What do you get if you mix giant moustaches, floral pants, stunning tile work, poetry readings, enormous clubs, and sky-high levels of testosterone? If you think the outcome might be some kind of religious gym, you’d be right.
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Thailand is a Buddhist country and the people are very superstitious. A lot of people prefer to wear a Buddhist amulet instead, which they believe ward off evil and keep them from harm’s way.
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In the mid 20th century the mountains and valleys of the Coachella Valley inspired a distinctive brand of the modernist building movement which would become known as desert modernism.
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Long before it was an Islamic country, Egypt’s primary religious belief system was a form of Christianity. The country was one of the first to accept Christianity after it was brought there as early as 40 AD by missionaries, but it was over 300 years before it was officially adopted as the official religion.
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During the Age of Enlightenment , when Europeans became fascinated with the culture of the Ancient World , scholars, travellers, artists and explorers set out on what became known as The Grand Tour of Mediterranean and Near East destinations.
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