"The New Year's Sacrifice" (祝福) is a short story by Lu Xun, originally published in Oriental Magazine, Volume 21, Number 6 (March 25, 1924). It was later...
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A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western World but also found in the Eastern World, in which a person resolves to continue good...
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In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January. Most solar calendars (like the Gregorian and Julian) begin...
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the end of winter and the beginning of spring, this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year...
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Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was...
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Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual...
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Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion. It follows...
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Chinese New Year's Eve is the day before the Chinese New Year. Celebrating Chinese New Year's Eve has always been a family matter, it is the reunion day...
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stories, especially Kong Yiji and The New Year Sacrifice. In the preface, signed on December 3, 1922, Lu Xun describes the evolution of his social concerns...
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human sacrifice. Child sacrifice is thought to be an extreme extension of the idea that the more important the object of sacrifice, the more devout the person...
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requires |journal= (help) Wainwright, G. A. (1940). "192. The Egyptian Origin of the New Year's Sacrifice at Zanzibar". Man. 40: 164–167. doi:10.2307/2792578...
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"My Sacrifice" is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released on October 16, 2001, as the lead single from their third studio album, Weathered...
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Christmas and holiday season (redirect from Christmas and New Year's)
Incorporating Christmas Day and New Year's Day, the various celebrations during this time create a peak season for the retail sector (Christmas/holiday...
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Bai Yang (actress) (category Victims of the Cultural Revolution)
include Crossroads (1937), The Spring River Flows East (1947), Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (1947), and New Year's Sacrifice (1955). On 4 March 1920...
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Eid al-Adha (redirect from Festival of the Sacrifice)
lit. 'Feast of Sacrifice') is the second of the two main holidays in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr. It falls on the 10th of Dhu al-Hijja, the twelfth and final...
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Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public...
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a 2017 action-adventure game developed and published by Ninja Theory. It was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows in...
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The Passover sacrifice (Hebrew: קרבן פסח, romanized: Qorban Pesaḥ), also known as the Paschal lamb or the Passover lamb, is the sacrifice that the Torah...
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Brand of Sacrifice is a Canadian deathcore band from Toronto formed in 2018 after the dissolution of The Afterimage, of which Kyle, Michael, Liam, Dallas...
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The practice of Hindu animal sacrifice is in recent times mostly associated with Shaktism, and in currents of folk Hinduism strongly rooted in local popular...
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Sacrifice is a Canadian thrash metal band from Toronto, Ontario. The band was formed by guitarists Rob Urbinati and Joe Rico in 1983. Sacrifice played...
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Nayrouz (redirect from Coptic New Year)
ISBN 978-1-78969-595-3. Wainwright, G. A. (1940). "192. The Egyptian Origin of the New Year's Sacrifice at Zanzibar". Man. 40: 164–167. doi:10.2307/2792578...
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a list of notable human sacrifices and events relating to them. 3500 BC: Three men were sacrificed during a burial, near the town of Shendi in modern...
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Horse sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of a horse, usually as part of a religious or cultural ritual. Horse sacrifices were common throughout...
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Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Animal...
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"Sacrifice" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It was released on January 7, 2022, through XO and Republic Records, alongside his fifth...
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The practice of human sacrifice in pre-Colombian cultures, in particular Mesoamerican and South American cultures, is well documented both in the archaeological...
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baseball, a sacrifice fly (sometimes abbreviated to sac fly) is defined by Rule 9.08(d): "Score a sacrifice fly when, before two are out, the batter hits...
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Scapegoat (redirect from Scapegoat sacrifice)
other is sacrificed. The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of...
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Living Sacrifice is an American Christian metal band formed in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1989. The band has released eight studio albums, out of which the first...
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