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2023 Tours Bombing
On May 23, 2023, an individual attacked the LGBT center in Tours, France, with an explosive device containing acid and aluminum. The attack resulted in no casualties as the people inside the center managed to move away from the device. An investigation for attempted murder has been opened. On June 1, 2023, the prime suspect, a 17-year-old Integralism, integralist Catholic, was arrested. Background In 2022 and 2023, violence and attacks targeting LGBT centers and members have been on the rise in France. Specifically, the LGBT center of Tours has experienced six attacks between January and May 2023. This is part of a broader resurgence of terrorist acts and far-right violence in France. Chronology On May 23, 2023, around 3:30 PM, a masked individual threw a bottle containing acid and aluminum, an explosive mixture, at the LGBT center of Tours. After the two employees and a volunteer inside went out to investigate, the perpetrator allegedly said, "Good luck" before fleeing. The ...
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Tours
Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole functional area (France), metropolitan area was 516,973. Tours sits on the lower reaches of the Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. Formerly named Caesarodunum by its founder, Roman Augustus, Emperor Augustus, it possesses one of the largest amphitheaters of the Roman Empire, the Tours Amphitheatre. Known for the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, it is a National Sanctuary with connections to the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingians and the Carolingian dynasty, Carolingians, with the Capetian dynasty, Capetians making the kingdom's currency the Livre tournois. Martin of Tours, Saint Martin and Gregory of Tours were from Tours. Tours was once part of Touraine, a former provi ...
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Hate Crimes In Europe
Hatred or hate is an intense negative emotional response towards certain people, things or ideas, usually related to opposition or revulsion toward something. Hatred is often associated with intense feelings of anger, contempt, and disgust. Hatred is sometimes seen as the opposite of love. A number of different definitions and perspectives on hatred have been put forth. Philosophers have been concerned with understanding the essence and nature of hatred, while some religions view it positively and encourage hatred toward certain outgroups. Social and psychological theorists have understood hatred in a utilitarian sense. Certain public displays of hatred are sometimes legally proscribed in the context of pluralistic cultures that value tolerance. Hatred may encompass a wide range of gradations of emotion and have very different expressions depending on the cultural context and the situation that triggers the emotional or intellectual response. Based on the context in which h ...
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2023 In Christianity
3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ...
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History Of Tours, France
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. In a more general sense, the term ''history'' refers not to an academic field but to the past itself, times in the past, or to individual texts about the past. Historical research relies on primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is used to evaluate these sources, assessing their authenticity, content, and reliability. Historians strive to integrate the perspectives of several sources to develop ...
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Anti-LGBTQ And Catholicism
The following outline offers an overview and guide to topics about LGBTQ people. ''LGBTQ'' is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, and/or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Sexuality * Human sexuality ** Sexology *** Sexology (magazine) ** Sexual diversity ** Gendered sexuality *** Gender variance *** Human male sexuality *** Human female sexuality *** Transgender sexuality * Sexual attraction ** Androphilia and gynephilia ** Attraction to transgender people ** Achillean ** Sapphism ** Split attraction model * Sexual orientation Sexual orientation types * Monosexuality ** Homosexuality * Plurisexuality ** Bisexuality *** Pansexuality * Asexuality ** Gray asexuality *** Aceflux *** Fictosexuality *** Demisexuality *** Fraysexuality Topics * Ego-dystonic sexual orientation * Environment and sexual ori ...
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