preservation of the memory to the sacrifices of war and despotism. Former head of the Bundeswehr Wolfgang Schneiderhan was elected President of the organisation...

sacrifices to the Minotaur. This ties up with the archaeological evidence that most sacrifices were of young adults or children. The Phoenicians of Carthage...

halakha for sacrifices. Offering of sacrifices was briefly reinstated during the Jewish–Roman wars of the second century CE. When sacrifices were offered...

Greenberg the story of the binding of Isaac, symbolizes the prohibition to worship God by human sacrifices, at a time when human sacrifices were the norm worldwide...

Fertility was another common theme in ancient religious sacrifices, such as sacrifices to the Aztec god of agriculture Xipe Totec. In ancient Japan, legends...

to her physical form, but sacrifices herself to save Maul and is killed by Grievous. Although Maul escapes with a company of loyal Mandalorians, the Shadow...

mention of human sacrifice in his memoir True History of the Conquest of New Spain. There are a number of second-hand accounts of human sacrifices written...

sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Isaac. The passage states that the event occurred at "the mount of the LORD" in "the land of Moriah". 2 Chronicles...

2021 "Sacrifices" (Big Sean song), 2017 "Sacrifices" (Dreamville, EarthGang and J. Cole song), 2019 "Sacrifice" (Elton John song), 1989 "Sacrifice" (The...

The Legacy of the Force is a series of nine science fiction novels, published from 2006 to 2008, set in the Star Wars expanded universe. The series takes...

This is 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...

by France in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of France during the war. In addition to the Commonwealth...

April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and...

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States...

resulting in significant civilian casualties, or demanding a war effort requiring significant sacrifices by the friendly civilian population. Unconventional warfare...

sacrifices, notably cow and horse sacrifices. Such interpretations justify Vedic animal sacrifice viewing it "as a little hurt caused in the cause of...

family through four generations and their sacrifices in wars and accompanying social changes. It is a study of class division and snobbery in Britain in...

God of War Ragnarök is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was released worldwide...

place allowed by halakha for sacrifices. Offering of sacrifices was briefly reinstated during the Jewish–Roman wars of the second century CE and was...

The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth...

Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict,[note (I)] was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and...

(Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events...

now that some way may be found of securing agreement for demanding reparation commensurate with the tremendous sacrifices made by the British Empire and...

Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about chess grandmaster and 11th world champion Bobby Fischer. It follows Fischer's...

God of War is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game was released for the...

man as one of many ways the druids of Gaul performed sacrifices. In the mid-1st century BC, Caesar wrote in his Commentary on the Gallic War that a large...

of the two most important social groups in the region (alongside the equites, or nobles) and were responsible for organizing worship and sacrifices,...

Israeli war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which the...

human sacrifice. Generally, only high-status prisoners of war were sacrificed, and lower status captives were used for labor. Human sacrifice among the...