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Altar Chains
An altar is a Table (furniture), table or platform for the presentation of religion, religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes. Altars are found at shrines, temples, Church (building), churches, and other places of worship. They are used particularly in paganism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, modern paganism, and in certain Islam, Islamic communities around Caucasus, Caucasia and Anatolia, Asia Minor. Many historical-medieval faiths also made use of them, including the Religion in ancient Rome, Roman, Religion in ancient Greece, Greek, and Norse paganism, Norse religions. Etymology The modern English language, English word ''wikt:altar#English, altar'' was derived from Middle English ''wikt:alter#Latin, altar'', from Old English ''wikt:alter, alter'', taken from Latin ''wikt:altare#Latin, altare'' ("altar"), probably related to ''wikt:adolere#Etymology 2, adolere'' ("burn"); thus "burning place", influenced by ''wikt:altus#Latin, altus'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RD Alter
Rd is an abbreviation for road. RD or Rd may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Real Drive'', an anime by Production I.G * RD (group), a British girl group also known as Ruff Diamondz * ''Rilindja Demokratike'', an Albanian newspaper Businesses and organizations * USDA Rural Development, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture * Ryan International Airlines (IATA airline designator RD) Military decorations * Reserve Decoration, an award for service in the Royal Navy Reserve of the United Kingdom * Emblem for Reserve Force Service or Reserve Decoration, an award of the South African National Defense Force Military Reserve Science, technology, and mathematics Computing and mathematics * Rata Die, a calendar-independent system to assign numbers to calendar dates * Remote Desktop Services, Remote Desktop, a graphical interface to connect one computer to another over a network * Rider (software), a cross-platform IDE intended for C# and .NET development * Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
