चश्म-ए-बददूर) is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (which is called nazar in the region). It is a Persian language derivation which literally means " far be the evil eye ".
Nazar (amulet) Eye beads or nazars – amulets against the evil eye – for sale in a shop. An eye bead or naẓar (from Arabic نَظَر [ˈnaðˤar], meaning 'sight', 'surveillance', 'attention', and other related concepts) is an eye-shaped amulet believed by many to protect against the evil eye. The term is also used in Azerbaijani ...
Bindi (decoration) Hindu woman in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh wearing a bindi. A bindi (from Sanskrit bindú meaning "point, drop, dot or small particle") [ 1][ 2] is a coloured dot or, in modern times, a sticker worn on the centre of the forehead, originally by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists from the Indian subcontinent .
Rajneesh. Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, [ 2] Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, [ 1] and later as Osho ( Hindi pronunciation: [ˈo:ʃo:] ), was an Indian godman, [ 3] philosopher and founder of the Rajneesh movement. [ 1] He was viewed as a controversial new religious movement ...
Signature. Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, musician [ a] and composer. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother ...
Al-Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi (born on November 22 1867 in Kampung Hulu, Malacca, died on February 20 1934 in Jelutong on Penang), also spelled Syed Sheikh al-Hady, was a Malay-Arab Arab entrepreneur, publicist and writer in British Malaya, who was one of the pioneers of the Malay educational and nationalist movement and advocated rationalist-oriented reform of Islam in the Malay Archipelago.
The swastika symbol ( Lithuanian: sūkurėlis) is a traditional Baltic ornament, [ 115][ 178] found on relics dating from at least the 13th century. [ 179] The swastika for Lithuanians represent the history and memory of their Lithuanians ancestors as well as the Baltic people at large. [ 179]
Cryonics (from Greek κρύος 'kryos-' meaning 'icy cold') is the low-temperature preservation of animals, including humans, who cannot be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future. [84] [85] Cryopreservation of people and other large animals is not reversible with current ...