Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
Faith & Spirituality |
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| The Origins of Voodoo in the Caribbean |
| Americans, at least in the United States, tend to blur the several events that eventually led to the European colonization of North America, associating Christopher Columbus with the landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, despite the fact that Columbus died in 1506. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| Revrepfigits |
| If you separate each of the digits of the number 8166 and form a sequence by summing them in a Fibonacci-like fashion thus: 8 + 1 + 6 + 6 = 21, 1 + 6 + 6 + 21 = 34, 6 + 6 + 21 + 34 = 67, …, after 14 terms you will see the reversal of 8166 appear. Here is the full sequence: 8, 1, 6, 6, 21, 34, 67. |
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| History & Genealogy |
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| Year Without a Summer |
| Mount Tambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia, erupted several times in the 1800s, but the eruption on April 10, 1815 was so gigantic, it was heard so loudly that many people more than 1,600 miles away initially believed it to be cannon fire and many thought war had broken out. |
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| French Revolution |
| So much can be said about the French Revolution, but we really don't have space for all of that information, so I will skip much of the intrigue and solidification of factions and give just the basics of this highly complex event, and hopefully, the reader will be spurred to read more about it. |
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