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43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
think a more mathematical approach than philosophy is needed for a TOE, for instance Stephen Hawking wrote in "A Brief History of Time" that even if we had a TOE, it would necessarily be a set of equations. He wrote, "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"
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never be experienced or agreed upon by anyone else. Much of the kind of experience deemed spiritual occurs on this level of reality.
Phenomenology is a philosophical method developed in the early years of the twentieth century by Edmund Husserl and a circle of followers at the universities of Göttingen and Mun... | 32,901 |
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of consciousness, and the phenomena which appear in acts of consciousness, objects of systematic reflection and analysis. Such reflection was to take place from a highly modified "first person" viewpoint, studying phenomena not as they appear to "my" consciousness, but to any consciousness whatsoever. Husserl b... | 32,902 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
and by other philosophers, such as Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, and Dietrich von Hildebrand.
## Skeptical hypotheses.
Skeptical hypotheses in philosophy suggest that reality is very different from what we think it is; or at least that we cannot prove it is not. Examples include:
- The "Brain in a vat" hyp... | 32,903 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading me."
- The five minute hypothesis (or omphalos hypothesis or Last Thursdayism) suggests that the world was created recently together with records and traces indicating a greater age.
- The Matrix hypothesis or Simulated reality hypothesis suggest t... | 32,904 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
– Obstruction of the inflow of karmic matter into the soul.
- 6. "Nirjara" – Shedding of karmas.
- 7. "Moksha" – Liberation or Salvation, i.e. the complete annihilation of all karmic matter (bound with any particular soul).
# Physical sciences.
## Scientific realism.
Scientific realism is, at the most gene... | 32,905 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
directly observable discussed by scientific theories. Generally, those who are scientific realists state that one can make reliable claims about these entities (viz., that they have the same ontological status) as directly observable entities, as opposed to instrumentalism. The most used and studied scientific ... | 32,906 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
a mind-independent property does not have to be the value of some physical variable such as position or momentum. A property can be "dispositional" (or potential), i.e. it can be a tendency: in the way that glass objects tend to break, or are disposed to break, even if they do not "actually" break. Likewise, th... | 32,907 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
definiteness (CFD), used to refer to the claim that one can meaningfully speak of the definiteness of results of measurements that have not been performed (i.e. the ability to assume the existence of objects, and properties of objects, even when they have not been measured).
Local realism is a significant feat... | 32,908 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
dispute that experiments have demonstrated Bell's violations, on the grounds that the sub-class of inhomogeneous Bell inequalities has not been tested or due to experimental limitations in the tests. Different interpretations of quantum mechanics violate different parts of local realism and/or counterfactual de... | 32,909 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
of quantum mechanics debated the role of the observer, and of them, Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg believed that it was the observer that produced collapse. This point of view, which was never fully endorsed by Niels Bohr, was denounced as mystical and anti-scientific by Albert Einstein. Pauli accepted th... | 32,910 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
experiences – which are better described by classical mechanics and probability. Bohr never specified a demarcation line above which objects cease to be quantum and become classical. He believed that it was not a question of physics, but one of philosophy.
Eugene Wigner reformulated the "Schrödinger's cat" tho... | 32,911 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
Multiverse.
The multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including the historical universe we consistently experience) that together comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, and energy as well as the physical laws and constants that describe them. The term... | 32,912 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
the various constituent universes, depend on the specific multiverse hypothesis considered. Multiverses have been hypothesized in cosmology, physics, astronomy, religion, philosophy, transpersonal psychology and fiction, particularly in science fiction and fantasy. In these contexts, parallel universes are also... | 32,913 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
phenomena, and predicts the outcome of "any" experiment that could be carried out "in principle". The theory of everything is also called the final theory. Many candidate theories of everything have been proposed by theoretical physicists during the twentieth century, but none have been confirmed experimentally... | 32,914 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
stories of the 1960s, was known to work on the "General Theory of Everything". Physicist John Ellis claims to have introduced the term into the technical literature in an article in "Nature" in 1986. Over time, the term stuck in popularizations of quantum physics to describe a theory that would unify or explain... | 32,915 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
theory, and loop quantum gravity.
# Technology.
## Virtual reality and cyberspace.
Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-simulated environment that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds.
The Virtuality Continuum is a continuous scale ranging between the comp... | 32,916 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
the two extremes, where both the real and the virtual are mixed, is the so-called Mixed reality. This in turn is said to consist of both Augmented Reality, where the virtual augments the real, and Augmented virtuality, where the real augments the virtual.
Cyberspace, the world's computer systems considered as ... | 32,917 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
refers to life in the real world. It generally references life or consensus reality, in contrast to an environment seen as fiction or fantasy, such as virtual reality, lifelike experience, dreams, novels, or movies. Online, the acronym "IRL" stands for "in real life", with the meaning "not on the Internet". Soc... | 32,918 |
43854 | Reality | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality | Reality
e activity, such as sexual intrigues, have already made a full transition to complete legitimacy and "reality". The abbreviation "RL" stands for "real life". For example, one can speak of "meeting in RL" someone whom one has met in a chat or on an Internet forum. It may also be used to express an inability to u... | 32,919 |
2507501 | Rhinegraves | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhinegraves | Rhinegraves
Rhinegraves
Rhinegraves are a form of breeches which were popular from the early 1660s until the mid-1670s in Western Europe. They were very full petticoat breeches gathered at the knee. They were worn under petticoat breeches or under an overskirt which was decorated with ribbon loops around the waist and... | 32,920 |
2507398 | Avram Iancu, Bihor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avram%20Iancu,%20Bihor | Avram Iancu, Bihor
Avram Iancu, Bihor
Avram Iancu (until 1932 "Chemenfoc", from 1932 to 1954 "Regina Maria", from 1954 to 1956 "Crişana"; ; ) is a commune in Bihor county, in the western part of Transylvania, Romania. The commune is composed of three villages: Ant ("Ant"), Avram Iancu and Tămașda ("Tamáshida"). The ma... | 32,921 |
2507398 | Avram Iancu, Bihor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avram%20Iancu,%20Bihor | Avram Iancu, Bihor
exactly the same distance (60 km) from the capital cities of the two counties, Oradea and Arad. The commune is crossed by the European road E671. The nearest city is Salonta, at 18 km.
# History.
The first official documentation of human settlement in the area dates back to 1169. The document menti... | 32,922 |
2507398 | Avram Iancu, Bihor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avram%20Iancu,%20Bihor | Avram Iancu, Bihor
by the Romanian colonists which came from the eastern region of Bihor county. They received here land from the King Ferdinand I of Romania the village being named Regina Maria after Ferdinand's wife Queen Marie. In 1956, under the Communist regime, it was renamed after the 1848 Revolution Romanian he... | 32,923 |
2507398 | Avram Iancu, Bihor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avram%20Iancu,%20Bihor | Avram Iancu, Bihor
named Regina Maria after Ferdinand's wife Queen Marie. In 1956, under the Communist regime, it was renamed after the 1848 Revolution Romanian hero Avram Iancu.
# Economy.
Due to its fertile lands Avram Iancu is one of the biggest producers of agricultural products (vegetables) within Bihor county, ... | 32,924 |
2507505 | Ally Sloper's Half Holiday | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ally%20Sloper's%20Half%20Holiday | Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
Ally Sloper's Half Holiday was a British comics magazine, first published on 3 May 1884. It is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Star Ally Sloper, a blustery, lazy schemer often found "sloping" through alleys to avoid h... | 32,925 |
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on a Saturday, a practice that also established the kick-off times of football matches.
# Publication history.
The black-and-white weekly comic paper "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday", typically of eight tabloid pages and priced one penny, was first published on 3 May 1884, a short time after Ro... | 32,926 |
2507505 | Ally Sloper's Half Holiday | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ally%20Sloper's%20Half%20Holiday | Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
estimated as being as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world". The paper found a mixed audience: aimed at adults it captured both a loyal working class, male base, as well as attracting a cult following amongst the middle class of the time.
... | 32,927 |
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Giles Baxter took over art duties for the Sloper character with issue 13.
William Fletcher Thomas became the artist on the Ally Sloper strips following Baxter's death in 1888.
James Gibbins contributed his expertise in the field of handwriting, a skill he put forward to the police at the ti... | 32,928 |
2507505 | Ally Sloper's Half Holiday | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ally%20Sloper's%20Half%20Holiday | Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
day" helped established the financial viability of the medium and codified the British form to an extent visible many years later in publications such as "Viz".
During 1908 C. H. Chapman illustrated the Ally Sloper character. Chapman was better known as the artist that drew Billy Bunter from... | 32,929 |
2507491 | Rodger Penzabene | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rodger%20Penzabene | Rodger Penzabene
Rodger Penzabene
Rodger Penzabene (1944 – December 31, 1967) was an American songwriter for the Motown label. Among his most notable compositions as a lyricist are "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" by Gladys Knight & the Pips; "The End of Our Road" by Gladys Knight & the Pips and Marvin Gaye; and a t... | 32,930 |
2507491 | Rodger Penzabene | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rodger%20Penzabene | Rodger Penzabene
childhood friend and neighbor of Cornelius Grant, with whom he wrote "You're My Everything". After Grant became musical director for the Temptations, Penzabene continued to contribute songs for the group, and for other Motown acts.
The mournful songs "I Wish It Would Rain" and "I Could Never Love Anot... | 32,931 |
2507518 | Soulsearcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soulsearcher | Soulsearcher
Soulsearcher
Soulsearcher was a studio project based out of England, and was formed by record producer Marc Pomeroy, which featured American singer-songwriter, Thea Austin, on vocals.
# Biography.
In 1999 they scored a #8 hit in the UK Singles Chart, and #20 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit with ... | 32,932 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
Morris, Manitoba
Morris is a small town in the Pembina Valley region of Manitoba, Canada, located 51 km south of Winnipeg and 42 km north of Emerson. Morris is home to 1,885 people (2016). Named after Alexander Morris, the second Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
Highway 75 which turns into Interstate... | 32,933 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
& Exhibition".
# History.
The town has a very long history involving floods and fur trade companies. Fur traders started to settle in the Morris area in the late 18th century because of its strategic location along the Red River. By 1801, there were two fur-trading stations at the settlement, the Nor... | 32,934 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
The town of Morris was named after Alexander Morris, the second Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and was officially incorporated in 1883.
Morris is one of 18 communities in the Red River Valley of Manitoba surrounded by a ring dike. The first ring dike was built to protect the town from the 1966 Red Ri... | 32,935 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
past has left the valley floor covered in rich river silt. The fine black soils are some of the best producing agricultural soils in the world. The Red River Valley is part of the remnants of the prehistoric "Lake Agassiz", which was once much larger than Lake Superior, which is the biggest of the five... | 32,936 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
agricultural community. Currently, businesses and manufacturers in Morris produce and supply a variety of goods to both national and international markets.
# Attractions.
## Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition.
The town of Morris holds a variety of annual events, which brings many visitors to the commu... | 32,937 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
competitions, commercial and craft displays, Loule's famous petting zoo, midway rides, free family entertainment, indoor cabaret Friday and Saturday evening featuring top country bands, community Church service and the popular kids pedal tractorpull on Sunday. The Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition is th... | 32,938 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
75, which is the main route for Manitobans to get into the United States. Morris is also served by PTH 23, running east and west, providing access to much of southern Manitoba.
Morris is also served by two railroad companies. The first is the Canadian National Railway whose line runs north/south from ... | 32,939 |
2507494 | Morris, Manitoba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morris,%20Manitoba | Morris, Manitoba
tes. Morris is also served by PTH 23, running east and west, providing access to much of southern Manitoba.
Morris is also served by two railroad companies. The first is the Canadian National Railway whose line runs north/south from Winnipeg to the Canadian/U.S. border. The second is the Canadian Paci... | 32,940 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
Violence against LGBT people
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people can face violence motivated by hateful attitudes towards their sexuality or gender identity. Violence may be executed by the state, as in laws prescribing corporal punishment for homosexual acts (see homosex... | 32,941 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
homosexual acts are legal in almost all Western countries, and in many of these countries violence against LGBT people is classified as a hate crime, with such violence often being connected with conservative or religious leaning ideologies which condemn homosexuality, or being perpetrated ... | 32,942 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
Asia, such as Russia, Poland, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are currently very dangerous for LGBT people because of discrimination against homosexuals which influences both discriminatory legislation and physical violence.
In Europe, the European Union's Employmen... | 32,943 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
Western world, the penalty was usually a fine or imprisonment.
There was a drop in locations where homosexual acts remained illegal from 2009 when there were 80 countries worldwide (notably throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and in most of Africa, but also in some of the Caribbean an... | 32,944 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
recorded in Leviticus by the Hebrew people, prescribing the death penalty. A violent law regarding homosexual intercourse is prescribed in the Middle Assyrian Law Codes (1075 BCE), stating: "If a man lay with his neighbor, when they have prosecuted him (and) convicted him, they shall lie wi... | 32,945 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
Greenberg, "The construction of homosexuality", p. 242 f. Scholarship compares the later Germanic concept of Old Norse "argr", Langobardic "arga", which combines the meanings "effeminate, cowardly, homosexual", see Jaan Puhvel, 'Who were the Hittite "hurkilas pesnes"?' in: A. Etter (eds.), ... | 32,946 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
but prosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague; as John Boswell has noted, "if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cicero's day knew anything about it." When the Roman Empire came under Christian rule, all male homosexual activity was increa... | 32,947 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
problems such as "famines, earthquakes, and pestilences."
Laws and codes prohibiting homosexual practice were in force in Europe from the fourth to the twentieth centuries, and Muslim countries have had similar laws from the beginnings of Islam in the seventh century up to and including th... | 32,948 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
and spread to the Swiss canton of Zürich. Knight Richard von Hohenberg (died 1482) was burned at the stake together with his lover, his young squire, during this time. In France, French writer Jacques Chausson (1618–1661) was also burned alive for attempting to seduce the son of a nobleman.... | 32,949 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
males involved in same-sex prostitution sailed to Sicily the following day. This episode, published abroad by a foreign writer, is the most detailed account of LGBT life during the rule of the Order. It represents that homosexuality was still a taboo, but a widespread practice, an open secr... | 32,950 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
(In 1936, the homosexual Federico García Lorca was executed by right-wing rebels who became Franco's dictatorship in Spain, Hitler's ally.) Neo-Nazis generally oppose homosexuality to the extent of supporting a renewed persecution the way it took place in Nazi Germany. Being homosexual is e... | 32,951 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
tends to use other punishments (fines, prison sentence, and whipping), unless it feels that homosexuals have challenged state authority by engaging in LGBT social movements.
- Sudan
- Yemen
- Parts of Nigeria and Somalia
Countries where homosexual acts are criminalized but not punished ... | 32,952 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
toughest sodomy laws in the world, with homosexual activity carrying a 10-year jail sentence.
International human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemn laws that make homosexual relations between consenting adults a crime. Since 1994, the United ... | 32,953 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
territories (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Somaliland) and 1 territory (Cook Islands) by a total of 71 or 72. However, all the countries and territories in The Americas and Oceania where homosexuality is illegal the penalty is not enforced "de facto" and in some cases the legalizatio... | 32,954 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
countries):
- "Up to life imprisonment" (5 countries):
- Africa (4 countries):
- Asia (1 country):
- "Death penalty" (5 countries):
- Africa (2 countries):
- Asia (3 countries):
## Africa.
In Africa, homosexuality is illegal in 32 of 54 countries (Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, C... | 32,955 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
and in a few countries of Africa where homosexuality is illegal the penalty is not enforced "de facto" and in some cases the legalization has been proposed or is pending.
## The Americas.
In The Americas, homosexuality is illegal in 9 of 35 countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Domini... | 32,956 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yemen) by a total of 20. However is legal in 29 countries, in all 4 territories, ... | 32,957 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
11 territories and in all the countries and territories in Oceania where homosexuality is illegal the penalty is not enforced "de facto" and in some cases the legalization has been proposed or is pending.
# Legal.
Worldwide, as of June 2019, homosexuality is legal in 136 of 193 countries ... | 32,958 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
and 7 disputed territories):
- Africa (22 countries and in all 8 territories):
- Americas (26 countries and 21 territories):
- Asia (30 countries, all 4 territories and in all 4 disputed territories):
- Europe (all 51 countries, all 6 dependencies and other territories and in all 5 disp... | 32,959 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
and Príncipe, Seychelles and South Africa) and in all 8 territories (Canary Islands, Ceuta, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Madeira, Mayotte, Melilla, Réunion and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) by a total of 29. However, in a few countries in Africa where homosexuality i... | 32,960 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela) and in all 21 territories (Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands , Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Ric... | 32,961 |
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2018, homosexuality is legal in 30 of 50 countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Palestine, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, ... | 32,962 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
(Abkhazia, Artsakh, Northern Cyprus and South Ossetia) and in all 4 territories (Akrotiri and Dhekelia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Hong Kong and Macau). However, a few countries in Asia where homosexuality is illegal the penalty is not enforced "de facto" and in some cases the legaliza... | 32,963 |
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and Vanuatu) and in 11 of 12 territories (American Samoa, Easter Island, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, United States Minor Outlying Islands and Wallis and Futuna) of Oceania. However, all the countries and territories in Oc... | 32,964 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3,196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 (or about 0.7 cases per 100,000 population per annum).
Brazilian gay group Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB) reported 190 documented... | 32,965 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
5.4 per 100,000 population as of 2008).
The numbers produced by the Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB) have occasionally been contested on the grounds that they include all murders of LGBT people reported in the media — that is, not only those motivated by bias against homosexuals. Reinaldo de Azeve... | 32,966 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
as compared to non-transgender homosexuals and heterosexuals.
In many parts of the world, including much of the European Union and United States, acts of violence are legally classified as hate crimes, which entail harsher sentences if convicted. In some countries, this form of legislation... | 32,967 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
showing the absolute intent to rub out the human being because of his (sexual) preference".
In a particularly brutal case in the United States, on March 14, 2007, in Wahneta, Florida, 25-year-old Ryan Keith Skipper was found dead from 20 stab wounds and a slit throat. His body had been dum... | 32,968 |
43797 | Violence against LGBT people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violence%20against%20LGBT%20people | Violence against LGBT people
men stated that Skipper was targeted because "he was a faggot."
In Canada in 2008, police-reported data found that approximately 10% of all hate crimes in the country were motivated by sexual orientation. Of these, 56% were of a violent nature. In comparison, 38% of all racially motivated ... | 32,969 |
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160 homophobic incidents and 7 transphobic incidents were reported. Of those incidents, 68.4% were violent crimes; significantly higher than for any other bias category. By contrast, 37.4% of racially motivated crimes were of a violent nature.
People's ignorance of and prejudice against LG... | 32,970 |
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in creating a positive experience for LGBTIQ+ members of a campus community, this can reduce the impact and effect of incidents on youth attending university. When there is a poor climate - students are much less likely to report incidents or seek help.
## Violence at universities.
In the... | 32,971 |
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violence taking place at higher learning institutions, different communities are taking a stand against the violence. Many LGBT rape survivors said they experienced their first assault before the age of 25, and that many arrive on campus with this experience. Almost half of bi-sexual women ... | 32,972 |
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Campus,""Students who admit to harassing other students generally don't see themselves as rejected suitors, rather misunderstood comedians." Most students who commit sexual violence towards other students do it to boost their own ego, believing that their actions are humorous. More than 46%... | 32,973 |
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hate crimes.
Members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe began describing hate crimes based on sexual orientation (as opposed to generic anti-discrimination legislation) to be counted as aggravating circumstance in the commission of a crime in 2003.
The United State... | 32,974 |
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the District of Columbia. In November 2010, the United Nations General Assembly voted 79-70 to remove "sexual orientation" from the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, a list of unjustified reasons for executions, replacing it with "discriminatory reasons o... | 32,975 |
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a victim will not report a crime as it will shed unwelcome light on their orientation and invite more victimization.
## Alleged judicative bias.
Legal defenses like the gay panic defense allow for more lenient punishments for people accused of beating, torturing, or killing homosexuals be... | 32,976 |
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has been used in violent attacks against LGBT persons, which has led several Australian states and territories to modify their legislation, in order to prevent or reduce the using of this legal defense in cases of violent responses to non-violent homosexual advances.
There have been severa... | 32,977 |
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with second-degree murder, but he was eventually convicted of third-degree assault and was sentenced to one year in prison.
Cases like Bright's are not isolated. In 2001, Aaron Webster was beaten to death by a group of youths armed with baseball bats and a pool cue while hanging around an ... | 32,978 |
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either. In 1988, Texas Judge Jack Hampton gave a man 30 years for killing two gay men, instead of the life sentence requested by the prosecutor. After handing down his judgment, he said: "I don't much care for queers cruising the streets picking up teenage boys ...[I] put prostitutes and ga... | 32,979 |
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that he was joking, but was removed from the case.
## Attacks on gay pride parades.
LGBT Pride Parades in East European, Asian and South American countries often attract violence because of their public nature. Though many countries where such events take place attempt to provide police p... | 32,980 |
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to hold a small gathering. They were surrounded by a group twice their size who shouted derogatory things at them and pelted them with eggs. The gathering proceeded even so, and they tried to lay flowers at the Monument to the Victims of Repression. They were denied the opportunity, however... | 32,981 |
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the activists that if they wanted to leave the bus unharmed, they would have to destroy all of their pride materials. The passengers complied and the march was called off. All the while, police stood passively about 100 meters away, taking no action even though passengers claimed at least n... | 32,982 |
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who had closed off the square and immediately arrested activists as they entered. As some were being arrested, other participants were attacked by protesters. Police did nothing. Around eleven women and two men were arrested and left in the heat, denied medical attention, and verbally abuse... | 32,983 |
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in the Budapest Dignity March. Police, on alert due to attacks on two LGBT-affiliated businesses earlier in the week, erected high metal barriers on either side of the street the march was to take place on. Hundreds of angry protesters threw petrol bombs and rocks at police in retaliation. ... | 32,984 |
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Israel, three marchers in a gay pride parade in Jerusalem on June 30, 2005 were stabbed by Yishai Shlisel, a Haredi Jew. Shlisel claimed he had acted "in the name of God". He was charged with attempted murder.Ten years later, On 30 July 2015, six marchers were injured, again by Yishai Shlis... | 32,985 |
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culture in Jamaica, many reggae and dancehall artists, such as Buju Banton, Elephant Man, Sizzla, have published song lyrics advocating violence against homosexuals.
Similarly, hip-hop music occasionally includes aggressively homophobic lyrics, but has since appeared to reform.
Banton wro... | 32,986 |
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have sought to deport reggae artists from the country due to homophobic content in some of their songs, which they say promote anti-gay violence. In the UK, Scotland Yard has investigated reggae lyrics and Sizzla was barred from entering the United Kingdom in 2004 over accusations his music... | 32,987 |
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people. Neither can they authorise the re-release of previous homophobic songs." Several artists signed that agreement, including Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Sizzla and Capleton, but some later denied signing it.
During the 1980s, skinheads in North America who promoted emerging neo-Nazi pop ... | 32,988 |
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that homophobia can be rooted in an individual's fear of being identified as gay.
Homophobia in men is correlated with insecurity about masculinity. For this reason, allegedly homophobia is rampant in sports, and in the subculture of its supporters, that are considered stereotypically "mal... | 32,989 |
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from being labeled and treated as a gay person.
Various psychoanalytic theories explain homophobia as a threat to an individual's own same-sex impulses, whether those impulses are imminent or merely hypothetical. This threat causes repression, denial or reaction formation.
## Religious.
... | 32,990 |
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magazine, Candace Chellew-Hodge argues that the six or so verses that are often cited to condemn LGBT people are referring instead to "abusive sex." She states that the Bible has no condemnation for "loving, committed, gay and lesbian relationships" and that Jesus was silent on the subject.... | 32,991 |
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Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, and the Southern Baptist Convention. Likewise, Pentecostal churches such as the Assemblies of God, as well as Restorationist churches, like Jehovah's Witnesses and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day... | 32,992 |
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the pain and hurt and promoting "sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents." The medical and scientific consensus in the United States is that conversion therapy is likely harmful and should be avoided because it may exploit ... | 32,993 |
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and can be corrected may make would-be attackers of homosexuals feel justified in that they are "doing God's work" by ridding the world of LGBT people.
The Catholic Church teaches that a homosexual orientation is not sinful and that LGBT people are to be treated with compassion and respect... | 32,994 |
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and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for others which endangers the most fundamental principles of a healthy society. The intrinsic dignity of each perso... | 32,995 |
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and practices gain ground and irrational and violent reactions increase.
Pope Benedict XVI, then the leader of the Roman Catholic Church stated that "protecting" humanity from homosexuality was just as important as saving the world from climate change and that all relationships beyond trad... | 32,996 |
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and Gomorrah), destroyed by the wrath of Allah because they engaged in lustful carnal acts between men.
Scholars of Islam, such as Shaykh al-Islām Imam Malik, and Imam Shafi amongst others, ruled that Islam disallowed homosexuality and ordained capital punishment for a person guilty of it.... | 32,997 |
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condemnation of homosexuality and how it should be dealt with, leaving it open to interpretation. For this reason, Islamic jurists have turned to the collections of the hadith (sayings of Muhammad) and Sunnah (accounts of his life). These, on the other hand, are perfectly clear and particul... | 32,998 |
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to whom it is done." The overall moral or theological principle is that a person who performs such actions challenges the harmony of God's creation, and is therefore a revolt against God.
Though it must be noted that these views vary depending upon sect. It is noteworthy to point out that ... | 32,999 |
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