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Pentecostalism is a faith within Evangelical Christianity. It believes in a personal experience with God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit (); the same as in the Biblical account on the Day of Pentecost. Pentecostalism is similar to the Charismatic groups, but it came about earlier and separated from the main church branches. Charismatic Christians, at least in the beginning, tended to stay in their denominations and did not divide away.

Beliefs 
There are different types of Pentecostal churches. Most believe that you must be saved by believing in Jesus as their Savior; to be forgiven for their sins and to be pleasing to God. Pentecostals also believe, like most other evangelicals, that the Bible is true and must be obeyed in decisions of faith. In this majority group, speaking in tongues is the sign of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and is not required for salvation. To this group, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a supernatural gift for ministry that one receives after they have become a Christian.
Other groups believe in an "" based salvation. This means a person needs to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus. They then receive the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost). In this belief, the Holy Spirit is required for salvation; which includes speaking in tongues. In this group, some Pentecostals churches baptize in the name of Jesus only, and some baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost/spirit.

Pentecostal churches believe that Jesus still heals the sick, with the power of the Holy Spirit.
They also believe in other gifts such as speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, supernatural knowledge, mainly about sickness or spiritual matters, and prophesy about future spiritual happenings. Many also practice exorcism, that is, casting out evil spirits.

Statistics
See also: List of Christian denominations by number of members This list indicates that there may be 150 million Pentecostals. The largest Pentecostal denominations are:
Denomination statistics
 Assemblies of God -51 million
 Independent - 50 million
 Church of God in Christ - 9 million
 Church of God (Cleveland, Tennesee) - 8.5 million
 The Apostolic Church - 6 million
 The Pentecostal Mission -6.7 million
 United Pentecostal Church International - 4 million
 Christ Apostolic Church - 2.8 million
 Christian Congregation of Brazil- 2.5 million
 Zion Christian Church - 2.5 million
 Church of the Lord Aladura - 2.5 million
 International Church of the Foursquare Gospel 2 million
 Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - 2 million
 Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada - 1 million
 Christian Outreach Centre - less than 1 million
 Christian City Church = less than 1 million
 World Christian Ministries Association - less than 1 million
While not as large as some of the above organizations the following have made quite an impact on Pentecostalism:
 Northgate Pentecostals (Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas, USA [Colleyville, TX 76034])
Church of Jesus Christ of Prophecy (AKA Mercy Tabernacle, Benton Tennessee)
 International Church of Jesus Christ (Columbus, Ohio)
 Potter's House Christian Fellowship (Prescott, Arizona)
 United Christian Church (Cleveland, Tennessee)
 Igreja Pentecostal e Apostólica Missão Jesus (São Paulo, Brazil)
 Revival Centres International and The Revival Fellowship in Australia
Geographical distribution
 Africa: 41.1 million
 Nigeria: 13.0 million (34.5 million ; 41.0 million  )
 Kenya: 4.1 million (18.94 million )
 South Africa: 4.4 million (15.1 million  )
 Ethiopia: 2.6 million
 Ghana: 1.76 million
 America: 58.9 million
 United States: Total of: 30 million; 20.2 million (30.0 million  ; 80.0 million including Charismatics and Neo-charismatics  )
 Brazil: 15.0 million (20-90 million ; 84 million  )
 Argentina: 3.5 million
 Mexico: 2.7 million
 Guatemala: 2.0 million (7.2 million )
 Chile: 1.8 million (4.8 million )
 Canada: 1.3 million
 Asia: 15.3 million
 South Korea: 5.35 million  (8.75 million  )
 China: unknown; 72.0 million  
 Philippines: 9.0 million (38.65 million ; 25.0 million  )
 Indonesia: 7.0 million
 India: Total of: 54 million; 5.2 million (54.0 million  ; 38.0 million  )
 Pakistan: 0.25 million
 Europe: 9.5-11.0 million
 England: 0.9-1.7 million
 Ukraine: 1.2-1.5 million
 Russia: 1.0 million
 Italy: 0.55 million
 Romania: 0.33 million 
 Germany: 0.3 million
Spain: 0.28 million
 France: 0.2-0.3 million
 Netherlands: 0.15 millions
 Hungary: 0.11 million
 Switzerland: 0.1 million
 Greece: 0.03 million
 Oceania: 3.3 million
 Papua New Guinea: 0.4 million
 Australia: 0.4 million
 New Zealand: 0.11 million
Sources:

Operation World by Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk, 2000, unless otherwise indicated.
 Pentecostal survey
 Statistics on Pentecostal renewalists 
 World Christian Database

Leaders

Precursors
 William Boardman
 John Alexander Dowie (1848-1907)
 Edward Irving
 Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919)
Early history
 Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844 - 1924)
 Smith Wigglesworth (1859 - 1947)
 Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate (1879 - 1930) - Mother of Holiness. Founder of the Church of the Living God and its dominion churches.
 Charles Fox Parham (1873 - 1929) Father of Modern Pentecostalism
 William J. Seymour (1870 - 1922) Azusa Street Mission Founder (Azusa Street Revival)
 Bishop R.A.R. Johnson (1876 -1940) Founder of the House of God, Holy Church of the Living God, The Pillar and the Ground of the Truth, The House of Prayer for All People. A Commandment (Sabbath) keeping Pentecostal organization.
 George Jeffreys (1889 - 1972) Founder of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance and the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Britain
 Aimee Semple McPherson (1890 - 1944) American Female Evangelist and organizer of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
 Joseph Ayo Babalola (1904 - 1959) Oke - Ooye, Ilesa revivalist in 1930. Also, spiritual founder of Christ Apostolic Church
David du Plessis (1905 - 1987) South-African Pentecostal church leader, one of the founders of the Charismatic movement
 Kathryn Kuhlman (1907 - 1976) American female evangelist who brought Pentecostalism into the mainstream denominations
 William M. Branham (1909 - 1965) Healing Evangelists of the mid 20th century
 Jack Coe (1918 - 1956) Healing Tent Evangelist of the 1950s
 A. A. Allen (1911 - 1970) Healing Tent Evangelist of the 1950s and 1960s
 Oral Roberts (1918 - 2009) Healing Tent Evangelist who made the transition to televangelism
 Rex Humbard (b.1919) The first successful TV evangelist of the mid-1950s, 1960s, and the 1970s and at one time had the largest television audience of any televangelist in the U.S.
Related pages
 Prophecy

References

Studies
 Paul Alexander, (2000), "An Analysis of the Emergence and Decline of Pacifism in the History of the Assemblies of God", PhD Dissertation, Baylor University.
 Grant Wacker, (2001), Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA - An academic history of early Pentecostalism.
 Walter Hollenweger, (1972), The Pentecostals: the charismatic movement in the churches, Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, 
 Walter Hollenweger, (1997), Pentecostalism : origins and developments worldwide, Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, 
 Clifton, S. J., (2005), An Analysis of the Developing Ecclesiology of the Assemblies of God in Australia, PhD thesis Australian Catholic University 
 Matthew Steel, (2005), Pentecostalism in Zambia : Power, Authority and the Overcomers, MSc Dissertation - an examination of the growth and effects of Pentecostalism on development, University of Wales
 Pentecostalism losing its youth?
Other websites 
 Journal of Pentecostal Theology  is published by SAGE publications. The editorial board is comprised of members of the Church of God Theological Seminary faculty.
 The REFLEKS journal  is published by REFLEKS-Publishing in Oslo, Norway and contains scholarly Scandinavian and English articles on Pentecostalism and neo-Pentecostalism.
 Encounter: Journal for Pentecostal Ministry  is a published by the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS)
 The European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent) is an initiative by three leading European Universities in Pentecostal studies networking academic research on Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.
 Hollenweger Center  for the interdisciplinary study of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements at the Free University of Amsterdam
 Cyberjournal for Pentecostal Charismatic Research
Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center  (Assemblies of God archives), one of the largest collections of materials documenting the global Pentecostal movement; website contains free research tools, including over 250,000 digitized pages of periodicals and online catalog with over 80,000 entries.
 Pentecostalism 
 Lecture on "Pentecostalism" 
 Map showing Percentage of Pentecostal Population in USA by county  from Valparaiso University
 Apostolic Herald Online newsletter sharing Pentecostal and Apostolic concepts written primarily by Pentecostal authors.
 Pentecostal Conference of the North American Keralites
 Australasian Pentecostal Studies journal 
 Pew Religious Forum Pentecostal Hub
 Some statistic
Pentecost (πεντηκοστή [], pentekostē [hēmera]) meaning "the 50th day" in Greek), also called Whitsun, Whitsunday, or Whit Sunday in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking areas, is a holiday and season in the Christian liturgical year. It is the 50th day after Easter (and the 10th day after Ascension Thursday). It is to remember the coming of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in the book of Acts in the Bible, as Jesus had promised after he rose from the dead. About 3,000 people were baptized that day, which to many, making it the real start of the Christian Church.

The date of the Day of Pentecost for 2019 is June 9 (Western)/June 16 (Eastern)

Further reading 
 Advent
 Ash Wednesday
 Epiphany (holiday)
 Lent
 Pentecostalism

Notes

Other websites
Other websites 

 A collection of Pentecost prayers  (Roman Catholic)
 Christian Resource Institute 
 "Pentecost" article from the Catholic Encyclopedia
 "Pentecost" article from the Jewish Encyclopedia
 Secret Conversations with God - Study of Pentecost
 The Feast of Pentecost fulfilment in Sivan of 32 A.D.
 True Pentecost is 50 days from the Sunday following Passover - Not 50 days from Easter.
 Pentecost, Passover and Easter dates: 2000 - 2050
 The Feast of Pentecost: The Firstfruits of God's Harvest 
 Photographs of Russian Orthodox Pentecost service
 Holy Pentecost Icon and Synaxarion of the Feast (Eastern Orthodox)
 Feast of Pentecost  Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
 Explanation of the Feast from the Handbook for Church Servers (Nastolnaya Kniga) by Sergei V. Bulgakov

Christian holidays
Some people lie and lie. While others risk the chance to be angrier at them to have trust. Trust is a trait this is earned. It can be powerful. But you can lose it easily.

Trust may refer to:

In personal relations (social sciences):
 Trust (social sciences): the feeling of being sure someone or something can be relied upon

Law
 Trust law, where money or property is owned and managed on behalf of another
 Escrow, where a thing is held in trust until conditions are fulfilled

Finance
 Trust company, a financial institution offering banking, investment and estate administration services
 Massachusetts business trust, a business created under trust law
 Investment trust, a company that invests in other companies or properties

Business and legal
 Trust law
 Charitable trust
 Massachusetts business trust
 Investment trust
 Land trust
 Trust company
 Trust (business)

Music

Bands
 Trust Company (band)

Related pages 
 Trustee
 Trustor
 Trusteeship
 Trustworthiness
 Trusted third party
 Trust, but verify
Niamey is the capital city of the African country of Niger. It is Niger's largest city. The city is on the Niger River. Niamey is the administrative, cultural and economic center of the country. 

The city is in a pearl millet growing region. Manufacturing industries in the city include bricks, ceramic goods, cement and weaving.

History
Niamey was probably founded during the 18th century. It was of little importance until the French created a colonial post there in the 1890s. The city grew quickly after that happened.  In 1926, it became the capital of Niger. The number of people grew slowly from about 3,000 people in 1930 to around 30,000 in 1960, 250,000 in 1980 and 675,000 in 2002. The major cause of the increase has been immigration during droughts.
Things to see
Things to see in the city include the Niger National Museum. The museum includes a zoo, a museum of vernacular architecture, a craft centre, and displays including dinosaur skeletons and the Tree of Ténéré. The city also has American, French and Nigerien cultural centres, two major markets, and a traditional wrestling arena .

The city is the site of Diori Hamani International Airport, the National School of Administration, and Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey.

References

Other websites

National capitals in Africa
Cities in Niger
The Basic Roman spelling of English is a 2002 proposal for regular English spelling. It is based on five principles:
 The basic Roman alphabet, with no additional letters or diacritics used;
 One spelling, with no phoneme (sound) written by two or more graphemes (letters);
 Short vowels are spelled by single letters, while long vowels and diphthongs are spelled by two-letter combinations;
 Diphthongs are spelled by their components, and long vowels either as diphthongs or by doubling the letters of the short vowels;
 Short vowels and consonants are spelled as in the tradition of most Romanized languages.

The Basic Roman system serves no particular standard of English pronunciation. Instead, it gives one way to spell the different varieties of English. The system uses 22 Roman letters to represent the set of English phonemes considered by J.C. Wells. The letters ‘j’, ‘q’, ‘w’ and ‘x’ are not used (letters ‘j’ and ‘w’ are used in an extended version of the Basic Roman spelling, see below).
By way of illustration, the following reference text by V. Yule is given in traditional spelling and in Basic Roman (shown is the non-rhotic version; in the rhotic one, relevant words like ‘daughter’, ‘heart’, ‘pictures’ etc. are spelled ‘dootar’, ‘haart’, ‘pikcharz’ etc.):

Once upon a time, the beautiful daughter of a great magician wanted more pearls to put among her treasures. “Look through the centre of the moon when it is blue,” said her royal mother in answer to her question. “You might find your heart’s desire.” The fair princess laughed, because she doubted these words. Instead, she used her imagination, and moved into the photography business, and took pictures of the moon in colour. “I perceive most certainly that it is almost wholly white,” she thought. She also found that she could make enough money in eight months to buy herself two lovely huge new jewels too.
Uans apon a taym, da byutiful doota av a greyt madzhishan uontid moo paalz tu put amang haa trezhaz. “Luk tru da senta av da muun huen it iz bluu,” sed haa royal mada in ansa tu haa kueschan. “Yu mayt faynd yoo haats dizaya.” Da fea prinses laaft, bikoz shi dautid diyz waadz. Insted, shi yuzd haa imadzhineyshan, and muuvd intu da fotografi biznis, and tuk pikchaz av da muun in kala. “Ay paasiyv moust saatanli dat it iz olmoust houli wayt,” shi toot. Shi olsou faund dat shi kud meyk inaf mani in eyt mants tu bay haaself tuu lavli hyudzh nyu juualz tuu.

A more elaborate version of the system is the Extended Basic Roman spelling of English, which uses also the letters ‘j’ and ‘w’, and has two specific two-letter combinations for the English voiced and voiceless dental fricatives. The above sample text would appear in Extended Basic Roman (non-rhotic version) as follows:
Wans apon a taym, dha byutiful doota av a greyt majishan wontid moo paalz tu put amang haa trezhaz. “Luk thru dha senta av dha muun hwen it iz bluu,” sed haa royal madha in ansa tu haa kweschan. “Yu mayt faynd yoo haats dizaya.” Dha fea prinses laaft, bikoz shi dautid dhiyz waadz. Insted, shi yuzd haa imajineyshan, and muuvd intu dha fotografi biznis, and tuk pikchaz av dha muun in kala. “Ay paasiyv moust saatanli dhat it iz olmoust houli wayt,” shi thoot. Shi olsou faund dhat shi kud meyk inaf mani in eyt manths tu bay haaself tuu lavli hyuj nyu juualz tuu.
Apart from respelling of English, the Basic Roman could also be used as the target spelling of a universal algorithm for the designing of superior, user-friendly Romanization systems transliterating and transcribing a variety of languages. This ‘streamlined approach’ has been successfully tested in the case of Bulgarian language, with the 1995 Streamlined System for the Romanization of Bulgarian becoming established in Bulgaria (eventually codified in a 2009 law), and adopted also by UN in 2012, and for official US and UK use by BGN and PCGN in 2013. Recently this approach has been used to design the 2017 Streamlined System for the Romanization of Russian aimed at replacing the plethora of systems currently occurring in the non-academic practice of transliteration of Russian Cyrillic.

The Extended Basic Roman is close to one-to-one phoneme-grapheme correspondence, paving the way to a pronunciation respelling for English by means of the closely related Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English.
Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English 
The Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English is a system based on the Extended Basic Roman spelling of English. It includes two pairs of stress marks which disambiguate words which share the same spelling but have different meanings. This is to get a one-to-one phoneme (sound)–grapheme (spelling) correspondence. The system has certain similarities to the systems of the NBC Handbook of Pronunciation, the Carnegie Mellon version of Arpabet alphabet, and the World Book Dictionary.

Primary stress is indicated by the mark <’>, respectively <”> in the case of \\ and \\.  Secondary stress is shown by <,> and <„> respectively.  Stress marks are placed before the syllables concerned.

By way of illustration, the following reference text by V. Yule is given in traditional English spelling and in Roman Phonetic Alphabet transcription (non-rhotic version):
Once upon a time, the beautiful daughter of a great magician wanted more pearls to put among her treasures.  “Look through the centre of the moon when it is blue,” said her royal mother in answer to her question.  “You might find your heart’s desire.”  The fair princess laughed, because she doubted these words.  Instead, she used her imagination, and moved into the photography business, and took pictures of the moon in colour.  “I perceive most certainly that it is almost wholly white,” she thought.  She also found that she could make enough money in eight months to buy herself two lovely huge new jewels too.
”Wans a’pon a taym, dha ’byutiful ’doota av ”a greyt ma’jishan ’wontid moo ”paalz tu put a”mang ”haa ’trezhaz.  “Luk thru dha ’senta av dha muun hwen it iz bluu,” sed ”haa ’royal ’madha in ’ansa tu ”haa ’kweschan.  “Yu mayt faynd yoo ’haats di’zaya.”  Dha fea ’prinses ’laaft, bi’koz shi ’dautid dhiyz ”waadz.  Insted, shi yuzd ”haa i,maji’neyshan, and muuvd intu dha fo’tografi biznis, and tuk ’pikchaz av dha muun in ”kala.  “Ay paa’siyv moust ”saatanli ’dhat it iz olmoust houli wayt,” shi thoot.  Shi olsou faund ’dhat shi kud meyk i”naf ”mani in eyt ”manths tu bay haa’self tuu ”lavli hyuj nyu ’juualz tuu.

Related pages
 Orthography
 English language

References

Other websites
G. Gerych. Transliteration of Cyrillic Alphabets. Ottawa University, April 1965. 126 pp.

English language
Pronunciation
Spelling
Wadjet is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. She was often shown in art as a cobra and was the protector of lower Egypt. Later, she became the protector of kings. Her worship was already established by the Predynastic Period, but did change somewhat as time progressed. She began as the local goddess of Per-Wadjet (Buto) but soon became a patron goddess of Lower Egypt.

Other websites
touregypt.net
philae.nu 
thekeep.org 
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/wadjet.html

Egyptian gods and goddesses
Buto or Butos or Butosos, was the later, Greek name for an ancient Egyptian city  95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. It is the modern Kem Kasir.

History 
Buto originally was two cities, Pe and Dep, which merged into one city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet.  The goddess Wadjet was its local goddess, often represented as a cobra, and she was considered the patron deity of Lower Egypt.

The city was an important site in Ancient Egypt since more than ten thousand years. Archaeological evidence shows that Upper Egyptian culture replaced the Buto-culture at the delta when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified.

Uses 
The Greek historians told that town was celebrated for its temple and oracle of the goddess Wadjet.
They also told that at Buto there was also a sanctuary of Horus.

References 

Buildings and structures in Ancient Egypt
A scribe is an ancient occupation. A scribe's job involved reading and writing, especially during the Renaissance.  Being a scribe meant writing letters, and historical records for  kings, nobility, and temples.  It was an important job when few people could read and write. Later, it changed into being secretaries, clerks: public servants, journalists, accountants and lawyers. Today, there are no scribes, but there are still authors and writers.

Egyptian scribes
The Ancient Egyptian scribe was an important job. Ancient Egypt also had its painters and artisans who decorated tombs, buildings, furniture, statues, and other relics with pictures and hieroglyphics. In Ancient Egypt, only males could be scribes. This was so in many civilisations, because most official positions were exclusively male.
The scribes had to be able to write not only the hieroglyphs, but also the hieratic (priestly) script, and they had to know arithmetic. They used a type of paper called papyrus, made from reeds, and wrote with reed pens and ink.

Related pages
Writing

Other websites
 Catholic Encyclopedia

Ancient Egypt
Writing systems
Writing occupations
Ascension is a Christian holiday. The word "ascension" means "going up". According to the story told in the Bible, Jesus ascended (went up) to heaven. This was seen by his apostles. The holiday is celebrated forty days after his resurrection. The story tells that Jesus' body went to heaven, and that in heaven he sits at the right-hand side of God the Father.

Ascension Day is officially celebrated on a Thursday. However, not all countries hold the feast on this day. It is one of the ecumenical feasts. All Christians celebrate this feast, much like Easter and Pentecost. It is a very important feast in the calendar of the Christian Church.

In some countries (at least in Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany (since the 1930s), Haiti, Iceland, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Namibia, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Vanuatu) it is a public holiday; Germany also holds its Father's day on the same date.

The Eastern churches
The Eastern Orthodox Church calculates the date of Easter differently, so the Eastern Orthodox celebration of Ascension will usually be after the western observance (either one week, or four weeks, or five weeks later; but occasionally on the same day). The earliest possible date for the feast is May 13 (of the western calendar), and the latest possible date is June 16. Some of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, however, observe Ascension on the same date as the Western Churches.

The feast is observed with an all-night vigil.

Texts in the Bible
The Epistle to the Romans is a book from the Bible which was written about the year 56 or 57. In it, Paul describes Christ as in heaven and in the abyss. This seems to be the earliest Christian reference to Jesus in heaven.
One of the most important texts about the Ascension is in the Acts of the Apostles . According to the two-source hypothesis it is also the earliest. There Jesus is taken up bodily into heaven forty days after his resurrection. The text says that the apostles saw this happening. Before going into heaven, Jesus gave a speech called the Great Commission, in which he said that he would return. In the Gospel of Luke, the Ascension takes place on Easter Sunday evening. The Gospel of John (c. 90-100) talks about Jesus returning to the Father. In 1 Peter (c. 90-110), Jesus has ascended to heaven and is at God's right side. Ephesians (c. 90-100) refers to Jesus ascending higher than all the heavens. First Timothy (c. 90-140) describes Jesus as taken up in glory. The traditional ending in the Book of Mark (see Mark 16) includes a short version of what Luke had said about the resurrection. It describes Jesus as being taken up into heaven and sitting at God's right hand
. The way that Christ's Ascension is described is similar to the general description of his welcome in heaven, a description that comes from Hebrew scripture. The picture of Jesus rising bodily into the heavens fits in with the old traditional idea that heaven was above the earth.
Other texts about the ascension
There are texts that are not in the Bible that also speak about ascension, for example Pistis Sophia.
In his text Against Heresies, Irenaeus tells about the Gnostic view that the Ascension happened eighteen months after the Resurrection. The apocryphal text known as the Apocryphon of James describes the teachings of Jesus to James and Peter 550 days after the resurrection, but before the ascension. This text suggests an even longer period. The recently discovered Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas, like the canonical Gospel of Matthew, does not mention the Ascension.

History
The feast of the Ascension has been celebrated for many centuries. Although we do not have anything in writing about it before the beginning of the fifth century, St. Augustine says that it is of Apostolic origin, and he speaks of it in a way that shows that all Christians celebrated it long before his time (he lived from 354 to 430).
Christ's ascension is mentioned in the original Nicene Creed. This text has been important to Christians ever since it was made in 325. It is included in the Mass. It is also mentioned in the Apostles' Creed. It is important for Christian belief because it shows that Jesus' humanity was taken into Heaven. Ascension Day is one of the chief feasts of the Christian year. There is plenty of evidence that shows that the feast dates back at least to the later 300s.

The canonical story of Jesus ascending bodily into the clouds is different from the gnostic tradition, by which Jesus was said to transcend the bodily world and return to his home in the spirit world. It also contrasts with Docetic beliefs, by which matter is basically evil and Jesus was said to have been pure spirit.
Scholars of the historical Jesus think that New Testament accounts of Jesus' resurrection were stories that were invented by the apostolic-era Christian community. Some describe the Ascension as a convenient way to disagree with ongoing appearance claims in the Christian community.

References

Other websites

 The Ascension of our Lord Orthodox Icon and Synaxarion
 The Ascension of the Lord  S. V. Bulgakov, Manual for Church Servers (theology and symbolism of the Feast)
 The Chapel of the Ascension  Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem
 Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem Detailed description, history and photos
 Convent of the Ascension  Jerusalem Mission, Russian Orthodox Church
 Feast of the Ascension

Christian holidays
Need for Speed, also known by its initials NFS, is a racing video game franchise, made by Electronic Arts and developed by several studios including EA Black Box, Criterion Games and Ghost Games.

These are the games of the series:
The Need for Speed
Need for Speed 2
Need for Speed: V-Rally
Need for Speed: V-Rally 2
Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit
Need for Speed: High Stakes
Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Need for Speed: Underground
Need for Speed: Underground 2
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Carbon
Need for Speed: ProStreet
Need for Speed: Undercover
Need for Speed: Shift
Need for Speed: Nitro
Need for Speed: World
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed
Need for Speed: The Run
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)
Need for Speed: Rivals
Need for Speed (2015)
Need for Speed: Payback
Need For Speed: Heat

Need for Speed games
ATP may refer to:
Adenosine triphosphate
Association of Tennis Professionals
Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian and at the time of her death at age 122 years, 164 days the verified oldest person in history as well as the only person who has surpassed 120 years of age, although her claimed age is possibly disputed.

On 17 October 1995, Calment reached 120 years and 238 days to become the "oldest person ever" according to Guinness World Records, surpassing Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, whose claim (120 years 237 days old at the time of his death on 21 February 1986, Calment's 111th birthday) has since been discounted. Calment also holds the record for being the oldest living person for the longest period of time, by far – with nearly nine years and seven months, counting from the death of Florence Knapp on 11 January 1988, to her own death on 4 August 1997.
She was the last remaining undisputed person born in the 1870s. On 12 July 1995, Tane Ikai of Japan died, and Calment became the last living link from the 1870s. Following Calment's death on 4 August 1997 at 10:45 CET, then 116-year-old Marie-Louise Meilleur became the oldest living recognized person.

Biography 
She was active during her life, lived on her own until she was almost 110, and talked a lot until months before her death. Calment still rode her bike at the age of 100 in 1975. Once, she fell off and developed a brief period of amnesia. She recovered sometime later. In 1888, when she was 13, Calment met Vincent van Gogh while he visited her uncle's shop to buy canvas. 

During her later years in the 1990s, she could not hear very well. In 1995 at the age of 120 years, she became the subject of her own documentary, 120 Years with Jeanne Calment. She died in Arles.
Controversy 
A study by Russian researcher Nikolay Zak has disputed Jeanne Calment's claimed age with a hypothesis that Jeanne's daughter Yvonne, born 1898 and claimed to have died of pneumonia in 1934, usurped Jeanne's identity upon Jeanne's death in 1934. In that scenario, Jeanne Calment would have died already in 1934 and Yvonne Calment in 1997, claiming to be her mother and aged 122 but in fact she was aged 99. However, to prove if the hypothesis is true, a DNA/blood test is required.

The oldest undisputed person in history is Japanese woman Kane Tanaka, who lived to age 119 years, 107 days.

Related pages 
Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), the oldest man ever whose age was verified

References 

1875 births
1997 deaths
French supercentenarians
People from Arles
François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French movie director, producer, writer, actor and critic. He was very popular in the 1960s for such noted movies as The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, The Wild Child and others.

Truffaut was born in Paris and died of brain cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine.

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Leif Eriksson or Ericsson, Erickson, and Ericksson (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer. He was the first known European to travel to North America.

Erikson was probably born in Iceland between 970-975 and grew up in Greenland. He had two brothers named Thorstien and Thorvald and a sister named Freydís. His father was Erik the Red, who had created colonies in Greenland. Erikson is said to have visited North America long before anyone else in Europe did. According to Icelandic sagas (stories) he started a Viking settlement in Vinland. Many people think this was L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in Canada. After landing in North America and when he was going back to Greenland, he rescued a man in his crew who had sunk. From that moment on, he was called “Leif the Lucky”. He is generally believed to be the first European to reach the North American continent, nearly four centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.

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Sir Thomas More or Saint Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), was an English writer, lawyer, and statesman. He held many important jobs including Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor and advisor to the King Henry VIII. He also invented the word "utopia", which means: "an ideal place to live". This is described in the book he wrote called Utopia. 

When King Henry left the Roman Catholic Church because the Pope would not give him a divorce from his first wife, he started The Church of England. More was a devout Catholic, so he did not accept the King as head of the Church. Because of this, he was arrested and executed for treason. He was thought of as a martyr and made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1935. His feast day is on 22 June and he is the patron of lawyers and politicians. A play and movie called A Man For All Seasons is based on his life.

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 The Center for Thomas More Studies, University of Dallas
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Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine general and politician. He was born in Buenos Aires. He served as President of Argentina from 1946 to 1955, ruling with his second wife Eva Perón and again from 1973 to 1974 with his third wife Isabel Perón, who was his vice president. In Argentina, he and his second wife Eva (popularly known as Evita) are considered icons by many people, especially members of Perónist Justicialist Party, which he started and is still popular today. He was elected in 1946. In 1955 he was overthrown and forced to leave the country. In 1973, he returned and ran for president again with his third wife Isabel as vice-president and was elected. He died in Buenos Aires less than a year after being elected. His widow, Isabel took his place, which made her the first woman president in the world.
He was very popular among the working class, because he was the first politician in a long time to care about them. He required businesses to pay decent wages and safe conditions. He also did other social reforms, but also was pretty controlling. He controlled what could be said over the radio and sent people opposing him to jail. He also controlled trade unions and businesses, so although they had power, the government had the last word.

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Kosher  is the name that Jews give to the laws about the kind of food that they may eat. Their holy books specify certain kinds of food that are all right to eat, and that other kinds should not be eaten. 

The Kosher laws say that products classified as meat must not be eaten in the same meal with dairy products. Fish, fruit, and vegetables are considered neutral, called pareve (pronounced "PAR-veh"), and may be eaten with either meat or dairy meals. Jews who "keep kosher" have separate utensils for meat and dairy foods, and wait a number of hours after eating one type of food before eating the other type.

The meat of some animals may not be eaten at all. Animals whose meat may be eaten must be killed in a special, careful way by a religiously trained slaughterer. Meat that is not fit to eat is called treif (pronounced TRAYf).

Basic rules of Kashrut
Types of meat and drink 
 Land animals that chew their cud and have a completely split (cloven) hoof may be eaten . This includes livestock like cattle and sheep, but not pigs (which do not chew their cud) or camels (which do not have completely split hooves).
 Animals that eat meat (carnivores and omnivores) may not be eaten. This also means that birds of prey may not be eaten.
 Specific birds (from a list) may not be eaten. This includes ostrich for example.
 Fish must have fins and scales. Fish without scales (like eels), invertebrates like lobster and shrimp, and shellfish (like mussels) are forbidden.
 No amphibians or reptiles may be eaten. Examples of these are frogs.
 Most insects may not be eaten, with some exceptions like locusts.
 Wine must be specially made by Jews in order to be Kosher.
Preparing food 
 The animals need to be killed in a special way. The kosher slaughterer has religious training for this work.
 An animal that dies by natural means, or is killed by another animal or a hunter, may not be eaten.
 Meat from a sick animal  may not be eaten.
 No blood may be eaten. All blood needs to be drained from the meat (by soaking and salting it). In eggs, not even eggs with just a spot of blood can be eaten.
 Foods made in a factory: manufacturers sometimes label products that have got certification by adding graphical symbols to the label. These symbols are known as hechsherim.
 A kosher kitchen has separate sets of dishes: one for meat foods, another for dairy foods.
 Food may not be cooked during the Sabbath, which in Judaism is called Shabbat.

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Cartagena (pronounced  in Spanish; the usual English pronunciation is  or ), also known as Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena of the West Indies), is a large city seaport on the northern coast of Colombia. It is the  capital of the Bolívar Department. As of 2005, it has a population of roughly 895,400. It was founded in 1533 by Don Pedro de Heredia, and named after the port of Cartagena in Spain's Murcia region. It  was a major centre of early Spanish settlement in the Americas, and continues to be an economic hub as well as a popular tourist destination.

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Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress.

Life and career
Greta Gustafson was born in Stockholm, she studied at the Royal School of Dramatic Art in her native city, while working as a fashion model. She became a star in Sweden when Mauritz Stiller cast her in the 1924 silent movie The Atonement of Gösta Berling. 

Soon after, she came to the attention of Louis B. Mayer and went to Hollywood in 1925. Soon, she established herself as one of the world's most popular movie stars. 

Some of her most notable movies include; Mata Hari (1931), Queen Christina (1933), Camille (1936), Conquest (1937) and Ninotchka (1939).

She retired from movies in 1941 and became an American citizen on 9 February 1951. In 1984 she had breast cancer. She lived as a semi-recluse in New York City until her death (April 15; 1990) there from renal failure and pneumonia.

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The Illustrated Who's Who of Cinema, Portland House, New York, 1987.

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Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (29 September 1931  11 January 2015) was a Swedish actress. She was born in Malmö, Skåne. She was best known for her role in the movie La Dolce Vita (1960), which was directed by Federico Fellini. 

Ekberg died from a long-illness in Castelli Romani, Italy, aged 83.

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World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was a professional wrestling company and also the name of a 2-hour wrestling show on TBS created by Ted Turner in 1982.

History
One of the earliest shows to be broadcast on Ted Turner's WTBS station was World Championship Wrestling, airing at 6:05 in the afternoon. Wrestling had aired on the channel since 1972. World Championship Wrestling was taped in Atlanta, Georgia, at WTBS' studios at 1050 Techwood Drive until 1989, when the taping location was moved to the Center Stage Theater, in Atlanta. In 1988, Turner started the company World Championship Wrestling, named after the show. The show was then called WCW Saturday Night in 1992. WCW grew bigger with wrestlers such as Ric Flair, Sting, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, The Steiner Brothers, Vader and Ron Simmons. In 1995, a Monday night show was added called WCW Monday Nitro to compete with the World Wrestling Federation and it's flagship show Raw in what became known as the Monday Night Wars winning until 1998.
Ted Turner lost control of his networks TBS and TNT in October 1996. He still was in charge of day-to-day operations of the Turner channels and WCW, but Time Warner had majority ownership over it, so basically any major decisions had to be approved by them. WCW began to decline in 1998 and got significantly worse after an event called the Fingerpoke of Doom on the first Nitro of 1999. In January 2001, AOL merged with Time Warner and Ted Turner was forced out of TNT, TBS and WCW. The new owners decided not to show wrestling anymore. Turner still supported wrestling, but Time Warner didn't and in the end WCW was bought out by the World Wrestling Federation who shut it down.

The video library and copyrights were bought by WWE on March 23, 2001. WWE Classics On Demand continues to show episodes of the original World Championship Wrestling program.

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television series. It is a sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996 for six seasons. It is set in Bel Air, Los Angeles, and stars Will Smith as the "Fresh Prince". At the beginning he lives with his mother in poverty in Philadelphia. In the first episode he moves to Bel Air to live with his rich aunt, uncle and cousins. It was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. The show was also successful outside of the United States, and was on the UK channel BBC2 from 1991 to 2004.

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The Nation of Domination (NoD) was a professional wrestling stable (a group of wrestlers who work together) in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The group was based on the Nation of Islam. It was created in the WWF by Faarooq. There were usually no more than four or five members of the NoD at any one time but as members left or became injured, other wrestlers would replace them. Members of the NoD included Rocky Maivia (The Rock), Crush, Savio Vega, D'Lo Brown, Ahmed Johnson, Kama Mustafa, Mark Henry and Owen Hart. The NoD separated in October 1998.

The NoD fought mainly against D-Generation X, led by Triple H.

In wrestling 
 Entrance themes
 "We Are The Nation 97" by Jim Johnston (1996–1998)
 "Nation (Know Your Role Quote)" by Jim Johnston (March 1998–November 1998)
 Championships
 WWF Intercontinental Championship (one time) (The Rock)
 WWF European Championship (two times) (D'Lo Brown)

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 The Rock's WWE profile
 Faarooq's WWE profile
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The Potomac River is a river in the eastern United States. It is 665 kilometers long. It forms part of the borders between Maryland, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. The Potomac flows to the Chesapeake Bay. It has two sources. The North Branch starts at Fairfax Stone in West Virginia, and the South Branch starts in Highland County, Virginia. The North Branch and the South Branch meet in Hampshire County, West Virginia, and make the Potomac River.

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Greenbrier County is a county in the state of West Virginia, in the United States.  About 34,400 people were living in Greenbrier County as of 2000.  As of 2000, Greenbrier County had an area of 1,024 square miles.

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was the 71st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign started in 1068 and ended in 1073.

This 11th century sovereign was named after Emperor Sanjō and go- (後), translates literally as "later." He is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Sanjō". The Japanese word "go" has also been translated to mean the "second one;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Sanjō, the second," or as "Sanjo II."

Traditional narrative
His personal name (imina) was .

He was the second son of Emperor Go-Suzaku, and his mother was Empress Sadako, the third daughter of Emperor Sanjō. This made him the first Emperor in 170 years whose mother was not of the Fujiwara family.
Events of Go-Sanjō's life 
 22 May 1068 (Jiryaku 4, 19th day of the 4th month): In the 4th year of Emperor Go-Reizei's reign, he died at age 44; and the succession (senso) was received by a his son.  Soon after, Emperor Go-Sanjo accepted the monarch's role and duties and powers  (sokui).  This was confirmed in ceremonies.

 1069 (Enkyū 1): Go-Sanjō ordered the creation of a government land records office.

 1070 (Enkyū 2):  Go-Sanjō ordered a preliminary system of laws and a bureaucracy for regulating silk.

 1072 (Enkyū 4): Go-Sanjō was interested in strengthening the finances of the Imperial Household.
18 January 1072 (Enkyū 4, 8th day of the 12th month): In the 6th year of Emperor Go-Sanjō's reign, the emperor abdicated; and the succession (senso) was received by his son.  Soon after, Emperor Shirakawa accepted his new role in the monarchy (sokui).
 11 May 11 (Enkyū 5, 21st day of the 4th month): Go-Sanjō became a Buddhist priest.
 15 June 1073 (Enkyū 5, 7th day of the 5th month): Former-Emperor Go-Sanjō died at the age of 40.

Era names 
The Japanese era names (nengō) of his reign were
 Jiryaku (1065-1069)
 Enkyū (1069-1074)

Related pages
 Emperor of Japan
 List of emperors of Japan
 Japanese imperial family tree
 Insei

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Emperors of Japan
was the 1st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.   Jimmu is known as the  founder of the Imperial dynasty.

There are no certain dates for this emperor's life or reign.  The names and sequence of the early emperors were not confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of Emperor Kammu, who was the 50th monarch of the Yamato dynasty.

Historians debate whether or not Emperor Jimmu actually existed because there is limited evidence of him. Some stories about him may reflect actual events that happened.

Traditional history 
Jimmu is almost certainly a legend.  His name and genealogy are recorded in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki.  Jimmu is regarded as a direct descendant of the Shinto sun goddess, Amaterasu.

During reign of Emperor Jimmu, the capital of Japan was at Kashiwabara, Yamato at the foot of Mt. Unebi.

Events of Jimmu's life