61. Islam And Ottoman Times Survey of Turkish homosexuality from ancient times to the present. http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/world/europe/turkey/islamottoman.htm

ISLAM AND HOMOSEXUALITY Before the emergence of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, all kinds of sexuality was being experienced. Although we don't have many documents related to the age, it is understood from the references in the Kur'an that sexuality was not a taboo. Actually Islam didn't mention any strict sexual rules either. If we just take Kur'an as the reference, it may even be called a sex positive religion.The only reference to homosexuality is in the sections about Sodom and Gomorrah. But even in those sections homosexuality is not very clearly condemned. People are punished because of having done everything excessively. They don't only sleep with men, they sleep with women too, they drink too much, they got involved in pleasure too much. "Much" is the keyword here. And the punishment for almost all crimes are mentioned in the Kur'an but there's no specific punishment for homosexuality. But these sections in Kur'an have always been the defending point of homophobic Islamic people.What brings condemnation to homosexuals is not the Kur'an but the Islamic societies. Cultures also shape the religion as well as the society itself. During the first years of Islam, homosexuality was never mentioned as a crime. There are even rumors that Ali, one of the members of Mohammed's family had an affair with Mohammed. And in the famous 1001 Arabian Nights, there are some stories which are openly about homosexual relationships. But this did not mean that there was a conscious homosexual community. If those people knew the word "homosexual" they wouldn't call themselves so. It was just sleeping with men as well as with women.

62. Monnaie De Paris Portrays the history of money in France from ancient times to the present day. Includes virtual tour, database, and hours. Located in Paris, France. http://www.monnaiedeparis.com/musee/index.htm

Museum Tuesday to Friday 11 am - 5.30 pm. Noon - 5.30 pm. Closed on Monday. Boutique Monday to Friday 10 am - 6.15 pm. Closed on Sunday Discover the secrets of our collections and workshops! The museum of la Monnaie offers guided tours for groups or individuals supported either by audio guide or one of our guides Individual visit Visit of group Visit one hour Tourist fixed price ... Access Legal notice Home page Site map

63. Welcome To The Worldwide Numismatics Homepage Presenting a modest collection of gold coins from ancient times to modern times. Many countries and types are represented. http://www.worldwide-numismatics.com/

Welcome to: www.worldwide-numismatics.com Our tour of world gold coins From ancients: to moderns: with common: and the not so common: They are all here and you are invited to join the tour! Start HERE

64. Mathematicians Are People Too!-NCES Students' Classroom Short quiz introduces great minds from ancient times through the modern day. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/MathQuiz/

JavaScript is currently turned off on your machine. Which famous mathematician is most like you? Take our quiz below and find out. You might be surprised! How would you describe probability? The likelihood of an event occurring. Something that isn't used so much for symbolic logic. The outcome of the Pythagorean theorem. I can't tell you. The sum of a perfect square. Something with no role in mechanics. Something used in physics to predict new events. Something that isn't needed for a geometry proof. As a chaotic system with irregular behavior. How is math important in your life? Mathematics can be appreciated for its beauty of structure. Technology and the progress of thought invigorates me. I enjoy math for its certainty and solid answers. Discovering new fundamental laws of the universe is my thrill. I am curious and I love scientific and mathematical study. It's fun to trick my friends with math games. All things are numbers; this is the harmony of the universe. I like creating new ways to think. Math, philosophy and theology are equally important.

65. Kids Corner--Origins Or Measurements Compares units of ancient times with modern ones. http://www.iofm.net/community/kidscorner/maths/origin.htm

Home About Sign Up Help ... Contact Community Services Kids Corner Index Java Games Mastermind Connect Five Sharkhunter Solitaire Maths Section Origin of Measurements Common Formulas Decimal Equations Metric Weights ... Roman Numerals Curious Creatures Angels Beasts Dragons Fairies ... Water Serpents Language Braille Most Spoken Kids CornerOrigins or Measurements Origins of Measurements In ancient times, the body ruled when it came to measuring. The length of a foot, the width of a finger, and the distance of a step were all accepted measurements. Inch: At first an inch was the width of a man's thumb. In the 14th century, King Edward II of England ruled that 1 inch equal 3 grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. Hand: A hand was approximately 5 inches or 5 digits (fingers) across. Today, a hand is 4 inches and is used to measure horses (from the ground to the horse's withers, or shoulder). Span: A span was the length of the hand stretched out, about 9 inches.

66. People Provides simple biographies of astronomers, philosophers, and scientists from ancient times through the modern day. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/people/people.html

Who made the first star map? When did people know that the Earth was round? When were sunspots discovered? The links to the right will lead you to biographies of scientists who lived at different times through history. Discover the people who made science history! Ancient Epoch (before 700) Middle Ages Renaissance Age of Enlightenment Modern Era Today's Scientists Astronauts Windows People People Coloring Book People's Web Last modified prior to September, 2000 by the Windows Team The source of this material is Windows to the Universe , at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

67. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Anchor (as Symbol) Regarded in ancient times as a symbol of safety. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01462a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... A > The Anchor (as Symbol) A B C D ... Z The Anchor (as Symbol) The anchor, because of the great importance in navigation, was regarded in ancient times as a symbol of safety. The Christians , therefore, in adopting the anchor as a symbol of hope in future existence, merely gave a new and higher signification to a familiar emblem. In the teachings of Christianity the virtue of hope occupies a place of great importance; Christ is the unfailing hope of all who believe in Him. St. Peter, St. Paul, and several of the early Fathers speak in this sense, but the Epistle to the Hebrews for the first time connects the idea of hope with the symbol of the anchor. The writers says that we have "Hope" set before us "as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm" (Hebrews 6:19-20). The hope here spoken of is obviously not concerned with earthly, but with heavenly things, and the anchor as a Christian symbol, consequently, relates only to the hope of salvation. It ranks among the most ancient of Christian symbols. The well-known fragment of the inscription discovered in the cemetery of

68. Spacetime 101 some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity. http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/patricia/st101.html

Here's some basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special Relativity and General Relativity. What is spacetime? Why was Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity needed? How does Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity work? What is "causality" and what does it have to do with time travel? ... Go back to Time Travel in Flatland.

69. History Of Photography Timeline A detailed timeline of photography from ancient times to the present. http://www.photo.net/history/timeline

var subscriber_p=0, user_id=0; Sign in Search Gallery Learn ... Community History of Photography Timeline by Philip Greenspun Home Learn : One Section ancient times: camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole 16th century: brightness and clarity of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole inserting a telescope lens 17th century: camera obscuras in frequent use by artists and made portable in the form of sedan chairs 1727: Professor J. Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask; notices darkening on side of flask exposed to sunlight. Accidental creation of the first photo-sensitive compound. 1800: Thomas Wedgwood makes "sun pictures" by placing opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate; resulting images deteriorated rapidly, however, if displayed under light stronger than from candles. 1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper. 1837: Louis Daguerre creates images on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and "developed" with warmed mercury; Daguerre is awarded a state pension by the French government in exchange for publication of methods and the rights by other French citizens to use the Daguerreotype process.

70. The History Of Fingerprints About the uses of latent prints from ancient times through to 1946, as part of site maintained in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. http://onin.com/fp/fphistory.html

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FINGERPRINT EXAMINATION The History of Fingerprints Updated 17 February 2003 Why Fingerprint Identification? Fingerprints offer an infallible means of personal identification. That is the essential explanation for their having supplanted other methods of establishing the identities of criminals reluctant to admit previous arrests. Other personal characteristics change - fingerprints do not. In earlier civilizations, branding and even maiming were used to mark the criminal for what he was. The thief was deprived of the hand which committed the thievery. The Romans employed the tattoo needle to identify and prevent desertion of mercenary soldiers. More recently, law enforcement officers with extraordinary visual memories, so-called "camera eyes," identified old offenders by sight. Photography lessened the burden on memory but was not the answer to the criminal identification problem. Personal appearances change. Around 1870 a French anthropologist devised a system to measure and record the dimensions of certain bony parts of the body. These measurements were reduced to a formula which, theoretically, would apply only to one person and would not change during his/her adult life. This Bertillon System, named after its inventor, Alphonse Bertillon, was generally accepted for thirty years. But it never recovered from the events of 1903, when a man named Will West was sentenced to the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. You see, there was already a prisoner at the penitentiary at the time, whose Bertillon measurements were nearly exact, and his name was William West.

71. Military Art Gallery Home Page Offers a wide selection of aviation, maritime and military art prints, books and magazines. Military and aviation topics range from ancient times through space exploration. http://www.militaryartgallery.com

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72. And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time - Vikipedio And did those feet in ancient time. Literaturo Anglalingva Literaturo William BLAKE And did those feet in ancient time Angla Lingvo http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time

73. Ancient Egypt resources. Emphasis is placed upon the use of primary source materialand new perspectives upon the roles of women in ancient time. http://www.educate.net.au/feature_archive/ancient/

Ancient Egypt Start the journey with Daily Life, Gods and Religion, Funerary Customs, Orientation, Chronology Mesopotamia General Resources, Mesopotamian History, Religion, Zoroastrianism, Mesopotamian Languages, Cuneiform, Mesopotamian Architecture, Art, Literature, Mathematics and Science TimeLine: Ancient Rome Provides a chronological index of the history of Ancient Rome with extensive links to internet resources. Emphasis is placed upon the use of primary source material and new perspectives upon the roles of women in ancient time. Welcome to Ancient Mediterranean History! A site that links to information on Greece, Rome and Egypt. This web site is part of an international project called Thinkquest. LacusCurtius: into the Roman World The core of this site is the Roman Gazetteer, a commented photo album of Roman towns and monuments. The Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent A map showing the extent of the Roman Empire in the Third Century AD. The Olympians The Olympians by their Greek and Latin names, and their relationship to Zeus. Also includes ancient Greek religion.

74. The History Of Psychology By William J. House. Links to an eclectic assortment of online texts from ancient times to the 20th century (Hammurabi's Code of Law to Koffka's Introduction to Gestalt Theory). http://www.usca.edu/psychology/history/histor~1.html

The History of Psychology Links to Primary Source E-Texts on the Web Compiled by William J. House, Ph.D. Ancient Times The Christian Era The Renaissance The Enlightenment ... Modern European Other Sites with Relevant Primary Source Literature Classics in the History of Psychology (Christopher Green, York University) George’s Page (The Mead Project, Brock University) Carrie (Full Text Electronic Library, University of Kansas) Celebration of Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania) Online Books (University of Pennsylvania) Hanover Historical Texts (Hanover College) Project Gutenberg Bartleby Bibliomania Mad Cybrarian ... Online Library of Literature (Knowledge Matters Ltd.) Marxists Archive Internet Classics Archive Pirate Nietzsche Page Hanover Historical Texts Project (Hanover College) Akamac E-text Links Resource Pages for Biblical Studies (Volda University College, Norway) These links are to significant psychological literature that is found on the World Wide Web. They are presented along with my comments and reference to art, politics, and music of the period because I am interested in presenting a cultural context within which psychology developed. Please send your comments and suggestions to Dr. William J. House

75. History Of The Macedonian People From Ancient Times To The Present History of the Macedonian People from ancient times to the Present http://www.maknews.com/html/articles/stefov20.html

76. Military Art Gallery Home Page Aviation, maritime and military art prints, books and magazines. Their military and aviation topics range from ancient times through space exploration. http://www.milartgl.com/

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77. ThinkQuest : Library : The Golden Ratio Examines the uses/occurances of phi in biology, art, and ancient times and most importantly, explains the beauty that can be found in a number. http://library.thinkquest.org/C005449

Index Math Geometry The Golden Ratio When people think of math, do they think of beauty? Do they think of things like pinecones and sunflowers? What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with this? What do the Greeks, Romans, and people of the Renaissance have in common? They all a mathematics concept in common: the Golden Ratio. The most irrational number in the world is a basis for many things: math, art, architecture, biology, and this site explains how. Visit Site 2000 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Students Andrei Grupul Scolar H. Coanda, Rm.Valcea, Romania Shujun Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Great Falls, VA, United States Melissa Potomac Falls High School, Potomac Falls, VA, United States Coaches Randy Potomac Falls High School, Alexandria, VA, United States Emilia Potomac Falls High School, Rm. Valcea, Romania Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site.

78. ORB Medieval Dance Overview covering world dance, and Western dance from ancient times until the fifteenth century. http://the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/music/kendall.htm

79. Sexuality Learn about the amazing story of this item, from ancient times to the present. http://sexuality.about.com/health/sexuality/library/weekly/aa082399.htm

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80. Chronology Of Money Timeline Monetary history events from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century, taken from the Glyn Davies's book A History of Money from ancient times to the Present. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/amser/chrono.html

A Comparative Chronology of Money Monetary History from Ancient Times to the Present Day Glyn Davies Roy Davies See also Money in Fiction for details of novels dealing with banking and finance. Timelines What lessons does monetary history offer that are relevant to today's economic, political and social problems? This chronology of monetary history is based on the book: 9,000 - 1 BC Because of the difficulties of conducting experiments in the ordinary business of economic life, at the centre of which is money, it is most fortunate that history generously provides us with a proxy laboratory, a guidebook of more or less relevant alternatives. Around the next corner there may be lying in wait apparently quite novel monetary problems which in all probability bear a basic similarity to those that have already been tackled with varying degrees of success or failure in other times and places. Yet despite the antiquity and ubiquity of money its proper management and control have eluded the rulers of most modern states partly because they have ignored the wide-ranging lessons of the past or have taken too blinkered and narrow a view of money. Economists, and especially monetarists, tend to overestimate the purely economic, narrow and technical functions of money and have placed insufficient emphasis on its wider social, institutional and psychological aspects. However, money originated very largely from non-economic causes: from tribute as well as trade, from blood-money and bride-money as well as from barter, from ceremonial and religious rites as well as from commerce, from ostentatious ornamentation as well as from acting as the common drudge between economic men.

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